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Original hotspot settings.

Patti73 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:11:23 GMT

I changed the name and password of my hotspot on my galaxy phone. Since then I can't use my hotspot on anything, could someone please help?

Re: Original hotspot settings.

bristolian — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:37:21 GMT

Hi @Patti73

You can view & change your hotspot settings through your phone's settings menu.

On my Android device, they are under Settings > Connections > Mobile hotspot, although this may vary between devices.

Re: Original hotspot settings.

Patti73 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:41:27 GMT

Yes thankyou, that's how I changed my the name and password but, since then it doesn't work and so I'm looking for the original name and password and possibly the settings. I've changed the name and password on the devices being used but it makes no difference, the hotspot won't work. Thankyou for your tip anyway, much appreciated.

Re: Original hotspot settings.

bristolian — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:47:23 GMT

When you say it's not working, are you able to elaborate or be a bit more specific?

I can't imagine any situation where using a specific setting for your hotspot would make any difference to it otherwise not working.

I would imagine the only way to guarantee original configuration here would be to factory reset the whole phone, in doing that you would potentially lose everything on the phone - photos, contacts, messages etc.

Re: Original hotspot settings.

XRaySpeX — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:21:21 GMT

Tell the devices you want to connect to it to Forget their WiFi connection to it & then connect afresh to the hotspot network supplying the new hotspot pwd.

As @bristolian pointed out changing the hotspot network name & pwd can't stop the hotspot working; just that you need diff creds to connect again.