I’m about ready to sell my Pixel because of this.
For months it’s been randomly dropping WiFi at home, switching over to 4G/5G, then sometimes refusing to reconnect unless I toggle WiFi off/on. Really annoying because mobile signal inside my house is pretty bad.
I’ve tried pretty much every phone-side fix I could find, including a full factory reset without restoring anything. Didn’t help.
I already bought a Pixel 9 Pro at a really good price and was planning to sell this one, but before I open the new phone I figured I’d ask:
Is there anything else worth testing first?
For context, my home network is Google Nest WiFi with the main router and two mesh points.
Before you sell the phone, are you sure the Pixel is actually the problem? I had random disconnects across a couple different phones and eventually figured out the issue was roaming between my APs.
@Then-Reindeer3632 Honestly I hadn’t really considered the mesh. My laptop/TV/etc seem fine, so I just assumed it was the phone.
Different clients can behave differently with roaming. One device having trouble doesn’t automatically mean the entire WiFi network is broken.
I’d test the Nest setup before opening the 9 Pro. Use NetSpot or another WiFi analyzer and see what the signal looks like around the house and which BSSID the phone is connected to in the spots where it usually drops. If the disconnects keep happening around the same area between two mesh points, that would be pretty suspicious.
If every other device works and only the Pixel does this, I still wouldn’t completely let the phone off the hook. Could be a driver/firmware issue.
@frozen_shift_X Sure, but OP is literally about to sell the phone. Spending 20 minutes checking whether the failures line up with mesh roaming seems cheaper than guessing.
Easy test: unplug one of the Nest points for a day. If the disconnects suddenly stop, you’ve learned something.