Monday, November 5, 2018

Lenovo Motorola G5 Plus wifi issue after update

After a recent update on my Lenovo Motorola G5 Plus phone, I started facing wireless connectivity issues. It would randomly get disconnected from wifi and connect again. My laptop was connected to the same wifi and did not have this problem, so it was not a problem with the wifi. I tried restarting the phone, the modem and the router. I tried resetting the phone wireless settings, forgetting the network, and restarting (phone, modem, router). None of these worked. Finally, the following action worked for me.

  • Open the wifi router's settings page in the browser (for me, this was at http://192.168.0.1). 
  • Login and check the Wireless settings. Under "Channel", the value will "auto" or some particular channel (e.g. channel 1, channel 2, etc.).
  • Change the value to channel 10.
This fixed the problem for me.

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