Hey :)
A couple of days ago, hotspot and usb-tethering stopped working on my phone (running lineageOS).
I can still connect to the phone through hotspot and usb-tethering and my computer shows a connection just as it did before. However, no data passes through the connection. I’m connected to the phone, but I’m still offline.
I still have a connection to the internet on my phone. The only problem I experience on my phone, is that the settings application crash whenever I try to open hotspot settings.
Two things happened around the time, that it stopped working. First, I reached the limit on how much data I can use in my phone subscription, but it did reset for this month. The second was a systems update to lineageOS.
Are there any recommendations as to how I can fix this ? :)
Thanks for the answer, sorry for being so slow at replying.
I am using a Google Pixel 3.
I checked the internet and I found some similar stories, but they are somewhat old and contain no fixes :(
https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/1b6mx1x/hotspot_stopped_working_connected_but_no_internet/
https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/7298
https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/4657
Also, some of them differ slightly from my problem. I can use usb-tethering and it shows up on my computer as “wired connection 1”, but still without internet access.
When I try to ping 8.8.8.8, I get 100% packet loss, even though I’m connected to my phone hotspot.
Additionally, I can’t access hotspot settings on my phone, without the settings app crashing :(