How do you go about spoofing your wifi mac address on the thunderbolt. I have searched and searched and could not find anything.
I figured out how to change macs, but when I go to settings and try to connect to a network, the mac changes back to normal. What can I do?
Im not gonna ask why your trying to spoof, odds are I know
But your probably gonna have to dual boot the backtrack 5 on the TB. There is a thread on it in the dev section. Thats gonna be the only way to make it stick i think.
Unless there is an app for that...
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Anyone know how to change the wifi mac address on our phones?
Edit: I did find this earlier but i wanted to hear from others. http://blog.thecodecracker.com/hacks/spoof-mac-address-in-android/
For the SGS2 you can change the mac is just a little triky, you need to change the mac whit this conmand “busybox ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:00″ while you are still conected to the wifi, and the run this conmand “netcfg eth0 dhcp” that will make a renew on your ip adress and will get you conected sorry for my eng
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Untested. Only thing I could find that is said to work with ours. I was hoping for a app, doesn't like like it.
cwc3 said:
Untested. Only thing I could find that is said to work with ours. I was hoping for a app, doesn't like like it.
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Not to bring things back from the dead, but I would really be like to able change mac address of my phone. The above method works not. I think it is a kernel problem. Does anyone have kernel that supports mac address changing?
With the sim in my phone, I get the net on my phone.
If I put my sim into my tablet, I could get the net (if the touchpad had 3g).
But if I try to use the phone as a wifi hotspot, the carrier knows the data is being shared, and blocks it. How does it know?
Am now wondering whether any of the apps to share the connection - eg over Bluetooth - would be the same or not. Must try it out.
Find it very puzzling (until the carrier told me that I could share the data connection over a wifi hotspot on my phone... if I agreed to pay them more money)...
apologies, thought would be of interest to users, appreciate developers are above stuff like that..its why i posted in the general forum. i did search but didnt find the relevant thread. this isnt a very friendly forum for users, i have noticed a few threads that interest people being attacked.
What method are you using for mobile hotspot? Phone, ROM, app, etc.
so far only tried android's own wifi hotspot feature on htc wildfire with 2.2 froyo
badfelafel said:
so far only tried android's own wifi hotspot feature on htc wildfire with 2.2 froyo
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I have ran into problems using wifi tethering methods with Verizon in the US. When I tried to tether, I would get a page in the browser, on the device Im trying to get connection on, of verizon saying if you want to tether, you have to pay for it. Something along those lines. If the wildfire puts out an adhoc connection, most tethering apps wont show up on the TouchPad since it does not support that type of connection. The one app I have tried successfully is PDAnet in the play store. I have installed CM7 and CM9 on my phone and both built in option works with the TouchPad without the carrier noticing. Have you ever tried installing a different ROM on your phone. I dont know whats available for your phone.
EDIT: Sorry, If you're phone only goes up to froyo, I guess CM7 and CM9 are out of the question. But there may be others.
interesting. am going to try pdanet and will let u know
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interesting. am going to try pdanet and will let u know
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Just know, you need two apps. "PdaNet Tablet" on the TouchPad and I forget the name of the app for the phone. I think it tells you on the tablet app when you start it.
EDIT: Just read you need the phone version of PdaNet or another app called Foxfi on your phone.
ace9988 said:
why do you click it and then decide to post what you have....its the general section. if you're solely interested in development then here's the link HP Touchpad Development
I'm not too sure how the carrier finds out, maybe larger number of data packets compared to data being received by the phone (regardless of desktop sites being requested).
I see that you're with Orange, and if they follow the same rules as T-mobile following their merger, then they don't fine you for going over your allowance, they just limit your usage to off peak hours....then a warning...then disconnection of your data service. Only phonecalls and texts.
I know this because I totally rinsed the allowance in 2 hours after my wifi went down and I had work related files to download.
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there are many ways that mobile device is different from a pc
minutes differences in the way packets are sent/created/received/acknowledged differ from os to os, not to mention hardware
obvious one are mac addressing (easy to spoof but you can usually tell if the mac is a pc or mobile based)
User Agents as was mentioned, although this not a all defining as browser apps can spoof this
and im sure there many more, all of these create a system fingerprint that makes you different from all the other devices on the operators network
chicle_11 said:
Don't you get tired of having your posts deleted for rude and insulting content? As a poster above mentioned, why don't you confine yourself to the development section? Probably because the devs won't put up with your behavior there. Please refrain yourself from posting rudely.
