So this was the problem:
I got my new iPhone 5s in the mail Thursday night. I just barely switched from Sprint to AT&T as well. I got it all set up and had it connected to the wifi at the house and everything was working just fine. Then I went to work yesterday. I opened up my wifi to connect at work, it could see the network and I put the password in just fine, but it wouldn't connect. It just had that little grey circle that spins forever.
I was getting super frustrated because I didn't have unlimited data anymore and I didn't want to be at work all day using data when I could be on wifi, ya know? And the other thing was that everyone else's phones were connected just fine. The computers were working, everything was fine except for me. I googled and googled things to fix the problem. These are things you can try, but they didn't work for me in this case:
- you can click that little blue "i" next to the wifi network and choose "forget network" at the top and then re-click it and enter the password again. That works for some, I did it like twelve times, nothing.
-you can go into settings>general>reset>reset network. That will reboot your phone for about 10 seconds and you will have to go enter you password in again. I did that like eight times, nothing.
-you can hold the sleep button and the home button at the same time until the phone reboots itself and the apple logo appears on the screen. I did that probably ten times, you guessed it, nothing.
-you can reset the router. I unplugged and plugged it back in twice, nothing.
By this point, there was nothing else on the internet that could help me except someone saying the phone had a defect and I'd have to get a new one. And I'm pissed over here because I had to get the gold iPhone and if I had to go order a new one I'd be waiting another 5-9 weeks. AND I JUST GOT IT YESTERDAY. I was not ready to give up just yet. So here is what a co-worker and I ended up doing with my stupid AT&T iPhone 5s that wouldn't connect to the wifi:
She had a Verizon phone that was connecting to the network just fine, so we had her open her settings>wifi>click on the network and it opens up the info on the network like this:
Now, if you are on the "DHCP" thing right there, all that info should connect by itself. That is what my phone WAS NOT doing. What I did was click on the "Static" on the far right. All that is blank and you can enter your own info. So, I looked at her phone and entered all the info that was on her DHCP into my Static. And then I hit Renew Lease down there at the bottom. And then it asked me if I was sure I wanted to "renew the lease" and I hit "yes" and bam, the wifi connected.
I don't know if this is a fool-proof plan since a lot of other people had the other methods work for them. But maybe this one is the go-to if all else fails. It's kind of a hassle to type in all those numbers, but if it works, it works. Right? Right. Hope this helps anyone who experienced the same frustration I did.
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Mine doesn't give me the option to renew lease :(
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Deleteit has a check mark, but no wifi logo when i try this
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ReplyDeleteI did exactly you said went on static added all the numbers but there is no renew lease option or forget option in my iphone 4.....help ???
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ReplyDeleteRenew lease is under DHCP tab. So ut in the numbers under the static tab then go to DHCP tab and hit "renew lease".
ReplyDeleteDoesn't work. No renew lease option under any tab.
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This also worked for me on my iPhone 4S. However, I do not see a button for "Renew Lease"
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