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teralock · 02-16-2019, 09:21 AM

Hello everybody,

I have just purchased a new Likebook Mars from the „Likebook official Store“ on Amazon.

I cannot get the Mars to connect to any password protected wifi. After entering the wifi password, it shortly says „saved“ under the network name, but is immediately dropping the connection. It repeatedly tries to reconnect and disconnects right away.

I have
- a different router,
- my neighbours network and even
- a mobile hotspot,
in between I had it forget all known networks.

Finally I could successfully connect to an open, unencrypted wifi and was able to install at least 3 updates. The current version is from end of January 2019.

After the updates I had the mars reset to factory defaults. Still, the Mars refuses to connect to any password protected wifi.

So far, the only seller feedback was a proposed power management setting which I had already set that way and which did not help. I have to wait for further seller feedback until after the weekend, also they are probably still celebrating Chinese New Year.

What am I not seeing here? I want to make sure I set everything up correctly, returning the device would be a last resort.

02-16-2019, 09:21 AM	#1
teralock Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2019 Location: Germany Device: PW3, Kobo Glo	New Likebook Mars only connects to open wifi Hello everybody, I have just purchased a new Likebook Mars from the „Likebook official Store“ on Amazon. I cannot get the Mars to connect to any password protected wifi. After entering the wifi password, it shortly says „saved“ under the network name, but is immediately dropping the connection. It repeatedly tries to reconnect and disconnects right away. I have - a different router, - my neighbours network and even - a mobile hotspot, in between I had it forget all known networks. Finally I could successfully connect to an open, unencrypted wifi and was able to install at least 3 updates. The current version is from end of January 2019. After the updates I had the mars reset to factory defaults. Still, the Mars refuses to connect to any password protected wifi. So far, the only seller feedback was a proposed power management setting which I had already set that way and which did not help. I have to wait for further seller feedback until after the weekend, also they are probably still celebrating Chinese New Year. What am I not seeing here? I want to make sure I set everything up correctly, returning the device would be a last resort.