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while i agree it was rude, this shouldn't have been posted here, it should have been posted on the general wildfire sub forum as this does not particularly pertain to any problems that have been encountered on the touchpad
darkassain said:
there are many ways that mobile device is different from a pc
minutes differences in the way packets are sent/created/received/acknowledged differ from os to os, not to mention hardware
obvious one are mac addressing (easy to spoof but you can usually tell if the mac is a pc or mobile based)
User Agents as was mentioned, although this not a all defining as browser apps can spoof this
and im sure there many more, all of these create a system fingerprint that makes you different from all the other devices on the operators network
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Ah, there's something new i learned, mine was just a second guess
while i agree it was rude, this shouldn't have been posted here, it should have been posted on the general wildfire sub forum as this does not particularly pertain to any problems that have been encountered on the touchpad
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to be fair it could've belonged anywhere from wildfire to touchpad to just general android Q&A.....lets just be happy he didn't post it in development. I'd be thinking just as much as to where to post it, besides a touchpad solution might differ from other tablets seeing that it is a bit "unique"
I currently use "WiFi Tether" from the google play store on my "rooted" HTC to connect my Touchpad and dont have any issues with surfing.
But as darkassin mentioned, with some plans, after a certain amount of data used, you may or may not have your service slowed down. i have encounter this with downloaded nightly ROMS...I stopped doing that till i get home and use reg WiFi.
Enjoy.
Am on classicnerds here and a number of GB and ICS ROM's on a HTC phone. Hotspot works OK with laptop and TouchPad. Had to use the APN fix to get around the carrier blocking the tethering.
Focus should be over in your phone forum.
I've noticed that the WiFi MAC address on my OG has been changing periodically. I first started noticing it on Monday when I was running the Team Nocturnal ROM. Since then I've done a factory reset and now I'm running The Base 0.7.3 and it's still occurring . The first 6 digits of the address are always "00:11:22" and the last 6 seem to be random. I grepped through the /system partition and the only reference to "00:11:22" was in an example config file, so I'm sort of stumped.
My guess is the MAC address is defined by the kernel somewhere? I'm using the freegee 0.5 kernel (3.0.21) . I'm going to try flashing KernelSk8 soon, I'll post my results. Has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks!
AFAIK, MAC address shouldn't change. The first 6 digits of the MAC are supposed to identify the manufacturer of the device - in our case A8:16:B2 = LG Electronics.
You can spoof it, but shouldn't need to. I have no idea why yours would be changing - there shouldn't be a need to.
Yea, I know it shouldn't change, which is why it's an issue At work I have to register my MAC address with the WiFi router in order to get access to the network.
I flashed sk8's kernel and I still have the same issue. I did a little more poking around and it seems to set the MAC address on startup. Does anyone know where the MAC address is set? I thought it was in the kernel but apparently not.
Thanks!
From what I can tell, this is a not-uncommon side effect of installing third-party ROMs on the phone. The last half of the the address gets randomized every time you reboot. This started happening to me after a Nexus 4 conversion -- and it remained even after re-installing the stock ROM.
On the other hand, restricting network access my MAC address isn't that secure. You're better off with a strong password and WPA2 with 256-bit encryption. Your workplace may require MAC filtering, however.
MZille said:
From what I can tell, this is a not-uncommon side effect of installing third-party ROMs on the phone. The last half of the the address gets randomized every time you reboot. This started happening to me after a Nexus 4 conversion -- and it remained even after re-installing the stock ROM.
On the other hand, restricting network access my MAC address isn't that secure. You're better off with a strong password and WPA2 with 256-bit encryption. Your workplace may require MAC filtering, however.
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Thanks for the reply. It's good to know that I'm not the only person having this problem. This must be another undocumented side effect of the Nexus 4 conversion. You're right, it's my work that requires me to register my MAC address. It's really annoying to have to register the device everyday, and if I forget then my email doesn't come through.
Is there anyone that can give me any hints on where the MAC address might be (re)assigned? Or even what android OS system utilities might be used to change the address?
