So after scouring forums for a fix to the wifi connecting error everyone (including me) is experiencing on their samsung epic 4g, it was an article i read about cell phone radiation that led me to this fix...
i usually only ran into the wifi issue at my house (where most cell phone reception is spotty). it wouldn't respond when id try the toggle switch, then when i went to the settings it would take forever trying to connect then say error, or if i was "connected" it would give me some network data connectivity error when i tried using internet or Facebook..
after reading some other posts in forums i found that it would generally work again if you reboot your phone...fine i guess but not ideal.
then i was reading about cell phone radiation risks and solutions, and one of the solutions was turning your phone on airplane mode when asleep. so if you absolutely must have your precious phone mere feet from your head when your sleeping, at least you won't be melting your brain away for 8 hours a day, and your alarm will still go off! plus you can leave your phone on and unplugged all night and it will only have used 2% of battery!
well after i turned on airplane mode on one night i wanted to look something up quickly so i tried to see if wifi would still work while in airplane mode. sure enough when i hit the toggle switch for wifi, it lit up immediately! alas! a temp solution until samsung provides us with the next update which hopefully has a (proper) fix.
so if your getting the wifi connection error message, try putting your phone on airplane mode first, then turning on wifi. let me know if this is working for you guys!!
i usually only ran into the wifi issue at my house (where most cell phone reception is spotty). it wouldn't respond when id try the toggle switch, then when i went to the settings it would take forever trying to connect then say error, or if i was "connected" it would give me some network data connectivity error when i tried using internet or Facebook..
after reading some other posts in forums i found that it would generally work again if you reboot your phone...fine i guess but not ideal.
then i was reading about cell phone radiation risks and solutions, and one of the solutions was turning your phone on airplane mode when asleep. so if you absolutely must have your precious phone mere feet from your head when your sleeping, at least you won't be melting your brain away for 8 hours a day, and your alarm will still go off! plus you can leave your phone on and unplugged all night and it will only have used 2% of battery!
well after i turned on airplane mode on one night i wanted to look something up quickly so i tried to see if wifi would still work while in airplane mode. sure enough when i hit the toggle switch for wifi, it lit up immediately! alas! a temp solution until samsung provides us with the next update which hopefully has a (proper) fix.
so if your getting the wifi connection error message, try putting your phone on airplane mode first, then turning on wifi. let me know if this is working for you guys!!