The Samsung Galaxy S line of phones are some of the best mobile devices that I have ever seen and have had the pleasure to use. The screens are beautiful and the power of the phones is just amazing. unfortunately no product is without it’s flaws, and the Samsung Galaxy S is no exception. I have now had the unfortunate incident where the WiFi for my Galaxy S stopped working. I have the ATT captivate, and I thought that the issue was something to do with the update that I received a few weeks ago, but the update was not the issue, the issue was a corrupt WiFi config file and I was unable to mess with the file because ATT locks me out from the device, So I did what every sane person would do, I rooted my phone and went exploring.

A hassle easy fix is to simple go to your AllShare app and then select your network...
The problem is once your wifi goes idle, you will have to repeat that step, over and over... And I found this to be very irritating.

To end this issue can be fixed easily and I am going to teach you how,
and Best of all I will teach you how to do it with out doing a factory reset.

I am not responsible for any damage done to your device, if you do this, you do this on your own accord.
The first step is to root your phone. This can be done in a number of ways.

ROOT YOUR PHONE IN-ORDER TO CONTINUE!

Once you have rooted your phone restart the device and then go to the Android market place and download the App “terminal Emulator” open the terminal emulator app and then enter the fallowing commands.







After this command you should see a file “bcm_supp.conf” If you do not then you have done something wrong. Log out of the terminal emulator and log back in and start over.



After this file has been deleted log out of the terminal emulator and reset your device, after the full reboot has happened restart WiFi and begin your quest for data.

I would like to say thank you to the people that put these drivers together and the XDA crowd who created the one click application, you guys are awesome.

If that doesn't work for you, then you'll have to set a static IP for you phone...

Follow these steps:

1.Apps>Settings>Wireless and network>Wi-Fi settings
2. Press the menu key on that page (left most bottom hap key)>advanced
3. Select Static IP
4. Now enter the IP address, gateway, Netmask, DNS1 and DNS 2. You can find these numbers on your computer by typing cmd (dos command prompt) in the Run and then check youre IP settings. Type ipconfig in the cmd prompt. It will tell you the exact IP address. Make sure the last digit in the IP address is different from that of your PC. Else it will result in a conflict. Typically, the Static IP data on your Galaxy S will have to be like

IP Address: 192.168.3.8 (the last digit will be that of your PC/ devices that you are using. It has to be diff for your smartphone)
Gateway: 192.168.3.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
DNS1: 192.168.3.1
DNS2: 192.168.3.2