With my S8 I noticed it would connect to Wi-Fi randomly going down the road. It was always an xfinity WiFi but it wouldn't really have service. found out hotspot 2.0 is crap turned it off and now no problem.
I don't see this option on my phone, where is it located ?
AwaKeN said:
I don't see this option on my phone, where is it located ?
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Advanced Wi-Fi settings
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I have the same problem with my s10 except I found it but it's grayed out how do I turn it off it's really bugging me
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I have a new AT&T Galaxy S4. It's not rooted or anything. It's stock.
I connect to my home Wifi in the evening. During the day at work, I turn off Wifi and use LTE. When I get home and I turn Wifi back on, it has forgotten my Wifi network. This is without restarting the phone or anything.
Has anyone else noticed this? I have never had this issue on an Android phone.
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I have a new AT&T Galaxy S4. It's not rooted or anything. It's stock.
I connect to my home Wifi in the evening. During the day at work, I turn off Wifi and use LTE. When I get home and I turn Wifi back on, it has forgotten my Wifi network. This is without restarting the phone or anything.
Has anyone else noticed this? I have never had this issue on an Android phone.
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How are you turning off WiFi? Are you disconnecting it and then turning it off? Or just turning it off?
hyelton said:
How are you turning off WiFi? Are you disconnecting it and then turning it off? Or just turning it off?
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I'm just toggling it using the toggle in the notification shade.
I have also noticed that the list of Wifi networks is huge, including Wifi networks that are not even in range and it doesn't seem to be prioritizing the ones that have the strongest signal. I manually created a wifi network with the info for my router and have toggled it off and on a few times and it's connecting automatically, but I shouldn't have had to do this.
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I'm just toggling it using the toggle in the notification shade.
I have also noticed that the list of Wifi networks is huge, including Wifi networks that are not even in range and it doesn't seem to be prioritizing the ones that have the strongest signal. I manually created a wifi network with the info for my router and have toggled it off and on a few times and it's connecting automatically, but I shouldn't have had to do this.
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The "List" of wifi networks that are huge are networks you HAVE connected too in the past...
Say you come to my house and Connect to my Network. You Come back home your still gonna see my network in that list, as you had connected to it before... its like that with EVERY phone and device that connects to wifi. If you want them gone just click on them and select forget.
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The "List" of wifi networks that are huge are networks you HAVE connected too in the past...
Say you come to my house and Connect to my Network. You Come back home your still gonna see my network in that list, as you had connected to it before... its like that with EVERY phone and device that connects to wifi. If you want them gone just click on them and select forget.
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I have never connected to most of the networks listed and this is new out of the box.
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I have never connected to most of the networks listed and this is new out of the box.
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Did you log into a Google Account you have used Previously on another phone? If you did NOT uncheck the box when signing into google it will sometimes load the networks you had from an older phone. If not then your phone is NOT NEW
It's definitely new. It came out of a sealed box. I did restore an old account. Thing is, I can't "forget" any of those networks. It's not an option.
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It's definitely new. It came out of a sealed box. I did restore an old account. Thing is, I can't "forget" any of those networks. It's not an option.
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thats very odd you might just need to reform a factory reset.
new S4 forgetting wifi networks
Having the same issue here, occasionally I will walk into the house or the office to find that the S4 has forgotten the network key and I have to type it in again manually.
I leave wifi turned pretty much all the time and when it's working right it logs on to which ever router is in range. Unfortunately most of the time it's not working right & I'm doing a lot of typing.
Have done a factory reset with no effect.
Any thoughts would be VERY welcome.
Jon
Give a try to this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51180156&postcount=2
This method works with my I337 NI1 Unlocked Rooted. I uses ES Explorer with Root Explorer enabled.
I went to the "system " folder in the device, scrolled down until I found "build prop" then edited using ES Explorer Note Editor.
Greatly appreciated and high credit to dajumper's work !!
yhendra said:
Give a try to this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51180156&postcount=2
This method works with my I337 NI1 Unlocked Rooted. I uses ES Explorer with Root Explorer enabled.
