This is a guide to configuring basic wireless settings on the HTC Hero (known as the G2 MyTouch to T-Mobile customers). The HTC Hero is a bandwidth hungry machine, help keep your mobile data usage down below your acceptable usage cap by using Wi-Fi internet as much as possible.
First off, you'll need to ensure your Wi-Fi is turned on - HTC have a widget for toggling the Wi-Fi on and off, if it's not already on one of your homescreens, it's a useful enough toggle that it's worth adding. To add the widget - press on a blank section of your homescreen for a few seconds until the "Add to Home" menu appears. From here, choose "HTC Widget", then "Settings" and touch "Wi-Fi". This will allow you to add the Wi-Fi toggle widget to one of your homescreens. Tapping the toggle will switch the Wi-Fi on and off, with the Wi-Fi's current state being displayed on the widget itself.
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Ok, now that the Wi-Fi is turned on, your device should scan for nearby wireless networks, if any are found, you will receive an alert in the notification bar along the top of the screen. Drag your finger down from the top of the screen to the bottom and the notification window will open. To connect to a broadcasting Wi-Fi network, do the following:
-From any of the homescreens, tap the hard "Menu" button then tap "Wi-Fi Settings"
-At the bottom, you should now see a list of the wireless networks which have been discovered (if any), to connect to one, tap it on the screen
-If there is any security (WEP or WPA), you will be prompted to enter the relevant passcode and you should then be connected
-These steps should only need to be completed once, your Hero should automatically connect to the Wi-Fi network the next time it is in range
Whilst connected to a Wi-Fi network, your phone will use the Wi-Fi connection, rather than your mobile data connection. However, it's worth bearing in mind that, when your Hero goes in to sleep mode, the Wi-Fi is turned off to save power, so any internet connectivity that is required during sleep mode (for example - scheduled checking for email or Twitter updates) will use the phone's standard mobile data. There is a method of preventing this from happening, which I'll detail later.
If the Wi-Fi network you wish to connect to is not broadcasting it's SSID, you'll need to set up the connection manually. To do this:-
When in the "Wi-Fi Settings" section, at the very bottom of the screen there is an option to "Add Wi-Fi network." Tap this on the screen:
-You'll then need to enter the correct Network SSID and specify the relevant security method (WEP, WPA, etc)
-When the security method has been selected, you will then be able to enter the correct security passcode for the Wi-Fi network and you'll also have the chance to specify any other Wi-Fi settings as determined by your network administrator
-The Wi-Fi connection should then be complete and, in future, your Hero will connect automatically to this network with the settings you have specified
There may be some unusual instances where a given wireless access point doesn't give out IP addresses via DHCP, so any devices that attach to the wireless network need to have static IP addressing set. These are the steps you need to take to specify a static IP:
-Hit the hard Menu button on your phone and then choose "Settings"-From there, browse to the "Wireless controls" section and then choose "Wi-Fi Settings"
-Whilst in the "Wi-Fi Settings" section, push the hard Menu button again and select "Advanced"
-Press "Use static IP" to put a check in the box and then enter the network settings as per your own network (if you're not sure what your settings are, (and assuming you're using Windows) open a command prompt by clicking Start, then Run and typing in cmd and hitting enter and then typing the line ipconfig -all and hitting enter, the relevant details should be listed there. -Just make sure you use a different number for IP address on your phone than is shown on your PC!)
Now, one thing to bear in mind here is; you won't be able to connect to public wireless hotspots with a Static IP set as they will all use DHCP, and the chances of you specifying static IP settings that work for both your home network and any given public hotspot are pretty slim. There doesn't seem to be any way of using one IP profile for one wireless network and a different IP profile for another, but if you uncheck the Static IP section, you'll be able to pick up an IP from DHCP and, happily, your previously set Static IP settings will stick for when you revert back.
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