r/vita • u/Spider-Bland • 22d ago

Help My Vita refuses to connect to wifi.

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I bought this Vita at my local flea market yesterday and it was working perfectly, but when I got home I realized its wifi capability just isn’t working. I’ve factory reset 5 times and shut down and turned on about 15 times. And I know the problem isn’t my wifi because my other vita (rip) worked just fine with it, and so does every other device in my home. Sometimes when I shut down and turn on, the wifi setting is off so I turn it back on and it immediately turns itself back off, and the times it does stay on, the Access Points gets stuck on Searching. On the off chance that my wifi does show up, I type my password and it simply refuses to connect and keeps showing me an error. Could this be hardware related? My Vita isn’t hacked either.

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u/HectorJoseZapata 22d ago

Wifi networks nowadays come in 2.4GHz and 5GHz variants. Vita only connects to 2.4GHz wifi networks. You’ll need to go into your router and configure your networks so one of them is 2.4GHz.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5ghz+or+2.4ghz

Edit: if this is not the issue then your Vita might be broken. So sorry for your loss.

Edit2: did your other Vita connect to the same Wifi router?

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u/Spider-Bland 21d ago

Replying to your 2nd edit my other vita did connect to the same WiFi