[C2]Phone falsely claims being on Wifi

Bug Reports
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#1

REPRODUCIBILITY: 100% (always)
OSVERSION: 5.0.0.61
HARDWARE: Reeder S19 Max Pro S - s19mps - s19mps - 1.0.0.44 - aarch64
UI LANGUAGE: English (UK) (user: en_GB, os: en_GB.utf8)
REGRESSION: yes (since: 5.0.0.(55, probably) - aarch64)

DESCRIPTION:

Connecting to Wifi takes a long time, then shows network name, full signal strength and “Limited internet access”. However, Wifi router does not list phone among connected devices.

PRECONDITIONS:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. In Flight mode, enable Wifi, select network
  2. Wait up to a minute or two, then…
  3. …top bar indicator shows connection and signal strength

EXPECTED RESULTS:

Phone to be connected to router and to the internet

ACTUAL RESULTS:

Wifi router does not list phone among connected devices, contrary to top bar indication on phone.
Phone has no connection to the internet.

MODIFICATIONS:

  • Patchmanager: no
  • OpenRepos: yes
  • Chum: yes
  • Other: none specified

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Wifi worked before, I think up to 5.0.0.55. I first noticed problems during attempts to update to 5.0.0.61.
Removing and re-adding the Wifi network did not help (on 5.0.0.61).
Restarting network subsystem from Utilities did not help (on 5.0.0.62).

Device Owner User: defaultuser
Home Encryption: enabled

the initial version of this bug report was created using Bugger 0.9.10+git6
#2

Is this only after flight mode; or any time?

“Limited connectivity” and “not in the list of devices allocated an ip address” sounds a lot like they in fact agree.
Does this reproduce across different WiFi networks?

#3

This is in Flight mode, internet access is expected through Wifi. I have yet to try other wifi networks.

They do, and it shows that the phone is lying about being connected to Wifi, when it is in fact not according to the router. As in claiming Connected to wifi w/o internet access instead of Not connected to wifi.

#4

I guess i’m really not keeping up with what’s hip. For me flight mode means all radio off, regardless of what it is.

Your use of strikethrough confuses me; so this is from having ignored it and read the sentence anyway:

How are you verifying that? The router client list you refer to may well be a DHCP list.

#5

I used strike to mark message as No, wrong! Removed it for your viewing pleasure.

I may not be up to date with hipness, either, but I hope that section from the bug report plus my previous reply make it clear enough :wink:

I use the network map view in the router’s web admin, where I can see clients come and go as I enable or disable Wifi on them. Clients other than the C2, that is. The C2 is permanently absent regardless of Wifi state.

#6

Which WiFi standard is set in your router?

#7

802.11be “Wifi 7”, 2.4 GHz & 5 GHz, WPA2/WPA3-personal

#8

That’s not supported yet.

#9

WiFi 7 and WPA3 are indeed not supported; but WiFi is backwards compatible and WPA 2 is still enabled.

It is normally used to mean that the writer was wrong; thus my confusion.

Anyway; i happened to have an un-updated C2.
I tried on some older 5.0 version - what you describe works.
But i cannot reproduce on 5.0.0.61; connecting to WiFi while in flight mode works just fine there too.

Your report lacks whether WiFi works when not in flight mode with WiFi force-enabled.
Does it?

Is the network on a (2.4 or 5GHz) band that is not global? I seem to recall something about SIM PLMN setting WiFI regdom. (Not sure if here, elsewhere or just suggested feature).

You also have not really added any clarity to how you know your router shows a true client list and not a dhcp client list or something else.