Hey all,
I'm currently on Energy rom and I want to (temporarily) change my Wifi MAC Address, so I can bypass a blockade
Anyway, I did a lot of research and found some terminal commandos which did not seem to work. I have also looked in a lot of files for the MAC Address. I found a lot of references, but none of them I could change (to alter the Address).
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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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.
MZille said:
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'm currently upgrading my home network router from a windows server to a OpenWRT one.
I've set DHCP leases from range 192.168.128.50 - 192.168.128.150 and set a static IP for my phone to 192.168.128.20
My phone is a Galaxy S3 LTE (I9305) with the stock android 4.1.2 installed and is rooted.
My OpenWRT router is giving me some problems with android/iOS phones, as a result, the only way to be able to use my wifi is to set a static IP in to my mobile. Which I prefer not to (because I want everybody, who I give my password to, to be able to go online without further setting changes.)
From what I'm able to see with LanDroid, the only thing that changes is a little thing in the 'router' part of my connection. As visible in the attached image(s).
Does anybody know WHY I have to set the static IP into my telephone? I've heard about the DNS option 121 & on my windows server I had to set option 119...,
Feel free to ask more information if I ain't clear enough.
Anybody, please?? :s
Still having the same problem and I really would love to get some help from you guys...!
fixed it myself
Hi all,... thanks for your support.....,
I've noticed my broadcast address was wrong. I've also installed raspbian instead of openwrt.
Then I followed this tutorial: http://imranasghar.blogspot.nl/2009/09/how-to-make-ubuntudebian-as-router.html ,, made some small ajustments. And it worked!
Hi, We have a WiFi system that can report on how many people are connected and if they have created an account it associates the Mac to a name and will display the account name rather the device MAC.
What we want to do if use this to welcome people to our offices via digital signage but we need to know there MAC address first. We can do this via our WiFi network, when the WiFi see's a device we collect its MAC ( they don't need to connect ) If we have pre-associated the mac with a name we can display a welcome message saying "Welcome William Hill, your meeting is upstairs in room 1". That part is relatively simple for us.
What we need is a easy way that visitors can give us there MAC address of there phone before attending our building.
We are thinking of a registration form that has a field for the MAC, only problem is finding the MAC on a mobile is not that straight forward... especially to thw non technical.
Does anyone know of a way we could automate this by maybe scanning a QR / bar code. or does anyone has an alternative simple / automated way of collecting the mac of a mobile...
Any suggestions would be appreciated...
Thanks
Pigsfoot said:
Hi, We have a WiFi system that can report on how many people are connected and if they have created an account it associates the Mac to a name and will display the account name rather the device MAC.
What we want to do if use this to welcome people to our offices via digital signage but we need to know there MAC address first. We can do this via our WiFi network, when the WiFi see's a device we collect its MAC ( they don't need to connect ) If we have pre-associated the mac with a name we can display a welcome message saying "Welcome William Hill, your meeting is upstairs in room 1". That part is relatively simple for us.
What we need is a easy way that visitors can give us there MAC address of there phone before attending our building.
We are thinking of a registration form that has a field for the MAC, only problem is finding the MAC on a mobile is not that straight forward... especially to thw non technical.
Does anyone know of a way we could automate this by maybe scanning a QR / bar code. or does anyone has an alternative simple / automated way of collecting the mac of a mobile...
Any suggestions would be appreciated...
Thanks
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Well to get your WiFi MAC address all you need to do is go into Settings > About phone > Status. If that's too much for your users then the only way I can think of solving this is to create an app that your users download which gets their MAC address automatically (using the WifiManager class in the Android SDK)
I'm trying to get my Moto Z2 connected by IPSec to my LAN. Part of that is I want to have it always get a known IP address.
Well the mechanism that most DHCP servers use is setting the MAC to assign a known IP. But checking the logs I find that the Z2 changes MAC every time I establish a new VPN connexion! WTH?
I mean, normally I would see this as a benefit, but I need to be able to pin down what is what so I can give it its rightful IP address, so I can find it later.
When I check interfaces with ipconfig, there are about a dozen of them, and the one getting the VPN IP is tun0.
Nogat 7.1.1, rooted. Anyone know what's going on here?
No one's getting random MACs...
Samsung Galaxy S10e, Android 10 stock.
I am currently a patient at an acute care facility and I use the public Wi-Fi here. Recently, changes were made to the Wi-Fi here, I understand that a new router was installed. Since then, I have been trying to access the Wi-Fi with the correct password, but I get a message that sign in is required and when I click it, I am forwarded to a page that does not load. If I select the menu option to use network as is, I seem to be connected but have no access.
In the past, when accessing this Wi-Fi, I was forwarded to a web page where I had to click a button, and then got access. That page has been gone for quite some time now and the Wi-Fi connected without any issues
Others accessing the Wi-Fi do not seem to have this issue. I tried numerous things to fix this issue, such as deleting the Wi-Fi connection and re-enabling it and resetting the network connection. The only thing that I found that resolves this issue is turning off the randomization of the MAC address and setting it to use the phone Mac address.
For privacy reasons, I would prefer to use the randomized MAC address. If for some reason my phone is being blocked on this network, which is the only thing I can think of, in my limited knowledge of how this works, it would seem my phone Mac address would it be blocked but not a randomized MAC address, because it changes.
My old Galaxy S4 running CyanogenMod Android 6 connects to the Wi-Fi fine, but I don't believe the MAC address is randomized on Android 6, if this is the reason, though this seems unlikely to me as every newer phone would have an issue, since they randomize the MAC address by default
Can anyone supply me any info on this?
@rsngfrce
If the randomized MAC address ( e.g. 32:8c:27:26:72:34 ) doesn't contain the original OEM code in its first 6 hex-numbers you might face a lot of authentication issue.
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@rsngfrce
If the randomized MAC address ( e.g. 32:8c:27:26:72:34 ) doesn't contain the original OEM code in its first 6 hex-numbers you might face a lot of authentication issue.
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Thanks for your reply. The phone is doing the randomizing as a function of Android and I would have to assume that it would maintain the original OEM code in its first six hex-numbers if this is required (and I have read about that issue). I never had this issue until the new router was installed and I am unaware of anyone else having an issue.