I went to the "system " folder in the device, scrolled down until I found "build prop" then edited using ES Explorer Note Editor.
Greatly appreciated and high credit to dajumper's work !!
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+1 on this, I solved the same issue with it.
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I have looked around and have not seen a rom that has bluetooth tethering working. I am wanting this to use with the galaxy gear.
Any ideas?
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I have looked around and have not seen a rom that has bluetooth tethering working. I am wanting this to use with the galaxy gear.
Any ideas?
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nevermind. Got it figured out.
Turn off wifi,
turn on BT tether
turn on BT tether on GG
get on internet.
monadzback said:
nevermind. Got it figured out.
Turn off wifi,
turn on BT tether
turn on BT tether on GG
get on internet.
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Hey can you elaborate on this? I'm on Beans ROM and here's what I tried:
1) Turn off wifi.
2) *Enable bluetooth w/ visibility, add device from Windows 8 device manager, then disable bluetooth
3) Turn on BT tether from Settings - More Settings - Tethering
4) Right click BT icon in quick tray of Windows 8, click Join a Personal Area Network, right click the Note 3 and select Connect Using - Direct Connection.
What happens to me is that it says Connection Successful, and then immediately disconnects and shows a black timer on the Note 3 icon in Windows 8, then says the phone is offline in the bottom status bar. Anytime I try to connect it does that same. Maybe something with drivers? Thanks,
Nila
For it to work for me I had to disable tether provisioning. Try that then reboot and see if it works.
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NinjaPerv said:
For it to work for me I had to disable tether provisioning. Try that then reboot and see if it works.
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I performed the same set of steps as above but without checking the Blue Tooth Tethering option and it still does the same thing on 2 computers. Connect for half a second, shows the device is being setup, and then just goes to not being connected right away. Anyway thanks.
Nila
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I performed the same set of steps as above but without checking the Blue Tooth Tethering option and it still does the same thing on 2 computers. Connect for half a second, shows the device is being setup, and then just goes to not being connected right away. Anyway thanks.
Nila
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did u try disabling tether provisioning? its an option in one of the xposed apps. I think I found it in winam but I could be mistakin. that was how I finally got it to work
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Anyone take the update that can check APN settings to see if we can change the APN after this update?
All greyed out ?
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All greyed out ?
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Even though the APN is greyed out and my APNs are stock. I can still use the power off method for hotspot.
Restart your phone, go into hotspot settings, turn off wifi sharing, turn on wifi sharing, turn on hotspot. It works for me.
When you turn on WiFi sharing, are you connected to an active WiFi network? If so, what you're seeing isn't tethering, it's WiFi sharing. Does this work if there is no active WiFi network in range?
What's the software version for the 5/6/16 update (e.g., PB5, PD3, or newer?
yep I agree with mereweb it's wifi sharing your highness, I've been checking every web site for Root every day, Dead End
Sorry
When I switch on the Hotspot option in settings my WiFi de-activates automatically. If I then re-enable my WiFi the Hotspot turns off. Am i missing something? It doesn't make sense. I am on the new B10 firmware standard build. No root.
Has anyone else come across this problem.?
I've not tried a factory reset yet!
What do you think you are missing? Pretty sure that's how it works.
Shipmate said:
When I switch on the Hotspot option in settings my WiFi de-activates automatically. If I then re-enable my WiFi the Hotspot turns off. Am i missing something? It doesn't make sense. I am on the new B10 firmware standard build. No root.
Has anyone else come across this problem.?
I've not tried a factory reset yet!
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As above, that would be normal behaviour.
The only way you could have both Wifi and Wifi Hotspot on concurrently would be if phones had 2x Wifi chips.
The idea is you either share your phones data connection with other devices via a hotspot, or you connect to a hotspot or other device with your wifi.
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So I manually updated my note 8 to oreo on Verizon note and the hack for hotspot doesn't work anymore. Has anyone found a way? I been trying different things to see if I can find a way but no luck so far.
