Everytime my hotspot is active, I can't use data on my device. Tethering works fine on the laptop, but my smartphone could not use data while the tethering is on (which obviously means no WhatsApp, no Chrome etc).
The phone is a Huawei P9 Lite (Vodafone) running Android 7.0. Checked for updates both on the phone itself and Huawei Suite on PC while connected via USB.
The issue occurs during Wifi Tethering and USB Tethering.
I've seen a few articles speaking of editing APN on the phone but it looks like I can't do anything except creating a new one (I can't delete an APN for example, like they mentioned in the article).
I also tried to reset APNs to default but still nothing has changed.
Axel118 said:
Everytime my hotspot is active, I can't use data on my device. Tethering works fine on the laptop, but my smartphone could not use data while the tethering is on (which obviously means no WhatsApp, no Chrome etc).
The phone is a Huawei P9 Lite (Vodafone) running Android 7.0. Checked for updates both on the phone itself and Huawei Suite on PC while connected via USB.
The issue occurs during Wifi Tethering and USB Tethering.
I've seen a few articles speaking of editing APN on the phone but it looks like I can't do anything except creating a new one (I can't delete an APN for example, like they mentioned in the article).
I also tried to reset APNs to default but still nothing has changed.
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This is actually a forum here for P9, not for P9 Lite (another one is for Lite)
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OK, so it's a Vodafone upgrade, plenty of data avail, on contract, in UK, just cannot get these to work!!
Huawei to Windows 7 Laptop
Huawei to HTC ONE M9
Huawei to Samsung Galaxy S2
All say connected, but Internet is not getting to the tethered devices, P10 also says no data used whilst USB tethered or Hot Spotted!!
I follow the screen instructions to the letter, but as I say, they connect, but Internet just isn't there....
Pulling my hair out!! Help!!
Cheers
Karl
I don't know if you ever solved your problem, but I hit the exact same brick wall trying to get wifi tethering to work, hope this may help someone else.
My phone is Huawei P10 lite, and network also Vodafone.
I was able to narrow it down to an IP conflict issue: If I turn on wifi tethering I will lose internet on the phone and connected phones will also not have internet available, obviously.
I tried changing the APN settings (Mobile Network and select your APN in use, then EDIT) and use for normal connections and roaming both IPv4 and IPv6 (the default is only IPv4), and that allowed me to be able to use internet on my phone with tethering on; however connected phones still do not receive a valid IP and aren't able to connect to my internet.
I finally managed to share my internet, but only using bluetooth tethering, not wifi (using the settings I mentioned above).
BTW: Using the exact same SIM card, on another phone, I have no issues whatsoever setting up a wifi hotspot to others. This happens only with this combination (Huawei + Vodafone)
Reset your apn settings
Same issue here with two new p10s and Vodafone. So it seems a bug in the tethering subsystem since one of them work only if you tether via Bluetooth and the other one just fails to bridge the network via its hotspot. Wondering if anyone here has managed to report the issue to Huawei/Vodafone and what was the outcome and/or reference to do a follow up. Best regards
Ok, I've got it working on one of the phone (missus not around but it should fix in the same way).
All I needed to do was to reset the APN to it defaults as described in the Vodafone forum.
Settings -> Mobile Network -> Access Point Name -> Three dots (upper right hand side on the screen) you will find the "reset to defaults" and that's how I fixed it!
You legend - that totally saved me doing a factory reset for which I shall be eternally grateful. Well.. At least til next week.
So I have CE1 customized base firmware with the US oem firmware file dropped in. I'm on T-Mobile, and everything works except for mobile hotspot.
After testing multiple re-flashes, it looks like hotspot only works right after a fresh flash. On this first boot with the hotspot, a connected device will show a regular WiFi icon. After rebooting, the hotspot connection will no longer allow any connected devices to the internet, and the WiFi icon will show a mobile device overlay on the WiFi icon.
Anyone else experiencing this or have a solution? Any help would be appreciated.
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So I have CE1 customized base firmware with the US oem firmware file dropped in. I'm on T-Mobile, and everything works except for mobile hotspot.
After testing multiple re-flashes, it looks like hotspot only works right after a fresh flash. On this first boot with the hotspot, a connected device will show a regular WiFi icon. After rebooting, the hotspot connection will no longer allow any connected devices to the internet, and the WiFi icon will show a mobile device overlay on the WiFi icon.
