@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-square64fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1168arrow-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.ca@ColdWater@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 days agomessage-square64fedilinkfile-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-squareHubertMannelinkfedilinkEnglish47•5 days agoI find it hard to believe all your other phones could do this as it required dual antennas.
minus-square@varyingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglish12•5 days agoIf you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.
minus-square@fluxion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•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-square@mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•4 days agoIt is useful for LAN games so not 99.999% but more like 90%
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)linkfedilinkEnglish1•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-square@fluxion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•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
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.
It is useful for LAN games so not 99.999% but more like 90%
Maybe 90% back in the good ol’ days 🥲
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
Yeah but he said wifi extender.