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The Wifi is disabled (no network) when I boot the device

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You are using Genymotion Desktop with VirtualBox

You may be having this issue because you are using the latest VirtualBox 7.1

Genymotion Desktop is not compatible with VirtualBox 7.1 for the moment!

If you recently upgraded VirtualBox, you need to downgrade to VirtualBox recommended version or 7.0.20.

You live in China

If you live in China, Wifi will probably be disabled when you start your device: Genymotion devices try to connect to google.com at boot to verify the Internet connection, but due to restrictions in China, this test fails and the device thinks that Internet is not connected.

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To solve this problem, you can either use a VPN and connect to a non-Chinese network, or use the following method:

  1. Open a terminal and run the following ADB commands: 
    adb shell settings put global captive_portal_http_url https://www.google.cn/generate_204
    adb shell settings put global captive_portal_https_url https://www.google.cn/generate_204
    adb shell settings put global ntp_server 1.hk.pool.ntp.org

    For more information about ADB usage with Genymotion, please refer to Genymotion Desktop documentation.

  2. Reboot the device.

Wifi should then be available.

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This problem occurs if you are using Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese Zone.

For detailed instructions, please refer to this article: I am using Genymotion Device Image on Alibaba, in the Chinese zone, and Wifi/Internet is not connected.

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