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I have an old samsung tablet, it can have a sim card, but I never use it, so took it out years ago.
Just recently I wanted to connect to wi-fi (here at home) and the tablet does not know what wi-fi is, it tries to look for it, then switches off the wi-fi option.
Its not that it can't find my wi-fi, it can't find any wi-fi
(It really did used to connect to wi-fi as it could surf the www, but not any more)

Its not got anything important on it so i did a factory re start (twice now) same problem.

I have found an old sim, installed it and still nothing on wi-fi (sim is PAYG and has credit)

Seems like Blue tooth has the same problem. I have also found out, its 4 years old

Any useful suggestions?

old laptops needed direct connection or a dongle to get wifi did they not

big-all wrote:old laptops needed direct connection or a dongle to get wifi did they not

Yes, but this is not a laptop, its a tablet.

Tablets don't use dongles (most can't, no USB slot) also I did say it did used to work as I used to surf the www on it

Think of a tablet as a poor mans ipad (only better)

Have you tried to connect it to other wifi networks, such as the one at your local pub or something?

someone-else wrote:

big-all wrote:old laptops needed direct connection or a dongle to get wifi did they not

Yes, but this is not a laptop, its a tablet.

Tablets don't use dongles (most can't, no USB slot) also I did say it did used to work as I used to surf the www on it

Think of a tablet as a poor mans ipad (only better)

ahhh ok an improvement on steam radio

if its the original Samsung tab (about 8mm thick) its fully loaded wifi/bt/3g the wifi is 2.4 ghz only

go into settings and turn on wifi it should show a list of the ssid's in range, Other things to check is it not defaulted into hotspot mode, and the metered connection is not enabled

Did you do a hard reset or just a reset (doesn't remove apps or settings) do you have a sd card installed, If so remove it

does it have the latest firmware if not plug it in to a pc and use the Samsung Kies or smart switch for pc (android 4.3 onwards)

Rorschach wrote:Have you tried to connect it to other wifi networks, such as the one at your local pub or something?

As I said, it does not know what wi-fi is, so it can't connect to ANY wi-fi

Bob225 wrote:if its the original Samsung tab (about 8mm thick) its fully loaded wifi/bt/3g the wifi is 2.4 ghz only

go into settings and turn on wifi it should show a list of the ssid's in range, Other things to check is it not defaulted into hotspot mode, and the metered connection is not enabled

Did you do a hard reset or just a reset (doesn't remove apps or settings) do you have a sd card installed, If so remove it

does it have the latest firmware if not plug it in to a pc and use the Samsung Kies or smart switch for pc (android 4.3 onwards)

wi-fi will not turn on, that is the problem.

I don't know what reset I have done, I told it to default and go back to factory settings. i dont know if it has because it never had any thing on it anyway, i only used it to look at pictures on the micro sd card (yep, took that out and tried still no joy) and surf the www.

I thought kies was obsolete? i thought i saw something about it a while ago, as it used to come with samsung devices and now it doesn't.

I have bitten the bullet, it was 4 years old, I have gone out and paid for a new one.

They have come right down in price the tab A is around the £100 - £130 mark iirc my first Samsung tab was well over £400 when new I have and friends that have the tab 2/3/4 and A, I recent got a Tab S2 8" the 32gb makes all the difference

my mum has a Tab 4 and Tab A that I look after

I have a Samsung tablet about the same age which I haven't used for a while now. I had the same problem but sorted it but I can't remember how I done it

I think I had to get my broadband provider to change channels but I'm not sure.#

If it comes to me I'll let you know.

Bob225 wrote:They have come right down in price the tab A is around the £100 - £130 mark iirc my first Samsung tab was well over £400 when new I have and friends that have the tab 2/3/4 and A, I recent got a Tab S2 8" the 32gb makes all the difference

Mine was £99.99, but I do believe my other one was closer to £150, so yes they are coming down in price.