Personal hotspot not discoverable after disconnect or sleep

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Personal hotspot not discoverable after disconnect or sleep

Hi

I am experiencing a problem with the personal hotspot on my iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3).

If I activate the personal hotspot on my iPhone, it work great initially, but if I let my laptop or iPad 2 go to sleep while still connected, neither device can reconnect to the iPhone personal hotspot again when I wake them. It's as thou the personal hotspot is no longer discoverable.

The only way I can re-connect it to go to the personal hotspot settings on the iPhone. I don't change any settings, it just works again when the settings screen appears on the iPhone, then the laptop and iPad can see the hotspot and connect again.

Even though the personal hotspot is still enabled, it doesn't seem to be discoverable until I remind it that it should be, by opening the personal hotspot setting screen. This is my second iPhone 4 and my second iPad 2 following other issues, but this issue was present on my old iPhone 4 too.

I tried resetting the network settings and also restored the phone from scratch, with the same issue.

Anyone any ideas?

Another little thing, more of an annoyance... Anyway to disable the dreadful flashing blue connection notification at the iPhone screen top? Just a blue static bar would do. Takes up too much space and is a little distracting.

Regards

Mr M

iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.2, iOS 4.3.3

Posted on Jun 23, 2011 6:16 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 10, 2011 6:31 PM in response to MrMurray

I have the same problem with reconnecting which makes it inconvenient to use this feature. I'd prefer to have the option to switch iPhone Tethering on WITHOUT having to go all the way in to the Personal Hotspot setting page to turn it back on, every time. Hope there's a solution for this as well as the annoying blue notification bar.

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Answer 2

Jul 11, 2011 1:15 PM in response to MrMurray

The same. Annoying very much. As it is described in manual this the standard way the hotspot through wifi goes into sleep mode every time connected device does not use hotspot. The hotspot through usb only does not go into sleep mode. I think apple should revise that.

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Answer 3

Jul 11, 2011 1:32 PM in response to MrMurray

Hmm... It seems I found the solution: do not leave personal hotspot setting screen before sleep your iPhone. It still let let the hotspot goes into sleep mode after some time of non activity but when you starting using the connected device again hotspot reactivates automatically.

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Answer 4

Jul 11, 2011 1:48 PM in response to MrMurray

Or use hotspot via Bluetooth. In this case hotspot does not go into sleep mode. Doesn't matter on which screen you leave your iPhone.

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Answer 5

Oct 16, 2011 1:33 PM in response to MrMurray

Having the same problem! Frustrated can't get any answers!

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Answer 6

Oct 16, 2011 1:40 PM in response to barbarafromlincoln

No answer. Wifi shared hotspot goes into sleep in some minutes. Use Bluetooth.

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Answer 7

Nov 21, 2011 11:26 PM in response to MrMurray

Same problem and glad I'm not alone. Also, Bluetooth Hotspot doesn't work at all for me, so I'm stuck with reminding my 4S that I do want to leave Hotspot active.

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JDubman

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Jun 28, 2012 2:14 AM in response to MrMurray

This is still happening a year after the initial problem report. Suggestions have included leaving the Settings screen active on the Personal Hotspot device, and using Bluetooth. I suppose I'll give those a try, but there remains a problem here in iOS 5.1.1.

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Answer 9

Sep 14, 2012 12:56 PM in response to JDubman

I have an iPhone 4S on Sprint and I have an iPhone and MiFi on Verizon. I have the same problem as describe in the original post--when my connected device goes to sleep, it cannot find the hotspot when I wake the device from sleep mode.

My only work around has been to turn Hotspot off, count to 10 slowly and then turn HotSpot back on. Then the Hotspot is still not discoverable UNTIL I tap Network settings on my iPad or click the Network orange star in the system tray--it's like I have to tell my device to go out and look again. On my Lenovo laptop, I also often have to power cycle the entire laptop.

I agree its very annoying to re-setup connections. I often use Sleep mode on my connected devices to save battery during particularly boring parts of meetings!

Wish this worked seamlessly like we all expect it to.

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