GOS Phones Can't TX/RX to/from or Ping Wifi Network Peers, Including Themselves

snottnose

With your airplane mode suggestion, you had my heart pumping. That would have been great to contain the broadcasting. But, sadly, when I turned on airplane mode, it turned off the 8a's hotspot.

For what its worth, I use a common SSID "xfinitywifi", using some Unicode "homoglyphs". Characters that look similar, but have a different character code (copy "xfinitywifi" between the quotes and check it out). Also I use the full 63-character limit of random characters for the hotspot password. Also check out Password Tech (https://pwgen-win.sourceforge.io).

Bazzell consults to celebrities on privacy & communications. I've benefited a lot from his book.

userofgos

snottnose when I turned on airplane mode, it turned off the 8a's hotspot.

Sorry I think I misunderstood your setup, I thought the 8a was the offline device, but it is the Pixel 8 Pro. The offline device is the one that you want to always have Airplane mode on. Also, that is the initial response of turning on Airplane mode, it will turn off of cellular, wifi, and bluetooth. However, you can still enable wifi and bluetooth while Airplane mode is still on (and the OS will remember that in the future)

snottnose

Airplane Mode + persistant Wifi & Bluetooth worked, just like you said. Thanks, userofgos for a great recommendation.

snottnose

As far as I'm concerned, Mods can close this thread. I learned that my phone was corrupt, and needed to be reset, which I did.

For all those who chimed in, please accept my deepest gratitude. Most of all to GrapheneOS and the entire team for all the stress they're enduring, the sleep lost, and how this is surely costing them money individually.

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