With saved credentials present (seeded from the WIFI_SSID build flag on
first boot), the recovery AP came up in AP+STA mode while auto-reconnect
and the 10s manual retry kept the station scanning. STA scans drag the
shared radio across channels, so joining clients' WPA2 handshakes timed
out - reported by phones as a wrong password.
Disable auto-reconnect and pause the 10s retry loop while the recovery
AP is active; retry the configured network once a minute instead, so the
AP stays stable between attempts and the node still self-recovers (and
shuts the AP down) when its network returns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>