Caliskyhigh said:
So I manually updated my note 8 to oreo on Verizon note and the hack for hotspot doesn't work anymore. Has anyone found a way? I been trying different things to see if I can find a way but no luck so far.
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Did you figure out a work around
No.. Been using pdanet+ via tethering
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No.. Been using pdanet+ via tethering
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Did you happen to try FoxFi to see if it would work? Also I think there is a direct WiFi way to connect with FoxFi that's new. You might try that. Let us know. I'm holding off until I know I can use the hotspot. I'm not sure if you can upgrade to Oreo unlocked version and get around Verizon's hotspot limitation.
Pdanet+ has wifi direct and it does work! I can confirm wifi direct works on mac.
Yea I updated also not thinking ab it and now I'm screwed.
Use pdanet+ and use wifi direct, it works fine, just have to change settings that's all. Hopefully something will come up coz I don't see any other android update coming anytime soon to note 8.
Another +1 for pdanet+ and wifi direct. requires the windows app but works like a charm - happy to have it back.
I tried bt I don't see how it works I guess. U have to have pdanet installed on wutever ur trying to connect to smart TV laptop etc. Maybe if I could sideload the apk on my smart TV bt other than that looks like it's only for computers and tablets
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I tried bt I don't see how it works I guess. U have to have pdanet installed on wutever ur trying to connect to smart TV laptop etc. Maybe if I could sideload the apk on my smart TV bt other than that looks like it's only for computers and tablets
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It works on my Amazon Firestick
What setting(s) do you have to change to get the PDAnet+ to work?
SIM popping trick still works for me on Oreo.
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SIM popping trick still works for me on Oreo.
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What is the SIM popping trick because, I am trying to avoid using Odin to revert back to Nougat OS?
Start with wifi off. Eject your SIM card (you don’t have to pull the tray all the way out). This should take you to your lock screen. Unlock your phone. Go to settings > Connections > Mobile Hotspot & Tethering.
Here’s the tricky part... You have to pop the SIM back in and click the hotspot button quickly. You might get a message that pops up telling you “insert a SIM to turn on tethering” or something. If you get that, click “OK” to make it go away and click the hotspot button again.
Last thing, have a device ready to connect to your hotspot because it will time out and automatically turn the hotspot off.
Joe T said:
Start with wifi off. Eject your SIM card (you don’t have to pull the tray all the way out). This should take you to your lock screen. Unlock your phone. Go to settings > Connections > Mobile Hotspot & Tethering.
Here’s the tricky part... You have to pop the SIM back in and click the hotspot button quickly. You might get a message that pops up telling you “insert a SIM to turn on tethering” or something. If you get that, click “OK” to make it go away and click the hotspot button again.
Last thing, have a device ready to connect to your hotspot because it will time out and automatically turn the hotspot off.
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Thanks....Work like a charm once I realized I had to go re-enable the two tether apps that I had turned off via BK Disabler app from the Nougat hotspot hack.
Thanks all
Wow is all i can say
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If you use pdanet+ and wifi direct, do you need to check the box that says "Hide Tether Usage"? I assume that let's you tether without VZW knowing it's tethered data and thinking it's just normal cell data usage? Does it actually work? Would be useful when I'm nearing close to my 15 GB tethering limit.
Did anyone figure this out on 10 gig tethering? Hiding hotspot usage
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Did anyone figure this out on 10 gig tethering? Hiding hotspot usage
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I have been using Foxfi. 1st, I enable my native hotspot then turn it on in Foxfi and configure the password and name to the same as the phone and set the proxy. Next go to pdanet+ and tick hide tethering. Then I update the apn settings and add dun to the configuration. I have the SM-N950U cre1 baseband on metro pcs. Unlimited plan with a cycle from the 8th-7th. According to the my metro app I've used 3.4G of data and 165mb out of 10G hotspot since the 8th. The phone says I've use 5G of data but doesn't tell me the usage on mobile hotspot. I can say I usually have 2-3 devices and a laptop using the hotspot.