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Hi all,

Coming as a user of many diff HTC PDA (last was TyntII) , I have appreciated two main features that came bundled with the WiFi Manager

1) The ability to set the signal strength for the Wifi receiver
2) LEAP/PEAP settings

On the Omnia I notice both features were missing. A few may ask why i need it?

1) The Omnia Wifi signal is one of the lowest I have seen in all my previous PDAs (HP/Compaq/Dopod/Asus/HTC). I wonder if there is a *# xxxxxxxxxxx # code like the one used for increasing the volume to be applied here

2) My office network uses LEAP as a way to authenticate the Wireless device. Does anyone out there knows of an add on I could do for this since Samsung did not think their "everything in one" pda was meant to be used in other encryption environment

MAny thanks in advance

Edited by cmloo, 31 August 2008 - 07:55 PM.


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View Postcmloo, on Aug 31 2008, 20:14, said:

Hi all,

Coming as a user of many diff HTC PDA (last was TyntII) , I have appreciated two main features that came bundled with the WiFi Manager

1) The ability to set the signal strength for the Wifi receiver
2) LEAP/PEAP settings

On the Omnia I notice both features were missing. A few may ask why i need it?

1) The Omnia Wifi signal is one of the lowest I have seen in all my previous PDAs (HP/Compaq/Dopod/Asus/HTC). I wonder if there is a *# xxxxxxxxxxx # code like the one used for increasing the volume to be applied here

2) My office network uses LEAP as a way to authenticate the Wireless device. Does anyone out there knows of an add on I could do for this since Samsung did not think their "everything in one" pda was meant to be used in other encryption environment

MAny thanks in advance

Haven't looked into it properly, but I assumed the LEAP/PEAP was under Domain Enroll, which can be found in Start> Settings> Connections.


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To use LEAP go to the wireless settings,  Add a new connection (fill in the SSID)  make sure you have "The Key is automatically provided for me" ticked,  Click next and select PEAP from the drop down list.


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View PostCoolHotCold, on Sep 1 2008, 06:18, said:

To use LEAP go to the wireless settings, Add a new connection (fill in the SSID) make sure you have "The Key is automatically provided for me" ticked, Click next and select PEAP from the drop down list.


Hi Cool Hot Cold,

Thanks, but where would I key in the login id and passsword right after this?


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View Postcmloo, on Sep 1 2008, 13:23, said:

Hi Cool Hot Cold,

Thanks, but where would I key in the login id and passsword right after this?



I belive the id and pw comes up the first time you try to connect


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I have wifi signal problem too....is to weak and instable...any solution? maybe registry settings can fix it?


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View PostFlorinBv, on Sep 2 2008, 04:39, said:

I have wifi signal problem too....is to weak and instable...any solution? maybe registry settings can fix it?


The phone's signal is so weak that I cant event detect the office's Wifi...sigh....
No chance to even test the LEAP auto login


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View Postcmloo, on Sep 2 2008, 06:16, said:

The phone's signal is so weak that I cant event detect the office's Wifi...sigh....
No chance to even test the LEAP auto login


have your omnia ever get connect to wifi? or it's just find and cannot connect because i used to have this experience. If yes you got to flash new phone rom as same as me.. but if just signal weak I do waiting for solution too.. I found my friend iphone have very good signal while my omnia got 1 bar or nothing (SO SAD)


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View Postchuti98, on Sep 3 2008, 02:41, said:

have your omnia ever get connect to wifi? or it's just find and cannot connect because i used to have this experience. If yes you got to flash new phone rom as same as me.. but if just signal weak I do waiting for solution too.. I found my friend iphone have very good signal while my omnia got 1 bar or nothing (SO SAD)

I'm get connected with omnia,but the signal is very weak....even if the distance between me and the router is just 3 meters.

chuti98, what version of radio rom do you have now? with you new rom, the wifi signal is good like Iphone ?


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seems a lot of ppl been complaining about omnia wifi signal range.i discovered something after 2-3 days studying about all these Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g.omnia uses b & g but i guess we're only using Wi-Fi 802.11 b.the difference between b & g is the signal range and also it's data rate.which means g is better than b(wiki of u want to know more about this).
when i'm trying to tune up my omnia using sktools i found out that by default Wi-Fi 802.11g is not supported in my omnia.so i changed that setting and after soft reset i tried connect to wifi and the signal is wayyy better than before.plus i could see other wifi router also.now the signal range is optimzed by turning on Wi-Fi 802.11g.
this tweak is for tuning up the signal only okay!


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View Postarthos7, on Dec 13 2008, 08:04, said:

seems a lot of ppl been complaining about omnia wifi signal range.i discovered something after 2-3 days studying about all these Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g.omnia uses b & g but i guess we're only using Wi-Fi 802.11 b.the difference between b & g is the signal range and also it's data rate.which means g is better than b(wiki of u want to know more about this).
when i'm trying to tune up my omnia using sktools i found out that by default Wi-Fi 802.11g is not supported in my omnia.so i changed that setting and after soft reset i tried connect to wifi and the signal is wayyy better than before.plus i could see other wifi router also.now the signal range is optimzed by turning on Wi-Fi 802.11g.
this tweak is for tuning up the signal only okay!

Hi there, how do you go about tweaking it? Where does one go to turn on wifi 802.11g?

Thanks


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as i said i used SKTools to edit it.i don't know where it is located in the registry bcoz i'm still new at this.if u have SKTools open it.
select tune up>network tab>WLAN 802.11G support .default value is no so u change it to yes.click done and soft reset the phone and u are good to go.
u will see those green bars increasing in wifi advanced settings.

gud luck.


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View Postarthos7, on Dec 13 2008, 21:00, said:

as i said i used SKTools to edit it.i don't know where it is located in the registry bcoz i'm still new at this.if u have SKTools open it.
select tune up>network tab>WLAN 802.11G support .default value is no so u change it to yes.click done and soft reset the phone and u are good to go.
u will see those green bars increasing in wifi advanced settings.

gud luck.

hey arthos i tried this tweak for a week already and the connection is indeed more stable and a bit stronger now. but i feel that it is still quite weak compared to other pda's
i hope some one finds a way to adjust wifi radio signal strength as the first poster described. i think itts even a standard feature on wm 6 .

i have also noticed that the phone radio is also quite weak.
i am presently using the j1 rom and i hope these two issues could be addresed


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View Postarthos7, on Dec 13 2008, 13:00, said:

as i said i used SKTools to edit it.i don't know where it is located in the registry bcoz i'm still new at this.if u have SKTools open it.
select tune up>network tab>WLAN 802.11G support .default value is no so u change it to yes.click done and soft reset the phone and u are good to go.
u will see those green bars increasing in wifi advanced settings.

gud luck.

It workedddd! Thanks dood :rolleyes:


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View Postmoofus, on Dec 13 2008, 21:49, said:

It workedddd! Thanks dood :)

I cant find the SKTools program, help? :rolleyes:


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View PostDesmonte, on Dec 28 2008, 20:16, said:

I cant find the SKTools program, help? :rolleyes:

Link to site
Link to cab


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I did the SK tools trick yesterday. It helped the signal strenght but it is still very unstable and I have to restart the wifi every 5 minutes to connect again. I hope this will be solved in future ROMs.


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Thanks mate, great app.... anything else I can improve :-)


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Did it work? Do you feel a speed boost and better signal range or is it still the same?


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Well first when i got teh phone I couldnt even connect to my wifi even if it was 3 meters away the router. with hl2 it was much better and i guess I have no problems at the moment to connect.





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