Pixel 8 stopped looking for WiFi networks. Other devices work fine on my home wifi. Tried rebooting both phone (several times) and router. Each time I go back to Internet settings, “Use Wi-Fi” is off. When I turn it on, networks don’t appear. When I leave Internet Settings and go back, “Use Wi-Fi” is off again. 5G Mobile service works fine, but mobile service is lousy in my neighborhood.
Speculation is that your dns connectivity check is failing, and then the system thinks you don’t have internet so possibly disables the connection? Can you check on that and report what dns servers are set for your home network devices? (In my case before, cloudflare 1.1.1.1 was causing this issue, but after changing to quad9 9.9.9.9. the check works again and there are no issues)
At one point I decided to put the phone into a safe mode that disables all apps. The next morning I found that it could find the networks again. Not sure what to think about that.
Good question. I was running Mullvad VPN, but I just disabled it, restarted iode and I’m still not seeing any wifi networks. I go to the screen that says “Use Wifi” but it doesn’t do anything and then when I go back to the screen, it’s disabled again.
In reference to a previous question, my Private DNS Mode options are automatic, Cloudflare, Quad9 and an opportunity to enter another server. I’ve tried all of the options, but that doesn’t seem to change anything.
It’s also worth noting that between now and the last time it went out, I actually switched ISPs from Spectrum to TDS, and my phone has had difficulty connecting to both, though in the beginning it was fine. Though, like I said, I once got it to work when I put it on safe mode and left it that way overnight. But I haven’t been able to successfully replicate that fix.
Just tried that. Doesn’t work unfortunately. I go into Network > Network & Internet > Internet > Wi-Fi > and toggle “Use Wifi” on. I go back and “Use Wifi” is toggled offagain.. Wifi is supposed to be scanning at all times but doesn’t at all.
I’m lucky that the mobile service is not too bad in this neighborhood–I just switched mobile carriers after encountering dead zones with two previous carriers. But I haven’t been able to connect to wifi in about seven weeks
I am running iodeos 7.7 on a pixel 8, I have run into issues while trying out Private DNS settings.
I ended up removing the Quad9 app completely and that helped.
I have had to do a lot of debugging using VPNs that were causing network connectivity issues. But all this was on my current Linux distro (Garuda Dragonized). What was giving me all sorts of random failures was the VPN’s killswitch feature combined with dual tunneling. Again this was using Linux and not a phone OS. You may want to remove all the user installed software relating to DNS and VPNs and see if that fixes things.
I should have been clearer in my reply. I meant to say that your should uninstall any vpn software and remove any settings changes in the android options relating to DNS options. My problem on the Pixel 8 occurred when I installed the Quad9 software. Besides setting up the Quad9 private DNS host, it also installed the Quad9 Connect VPN. My problem went away when I removed all of this and made sure that, for any network configurations, I was at the default.
I am a bit confused: you report a lot of switching of DNS providers, etc. but this is after you would connect to a wifi network and so any discussion with that isn’t really related to seeing what networks are available to connect to right? What I mean is I wouldn’t think anything there is related to actually turning off the wifi radio.
I hate to suggest it but a backup / reset / restore may be in order if nothing else seems to help?