Problems With The WiFi On Your BlackBerry Storm2?!?

HA! wifi is usless on these phones anyway.

they put out a phone with wifi problem lmao wow.. thats like a brand new car with out tires

its fixed . my wifi is working since this morning . all white no more grey . im on the lower data package

The fix is to pay more money...? Wow. Sort it out, RIM.

This is not Rim's issue it's a Verizon issue. Verizon needs to sort it out and stop being punk @ss B!tch3s. Let people have there wifi if they want it. But it's all about money for them.

My wifi works fine. Never had a problem.

Issue is resolved. Resend your service books.

http://forums.crackberry.com/f145/wifi-working-349259/index20.html

I guess I WON'T submit this to the blogger's attention. ;) Anyways there are some reports in the Forums that the issue MAY, be resolved.

Flying via 100% working wifi. W00t!

FUCK YOU VERIZON!!

Of course the fix is to have you upgrade to a more expensive plan. Their criminal billing system will never fix the problem. Once you make a change to your Verizon bill, you are fucked. You will never see that money again, if anything, it will cause such a major headache to you, that you will have to pay them more to make it stop.

Verizon billing system is the bane of humanity. The FCC should yank their license to do ANYTHING until the put a competent billing system in place.

"The issue is a known one to Verizon at this time since it's their issue to fix (not RIM's)"

Thats not correct. Verizon is only tasked with ensuring the Network is up and able to be utilized by the device. Any device functionality that is not working or needs to be fixed is done by the manufacturer through patches or software updates. Verizon Wireless doesn't release software patches or updates other than putting them on the website for download. These come direct from RIM.

The reason that people were changing to the $45 plan and it fixed the issue was not a VZW billing issue it was a RIM service book issue. Once they received the BES service books it unlocked the WIFI on the device. Verizon Wireless always intended for the device to have unlocked WIFI regardless of price. As you can see RIM corrected the issue with a service book update for the BIS users. Also not something Verizon Wireless has any control over for those haters like the poser (I mean poster) above me.

I gotta tell you- wifi on a phone- especially one on a Verizon network is unnecessary- other then drain you battery- I just don't see it. Verizon Network is the best out there and I have never been in a situation with my phone where I said "If only I had wifi"

Yup I have the problem on my phone. I am done with the Storm 2. Buttons sometimes are not responsive on first touch and now the WiFi issue. My phone is getting sent back today and I will use my upgrade on one of the upcoming Android phones. Sorry Blackberry but I can't sit and wait for another year for you guys to figures this out, by then you guys will be way behind the competition.

Went to look at the Storm2 yesterday, really not that impressed by the over all feel sure, it's quick, but the storm is now too, with the 5.0 update Verizon released. Wifi? Just an added perk that isn't all that great to me. Until RIM unlock's the capability of their internet browser to view secured(username and password entry) websites wifi is just an unessential thing for me......

Damn curiosity will probably get the best of me though, and I'll upgrade to this phone when I upgrade.... we'll see, still a month to go.

Yesterday my WiFi signal was never white but today I checked and it is good to go.

This is my first BB and I am pretty pumped about it!

You know I'm on my 4th 9530, I've been ready to rip my hair out. Then I saw the Storm2 coming out and I said NO WAY after thinking about it. My sales rep kept trying to replace my Storm, but I told her that I want a DROID cause I knew that if the Storm2 was twice as good as the Storm, it would still be junk. Can't wait till Friday so I can sh*t-can this Storm. It's a joke of an "upgrade" from the 9530 and now we see it has problems right from launch. Sound familiar? RIM needs to stick with what they know, and it's not touch screen devices.

This problem was solved quickly and wasn't really a major issue. You guys think that other phone manufacturers produce phones with no problems at all? Just go on google and seach for iphone or palm pre problems. I love my BB Messenger and push email.

Verizon x(RIM+Storm)= Glitch

We've seen it before.

mine is fine now after resending service books.

calm down people.

Big Red continues its tradition of release bugs followed by upgrade work arounds then year later patch fixes followed two months later by the 'New Unit Upgrade'.

