Five causes. We identify which one is yours.
'Connected, no internet' means your phone has joined the Wi-Fi network (so the router is fine) but can't reach anything beyond it. The connection between your router and the wider internet is broken somewhere.
There are exactly five common causes, and each has a different fix. Restart-the-router only fixes one of them. Diagnose first.
This is one of the most googled internet problems — and most articles give the same 'restart router' answer regardless of cause. Signalyzr tells you which cause is yours so you stop wasting time on the wrong fix.
Android (and Windows) probe a Google URL after joining Wi-Fi. If that probe fails, they show 'no internet' even though the Wi-Fi link itself is healthy. The probe failure means your router can't reach Google — DNS, modem, or ISP issue.
Only if you suspect the saved password / config is wrong. If you joined the Wi-Fi fine, forget+rejoin won't fix upstream connectivity. Forget+rejoin fixes 'authentication failed' errors, not 'connected, no internet'.
Captive portals are the login pages hotels and cafes use to make you accept terms. Your phone might join the Wi-Fi but the portal blocks all traffic until you visit it. If you're in a hotel/cafe and see 'no internet', open http://neverssl.com — it's designed to force the portal to appear.
Maybe. If the router config is corrupted (wrong DNS, broken DHCP, MTU mismatch), factory reset helps. If the modem is hung or ISP is out, router reset does nothing. Diagnose first.
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