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In this video I show you how to enable and set up the portable hotspot on your SAMSUNG Galaxy A27. You will learn how to add the Hotspot toggle to Quick Settings, open the hotspot settings, change the hotspot name (SSID) and password, pick the best band (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz), and set mobile data warnings or limits so you don't go over your plan. I also explain why Wi‑Fi is turned off when the hotspot is enabled on this device and give tips to save battery while using the hotspot.
How to enable portable hotspot on SAMSUNG Galaxy A27?
How to change the hotspot password on SAMSUNG Galaxy A27?
How to set data warning and limit for mobile hotspot on SAMSUNG Galaxy A27?
0:00 Welcome and overview
0:13 Open Quick Settings and extend toggles
0:34 Add Hotspot toggle (use the pencil to edit)
1:19 Open Hotspot settings (press and hold the toggle)
1:35 Change hotspot name (SSID) and set a new password
2:21 Choose between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz (pros and cons)
7:41 Set mobile data warnings and monthly limits (billing cycle)
10:00 Enable hotspot and Wi‑Fi behavior (why Wi‑Fi turns off)
10:49 Battery tips and turning off the hotspot when done
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0:02
Welcome. In front of me is a Samsung
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Galaxy S27
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and today I will show you how you can
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enable and set up your portable hotspot.
0:19
So to get started, you'll want to swipe
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down from the top right side of your
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screen. This will bring down your
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toggles. And in this section right here,
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swipe down again to extend the list of
0:30
visible toggles, which will also add
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labels to the toggles. And we're looking
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for the hotspot one, which I hope it's
0:38
added. Looks like it is. So, should be
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added by default. Looks like this. If
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you can't find it, you can click right
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here on this pencil. And then from the
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bottom, you'll see right here plus
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button without add a control. Click on
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this. Find hotspot somewhere from the
0:55
list right here. Once you do, you just
0:57
simply tap on it. Unfortunately, it gets
0:59
added to the bottom of that entire list.
1:01
Not the not this list that we've seen
1:03
right here, but the actual entire
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toggles and everything else. So, if you
1:08
want to have it organized, you just hold
1:10
it, drag it up, and drop it in this
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section right here. Click on done. And
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you can see this toggle would get added
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into this specific list.
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Anyway, once you have it in here, press
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time, hold it. This will take you
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quickly to the settings. Now, you do
1:28
want to navigate in here as your hotspot
1:30
will have a randomly generated password.
1:32
And without navigating here, you have no
1:33
way of knowing what it is actually set
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to. And instead of trying to check out
1:38
what it is set to and then trying to
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type it in, what I recommend doing is
1:42
just getting rid of it and then setting
1:44
up your own new password, which like the
1:46
message states, will need to have at
1:48
least eight characters in length. Now,
1:50
you can use letters or numbers or or
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both. It really doesn't matter. I'm
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using for simplicity just numbers.
1:59
Uh now once you change anything right
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here, you can click on save. I do want
2:03
to kind of go back in there again. Uh
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you do have in here as well things like
2:07
the name of the device. So Galaxy A27
2:11
5G uh with some like model number. Uh
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this is what you're going to be looking
2:15
in the Wi-Fi list for. Uh hotspots
2:18
usually have the name of the device, but
2:20
you can change this if you want to.
2:22
Now below that we have the band. We have
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two options 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz. And
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for people that don't know what this is,
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uh I'm going to try to explain this in a
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way simpler simplest way but one that
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will still give you full understanding
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on when would be the best time to use
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one of those.
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And you can only use one at a time on
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this device. So, it's going to be kind
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of, you know, important to you at some
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point potentially. So, uh 2.4 GHz is one
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that I personally use uh on my device
2:58
and it's not the best, truth be told.
3:00
It's not the fastest, uh but it's the
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most versatile. Uh reason for that is
3:05
2.4 is basically the original Wi-Fi. So,
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if you had any kind of device uh at any
3:11
point in time that uh that could connect
3:13
to Wi-Fi network, it definitely used
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2.4. That could be a two decade old
3:21
laptop for all you care. It's going to
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be using that.
3:26
Now, 5 GHz are devices that were labeled
3:28
on a box usually with Wi-Fi 6. uh they
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used uh moronically five gigahertz
3:34
connectivity instead of six like the
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name would imply. Um so
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uh that's that. Now devices that were
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labeled with that Wi-Fi 6 and can
3:46
utilize the 5 GHz connection can also
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connect to 2.4.
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But if you have that two decade old
3:54
laptop that was just Wi-Fi only, it can
3:57
connect to wireless network, right?
4:00
Well, that laptop most certainly will
4:03
not be able to connect to the 5 GHz. It
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supported the old one but not the new
4:07
one. Uh, newer devices are backwards
4:09
compatible, but old devices are not
4:11
forwards compatible. So, the reason why
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I picked 2.4 is because of that ease of
4:18
use. No matter what I will want to
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connect with to this hotspot with, I can
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be sure that I will always be able to
4:27
connect to the 2.4 network. So, I don't
4:30
need to worry about who does that device
4:31
supports it or not. Unlike with the 5
4:34
GHz, if I choose that, grab that two
4:36
decade old laptop and now I'm just not
4:39
seeing the hotspot in there or the Wii
4:40
in the Wi-Fi list, I'm not seeing
4:42
whatever we have labeled right here
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because that device just doesn't even
4:45
see this frequency at all. So, I cannot
4:48
connect to it. Um, so this just kind of
4:51
makes it easier. Now for uh explanation
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of the benefits of the 5 GHz. Uh the
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newer technology which is the 5 GHz will
5:00
be faster. Uh the connection will have a
5:03
higher bandwidth obviously and you will
5:06
have lower latencies which is pretty
5:07
good for gaming purposes. Additionally
5:11
more devices can be connected to such a
5:13
network.
