I have it set to WPA2/WPA3 as well and as you can see in the Screenshot above they FP3 showed āWPA/WPA2ā . The FP3 is not WPA3 certified and could not connect to it,so it seems rollback works at least sometimes or the issue is your tablet in this case?
It seems that my tablet does not role back when connectiong to the FP4 hotspot. It should be able to do so, as I can use my Fritz.Repeater and/or -Box. I will try after a reboot of the tablet and cleaning stuff. Maybe that helpsā¦
EDIT: Cleaning Cache and rebooting the tablet help. It takes quite some time, but finally it will use WPA2 with the transition mode being active on the FP4 hotspot.
Older wifi chips might have various kinds of problems connecting to WPA2/3 transition APs. E.g. my notebook does not even see a wifi advertised with the transition modeā¦
Personally I experienced that the 2.4GHz band worked just fine but my Fairphone 4 wouldnāt let me use 5GHz Band when using the Wifi-Hotspot function.
It wasnāt working in Android 11 and now with the new Android 12 itās still not working for me. Maybe its a bug that hasnāt been discovered yet but thats my personal experience with Internet tethring / giving wifi hotspot
This has been discovered. Thatās why Iāve moved your post here and you can read above.
I saw that this issue was added to the wiki below.
It got an , I personally would give it a since you can still use the phone as a hotspot, right? At least I can. I havenāt checked if 5GHz works fine or not. But since 2.4GHz works, it would make more sense to label it with a But that may be just me. Just my 2 cents and Iāll leave it up to the community to change or leave it as it is.
I have the same problem. With 5ghz option i cant start the wlan hotspot. i dont need it, but its a trueless bug.
The problem is that it actually doesnāt work in cases when you are connected to a 5GHz network. It starts a 5GHz hotspot instead and then silently crashes. I bet most ordinary users wonāt figure out whatās wrong.
Hi everyone,
I have a brief update to share regarding this issue. Our team confirmed that this behavior is not expected and theyāre looking into it. The root cause is still unconfirmed but they have some leads. So far, it looks like a fix will not be ready for the next software update.
Iāll write again when thereās more news.
Hi,
Is there a self-diagnostic tool on FP4 that would allow seeing which components work and which do not?
My more specific problem is as follows. If I create a Wi-Fi hotspot, it goes without problems for 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi. However, it does not start for 5 GHz.
Recently, I upgraded to Android 12. I had this problem previously on Android 11. A few months ago, after a reboot, the 5 GHz Wi-Fi hotspot would work. Now, soon after the OS update, I noticed that a restart no longer helps. Between the two instances, I did not use the hotspot feature, so I am not sure whether the change is because the hardware problem progressed or because the software works differently.
There is a large range of hardware tests when you dial * # * # 2 8 8 6 # * # *
(I canāt recall right now if thereās a specific test for what you are looking for, but some connectivity tests should be among these.)
Please read above reg A12 and 5Ghz Hotspots
Confirming the problem. After upgrade to Android 12, attempt to activate 5GHz hotspot results in an error shown in the screenshot. This appears if 5GHz preferred
is selected for for the AP Band
. If 2.4 GHz
is selected, the hotspot works.
I was very optimistic and tried the Hotspot on 5GHz with FPOS B-048, too. This is still not working. However this was not mentioned in the release notes anyway but I tested it despite that.
Hello,
I just upgraded my Fairphone 4 from Android 11 to Android 12, the name of the build is FP4.SP21.B.048.20230215, and since then it is impossible for me to create a shared (wifi) access point. Iām using this feature every day, so it is pretty important to me. What happens is that the toggle for access point switches itself off every time I press it. Iām not in economy of energy mode.
Iāve tried everything: restarting the phone, deactivating data, reactivating data, changing wifi name / password, deactivating āautomatically deactivate access point if no connected deviceā, ā¦
The only thing that worked was changing from 5Ghz to 2.4 Ghz. I can live with that, but is weird because there are only 6 networks around me and it was working perfectly fine before the update.
Thanks
Hi and welcome, thats known already with the previous A12 version, I moved your post here, please read above.
You have to l disable WiFi first before you can turn on the hotspot, even if you are not connected to a wireless network.
With my Fairphone 4 it even does not work when Wifi is turned off before. Does anyone know when this bug will be fixed ?
5 GHz wonāt work at all for the hotspot. But 2.4 GHz should not be a problem.
Thanks for your support !
With 2,4GHz I can switch on the hotspot on my phone but the network does not show up on my computer. Yesterday I switched because of this issue to 5GHz and it worked for 5min. After that I got the error message direktly on my fairphone under the hotspot item (picture see above). The days before it took some time minutes until the 2,4GHz Hotspot was visible on my computer.
OK - now I understood the workaround:
- switch off wifi
- switch on 2.4GHz hotspot
- switch on wifi again (in case I want to lead through the wifi signal)
You may wonder why I lead through a wifi signal. I learned to appriate this possibilty while working in the network of Deutsche Bahn, because my phone connets often without problem whereas my computer does this only in seldom cases.
Do you know when fairephone wants to fix this bug?