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This phone is broken (broken screen) and was given to me, so I figured I'd use it as a WiFi extender, but I guess I can't.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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What kind of tethering?
"Hotspot" is always going to be referring to having the phone act as a WiFi wireless access point, rather than USB or Bluetooth tethering.
That would be cellular to wifi tethering. How can someone expect to have cellular internet without a sim.
Is OP trying to use his phone as an routerless wifi access point? That would be a crazy edge case. And it still wouldn’t be tethering.
OP likely has an esim
No, like...what he's trying to do is to put the phone on an existing WiFi access point, then have the phone itself act as a second WiFi access point:
He's trying to use it as an ad-hoc range extender. Like, he presumably has one device that can't see the existing wireless access point, is out of range, so he wants to put the phone somewhere that's still in range of the first access point, then chain access from the phone to his device by having the phone act as a second wireless access point.
Android can do that
I've done it
but this check that shouldn't be done and disrupts his use case is causing him annoyance.
That sounds like a hardware limitation more than anything. Is it normal for standard consumer wifi chips to be able to receive and broadcast simultaneously on two different networks? I know that's definitely not something you can usually do with PC hardware.
According to one of OP's follow-up comments, he says that it works if he puts a random SIM in without service on it, so it's not a limitation on his phone, at any rate.
EDIT: Actually...hmm. Now that I think about it...was I using Bluetooth tethering on my phone at the time rather than a WiFi hotspot? I was just remembering being startled that the phone would link the laptop to a WiFi network, and I'd used multiple approaches (WiFi, Bluetooth, USB) to link the phone at the time.