Comment on I 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?

• fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As far as I know they can all act as a bootleg external wifi adapter though (via USB sharing)

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    • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨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)

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• hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thats not the same thing, though.

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  • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • silverdiamond@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its in the same menu

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