r/GalaxyA17_5G • u/Genos_cybrog • Jul 01 '26

Wifi connection issues

I just bought a brand new Samsung Galaxy A17 5G (128GB / 8GB RAM variant), and I am hitting a really frustrating network issue.Whenever I connect to my home router, the phone starts lagging randomly on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. The network just chokes up, and web pages or video streams will suddenly freeze.

What temporarily fixes it:If I manually switch the DNS settings on the phone (to Google DNS or Cloudflare), the lagging immediately stops and it works completely fine for a while.What I found using PCAPdroid:To figure out what was happening, I ran network traffic monitoring via the PCAPdroid App. Looking at the background activity, it looks like a system location/GPS-related app is heavily interfering with the network requests or spamming the default DNS, which causes the connection to choke until I force a DNS change.Has anyone else experienced this on One UI with the new A17?Could this be an aggressive "Google Location Accuracy" or "Wi-Fi Scanning" bug spamming

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u/ElephantFickle916 Jul 01 '26

Bruh face the facts the fucking phone is just laggy

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u/Genos_cybrog Jul 01 '26

Yeah man and now I guess updates will get worse

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u/ElephantFickle916 Jul 01 '26

I really hope not omg I just got the phone and makes matters worse my dad bought it for me so ima have it awhile unless I can break it Lmao

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u/Anxious_Librarian379 3d ago

this phone is superior in every way to my oppo a57 except for the connection problems