5:15
And one of the most important things
5:17
will be that 5 GHz frequency
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is less susceptible to overcrowded uh
5:26
frequency. And let me explain what this
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means because this one will be the most
5:29
important to some people. So 2.4 is
5:33
prone to having interference from other
5:35
2.4 signals. If there is enough of them,
5:37
they will start to uh clash with one
5:39
another and cause you problems where you
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will be disconnecting from your hotspot
5:43
and all that stuff. And obviously this
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won't be a good experience for you. Uh
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it's just a downside. Uh back when this
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kind of frequency was made, uh people
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never conceived the idea that someone
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might have 20 different 2.4 GHz
5:59
frequencies uh in his single household
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because he decided to have 20 different
6:04
light bulbs that all use 2.4 GHz
6:06
frequency. And now they're basically all
6:08
clashing with the uh with other devices
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uh in in that vicinity. 5 GHz is not as
6:15
prone to this problem. Uh it's way more
6:18
accommodating much much higher
6:19
frequencies or wider frequency. So it
6:22
doesn't have as much of a problem with
6:24
this. So uh if you're having problem
6:26
with keeping connection even though like
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you're literally oh this far away from
6:30
from one another like the devices uh try
6:34
5 GHz assuming the other device supports
6:36
it and this could hopefully solve your
6:39
problem. Uh but I have never encountered
6:42
this myself. So that's why I use the
6:44
2.4.
6:46
And lastly in here we have the security.
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I would recommend keeping that as it is.
6:49
This ensures that you actually have a
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password and uh that ensures that only
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people that know the password will be
6:56
able to connect to it. Otherwise, anyone
6:58
could connect to it if you turn it off.
7:01
So, uh that's the settings right here.
7:05
Um
7:07
I do also want to quickly mention one
7:08
more important thing. So, right here,
7:10
neatly enough, it shows us the amount of
7:13
data that the hotspot has used, which is
7:15
pretty nice, but it's just an
7:17
information. like it doesn't really give
7:19
us much in terms of uh options. So if
7:24
you have some kind of cap on how much
7:26
data you can use per month and primarily
7:28
when you're running hotspot you will be
7:30
using your mobile network. So if you
7:33
have limited amount I would recommend
7:35
going into the settings
7:39
and in settings let me just back out.
7:41
Uh, so in settings, normally when you're
7:43
like right here in the main settings
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page, you will want to navigate to I
7:48
think it's going to be
7:50
connections or no, not connected device.
7:53
What am I saying? Connections. There we
7:54
go. And uh data usage. There we go. And
7:59
here
8:02
we have this mobile. So mobile data
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billing cycle and data warnings. That's
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what we're looking for. And this not
8:10
only will impact your hotspot but also
8:13
your general mobile data for any kind of
8:16
usage of you know browsing the web,
8:18
watching YouTube on your phone and so
8:19
on. Uh but it will only impact the
8:22
mobile data, not the Wi-Fi connection
8:24
when you're at home for instance to your
8:26
router. And uh if you have something
8:28
like 5 GB of data per month, you would
8:31
probably want to select a data warning.
8:33
I don't know, set it to maybe 4 GB.
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There we go. And once
8:38
every month you surpass the four four
8:40
gigabytes in data used, you will get a
8:43
notification about it. But that's not
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the only thing that you can do. You can
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actually select a limit. So in here I
8:49
can select that if I have per month only
8:51
5 GB in total, I can maybe set something
8:54
like 4.5
8:56
gigs. So 4 and 1/2. And now anytime I
8:59
get to that four and a half, the phone
9:01
will automatically disable uh mobile
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data all together. And for last thing,
9:08
you want to select right here under the
9:10
start billing cycle on you want to
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select what day of the month you get
9:13
rebuild, which subsequently also means
9:15
what day of the month your provider
9:18
refreshes your data uh data. So, I don't
9:22
know, maybe on the 21st,
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uh, you you used all of your network and
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21st comes around, get your bill, and
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you start again freshly, 5 GB of full
9:33
bandwidth, then se select the 21st right
9:36
here. And every uh, every month on the
9:39
21st, this phone will reset the data
9:41
usage back to zero. So, you're not
9:44
getting locked out, unless you obviously
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surpass that four and a half
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the entire month.
9:51
So, uh it's a great option in case of uh
9:54
having like low data limits. Now, once
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you're all set up, you can find the
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toggle right here. Click on it. Gives
10:02
you quick message, turn off Wi-Fi.
10:04
Unfortunately, this is on a lower end of
10:06
devices. So, Samsung decided to skimp
10:08
out on antennas and therefore you will
10:12
need to disable your Wi-Fi to enable
10:14
hotspot as it's using the same antennas
10:16
to do uh one of those jobs and it can
10:19
only do one. So, needs to turn it off to
10:22
then start broadcasting the hotspot. So,
10:24
everything now is going strictly through
10:26
your mobile network.
10:28
And luckily, when you're done using it,
10:30
you can turn it off. So, just to
10:31
demonstrate, if I turn it off, Wi-Fi, as
10:34
you can see, gets automatically
10:35
reenabled. And I think this pop-up only
10:37
shows up once. Oh, no, never mind. It
10:39
does show up every time. So, yeah.
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So, there we go. Uh, one last thing to
10:45
mention is I would recommend trying to
10:47
remember to turn off your hotspot as it
10:49
does consume more of your phone's
10:51
battery. That's number one. And number
10:52
two, uh, obviously disables your Wi-Fi.
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So, as you see, I'm just turning it off.
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All you need to do is find the toggle,
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tap on it, and it becomes disabled, and
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you're good to go.
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So, with that being said, I hope you
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