ColdWater@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoI hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?lemmy.caimagemessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down143file-text
arrow-up1127arrow-down1imageI hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?lemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square69fedilinkfile-text
This phone is broken (broken screen) and was given to me, so I figured I’d use it as a WiFi extender, but I guess I can’t.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down2·5 days agoI find it hard to believe all your other phones could do this as it required dual antennas.
minus-squarevaryingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 days agoIf you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.
minus-squarefluxion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days agoTotally useless for 99.999% of users (not even exaggerating). Would be nice to have the option though but would mostly just confuse users with was would appear to most to be a totally useless option.
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoSo is ADB, and Bluetooth tethering, and wired Ethernet, and OTG,… This can be solved with a warning like “You are not connected to the internet, hotspot will only allow access within local network.”
minus-squarefluxion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoAnd then you get a billion tickets about why you get that message when you tey to tether to your phone for Internet access
minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoIt is useful for LAN games so not 99.999% but more like 90%
minus-squarefluxion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoMaybe 90% back in the good ol’ days 🥲
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoYeah but he said wifi extender.
I find it hard to believe all your other phones could do this as it required dual antennas.
If you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.
Totally useless for 99.999% of users (not even exaggerating). Would be nice to have the option though but would mostly just confuse users with was would appear to most to be a totally useless option.
So is ADB, and Bluetooth tethering, and wired Ethernet, and OTG,…
This can be solved with a warning like “You are not connected to the internet, hotspot will only allow access within local network.”
And then you get a billion tickets about why you get that message when you tey to tether to your phone for Internet access
It is useful for LAN games so not 99.999% but more like 90%
Maybe 90% back in the good ol’ days 🥲
Yeah but he said wifi extender.