by Charles Chow | August 29, 2016
If you recently updated your Nexus phone to Android 7.0 Nougat, but somehow you can’t use your phone’s Wi-Fi network, and you might have tried factory reset or flash the factory image, and Wi-Fi still can’t come back alive, here is the method that fix it.
This No Wi-Fi issue happened at the first time Android N developer preview roll out, if you owned a Nexus 5X or Nexus 6, joined the Android Beta problem, then flash the Android N DP image to your phone, your phone will lose the Wi-Fi MAC address and Android system will get the MAC address with value 02:00:00:00:00:00, and this is the reason why the Wi-Fi network can’t be enabled after a fully phone re-flash. So you can check the Wi-Fi MAC address under Settings -> About phone -> Status, if you see the “02:00:00:00:00:00” under Wi-Fi MAC address, follow these step to fix the problem. Continue reading »