I have been facing some roller-coaster ride on the success or failed re-connection using tethered mobile phone for connecting to internet.

At times, I can re-connect through the phone without re-creating the connection profile. At the other times, I must delete the old connection profile and re-create it again. Sadly the second one was the chosen option that I did over and over again.

This (should) ends last night! I accidentally found the 'impolite' of getting my connection re-connected as I needed.

Usually, once I am done using my tethered connection, I will choose to disconnect from the network preferences, quit the tethered application from my mobile phone (happened to be the infamous MTP Application - you know which phone has this ), then re-activate my other connection (either wired or wireless).

My accidental finding is that if I just disconnect the USB, without quitting the tethered application in the mobile phone nor choosing disconnect from network preferences, I can reconnect back again without re-creating the same profile! Woo-hooo!!!!

However, my QA mind start fiddling around on the question 'why' (oh, this is so not me, the well known 'how-to' person).

So, here goes my 'conspiracy theory' ...

More than half the computer user may not follow the graceful exit (aka: quick disconnect) of any connected item(s) to their device(s).

For example, the good-ol USB drive, or some of you may refer it as memory stick, thumb drive, flash drive, etc. During the early days, we must properly use the -so-called- logical eject before physically ejecting (or unplugging) the USB drive. I bet some of you have done physical removal directly of your USB drive without ejecting it from the software (your famous Windows 9x, XP, and the other Windows OS collection). What were you end up with? a dead 'thumb' ?

Modern day's Windows can have the USB drive removed without properly eject it from the 'Safely remove ...' option. However, if the unsafe removal was detected, Windows just politely show up a message that the last removal was unsafe, and suggested bla bla bla. Basically, Windows (or Microsoft in this case), already did their legal obligation of telling you that the unsafe removal was detected and the data in your last-removed USB drive may have been incomplete, corrupted, or any word for damaged-data.

Lucky enough, it seldom happen to some of us. For those experiencing the unlucky days, then just smile for the day and format that bloody drive for next use. (c'mon! move on with life please! You don't store the data only in that drive do you?)

Because of that example above, software manufacturer (Operating System companies in this example) had done rigorous testing to ensure unsafe removal. One of the rigorous test is to ensure the unsafe removal (or insertion) did not cause the whole operating system to behave abnormal (see the next video for intermezzo).

So, looks like the immediate disconnect may be one of the user friendliness that we could expect in the future software around us.

If you are keen to make products better (and not getting paid just yet), then try to use the device in what you wanted, not what is presented to you!

All in all, we are the user (customer is still King isn't it?), we have the fullest rights to use the product as what we wanted to and the maker/ manufacturer/ creator must follow this tall order

So, good luck to you who make the software, and good luck (and have fun) to those as users.

Note: I am not responsible if you are following any advice listed in/ through this website. I am what I am, and I like ensuring technology products work the way I wanted to

At times, the way I wanted a product to work is what is written in the product manual, but those lazy creators/ makers/ manufacturers just put some disclaimer (or caveats, gotchas, whatever you call it), in order to avoid their liabilities towards a non-working parts.