Android "Avoided Poor Internet Connection" Error

Saturday 14 September 2013 at 5:55 pm

Here's another 'I Googled this problem and found another solution' post.  

My wife's phone (HTC Desire X, running ICS) refused to connect to the home WiFi, and in the settings the "Avoided Poor Internet Connection" message repeatedly appeared.  Changing to a static IP address fixed it for a short time, but it came back.

A bit of research seemed to indicate this is quite common on Android devices, but the solution involves having root access.  I'm quite happy to attempt rooting my own devices, but don't really like mucking about with others', so I found myself reasoning thus:  the accepted solution is deleting files in a system folder, which must store information about the wireless connection, like its SSID.  So if the SSID is changed, the error might go away.  And it did.

So the short solution (for me) was to change the router's SSID (WiFi name) and we're all working again.  Obviously it's a pain to reconnect every wireless device in the house, but worth the effort.  I've also fixed the IP address which with a bit of luck will help stop it happening again.  The problem I think stemmed from my router starting to fail, and a new router is connecting efficiently now.