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7.8 EDIT DEVICE NAME

Menu Position MENU  2  Edit Device Name

What it Does Allows you to change the SSID of the camera for when your
Wi-Fi equipped Smartphone is trying to communicate with it.

Recommended Setting The default setting is pretty good

When transferring images to your smartphone, the camera acts as a Wi-Fi
hotspot, and your phone then looks for its SSID, and then connects with it
before transferring images (.jpg only) or movies (mp4 only). The Edit
Device Name is essentially “Change the camera’s SSID”. The factory
default is “ILCA-77M2” which I think is pretty descriptive. Some of you
may wish to change it to “A77 II”, or have some fun with your war-driving
friends and change it to “CIA-sweep627”.  The camera only broadcasts
this SSID during times when you initiate a transfer via the MENU  1
 Send to Smartphone command. (Send to Computer has the camera
looking for your router’s SSID, so “Edit Device Name” doesn’t affect this
operation.)
Mind you, changing this value after you’ve already paired the camera and
the phone means you have to pair the two all over again (3.12.5).

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