Nexus One: How to Make Your Device Use a Static IP Address
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Android By default, the Nexus One uses a dynamic IP address when you connect to a wireless network. If a static address is desired, you are only a few steps away.
1. Go to the Home screen.
2. Select the Menu key.
3. Select Settings.
4. Select Wireless & networks.
5. Select Wi-Fi settings.
6. Select the Menu key.
7. Select Advanced.
8. Check the Use static IP checkbox.
9. The IP address, Gateway, Netmask, DNS 1 and DNS 2 fields will no longer be ghosted out. Fill in the desired values.
10. Connect to the desired wireless network.
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FuzzyBunnyFeet said on September 12, 2010
I’ve followed all the steps, but my Nexus One continues to obtain a DHCP address.
seeingwithsound said on September 23, 2010
I had the same problem as FuzzyBunnyFeet with my HTC Desire running Android 2.2 (Froyo). No matter what I did, “Use static IP” did nothing and I kept getting reconnected via DHCP, e.g. as 192.168.2.4 or a similar “low” IP address. This is slightly annoying because it regularly causes PCs on the same network to complain about IP address conflicts (which does not happen if I turn the phone’s WiFi off). So I wanted to set something “higher up” on the phone such as 192.168.2.88, but initially to no avail. It seems that I must specify DNS 1 and DNS 2 (e.g. as 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 of OpenDNS) to really get the desired IP address in use (192.168.2.88 in this example), and restart the router to no longer see the phone in the DHCP list.
pavansachi said on October 4, 2010
thanks for the info . saved my day !!
Andy said on November 4, 2011
Thanx!!
- i’ve read some strange instructions prior to this page :-)