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title: "Create a Wi-Fi hotspot with an Android phone"  
description: "Hi everyone in this article I am telling you to enabled  Wi-Fi hotspot  on your android device"  
author: "Manoj Pandey"  
published: 2015-04-18  
updated: 2019-09-07  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1730/create-a-wi-fi-hotspot-with-an-android-phone  
category: "mobile/tablet"  
tags: ["android troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Create a Wi-Fi hotspot with an Android phone

The [mobile hotspot](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/105077/how-to-set-up-a-mobile-hotspot-for-business-use) [feature](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/541/what-is-new-feature-in-sql-server-2012) allows your [Android phone](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1726/how-to-enable-developer-options-on-your-android-phone) to share its [cellular data](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51501/how-to-fix-cellular-data-that-stopped-working-on-iphone-se-after-ios-11-update) [connection](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83497/a-40-year-old-man-has-been-arrested-in-connection-with-the-abe-shooting) by creating a Wi-Fi [network](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83910/benefits-of-promotional-posting-on-mindstick-network). You can access via Wi-Fi on other [devices](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/301912/how-smart-devices-are-changing-our-lives) mobile, laptops, computer etc. You must be on cellular data before on Wi-Fi hotspot.\

##### Follow below steps to on Wi-Fi hotspot on your device

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1. Open Setting and choose More options

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![Create a Wi-Fi hotspot with an Android phone](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e0c8d6c1-f5d5-4b27-8702-dab2825a0021/images/e1f0d1a0-05bf-4d0d-a539-0652e6990f28.png)

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2. After click More ,then open Tethering and portable hotspot

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![Create a Wi-Fi hotspot with an Android phone](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e0c8d6c1-f5d5-4b27-8702-dab2825a0021/images/fbd26069-f1db-415d-b7be-cc58f7586dd1.png)

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3. Now checked Portable Wi-Fi hotspot (Mobile hotspot). After check Portable Wi-

Fi hotspot your device Wi-Fi hotspot is on. Make sure that your cellular data is on for

access internet via Wi-Fi.

![Create a Wi-Fi hotspot with an Android phone](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e0c8d6c1-f5d5-4b27-8702-dab2825a0021/images/55a11d2c-a81c-456e-99e1-cb04b3304ea5.png)\

4. You can set security and password for access your data pack throw Wi-Fi hotspot. Set Network Name which will be show on other devices and set password for access data pack via Wi-Fi.

![Create a Wi-Fi hotspot with an Android phone](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e0c8d6c1-f5d5-4b27-8702-dab2825a0021/images/e1d76964-f5bb-45ba-a21a-60ef9b638271.png)

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