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Help Loss of BT and WiFi every day

mbressman

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Jun 5, 2010
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I received a brand new Galaxy Note 4 from Sprint a few months ago to replace a problematic LG G2, but didn't activate it until last week (it sat in it's box prior to that and wasn't even turned on). At first, it worked great, but recently it has been losing Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz (I think) WiFi connectivity every day or so (usually when I wake up in the morning), and the only way to get it back is to restart the phone.

Has anyone heard of this? Or have any suggestions on troubleshooting or resolutions?

Thanks very much!

Three things to mention:
1) I did the tap & go to transfer my data from my old LG G2 (running some version of Android 4.x - I can't remember which one specifically) to my Note 4, but that was a week or so ago and the problems only started in the last few days.
2) The Note 4 came with a version of Android 4.x, but I updated it to Android Lollipop - again, this was done a week or so ago and the device seemed to work with no issues after doing it.
3) I am using the Samsung Gear 2 watch with the phone via Bluetooth but it seems all BT connectivity dies when the above issue happens (such as no ability to connect it to my car BT, etc.)

Thanks for any assistance!
 
Sorry I wasn't more clear in my original post - when I opened the Note 4, the first thing I did was update it to Lollipop, and then factory reset it. Then I started setting it up and activated it on the Sprint network.

Would you still recommend I wipe the cache partition? And can you advise exactly what that entails? And will I lose any data, settings, etc. by doing it?

Thanks!
 
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Cache partition wipe doesn't seem to have worked. This morning I woke up, and the device had lost it's connection with my 2.4 GHz WiFi network (wasn't even seeing it in the list of possible WiFi connections nor any other 2.4 GHz connections as far as I can tell), and had connected to my 5 GHz WiFi network, and while it still showed connected to my Samsung Gear 2 watch, I don't think BT was working since I tried to connect it to another BT device and it failed. I then restarted, and it worked fine (until tomorrow morning presumably). Any other thoughts/suggestions? Thanks!
 
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No, the instruction for wiping my Partition Cache ? also i have accidentally deleted my s_pen information that comes on one of my screens , can i get that back ?

I'm assuming the instructions are applicable for other carriers as I was able to follow them for my Sprint Note 4. As far as your other question, you might be better off starting a new thread.
 
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