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Using Your Phone as a Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot
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- Note: Using your phone as a portable Wi-Fi hotspot allows other devices to connect to your phone's cellular data via Wi-Fi. This may increase your battery and data usage
- 1. From the home screen, tap the Menu key
- 2. Tap System settings
- 3. Tap More
- 4. Tap Portable Wi-Fi hotspot
- 5. Tap the check box beside Portable Wi-Fi hotspot
- 6. Tap Configure Wi-Fi hotspot
- 7. Enter a name for the network. This is the name that other devices will see when searching for the network
- 8. Tap Password
- 9. Enter a password. This is the password that will need to be entered on other devices when connecting to your network
- 10. Tap Save
- 11. To deactivate a portable Wi-Fi hotspot, swipe down from the top of the screen
- 12. Tap Portable Wi-Fi hotspot active
- 13. Tap the check box beside Portable Wi-Fi hotspot to deactivate it