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Set WiFi Networks as Mobile Hotspots for HTC One M8

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video we are going to show you can mark WiFi networks as Mobile Hotspots on an HTC One M8.

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Steps

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To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the Power button located right on top of the phone
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Once the phone has been activated, we'll see the lock screen
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To unlock the phone press down on the screen, hold down until you see the padlock icon
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Once you see the icon swipe up and this will unlock the phone.
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Once the phone has been unlocked we will see the Home screen and at the bottom there are icons
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We need to find the Settings menu now. To do that, we need to swipe the Notification panel down.

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To do that, press down at the top of the screen, hold down, then swipe down
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The Notification panel will appear.
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We are looking for this icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen
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We can see that there is a white cog icon. This is our Settings icon. Press down on it.

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It will open up our "Settings" menu
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We can see it says the word "Settings" here in the top left-hand corner of the screen.
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Underneath the word "Settings," we can see it says the words "WIRELESS & NETWORKS" in the gray bar
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This is the section we want to be in.

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At the bottom of this section, it says the word "More" located here
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Under the "More" it says, "Data usage, HTC Mini + NFC." And next to these words it has this icon; there are three gray circles in a row. Press down in this section.
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Once we're in the section we want the first option
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It says "Data usage." Press down in this section. This will bring us to another menu.
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We need to press down on this icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen
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We can see there are three, small, white squares in a vertical row. Press down on this icon.
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It will open up our options
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What we want to do in this video is show how we can mark WiFi networks as Mobile Hotspots. To do that, we need to press this section here, "Mobile hotspots." Press down on this section and it brings up this next option.
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"Select the WiFi networks which are mobile hotspots
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Apps can be restricted from using these networks when in the background. Apps may also warn before using these networks for large downloads." This can be a very useful function because it allows us to mark which WiFi is our Mobile Hotspot. What that means is that apps can behave differently. If it's Mobile Hotspot and maybe it's not secure and therefore we don't want some apps to be working with these Mobile Hotspots. Or we don't want to download large amounts of information because it could be very slow. We'd rather wait and we don't want to partially download it because it takes time and it actually takes space and memory. We don't want to do that. We want to wait until we have an actual WiFi connection. It can be very useful to do this. In order to do it, we'll have a list of our WiFi networks. This example only has one, but we will probably have a lot more. We can see that there is a box. Press on the box.
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That puts a checkbox in the box
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This WiFi network has now been marked as a Mobile Hotspot. We can change the functions of the application so that they now behave differently, once they know that there is a Mobile Hotspot and that they are using a Mobile Hotspot.
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If we want to turn off this option, we don't want to mark this WiFi network as a Mobile Hotspot then press down on the box until the checkmark has disappeared
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This then, concludes our tutorial on how to mark WiFi networks as Mobile Hotspots on an HTC One M8
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If you have any questions or comments about this video, or about the process you've seen in this video, then please leave them in the comments section below, and we shall answer them for you. Goodbye.
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