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The dreaded Samsung Galaxy WIFI authentication error with ORBI
Ok for as long as I had my ORBI's (RBK53 - 1 Router 2 sats) (3- years+ now) and as long as I had Samsung Galaxy cell phones (S6, S7, S8, Note9) the Samsung Galaxy cell phones will randomly get the W...
I have this issue with my S10 as well. Other than that the Orbi works great. Frustrating. And I agree that I'm tired of hearing the factory reset advice
The dreaded Samsung Galaxy WIFI authentication error is not an Orbi issue but a known Galaxy S series issue. The fix is usually remedied by following some of these Samsung suggestions:
Restart the phone
Forget phone wifi
Reset phone network settings
Toggle phone Airplane Mode on and off
Wipe phone cache partition
Install phone updates
Check for bad phone apps
If all else fails Factory reset phone.
You can find instructions on how to perform these tasks by searching the net.