Nexus 5 does not show any wifi networks
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Thank you both for your assistance. Today I realized my phone receives wifi signal if I am very close to my router. So network signals are only identified if they are very strong.
App "wifi scanner" shows significant drop of signal strength even if I move 10m away with no wall inbetween.
Is it possible to be a SW issue? In this case I would like to follow your instruction and reinstall the UT (dev first than stable)best regards
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@Bernie Have you checked the connectors going to the antennas inside the case? It is possible one came loose or got crimped if someone changed the battery.
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@Bernie Dev update using System Settings, Updates, Update Settings, Channels.
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@Bernie said in Nexus 5 does not show any wifi networks:
Is it possible to be a SW issue?
It's always possible, but given your observations I highly doubt it.
Mostly a hardware issue and possible failure of the wifi chip or antenna as @rocket2nfinity suggested. -
@Bernie Just to share my experience: When I first installed UT on my N5, I had a trouble with my display which was shift on the screen. Was unable to fix it. Finally I solved it as following:
On a Windows 10 PC, install and run « Nexus Toolkit »
Flash latest Android version back. (It also updates all firmwares)Activate Developer mode + enable Android Debug Bridge
Reboot in bootloader
Run UT installer and install UT again
Than everything runs smooth & fine.
If you don’t have a Windows PC you can flash your N5 manually using an official Google factory Image.
Maybe this can help you (?)
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I had the same issue a while ago. Wifi stopped working (i.e. would not detect any network) no reboot or even a clean reinstall would fix it. I ended up buying another N5 to use as daily driver. The other day I got back to the broken N5 because I needed a "phone only" phone for travel and voilà wifi was was working again up until last week, when it stopped again (no network detected at all). I think this is a hardware issue (lose contact are ailing wifi chip). I did not open it to check because i was afraid to break something and the phone would become completely unusable.
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Dear all, thank you for your support.
Meanwhile I have checked Wifi antenna, but could not find a visible failure. In addition I have flashed latest Android version and realized also here wifi receiption to be poor. So I think it is definetly a hardware issue. -
@stanwood Same for me, happened a few times in the beginning, but that was before the OTA 12.
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My N5 had the same problem before.
I switched wifi on/off for several times and again and again but it didn't get well.
Then I reboot N5 but wifi settings did't display any wi-fi stations, just empty.
After all I reinstalled Ubuntu Touch from firmware. Wifi had worked fine again.
So It was not hardware malfunction.
At first I also doubted wi-fi malfunction, but wifi anneta indicator shown it was receiving radiowave.
And I'msure this was happened after I tried wifi tethering.
Wifi tethering worked but unstable so sometimes I could see N5 via bluetooth from my PC but sometimes not.
After I was doing wifi tethering on/off again and again I had noticed N5 didn't display any wifi station at all.
I've never wifi tethering on after reinstalling ubuntu touch.
This is what I experienced. Thank You. -
You can try to install the last android version avalaible from Google (to get last firmwares) and then intall back UT.
