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Originally Posted by brc64
I haven't posted in a long time because, honestly, this is the best my phone has run since I bought it. But I am finding an odd quirk that I have no idea how to troubleshoot.
I got my wife an iPad a couple weeks ago, and occasionally when we go out to someplace that doesn't have free wifi (which is surprisingly rare these days), I'll just fire up wifisharing on my phone and have her use that.
The problem is that, even after I turn it off, it seems I'm still broadcasting. And strangely, it even persists past a soft reset. We had a power outage and my wife had to reconnect her desktop to our home wireless, and she noticed that wifisharing was broadcasting, even though I didn't have it running (and had even soft reset my phone earlier due to a freeze).
I don't think it actually works unless I'm running the app, but as far as the phone is concerned my wifi radio should is supposed to be off, and it's obviously not. Any ideas?
Weird aside: When this happens, if I try to connect to a wifi network from my phone, it will default to connecting to wifisharing, which just makes my head explode.
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I've been doing the same thing with my phone using Stock rom and wifi sharing added. On my ipad, it shows the wifi still connected with the phone wifisharing turned off.
I think this is because the wifisharing app uses wifi in ad-hoc mode (peer-to-peer). When windows PCs hook up to other windows PCs in ad-hoc mode, they actually retain the wifi setup for that peer-to-peer setup. They actually broadcast the ad-hoc mode that they are connected to, so they can reconnect directly. That's why you sometimes when you are traveling, you can see Wifi Access points and also some people's wifi pcs. I think the iPad is doing something similar.
It isn't really connected to the wifirouter app, it is broadcasting to try and maintain the connection or so that the wifi router can connect to it.
Anyway.. the way I disconnect the iPad is to go to settings and turn wifi off and then back on again and it stops doing this. Not sure if there is another way around it. The Diamond is definitely not broadcasting anymore though.