WiFi/Data cutouts - Fairphone 5

Hi all,

I’m a few weeks into running iode on my FP5 and very impressed so far, but there’s an intermittent issue I’m trying to resolve and wonder if anyone else has experienced the same problem.

The environment is a Fairphone5 running iodeOS 6.6-20250723-FP5. I’m in the UK and use a physical SIM for my carrier. WiFi is a simple connection to my router’s SSID.

About once every few days I’m finding the WiFi icon shows as connected but no internet. Similarly, my carrier’s data connection also shows no internet and/or flicks rapidly between 5G/5G+ (presumably looking for a connection).
All other devices in the house are uninterrupted, so it’s not my network.

The only solution I’ve found is to restart the FP5. The moment I do, all connections are back again and at full strength, so this is something on or with the phone itself.

Diagnostically, I’d then look at what I was doing at the time it went out, but it appears - so far - to be random. It’s never the same app I’m using or, sometimes, it might be no app at all.
There are no other apps running on this phone that interfere with the network connections; I just have iode Premium active.

Has anyone experienced anything similar, and (how) did you resolve it?

Thanks in advance.

I have also experienced this recently on a Brax3 with iode 6.6. My workaround at the moment is to just flip over to the Iode Blocker, toggle it off then back on again, and then everything works as it should again. I have also opened this up on the Braxtech forum.

Like yourself, I was first just rebooting the device. But one day while using the Iode browser normally, I just started to get spinners. So when I jumped to the Blocker to see if anything was blocking, I just decided to toggle it. Internet immediately returned to normal. It’s like DNS just stops responding…

It seems to have started for me around the push of the Brax 6.6-20250803-brax3 OTA

Aaah, that’s really useful to know, thank you.

It’s also instructive, as it suggests strongly that the problem is with the iode Blocker, and possibly due to a buggy update on some phones.

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