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A good friend of mine was gracious enough to give me his old A1428 to use as I am currently out of work and can not afford another phone.
Although the phone works fine in almost every aspect, the WiFi chip will not search or manually connect to any visible or hidden routers.
I have attempted numerous routers at businesses and at my house (I have a stack of old, unused routers that still work.)
I have attempted everything I can think possible including a full wipe, restore of the latest firmware, and am getting quite frustrated as this is an excellent phone, however I am in between towers and am unable to get any sort of access inside my home and place of business
I was reading that certain models have a WiFi chip that tends to go bad after a couple of years and have noted that the MAC address of the WiFi chip is showing normally in the General/About section.
Do you have a possible remedy for this issue? It would be terribly unfortunate to have to use this beautiful piece of machinery as a paperweight.
Thanks in advance,
Dan Perry

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