the two Hotspots buttons seem to disagree

[Victor Gabillon]

When i try to activate the hotspot using the menu that you can make appear from above (the black-background one) it seems not to work (no hotspot and no hotspot symbol on the top menu appearing).
If I open setting->hotspot, there the hotspot button is deactivated (not green) while the hotspot button in the black menu is green.
It seems the button in the Settings if activated can really make the hotspot work (and make the hotspot button in the black menu green) but the hotspot button in the black menu seems to just do nothing (except cutting wifi)

On the meizu 4 with ota 11. I think the problem came with ota 11.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Victor Gabillon (victorgabillon)]

This bug is still there in OTA 12 stable on my Mx4.

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

They are supposed to be virtually the same button, and this discrepancy does indeed sound like a bug. Could you maybe attach some logs to this report?

   .cache/upstart/indicator-network.log
   .cache/upstart/application-legacy-ubuntu-system-settings-.log

Thanks!

[Victor Gabillon (victorgabillon)]

Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the replay and the tip about the logs, here they are :
I first tried to use the button in the black menu that you make appear from above (failure)
then I used the hotspot button in the settings menu (success)

[Victor Gabillon (victorgabillon)]

and the log for the legacy system settings

which features an error message.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I confirm this behaviour on latest rc-proposed:

current build number: 409
device name: arale
channel: ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/meizu.en

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

Bug reporter says the button in System Settings works and that the button in the indicator does not. Either way, unless there's API breakage, this is not something we can fix in System Settings.

[Callumpearson (callumpearson)]

It doesn't matter which way round you activate the buttons, both need to be on for hotspot to work.

[Mike Jelfs (mike-jelfs)]

Unsure what combination of the 2 ways of switching the indicator on works I just keeping trying till my M10 connects to my MX4.

[Jos van den Oever (vandenoever)]

I can confirm this bug on mx4 with OTA-13.
To get hotspot, first toggle in system settings needs to be flipped on and then the toggle in the status menu needs to be toggled on. Only then does the hotspot work and the hotspot icon appear in the status bar.

[boehm (8-boehm)]

i also can confirm that the sequence -> toggle in system settings and then the toggle in the status menu - works for me too on mx4 arale ota-13 (date 20160913).

[WESERTRAINER Flight Training (s-service)]

I can confirm this bug on mx4 with OTA-13.

[Joan CiberSheep (cibersheep)]

I confirm on OTA13 on bq e5

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

This si quite reproducible, if you have a chance to take a look I am guessing its down in connectivity-api, maybe broke when NM 1.2 was introduced back in may

[Ivar Mossin (ivar-mossin)]

My experience with this bug is that I use only the black-menu hotspot button. I keep the network settings on my android tablet open to see when it connects. I will give it a few seconds after each scan. If it doesn't connect, I flip the hotspot button on my MX4 off and on again. Eventually it will connect, but not show the hotspot icon. It is equally hard to disable hotspot, so I usually enter flight mode, check that my tablet disconnects, then exit flight mode and I'm no longer sharing over hotspot.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

per comment #15 I confirm that the hotspot may stay active even after disabling it in each toggle, which is a more serious issue imo.

[Olof Rydberg (0lof)]

My experience with my mx4 is that most of the time the hotspot works after a couple of attempts (almost always fails on first attempt) but the last months it rarely show any indicator. It also, as stated earlier by others in this thread, often stays active after turned off.

For me, the hotspot also seems to break wifi and only a reboot helps. Flight mode also seems to break from time to time and it has only happened for me after using the hotspot.