Huawei android mobile phone showing Hotspot sign along with WiFi sign

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My Huawei android mobile phone is showing Hotspot tethering sign along with WiFi sign when Hotspot is off ! My mobile shows Hotspot sign all the time when WiFi is On.

Please see the attachment.

What could be wrong? Thanks...

pizzahead77

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My Huawei android mobile phone is showing Hotspot tethering sign along with WiFi sign when Hotspot is off ! My mobile shows Hotspot sign all the time when WiFi is On.

Please see the attachment.

What could be wrong? Thanks...

Have you double-checked that the Hotspot is disabled in settings?

Which Huawei phone do you have?

Did you get a covid vaccination recently?

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pizzahead77 wrote: »

Have you double-checked that the Hotspot is disabled in settings?

Which Huawei phone do you have?

Huawei Honor 8 Pro

Ys, Hotspot is disabled. The sign get displayed some times and then goes! Might be time to change my mobile.

Ten Pin

Have a look in advanced menu in WiFi settings, is there anything relating to "WiFi Direct" and/or "WiFi P2P" in there?

tomslick

Is it dual wifi acceleration? It recently became available on my realme x50 after an update.

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No other settings like WiFi+, WiFi Direct are enabled.

pizzahead77

That definitely seems to indicate that the WiFi hotspot is connected but then you'd expect the mobile network to show a data connection too

https://www.huaweicentral.com/check-all-status-bar-icons-and-what-they-really-mean-to-your-huawei-honor-smartphone/


Have you tried rebooting the phone to see if it clears it?

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Ys, I have restarted the phone. It comes in and then goes!

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I scanned my phone with BitDefender, MalwareBytes, Kaspersky, Avira etc. No malware found! I also reset the network Settings on the phone. Still the same icon. I find the network speed far below normal.

I have Google backup running. So if I Factory Reset the phone and do a Restore, would the glitch also be restored as the restore would bring back all apps along with its settings.

Any help highly appreciated.

Have you tried only resetting the network settings?

https://www.hardreset.info/devices/huawei/huawei-honor-8-pro/reset-network-settings/

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Deleted User wrote: »

Have you tried only resetting the network settings?

https://www.hardreset.info/devices/huawei/huawei-honor-8-pro/reset-network-settings/

That is already done. But the same issue persists!

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TestLink wrote: »

That is already done. But the same issue persists!

If you haven't tried it yet, might be worth trying to wipe the cache partition first before trying a full on factory reset.

https://www.hardreset.info/devices/huawei/huawei-honor-8-pro/recovery-mode/