wifi saved networks don't have effect, despite being listed

[Kris]

I hesitated to file this bug for approx a week because none else seemed to report simillar issue, and felt like I was dealing with some weird edge case. But:

When I connect to password protected wifi access point the network gets saved in System Settings / Wi-Fi / Previous Networks.

Despite it being saved, it never seems to take any effect once disconnected form the saved network, and returning to it. It will ask me for password over and over again, and also save it over and over again under Wi-Fi/Previous networks, with the same name but suffixed with an ever increasing index. In the attached screen you can see "sd 3" and "sd3 1" but it would go on and on to probably "sd3 99" and beyond.

My phone is Meizu MX4. I was using r478 earlier today, which was already 2-3 updates through since I started seeing this problem, and it persisted. I reflashed my phone to some old double digit release (i think r79), and it worked. Then I updated, this time I was already directly updated to r480, which I am currently on, but the problem returned. The attached screen is taken under r480.

Perhaps I am an isolated case, but I reproduced this problem even after reflashing and updating to recent release.

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

How are you connecting to this/these Wi-Fi networks? You shouldn't use the “Other Network” entry if it's a known network.

[Kris (k-k-jacewicz)]

Jonas, you didn't quite understand me, I am using WiFi network just exactly like everyone else does.
After I connect to WiFi protected network, it gets saved to >Previous Networks<, which also happens normally.
The difference comes when I disconnect and return to the network:
- go to other network, then want to come back,
- turn off WiFi then come back
- airplane mode on/off
- physically move out of range, then come back,
- power off the phone, then power back on again
- so on so on, etc.

Normally my saved network would connect automatically. And even if it didn't it would at least not ask for password again,. because it is already saved.
Not in my case, not anymore. Saved networks are physically saved like they should, which my attached screen shows, but this takes no real effect.
I still am asked for password despite already having the network saved. And after I do, I connect through, and the network gets saved AGAIN, multiplying login information for the same networks over and over again. It keeps saving these without ever making use of it.

[Kris (k-k-jacewicz)]

I even returned from rc-proposed to stable channel, currently on OTA-14 and still affected. I reflashed my phone to come back to stable channel.
I don't understand this. Is there anything that may persist in the system between two flashes of the phone? Because I even flashed back to r26 ancient version and had the same problem. I used that ancient image many times when I had problem with os, I would have reflashed back and make clean account setup and clean update to most recent os from within.And it always worked. This time even after going this way my problem persisted even while in that r26, which was never the case before.

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