You Phone/Companion Connection-Link

My PC and Samsung Galaxy S7 were working beautifully together until a recent Windows update. I could easily send and receive texts from "Your Phone" app on my PC. The update killed the connection and now I am stuck on the endless verification loop. I've gone through all the un-linking and re-linking instructions on Microsoft's website (multiple times). Whatever this Windows update did has killed the connection between the two previously linked devices. I just wish Microsoft would take texting seriously. I never have stupid problems like this with my Mac/iPhone/iPad. I use my Mac for work and my HP Omen gaming notebook PC for play. I hate the way Windows updates often kill perfectly working features. Please fix this Microsoft.

I updated to the new (dangerous) Windows 1809 update and the phone started working again. I might lose data, but I have a working text system through my Android now.

I have a similar issue but I am not using a hotspot.

I cannot connect the PC to my phone. I have tried every troubleshooting guide that I could find on the internet, including the one available in the "Your Phone" Windows app with no success. It seems like many users are reporting similar connection issues in the app review on Google Play but the developers' email does not work (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***).

The PC app correctly sends the request to the phone and the phone correctly displays the notification but it is not possible to click the "ALLOW" or the "DON'T ALLOW" button in the notification received on the phone. It does nothing.

If I click the Allow button from the Your Phone Companion Android app, it goes to the "You're all set" window and when I click "Done" it goes back to the "Get started" window.

The Windows application times out after a while and goes back to the "Check your phone" windows with a button "Resend notification".

No luck either. Only reason I wanted to try this was because I also use Ubuntu & was impressed with being able to work with phone notifications on the pc - shows notifications for any app that has them & can reply on the computer. Also liked that it pauses Spotify when a call comes in. Took about 2 minutes to set up. Only required one app on the phone and one on the computer. MS should try to get it to work as smoothly.

make sure change your phone setting to "unmetered"

 In your Android phone,

Settings -> connections -> Data usage -> Restrict Networks

Under the "Restrict Networks" menu, Check whether your current Wifi network "Not metered" or not. If it is "Automatic" then click and change to "Not metered"   

hope this help