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Q: Devices cannot connect to iPhone 6 Hotspot

This is kind of a weird issue, I recently purchased the 4.7" IP6 from T-Mobile whose plan includes 5 GB of Tethering every month.  When I setup the hotspot feature, it looks like my devices are rapidly connecting, immediately disconnecting, and connecting over again.  This cycle continues for a few minutes before the devices seem to give up trying to connect.  I have tried both my laptop and another phone and the iPhone 6 behaves the same way.

 

I have been able to tether via USB with only a few minor issues (it took me a couple hard restarts of the IP6 to get my laptop to recognize the devices).  Neither my laptop or my other phone were recognizable with the IP6 bluetooth search, but it looks like that is a know issue.

 

Did I just get a dud?  Anyone else experiencing weird tethering issues?

iPhone 6, iOS 8, T-Mobile

Posted on Sep 23, 2014 2:47 PM

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  • by carboncocoa,

    carboncocoa carboncocoa Oct 23, 2015 7:46 AM in response to squidbot
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    Oct 23, 2015 7:46 AM in response to squidbot

    After several phone calls to AppleCare — who are usually really good — they almost had me erase my Mac, which would have been a ridiculous hassle. Changing my iPhone’s network name and password worked! Even over USB, which is how I primarily tether. I went over a month without this functionality. There must be some sort of cache that needs to be cleared but I'm not sure how to get to it.

     

    This is on an iPhone 6 running iOS 9.1, although the issue started while it was on 8.3, and a late 2014 Retina 5K iMac running Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)

  • by michaelstill,

    michaelstill michaelstill Nov 12, 2015 5:55 PM in response to rachelcklee
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    Nov 12, 2015 5:55 PM in response to rachelcklee

    This one worked for me on IOS 9.1

  • by Davidatchirnside,

    Davidatchirnside Davidatchirnside Apr 3, 2016 6:48 PM in response to rachelcklee
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    Apr 3, 2016 6:48 PM in response to rachelcklee

    Unbelievable, after several hours of frustration a simple thing as this works like a charm. Thanks heaps

  • by aRl3,

    aRl3 aRl3 Apr 6, 2016 3:03 PM in response to venkol
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    Apr 6, 2016 3:03 PM in response to venkol

    Found a solution, i have an iPhone 6s...had the same issue as the original post. I did a network reset and it reset my phones name to iPhone and my personal hotspot started working. I changed my phones name to my old name before the reset, my name had a 2 characters - and '. Tried to connect my laptop to my personal hotspot and the problems started all over again, i removed the characters and my personal hotspot started working again

  • by ericfromhumboldt,

    ericfromhumboldt ericfromhumboldt Jun 23, 2016 10:31 AM in response to Praggy85
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    Jun 23, 2016 10:31 AM in response to Praggy85

    This may be too late, but hopefully is beneficial to someone else.  I had the same problem with my iphone 6 (9.3.2) and a lenova thinkpad...we used a friends Samsung hotspot and it would work with that laptop however attempting with three different iphone 6 hotspots netted the same result...a brief (3 seconds) access to the internet and then it would say "Limited Access".  I tried all the suggestions that i could find relative to the iphone and my service provider. I called Apple and although their rep was super helpful she maintained it was not the fault of the phone.  My service provider was not so helpful but also maintained it was not their issue. In the end it was the configuration of the Wireless Adapter power options.  My laptop wireless adapter was set to "Maximum Power Saving" when plugged in...I changed it to "Maximum Performance" and it worked perfect.

     

    Control Panel>Power Options

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