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Questions tagged [personal-hotspot]

A personal hotspot is a mobile device used as an ad-hoc wireless network router. Use this tag if your question relates to issues with programs you develop which arise when your device is being used a personal hotspot.

A personal hotspot is a mobile device used as an ad-hoc wireless network router.

When in places with no wireless Internet access, a mobile device with its own Internet connection can serve this function by transferring traffic over the local wireless network which it generates onto the mobile network where it is connected.

This is a feature of many modern mobile phone operating systems such as and .

Use this tag if your question relates to issues with programs you develop which arise when your device is being used a personal hotspot. StackOverflow is not the place to ask why your device's personal hotspot functionality is somehow handicapped.

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Android: Turn On/Off WiFi Hotspot Programmatically on Android Marshmallow (6.0)

I have come across this thread (Android: How to Enable/Disable Wifi or Internet Connection Programmatically) which is very similar to what I wanted to ask. I have tried the solution provided by an answer posted by Ashish Sahu…
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Captive portal with android hotspot programmatically configured

Is there a way to build on top of a WEP Wifi configuration a Captive portal? The hotspot is started using this code: How to programmatically create and read WEP/EAP WiFi configurations in Android? The idea is to ask a user for a login before…
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How to get Subnet Mask and Broadcast Address of Personal Hotspot in iOS

I need to find out a way to find out subnet mask and broadcast address of my personal hotspot in iOS. I am using following way to find out IP address of device if it's connected to WiFi. But can't figure out the way to get network properties for…
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Is it possible to get the mac address of client devices which are within wifi hotspot range?

I want to get a list of all the devices(who has their wifi turned on) which are within Wifi hotspot range. However it may or may not be connected to the hotspot. I am getting the list of connected devices by using this library but I am not sure…
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difference between sharing files using wifi direct and using wifi hotspot

Sharing files between two devices using wifi can be done by:using wifi direct creating a hotspot on one device and connecting other device to it what is the basic difference between these two methods I mean in the both the options one device serves…
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Data Exchange between two android devices over hotspot

I want to exchange data over hotspot between two android devices. I've tried to properly connection. 1st. I created portable hotspot: Network SSID - my_hotspot Security - WPA PSK Password - password 2nd. I'm attempting to connect when…
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How to create Custom WPA Hotspot with ssid and password in android?

I am using the following code for creating the Wifi-hotspot configuration. I am able to create the Hotspot configuration and able to enable it. but i have give configuration for WPA-PSK, But it always taken as OPEN network. public boolean…
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Network broadcast/multicast not sent by iPhone in personal hotspot mode

Based on recent empirical findings, and based on various posts on the web, it seems that an application running on an iPhone with personal hotspot enabled cannot send broadcasts and/or multicasts out onto the personal hotspot's network. Can anyone…
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iOS: Use WiFi and Mobile Data simultaneously

Setup: My project involves a WiFi Camera which creates a WiFi hotspot. In order to stream video preview/browse media on the Camera, the user needs to connect to Camera's hotspot. Problem: The user cannot use the cellular data over 3G/4G…
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Personal hotspot breaks layout on iPhone

My layout is broken when i turn of my personal hotspot , when my personal hotspot is on, it goes wel but the layout stays the same when my personal hotspot is turned of. my setup i have RootViewController which view i have added to my window in that…
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Using private API to enable personal hotspot in ios

I am using iOS runtime header to enable hotspot in ios. Link NSBundle *b = [NSBundle bundleWithPath:@"/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Sharing.framework"]; BOOL success = [b load]; Class…
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Layout of my app is ruined when call or hotspot status bar is appear

I have faced a problem while testing my app, everything was perfectly running until I turn on the personal hotspot and the blue bar is appear on the top, all the labels and buttons are moved downward: Edit: (23-4-2013) The code of viewDidLoad is: -…
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netsh wlan start hostednetwork. The hosted network started. Stuck @Obtaining ip address

I can create hosted network via following commands: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow netsh wlan set hostednetwork ssid=lol key=cse093007 keyusage=persistent netsh wlan start hostednetwork But I m stuck @ Obtaining ip address. I can't turn…
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Android Wifi-Hotspot Port Forwarding

How can I make a port forwarding from a android device whose Hotspot is ON to another device who is connected to that hotspot. I want to connect to my system server which is connected to a android Hotspot from another device which is in another…
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Create a LAN Access Point on Android device (no Internet needed)

I need to implement the following functionality: The application should programmatically make the Android device a LAN server (i.e. other devices should be able to connect to the network created by the application wirelessly, like connection to the…
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