Have an iPhone 4S where the wifi settings gets disabled periodically

Have an iPhone 4S where the wifi settings become disabled at regular intervals (several times a day), any suggestions to what can I do to prevent this? Have factory reset my iPhone without success.
Have also tried to upgrade the phone and have now iOS 8.1.

Hi there sujo01,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful if you are unable to enable Wi-Fi on your device.
iOS: Wi-Fi settings grayed out or dim
-Griff W.  

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