Can't View Wi-fi Networks in Ubuntu 16.04

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Let me first say I have tried different things before posting.After installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS the wifi was totally disabled. It showed Wi-fi disabled. After trying the all solutions in this question How do I get an RT3290 wireless card to work? it started showing Wi-fi Networks but there was no connections available. Then I tried the solutions in Wifi networks are not showing in Ubuntu 16.04, but then there was absolutely nothing called Wi-fi Networks. Then I did `

sudo ifconfig rename3 up *(rename3 is the logical name of my wireless interface)*

sudo systemctl restart network-manager

After this it went back to previous stage but still it was not showing any available wifi connections.

sudo lshw -C network

*-network DISABLED      
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       logical name: rename3
       version: 00
       serial: 1c:3e:84:58:05:33
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RALINK WLAN latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=Ralink STA
       resources: irq:16 memory:63510000-6351ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0e:00.0
       logical name: eno1
       version: 05
       serial: 2c:59:e5:a4:ce:e4
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.0.105 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:26 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:63404000-63404fff memory:63400000-63403fff

I have just switched from windows and I am kind of lost, for two days I've been trying to make it work. Please some help would be really great and I really want to keep using Linux.

After trying things in ubuntu 16.04 I installed 14.04. After fresh installation

rfkill list all

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

lsmod | grep -e wmi -e laptop

    hp_wmi                 16384  0 
sparse_keymap          16384  1 hp_wmi
snd_rawmidi            32768  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device         16384  3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd                    81920  17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
wmi                    20480  1 hp_wmi

Then I found another question that was solved Ralink rt3290 wifi driver is not working in Ubuntu 14.04 and tried the solution then something changed. rfkill list all is showing nothing and sudo lshw -C network gave the following output where *-network DISABLED of the wireless interface was no longer there.

 *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       logical name: ra0
       version: 00
       serial: 1c:3e:84:58:05:33
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RALINK WLAN latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=Ralink STA
       resources: irq:16 memory:63510000-6351ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0e:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 05
       serial: 2c:59:e5:a4:ce:e4
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.0.104 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:26 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:63404000-63404fff memory:63400000-63403fff

Another information I got when I did nmcli dev

DEVICE     TYPE              STATE        
eth0       802-3-ethernet    unavailable  
ra0        802-11-wireless   disconnected 
usb0       802-3-ethernet    connected