Windows 10: [Help] Two issues with new Windows laptop: a "hidden" hotspot and Your Phone pairing prompt

Hello! After about 4 years not using Windows I'm finally back to it. I just bought a new laptop and I'm fairly satisfied with it and Windows, there is just two inconveniences that I can't seem to find how to get rid of.

First: There's something that creates a mobile hotspot on my laptop. It's does not show in the Windows Mobile Hotspot settings menu, and it even have a different name. The only place where I've found a trace of it in Windows is in Task Manager in the performance tab. Here is a print screen of the Mobile Hotspot menu and the Task Manager (gabri is my Windows username) showing how it looks. If I turn on and off Mobile Hotspot it will kill the weird hotspot but it does come back after some time. I don't even know this hotspot password but my smartphone can connect to it.

Second: I have Windows Your set up and it keeps popping this notification (Title: Add a device; Text: Touch to set up Galaxy Note10+) and when I click it it opens the bluetooth menu with a prompt to pair my device (it's already paired up and everything on Your Phone app works perfectly. It also show a notification on my phone to fast to see, and if I try to pair it doesn't do anything. All I need is for it to stop showing up every time. I've already redid the complete pairing setup.

submitted by /u/valforte
[link] [comments]

:)

 

Blackberry Q10 wifi Hotspot Hidden


I just recently upgraded my laptop to Windows 10 (clean install) to see what it has to offer, and so far everything works fine. Except last evening during a class I teach I needed a wifi connection so I enabled the Hotspot feature my BB Q10. But its broadcast SSID was not showing as an available wifi network. There was a strong Hidden Network appearing on the list, but I did not want to try it as I was in a public environment. A student in the class enabled their iPhone's hotspot which I could see and used that instead. The same student (and others) could see my Blackberry SSID on their phones.

When I got home I checked with my wife's iPad and she could see the BB Hotspot SSID and successfully logged into it. She then enabled the Hotspot feature on her iPhone and its SSID was displayed on my Lenovo laptop's available networks.

I then manually typed in the SSID name into the strong Hidden Network displayed on the available networks list and I could then connect to it without problems. I also used a network sniffing tool on he same laptop (inSSIDer 4) and it displays the Q10 SSID being broadcast and is not a hidden network. But it just will NOT display its identity on the laptop's wifi list of "available networks".

- The Q10 is broadcasting its SSID as other devices see it
- The laptop sees the SSID using the inSSIDer utility and it does not appear to be hidden
- I can see and access other phone's hotspot SSID's with the same laptop
- My list of available networks shows the BB SSID as as Hidden Network (without a name)
- Everything worked fine with Windows 8.1 on the same laptop.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks *Smile

 

Pairing a phone to a car

One thing I would add ... There should be a list of paired devices on the phone, If so it would be best if you "UnPair" any devices listed on the phone as well as the phones shown on the Car. To Unpair a device from an Android Phone go to Settings, Bluetooth and there should be a list of paired devices - at the right of each paired device is a "Cog" icon click on this and click on the unpair option, repeat for any other unneeded devices.

Sometimes paired items get out of sync and both sides need to be removed to re-pair

 

Pairing a phone to a car

Remove the device from the cars Bluetooth list. Restart your phone. Go to the Bluetooth settings on the phone and set it to Pair. Set the cars Bluetooth to pair, they should find it each other.