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Welcome, in front of me is a Huawei Nova 8i and today I'll show you how to enable and
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set up the portable hotspot. So to get started you'll want to pull down your notification panel and find the toggle
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for it, which for me is right over here. And once you find the toggle, what you want to do the very first time you're actually
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going to use it is hold the toggle, which will quickly take you to the settings where
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you'll have access to things like your hotspot password and also the name of it
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So I would recommend you to primarily go with the password because this is some randomly
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generated ones and it is kind of hard to write it down or remember it, so simply tap on it
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and remove this old garbage and set your own. Now your own password also needs to have 8 characters in length, that can be letters
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symbols, all of them together or just one, whichever one you want
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So I'll be making something really simple, just 8 numbers, really easy, and go OK
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And additionally you can also change the device name, which is also going to be the hotspot name
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I'm not sure why it says device name instead, but if you change this that's basically what
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you're going to be looking for in a WiFi list, so this exact name
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And let's see what we have under more. So we have data limit, which allows you to basically set a limit to how many megabytes
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gigabytes can be used by the hotspot. And additionally we do have the PP band option, we have a choice between 2.4, which is basically
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used by any kind of device that has WiFi connectivity, and then 5 GHz, which is a little bit newer
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still like half a decade or more old. So decent chunk of phones from back should be able to connect to this
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Now the benefit of going with the 5 GHz, even though it's less devices supported, it is
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a newer technology and overall the connection on 5 GHz will be faster and more stable, so
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that's the benefit of it, while the 2.4 GHz will be used by virtually every device
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And if you're not sure if your device supports it or not, you can simply toggle it on, and
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then when you're looking for your hotspot, you simply don't see your hotspot at all
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with the name that is right here, that means that the device does not support 5 GHz and
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all you need to do is again go into the settings, more, and drop it back to 2.4 instead, and
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everything should be just fine. And last option right here we have the mobile hotspot turn off timer, it is set by default
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to 5 minutes, which is completely fine, you can also select it to be 10 minutes if that
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is something that you want, but I do encourage you to have this enabled
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What this will do is once you're done using the hotspot, the device will start a countdown
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basically knowing that it's not consuming any data, and after the given timer runs out
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it will simply turn it off. And the reason why this is a decent option to have is because hotspot does consume more
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battery of your phone, and if you're not using that hotspot, there's really no reason for
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it to be running in the background. Now once you went through all the settings of it and customized it to your liking, simply
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find the toggle once again, tap on it, and there it is
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Now one little additional thing that I'll mention, when you enable your hotspot, as you
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will see, it does turn off your Wi-Fi. It uses your mobile data to broadcast that hotspot signal, and it broadcasts it using
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Wi-Fi antennas, that's why you're not using Wi-Fi right now, or you are not able to use them
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That is also another reason probably to turn it off once you're done with it
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And once you turn it off, it will automatically re-enable Wi-Fi, and the phone will automatically
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connect to any kind of Wi-Fi signals that it can. So anyway, this is how you would set it up, use this hotspot, and if you found this very
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helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe, and thanks for watching
