Iphone not accepting home wifi password

woke up this morning to find my iphone prompting me to enter my home network password. i entered it and rec'd an 'unable to join' message. my wife's iphone, our two laptops and our wii were all connecting to the network fine. i did all the normal resetting of network settings, rebooted the router, hard restart of the iphone etc and still no luck entering the password. changed the router security from WEP to WPA2 and generated a new password...all the other devices in the house accepted the new password and are working fine but my phone still gives me the 'unable to join' error. any other suggestions for a fix?

christine, i would recommend checking your router security settings and make sure you have WPA2 security enabled, not WEP. if you 'upgrade' to WPA2 from WEP, you will need to generate a new password. the next step would be to reset your router--there should be a 'hole' in the back where you stick a paper clip or pen tip-hold it in there for 10-15 seconds. after this, it will probably take a few minutes for the router to start broadcasting again. try connecting your iphone again once it finds the signal.

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