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Hotspot not working for Meizu Pro5 #806

Open mattbel10 opened 6 years ago

mattbel10 commented 6 years ago

Description of the feature

For the Meizu Pro5, the hotspot feature is simply not working either if I set the password or not.

Illustrations

Steps to reproduce

Expected behavior

All the machines with an embedded wi-fi card should detect the new hotspot access point and should be able to connect to it.

Actual behavior

None of the devices at my disposal can detect the new hotspot access point (I tried with an Android phone, a BQ E5 HD 15.04 UBports edition and the Dell Inspiron laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).

Logfiles and additional information

I don't see any specific logfile related to the hotspot feature in the Logviewer app by neothethird but if needed other sort of logs please point those to me.

TartanSpartan commented 6 years ago

@Flohack74 the device should be turbo, not arale.

@mattbel10 on vivid for turbo, I can only trigger the hotspot by turning it on from the indicator, going to system settings, Hotspot, Change Hotspot Setup, change to "Require a password", hit Change, Change Hotspot Setup, turn "Require a password" off again, hit Change again and then finally when I turn WiFi on for client devices, I can see the hotspot (but of course this is not password protected and leads to the threat of unauthorised users hijacking my mobile internet data). Does this workaround work for you on Xenial?

mattbel10 commented 6 years ago

@TartanSpartan I tried your way also but even if the hotspot indicator is correctly shown when enabled on the top edge of the phone, it seems there is no actual signal sent over-the-air because my laptop is always unable to detect the device among all the other wi-fi access points.

wesertrainer commented 5 years ago

I have to report an unstable operation of the hotspot connection, too. Connection can be established only for some minutes, sometimes less than an minute.

Device turbo, 16.04/rc, Version 14

tomoqv commented 5 years ago

I can confirm that the Pro 5 doesn't display any wifi network on RC 2018-W48. I have tried to find the network from two different devices, but nothing. The indicator icon looks as if it is not transmitting.

tomoqv commented 5 years ago

I can add that wifi did not come back after turning hot spot off. I had to reboot to get the Pro 5 to find wifi networks again and connect to my known network. Maybe a separate issue, just thought I'd mention it.

hummlbach commented 5 years ago

mhmm, I cannot confirm any of these. Hotspot is stable with my turbo (using it in the train regularily to have internet on my laptop...). If i turn it off at home it switches from mobile data connection over to my wifi network and also displays many other wifis available just fine.

tomoqv commented 5 years ago

Maybe I should add that I have Anbox installed, albeit disabled.

mattbel10 commented 5 years ago

My Pro5 may likely have issues because it was the chinese version manually converted, after a tricky procedure, to International. Would you kindly confirm to me guys if this is the case for you also? And if yours is the 64GB version?

hummlbach commented 5 years ago

@tomoqv yes the anbox kernel most likely fails regarding hotspot and I would really like to know why but have no clue yet. Even with the kernel found here https://github.com/meizuosc/m576/tree/ubuntu compiled as is and flashed according to the instructions, the hotspot doesn't work anymore afterwards... :-(

@mattbel10 My version has only 32GB I think, how to see whether I have the chinese version? At the back of my phone there are some chinese characters at least... (after pro 5 td-lte)

@Flohack74 hotspot is really working flawlessly here (as long as the kernel isn't recompiled and flashed from source) and the 64GB variant isn't supported officially. So do we close this?

tomoqv commented 5 years ago

I did a flash & wipe of my Pro5 before X-mas and hotspot seems to work fine, although the hotspot indicator icon looks as if there is very poor or no signal strength.

wesertrainer commented 5 years ago

Although the 64 GB Version may be is not officially supported, please keep in mind, that there are only few devices available on the used devices market where UT is installable in general. If we limit it to the Pro 5 32 gb version, there are even less ! By the way, besides the HOT SPOT issue the PRO 5 TD-LTE 64 GB is running flawlessly. So I would be worth and economic to find a fix for this problem.

mattbel10 commented 5 years ago

@hummlbach interesting that link to the kernel. Do you think it is any worth a try to build and flash that kernel onto my Pro5 to see what happens, even if I don't have Anbox installed? I don't know how you could identify if your phone is chinese or not...I guess it strongly depends on how you got it in your hand, I mean mine was delivered from Hong Kong with chinese Flyme installed.

hummlbach commented 5 years ago

I think an update ota reflashes the (actual working) kernel... if you did that recently, then the problem is most likely somewhere else...

cibersheep commented 5 years ago

I can confirm on vegetahd RC 2019-W25

Amooti73 commented 3 years ago

I have been unable to use my Nexus 5 with OTA-15 as a hotspot. I have also tried both with and without a password. The hotspot symbol shows up in the bar at the top and I have cellular data enabled, but not success so far.