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. 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 the Samsung Galaxy Phones
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.
su cd / cd data cd wifi ls
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.
rm bcm_supp.conf
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 who put the drivers together that has allowed us to uleash the potential of our devices. The XDA crowd who created the one click application for ROOTing the Captivate, you guys are awesome.
VIA:XDA Developers
