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Portable hotspot

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jamos316

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Hi

So I am aware that you can share your Internet connection with another android device via portable hotspot but my question is can you do the same for phone calls, sms and WhatsApp messages?

My situation is that I have a seperate phone in my car that's connected to Android Auto, my maon phone is not compatible with Android Auto. I share my 4g with the phone so I can stream Spotify and download map data.
I would like my phone calls to come through the cars speakers... Is this possible?

Thanks for any help
James
 
There's a fundamental misconception in your query. If you use a phone to set up a hotspot, than it's a matter where that phone is acting as a reduced-function wireless router. It's taking your mobile data service from your carrier account, and providing a limited-range WiFi signal so other devices can get online access. A hotspot provides a WiFi signal and that's it.
If your main phone isn't compatible with Android Auto, that secondary phone that you're using as a hotspot allows your main phone to get online access using WiFi, but hotspotting will not allow you to use your main phone the way you're asking. (And basically, if you don't need hotspotting in this matter, connecting your main phone to your secondary phone's hotspot is still going to involve your online access to be going through your cellular account service -- your main phone is just using your secondary phone's cellular connection, as opposed to just using your cellular service directly.)

What model is your main phone, and which version of Android is it running?
 
Since Android Auto is working with your secondary phone at least that rules out your car not being compatible. Perhaps it's the Android Auto app on your primary phone that's an issue. Try Uninstalling the app, but use 'Clear data' first then 'Uninstall'. If there's just some corrupt config/settings file that's creating a problem, using Clear data will delete it (using just Uninstall does not always clear all an app's stored data). Then try to set it up again from scratch.
What kind of error message on your Meizu phone, If any, were you seeing before when trying to use Android Auto with your car?
 
svim said:
Since Android Auto is working with your secondary phone at least that rules out your car not being compatible. Perhaps it's the Android Auto app on your primary phone that's an issue. Try Uninstalling the app, but use 'Clear data' first then 'Uninstall'. If there's just some corrupt config/settings file that's creating a problem, using Clear data will delete it (using just Uninstall does not always clear all an app's stored data). Then try to set it up again from scratch.
What kind of error message on your Meizu phone, If any, were you seeing before when trying to use Android Auto with your car?
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No I know the problem and that is that the phone I have is not supported by Google at all. I can manually install services which gives me most functions but not all.

I just want to know is there a way to somehow push or forward phone calls that come to this phone to my phone that is connected to android auto.
It maybe importen to know that I have a active sim card in my meizu but not in the car phone.
A possible work around is to get a replaca sim card fron my carrier and to temporary disable my phone but I don't know if that is possible.
 
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