Personal hotspot not discoverable after disconnect or sleep

Hi
I am experiencing a problem with the personal hotspot on my iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3).
If I activate the personal hotspot on my iPhone, it work great initially, but if I let my laptop or iPad 2 go to sleep while still connected, neither device can reconnect to the iPhone personal hotspot again when I wake them. It's as thou the personal hotspot is no longer discoverable.
The only way I can re-connect it to go to the personal hotspot settings on the iPhone. I don't change any settings, it just works again when the settings screen appears on the iPhone, then the laptop and iPad can see the hotspot and connect again.
Even though the personal hotspot is still enabled, it doesn't seem to be discoverable until I remind it that it should be, by opening the personal hotspot setting screen. This is my second iPhone 4 and my second iPad 2 following other issues, but this issue was present on my old iPhone 4 too.
I tried resetting the network settings and also restored the phone from scratch, with the same issue.
Anyone any ideas?
Another little thing, more of an annoyance... Anyway to disable the dreadful flashing blue connection notification at the iPhone screen top? Just a blue static bar would do. Takes up too much space and is a little distracting.
Regards
Mr M

I have an iPhone 4S on Sprint and I have an iPhone and MiFi on Verizon. I have the same problem as describe in the original post--when my connected device goes to sleep, it cannot find the hotspot when I wake the device from sleep mode.
My only work around has been to turn Hotspot off, count to 10 slowly and then turn HotSpot back on. Then the Hotspot is still not discoverable UNTIL I tap Network settings on my iPad or click the Network orange star in the system tray--it's like I have to tell my device to go out and look again. On my Lenovo laptop, I also often have to power cycle the entire laptop.
I agree its very annoying to re-setup connections. I often use Sleep mode on my connected devices to save battery during particularly boring parts of meetings!
Wish this worked seamlessly like we all expect it to.

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