Android mobile does not detect wireless network created on my laptop

Question

I am using HTC Explorer and I created an ad-hoc network on my laptop. Although other laptops easily connect to it, my mobile device doesn't even detect Wi-Fi.

How to connect a mobile phone to a Wi-Fi access point on my laptop (running Windows 7)?

Answer 1

There is an alternative solution involving the "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter":

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=NAME key=PASSWORD netsh wlan stop hostednetwork netsh wlan start hostednetwork 

For more information and troubleshooting, see this post on XDA developers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-alternate-to-ad-hoc-wi-fi-network-t1924911

Answer 2

Special networks are not supported on Android devices unless you plug in a root device and do some tricks on the underlying Linux system.

There are many pages about this:

http://dev.gadgeticworld.com/how-to-connect-android-devices-to-adhoc-network/

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/3372947/connect-android-phone-ad-hoc-network/

http://code.google.com/p/adhoc-on-android/

You can try this at your own risk:

http://www.arenddeboer.com/wifi-ad-hoc-enabler-for-android