Monday, February 6, 2012

How to change the MAC Address on Android?

Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. In order to ammend MAC Address,first it is necessory to have unlocked SPL for the device.Before changing the MAC Address on Android,install AndroidSDk and fastboot/adb drivers.








Open Terminal using Applications ---> Accessories ---> Terminal (or) Press Ctrl + Alt + t  and type the following command.

(1). cd \

(2). cd AndroidSDK\tools

(3). Boot your HTC Hero into Fastboot

(4).  Type in terminal :

     fastboot oem rebootRUU

(5). Wait till your phone get restarts and command the following :

     fastboot oem emapiWlanMac

You can find something like this.

... INFONotice: This MAC address takes effect only
when your platfor
INFOm is EEPRON-less configuration. Please use (emapiTest)  to v
INFOerify it !
INFO0x00000000
INFO0x000000DE
INFO0x000000AD
INFO0x000000BE
INFO0x000000EF
INFO0x00000000
INFO-eMapiWlanMacCommand, status = 1
OKAY [  0.025s]
finished. total time: 0.026s


Note : The last two characters of each line is the MAC Address.

For example : This MAC address would be 00:DE:AD:BE:EF:00

(6). In order to set the new MAC Address that you want,type as :

   fastboot oem emapiWlanMac 00 01 02 03 04 05

That would make the MAC Address 00:01:02:03:04:05

Note : Use spaces for the MAC Address instead of ':'

(7). Reboot the device using the following command :

   fastboot oem boot

Done!

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