Palm PMG0501000P manual Open network, see Connecting to an open network, Wi-Fi

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open network, see Connecting to an open network.

Secure networks: These networks may broadcast their name, but at the very least, they require you to enter a password that you get from an administrator (who may be, for example, the librarian or the person behind the counter at the coffee shop). You may also have to get other network settings from the system administrator. To learn how to connect to a secure network, see Connecting to a secure network.

If you’ve already set up a connection to a secure network and want to reconnect to it, follow the steps in Connecting to an open network.

Turning the Wi-Fi feature on and off

BEFORE YOU BEGIN Make sure your smartphone screen is on (see Waking up the screen and turning it off).

•To turn Wi-Fi on, press Wi-Fi (on the side of your smartphone near the stylus slot).

•To turn Wi-Fi off, press and hold

Wi-Fi .

When Wi-Fi is on, your Today screen displays Wi-Fi: On.

TIP By default, when your screen turns off, the Wi-Fi feature turns off to save power. Wi-Fi does not turn back on automatically when your screen turns back on. You can adjust the Wi-Fi settings to keep Wi-Fi on all the time. See Customizing Wi-Fi settings for details.

Connecting to an open network

You can connect to an open network or to a secure network for which you already set up a connection. If you have access to multiple Wi-Fi networks, you can select the network to which you want to connect.

NOTE The WEP (wired equivalent privacy) encryption method is enabled by default and may interfere with your ability to connect to a network that broadcasts its name. See Connecting to a secure network to learn how to disable WEP encryption.

1Press Wi-Fi (on the side of your smartphone near the stylus slot). What happens next depends on the state of Wi-Fi before you pressed the button:

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