Anyone else experiencing this or have a solution? Any help would be appreciated.
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Yes this issue seems to be common. There is another thread discussing this issue.
Is that thread specific to this issue? If so, can you link me to the other thread?
Make sure your APN has all the right settings.
I think you need DUN in the APN for hotspot to work.
You may also have to set a fixed DNS server (e.g. 8.8.8.8) on the client.
I think Google has totally screwed the pooch on internet sharing and there are various bugs. Eg: I believe there has been a bug in base Android for 2-3 versions for Bluetooth internet sharing. Wifi works fine, but Bluetooth is just dead.
andTab said:
Make sure your APN has all the right settings.
I think you need DUN in the APN for hotspot to work.
You may also have to set a fixed DNS server (e.g. 8.8.8.8) on the client.
I think Google has totally screwed the pooch on internet sharing and there are various bugs. Eg: I believe there has been a bug in base Android for 2-3 versions for Bluetooth internet sharing. Wifi works fine, but Bluetooth is just dead.
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You're not alone... i have the same problem in my XZ Premium, and also other XZ1 reported with the same problem!
ughhh, i hope is not a hardware problem.... it has been like that for me since 7.1.1, and now im in 8.0.0 and still the same!
Kyochi said:
So I have CE1 customized base firmware with the US oem firmware file dropped in. I'm on T-Mobile, and everything works except for mobile hotspot.
After testing multiple re-flashes, it looks like hotspot only works right after a fresh flash. On this first boot with the hotspot, a connected device will show a regular WiFi icon. After rebooting, the hotspot connection will no longer allow any connected devices to the internet, and the WiFi icon will show a mobile device overlay on the WiFi icon.
Anyone else experiencing this or have a solution? Any help would be appreciated.
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The solution was listed on another thread
As said in the title, when I use my p20 pro as Hotspot for my laptop internet works fine on it but seems disconnected for the phone. Any ideas why this happen? I tried to change option in my device but it seems to behave the same way.
Phone connection off when Hotspot on [P20 Pro]
Got a new P20 Pro. I experienced the same problem as stated on the subject.
Any solution out there?
Same Problem
I have exactly the same issue. Whenever hotspot no internet connection works on the phone, but all the connected devices have access (already tested with 10+ devices)
nunosilvamourao said:
I have exactly the same issue. Whenever hotspot no internet connection works on the phone, but all the connected devices have access (already tested with 10+ devices)
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In APN settings try selecting MVNO ---- GID
Save and exit and try to surf the web from P20 Pro
hi...I'm in the US and recently picked up a Mi 8 and absolutely love it, even with the language issues with the default MIUI 9 and 10 apps.
my device has the china rom and is currently running MIUI 10
one thing I've had no luck at all figuring out is the hotspot issue...the hotspot connects fine to other phones, but when I try to connect my main win10 dev computer to it, it tries to connect, then my wireless adapter on my computer *seems* to be reset (the icon switches to the wired network one for a few moments before switching back to the unconnected wireless one), and it says "can't connect to this network"
i need to try to connect a different computer to it, just to see, but i have not yet had a chance to do that...its on my list to do next. since it does connect so easily to other phones, i find it quite odd it won't connect to my computer.
also, i tried hardcoding the DNS in win10 to use the google ones as some posts for the Mi Mix 2 suggest, but no luck...does anyone have any suggestions for this as its almost a deal killer for using this fantastic phone as I am a remote developer and of course require a remote hotspot on occasion?
Hello everyone on this forum!
I have an issue with my P20 Pro when using wifi hotspot, or I think it's releated to my phone. To the point...
Sometimes I have to use wifi hotspot from my p20 pro to share internet access to my work laptop. Basically, if I'm at home office I use VPN to connect to internal network of my work place, so I can access internal recources. And everything is working when using hotspot except one program which uses SQL database. On phone wifi hotspot I can't access this database and it looks like my phone is blocking traffic related to this database. Database is giving me error that I'm not connected to internal network. I tried to reset network setting, still the same problem. I checked on some other phones:
google pixel 4a - database access OK,
huawei P20 lite - no database access,
any other non-phone hotspot network - database access OK.
Any segestion why this is happening?
Try usb tether and switching to 5Ghz (if possible on notebook side). Sounds like some routing issues but if you tried resetting already then I don't suppose you'll be able to resolve that.