HU Berlin eduroam for Android

in Digitalisation on Eduroam, Android, Hu berlin

If the eduroam Android app to setup the wifi crashes for you, try this alternative path.

I tried to setup eduroam for the Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt Universität in Berlin) using the app advertised in the manual: geteduroam

Unfortunately, the app crashes on my Android phone. If this is your case as well, proceed as follows:

  1. download the CA certificate hu-ca-2024.crt1
  2. go to your wifi settings and select eduroam to setup this wifi
  3. use TTLS/PAP (I forgot which one)
  4. add anonymous identity: eduroam@hu-berlin.de
  5. add username as username@hu-berlin.de (use username@physik.hu-berlin.de or username@mathematik.hu-berlin.de if your account is with those faculties)
  6. add as CA certificate the file downloaded before
  7. do not verify this certificate
  8. add as domain: hu-berlin.de

Note that other universities may require other setups.

  1. I have created this certificate file with openssl x509 -inform PEM -outform DER -in CA.pem -out hu-ca-2024.crt using the CA.pem extracted from the eduroam setup for my PC. ↩︎