Connecting your Android device to eduroam takes a one-time setup. After these steps, your Android connects automatically wherever eduroam is available, including at other participating campuses worldwide.
Field names and menu locations vary by manufacturer, Android version, and language, so treat the labels below as the most common wording rather than an exact match.
Connecting to eduroam
- Open the Settings app, go to Network & internet → Wi-Fi (called Connections → Wi-Fi on some devices), then tap eduroam.
- Fill in the form. If your device does not show one of these fields, skip it:
- EAP method: PEAP
- Phase 2 authentication: MSCHAPV2
- CA certificate: Don't validate (may also read "Do not validate" or "Do not check"; on some phones you must expand Advanced options to see it)
- Identity: your full Emerson email address, including @emerson.edu (for example, carol_danvers@emerson.edu)
- Anonymous identity: leave blank. If your phone prefilled "(anonymous)", clear it, or the connection will fail.
- Password: your Emerson password
- Tap Save (or Connect, depending on the device).
Once it finishes, in a moment or two, you are connected.
If the Save / Connect button is greyed out and will not respond: that is almost always the CA certificate field. On Android 11 and newer the button stays disabled until this field is set to something. Tap CA certificate and choose Don't validate. The button turns blue and lets you save.
Security note: eduroam does not use a login web page. If you are ever taken to a website asking for your Emerson email and password while joining eduroam, do not enter them and contact the Help Desk.
If it still will not connect after setting CA certificate to Don't validate, send a screenshot of the options you see under the CA certificate field to helpdesk@emerson.edu, or bring the device to the Help Desk and we will sort it out.