I can find a bunch of Google results for spoofing and changing MAC addresses, but discussion of *preventing* alteration is hard to find. You can apparently use Busybox to set whatever MAC address you like, but it's not clear if the phone retains this setting if it gets rebooted. I'd check right now, but I'm in the middle of a Titanium backup.
Edit: I imagine that you can create a shell script to automate changing the address whenever you need to.
Hi,
I know this is kind of old thread but i am having this issue of MAC address changing on every reboot after installing Candy 5, can someone please point me to a solution. ( its a problem for me as i have to register my MAC at workplace and everyday its changing and causing issues with my work network connection )
Any help would be appreciated.
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I can find a bunch of Google results for spoofing and changing MAC addresses, but discussion of *preventing* alteration is hard to find. You can apparently use Busybox to set whatever MAC address you like, but it's not clear if the phone retains this setting if it gets rebooted. I'd check right now, but I'm in the middle of a Titanium backup.
Edit: I imagine that you can create a shell script to automate changing the address whenever you need to.
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Hi all,
I usually use stock rom but i decided to try this one :
MindCr Rom V2.8 : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1925850
Everything was fine ... then i noticed that my mac adress changes everytime i restart my Android !
The problem is my network is secure with filtering mac
Any idea ? I wonder how is that possible ...
Wait what? To my knowledge MAC addresses are something a company has to buy to implemented it in each network card unit. They are in other words not dynamic. Are you maybe referring to IP-address?
QNBT said:
Wait what? To my knowledge MAC addresses are something a company has to buy to implemented it in each network card unit. They are in other words not dynamic. Are you maybe referring to IP-address?
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Im computer scientist so i was worried too about this. IP-adress is not changing : i cant connect to my network so i dont have one.
Fact is, this ROM is changing my MAC adress every time, even if i know it's very weird.
Trying to find another ROM ... : (
you guys are wrong, you can change your mac adress, but regarding to your issue i dont know what might be causing that.
Qnrx said:
you guys are wrong, you can change your mac adress, but regarding to your issue i dont know what might be causing that.
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Don't think that is true. You can spoof it but that is not permanent, and I have no idea why the rom would have the functionality to spoof ones mac address. Maybe you could try to spoof your mac into one of the mac-addresses that are accepted. Did a quick google search and you don't seem to be the only one, do some reading and you might find something.
Hey
Op check this might help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2121151
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rahulnandwani said:
Hey
Op check this might help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2121151
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Thanks you all !
But i finnaly dropped my phone and broke the screen lol ... si i dont care about a nice rom now ^_^
At least, I learned that it's possible to change the mac adress on Android
You can change your mac address by changing it in the files :
/system/etc/wifi/nvram.txt
/system/etc/wifi/nvram_mfg.txt
With these files changed when you activate wifi for the first time it will create a new file in internal memory with that mac address : /data/.mac.info
If that file already exists the wifi will use the mac address contained in it.
When changing only .mac.info with another address it would be temporary and will be reset after a factory reset.
I have looked into wifi hacking software and the only good one ive found is Kali Linux. However, i couldnt get that to work for what i need.
SO HERES MY QUESTION. So say im at work and the wifi SSID is "Portalgames101" and its wpa2 locked. What if i made a copy of that hotspot. same name and everything, but put a random password. Is there a way i can turn on that hotspot, when people connect to it, i can see what password they try.
So, im at work with the real "Portalgames101" hotspot and my fake "Portalgames101" hotspot. People try and connect to my hotspot with the real wifi password. How can i see what they type for the password?
LET ME KNOW PLEASE!!
jacksonsea1 said:
I have looked into wifi hacking software and the only good one ive found is Kali Linux. However, i couldnt get that to work for what i need.
SO HERES MY QUESTION. So say im at work and the wifi SSID is "Portalgames101" and its wpa2 locked. What if i made a copy of that hotspot. same name and everything, but put a random password. Is there a way i can turn on that hotspot, when people connect to it, i can see what password they try.
So, im at work with the real "Portalgames101" hotspot and my fake "Portalgames101" hotspot. People try and connect to my hotspot with the real wifi password. How can i see what they type for the password?
LET ME KNOW PLEASE!!
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Is there a way? Yes. But you won't find it here. That type hacking and development is no longer done here.