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.

  • Victoria
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    2717 days ago

    you can do “wifi sharing” which shares the phones wifi connection.

    • Fushuan [he/him]
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      2917 days ago

      Not all phones can act as a repetitor. I’ve had several where wifi gets disconnected when hotspot is activated.

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          215 days ago

          Agreed, it’s the wifi sensor that can’t both act as a signal emitter and receiver. (If you know what I mean, I know that it can do both of those things to communicate, but only for a single use case)

      • Ghoelian
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        817 days ago

        Well to be fair, on my pixel at least, those are literally the same setting. Which it actually is just depends on if you’re currently on WiFi or not. Kinda Google’s fault for labelling it like that.