Has anyone else had problems with their S5e struggling to pick up their WiFi signal in the first place, as opposed to the WiFi turning off during standby? I'm sitting here with my phone and tablet next to each other, one floor up from my router. The phone sees both (2.4GHz and 5Ghz) WiFi signals along with about a dozen others from neighbouring properties. The tablet mostly shows none, or just occasionally picks up one or two (no more) of the neighbours' signals. I have to carry the tablet downstairs towards the router before the SSID will even show up. I can then connect, and even bring the tablet back upstairs and it will remain connected at least for a while, although usually if I come back to it a while later, the connection has gone and the WiFi is off (which may be due to this reception problem OR the issue originally raised by the OP in this thread).
We have several mobile devices in the house, and only the tablet has this problem. And no, I'm not holding it in landscape mode - it's just flat on the desk, but if I prop it up on its stand, that makes no difference.
I have used the WiFiMan app to analyse channels and that does show my SSIDs, and they are stronger than the neighbours' ones, yet I can only see at best 2 of the neighbours' ones when on the Android WiFi connection screen. Also interesting is that WiFiMan on each device often shows a difference of about 10dBm (in the phone's favour). I don't know what to make of this, especially seeing as a third party app can 'see' all these networks and yet Android isn't offering them for me to connect to. Perhaps this should be a separate forum thread of its own - apologies if so! - but I just thought the audience on this thread might possibly have come across the problem too, or may perhaps have an idea of what to try (before taking the tedious route of raising a support ticket and doing the inevitable factory reset).
