Wifi Questions/Issues on Omnia

[Guest cmloo]

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 August 31, 2008 by cmloo

[Guest fisheradam]

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.

[Guest CoolHotCold]

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.

[Guest cmloo]

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?

[Guest CoolHotCold]

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

[Guest FlorinBv]

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

[Guest cmloo]

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

[Guest chuti98]

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)

[Guest FlorinBv]

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 ?

[Guest arthos7]

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!

[Guest moofus]

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

[Guest arthos7]

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.

[Guest travelbug]

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

cheers

[Guest moofus]

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:

[Guest Desmonte]

It workedddd! Thanks dood :)

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

[Guest Plasmoe]

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

Link to site

Link to cab

[Guest tibor28]

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.

[Guest Ricc]

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

[Guest asdasd]

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

[Guest Ricc]

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.

[Guest MrJoneswii]

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.

hl2? what's that?

[Guest Ricc]

HL2 is the latest Version of the ROM. At the moment I'm using this fix with the cleaned Rom, Revision b of:

http://www.modaco.com/content/i9x0-omnia-r...lufeigs-lfi04c/

[Guest MrJoneswii]

HL2 is the latest Version of the ROM. At the moment I'm using this fix with the cleaned Rom, Revision b of:

http://www.modaco.com/content/i9x0-omnia-r...lufeigs-lfi04c/

Oh yeah ofcourse, duh...

I'm on HK3 cause HL2 is not officialy released yet, i think.

I've never had any wifi issues, sure the signal is lower than on a standard laptop, but I just guessed that it's normal since it's actually a phone and not a pda.

[Guest Tonza]

Do I have to do any setting changes when I use wifi with my Omnia? I can't make it working. I have 3g working fine but now I'm abroad and the only way to use internet via cell phone would be wifi.

I can get connected to my home network (it clearly says "connected") but I still can't use the web...I've tried many different applications but none of them could connect. What canges could possibly have effect on this? Maybe something in connections->connections (because I don't actually understand much of that menu :rolleyes:)

I've disabled my gprs, wap and mms with modaco nodata but it shouldn't have any effect on this.

[Guest Ricc]

Go settings > Connections > Browser Connections and activate Automatic detect settings