"Allow wireless debugging on this network" prompt continues to appear despite user stopped Expert Mode

[szmarczak]

Have you checked if an issue already exists for this bug?

• Nobody else has reported this bug before

Have you tried restarting your device?

• I have tried restarting my device and that did not help

What happened that you did not expect?

Popup.

What did you expect to happen?

No popup.

What would the developer need to do to reproduce the bug?

1. Enable Expert Mode via WiFi Debugging.
2. Disable WiFi Debugging.
3. Disable Expert Mode.
4. It asks for WiFi debugging even though Expert Mode is disabled.

App version

4.0.5

Android version

16

Device model and manufacturer

Nothing Phone 3a, also Nothing Phone 2

Extra info

• My device is rooted

[jambl3r]

Hi, if you've started Expert Mode and you have auto start enabled, it will attempt to connect when you open the app. If you wish not to use Expert Mode, you can stop the service in the Expert Mode settings and/or disable the auto start option. Closing the app does not stop the service on its own, as it is its own process.

[szmarczak]

and/or disable the auto start option

That's weird, because I just reinstalled the app and it doesn't happen with auto start enabled. No popup after enabling & switching to a key mapper input.

[szmarczak]

@jambl3r

it will attempt to connect when you open the app

Does it? I just closed it, opened again and no popup this time with Expert Mode enabled and Wireless debugging disabled.

[jambl3r]

The pop up is from the system, it appears whenever you haven't yet approved wireless debugging on a new network. If you've accepted it for that network I don't think you'll see it again

[szmarczak]

@jambl3r I believe this is a bug - Expert mode seems to be disabled (Continue button visible):

screen-20260310-220254.2.mp4

I cannot reproduce this consistently.

[jambl3r]

What step appears when you tap continue?
If you start Expert mode, is auto start enabled or disabled?

[szmarczak]

See:

signal-2026-03-10-222716_002.mp4

However it's not exactly the same issue, because the above will occur one-time, and my original issue was occurring on almost every open. I believe I disabled expert mode after enabling it in the original issue, but I don't remember because the steps were so quick.

If you start Expert mode, is auto start enabled or disabled?

If I start Expert mode, the auto start is enabled by default.

[szmarczak]

I believe in the original issue the popup was launched on every activity launch/restore. Edit: could be a timeout as well?

[szmarczak]

I believe I disabled expert mode after enabling it in the original issue

Yes, I definitely had disabled expert mode after enabling it. I remember looking for the red Stop button in the Expert Mode screen but I remember it 100% wasn't there so I must have disabled it and was confused by the popup.

OR the popup was occurring despite expert mode being already enabled but I favor the above (I remember looking for the Stop button and definitely couldn't find it). (see comment below)