Suprised that we all arent relegated to the $1200/mo. plan by now...

Just got my storm2, and configured it for a secured wireless network, and had no problems with Wi-Fi.

Are you serious? The phone is BRAND NEW and there are already issues that require people having to visit forums etc? And you think that is acceptable!

RIM have made mugs of people again!

I don't understand, why use your wifi if you already have a data plan? You know verizon doesn't let you get a berry without a data plan. I just think its useless, runs out your battery. I don't know thats what I think.

Wifi works fine with my brothers storm 2 and mine as well ..first try we got it to work

mine is working now too

My wifi works fine and it's been working since Wednesday...guess mine didn't have an issue I hope haha. I do love this phone though at least compared to my Storm 1 it is wayyyy better.

90% of the posts to the OP are people gasping, and pointing fingers at VZW and RIM. Even though right in between a bunch of people are trying to say "Hey, I'm right here and my Storm 2 works just fine" but people post right over them like they dont even exist... One article on a supposed issue thats already been fixed and the haters and flamers are off and having a field day. Calm down.... If you dont like the phone don't get it, but you're going on and on and on about something thats already been resolved and wasn't that big an issue in the first place...

Seriously. Is pressing your finger down 4 times to resend your service books that big of a deal? Calm it down people...

I still have no WIFI.

Ive tried everything talked about here...

any help?

reading these posts, i have determined that 90% of you whom have posted, whining, are 6 year old school girls... why do you even have a blackberry?

How the bitter idiots jump into yelling and calling names. Verizon never was making anyone pay more for wifi. It is/was a service book issue. Stop crying.

For all of you that are trying to bad mouth Verizon, get a life lol! The only thing you have to do to fix the issue to register your host routing table, and that should get you up and started. No, the difference in data packages does not have anything to do with the wifi connection. There you have it

For all of you that are trying to bad mouth Verizon, get a life lol! The only thing you have to do to fix the issue to register your host routing table, and that should get you up and started. No, the difference in data packages does not have anything to do with the wifi connection. There you have it

I still don't understand why people don't understand that all these electronics in the WORLD are just that electronics...some have glitches or problems if Verizon wasn't willing to replace the device under warranty or offer a solution I could understand the complaining!

Another thing I don't understand is if you knew when you purchased the phone from a corporate store that there is a 1 year manufactuer warranty and if you had a manufactuer defect after that one year and Verizon says they can replace the device with the same model for $50 since it is out of the warranty period why people throw a fit! Ideally YES we would like to have everything OUR way and get stuff for free...but really!! If you were the owner would you give phones away for free after the warranty period? Esp. when you already give customers the opportunity to exchange the device within the first 30 days of an upgrade for the price difference and a $35 restocking fee because they cannot resale it as a new device (it costs them WAY MORE then $35 to send that phone back) yet people want to bitch about that as well!!!

sorry that you broke bastards couldnt afford to upgrade, but unlike t-mobile and other carries that have wifi berrys we don't need uma service on our berry the network is strong enough. all you had to do was 1st buy the phone lol, configure ur browser to be a hotsopt browser and register your service books wow!!!! the issue was fixed, and you don't own a storm and your complaining why? my h2 gets horrible gas milage you wanna bitch about gas prices for me 2????

After spending almost an hour with Verizon tech support and being encouraged to completely wipe my Storm2 and start from scratch, I had an epiphany! I unplugged my cable modem from the power supply for about one minute and then plugged the power cord back into the modem.

I was desparate to keep all of my third party apps intact and did not want to jeopardize all of the $$$ that I had already put into the purchase of them.

Lo and behold, my Wifi icon turned white and the magical green check mark appeared replacing the white dash.

This has been about 5 days, and thus far...all is well in the world of Wifi. Give it a try and post your results.

i am a new user of blackberry storm 2 and i have problems with my wifi i cant connect to it in myplace but i cant at friends place and i am not in the usa i am in Bulgaria and second my phone is coded i cant open it what can i do ?