MAC address, or the Media Access Control address is a unique address assigned to the network interface of a device. On your Android smartphone, or tablet, network cards such as those for WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. Will have unique MAC addresses assigned to them. These addresses are used to uniquely identify devices on a network.
While the IP address is assigned by network interfaces such as routers, MAC addresses are fixed for devices, and are assigned by the manufacturer, hardcoded into the network hardware that the device is using. However, while changing the MAC address of a device isn’t possible unless you replace the network hardware itself, there are ways to fool the OS into broadcasting a different MAC address to the network. Spoofing MAC address can help in situations like, if your friend blocked you from using their WiFi network out of spite, you can most probably get access by spoofing your MAC address. So, if you want to change the MAC address of your Android device, here is how you can do it: Find Android MAC Address and Interface Name Before you can change the MAC address of your Android device, you will need to figure out (and note down) the default MAC address for your device.
They makes tons of terminal emulators. Including OSX but you have to pay for them. I've been a long time PC guy but in recent years I've started having more and more Mac people asking questions so I've been learning Apple some on an iMac 7,1. Most times I need a console is on a laptop and I.
You will also need to know the interface name for your WiFi network card. To do this, just follow the steps below:. On your Android device, go to Settings - WiFi. Here, tap on the Settings cog icon, to open the “ Configure WiFi” screen. On the bottom of the screen, you will be able to see the MAC address of your WiFi network card. Write it down, in case you need to revert your MAC settings back to their original state.
To find the interface name for your WiFi network, you’ll have to install the “Terminal Emulator for Android” app from the Play Store. Once you’ve done that, just follow the steps mentioned below. Open the Terminal Emulator app, and type the following command: ip link. A whole lot of information will get printed out to your screen, simply scroll down to the bottom, and check the value for which the “ link/ether” value matches the MAC address of your WiFi.
In my case, it’s “ wlan0“. For most modern devices, the WiFi interface name will be “wlan0”, but in some cases it could be something like “eth0” as well. Change MAC address with Terminal Emulator Now that you’ve figured out the interface name for your device, you can go ahead and change the MAC address to a new value. To get a random MAC address that you can use, just head on over to any random MAC address generator. Once you have the new MAC address you want to use, just follow the steps below:. Launch Terminal Emulator for Android, and type the following command: su This will get you superuser access on your Android device.
You will require a rooted device for this. Next, type: ifconfig interfacename hw ether newmacaddress Hit enter, and your MAC address will have changed. You can confirm the change in your MAC address, by running the following command: iplink show interfacename Note: I tried various MAC address changing apps for non rooted devices, but either they asked for Root access (weird), or they only supported devices using MediaTek processors. Spoof MAC Address in Android Easily Now that you’ve successfully changed the MAC address of your Android device, you can easily connect to any networks that may have blacklisted you by your MAC address.
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Since the most common method of banning devices from networks uses MAC addresses to do this, so changing MAC addresses should usually allow you to connect to most networks. However, if a network is using a MAC address based “whitelist”, to only allow devices with specific MAC addresses to connect to the network, then this method will not work that is, unless you change your MAC address to the MAC address of a device that is allowed on the network, and is not currently connected to it; the chances of which are pretty slim. So, have you ever changed the MAC address on your Android device? How did you do it? Also, if you know of any other method to change the MAC address on an Android device, do let us know about it in the comments section below. This changes the mac but wifi refuses to connect it says authentication problem.
I don’t have MAC filtering active in my router. This problem is not router specific every wifi after changing the MAC refuses to connect says authetication probelm, The packets for authetication aren’t even being sent to the router, i am monitoring the router it doesn’t show any activity with my device.
Android some how restricts to even send the data after checking the MAC. I don’t know why but MAC changed by “Change My Mac” (android app) works.
Is it possible to connect to Android emulators running on a Mac from a Windows VM?. 3 minutes to read. Contributors. In this article To connect to the Android Emulator running on a Mac from a Windows virtual machine, use the following steps:. Start the emulator on the Mac. Kill the adb server on the Mac: adb kill-server.
Note that the emulator is listening on 2 TCP ports on the loopback network interface: lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -P grep 'emulator qemu' emulator6 94105 macuser 20u IPv4 0xa8dacfb1d4a1b51f 0t0 TCP localhost:5555 (LISTEN) emulator6 94105 macuser 21u IPv4 0xa8dacfb1d845a51f 0t0 TCP localhost:5554 (LISTEN) The odd-numbered port is the one used to connect to adb. Option 1: Use to forward inbound TCP packets received externally on port 5555 (or any other port you like) to the odd-numbered port on the loopback interface ( 127.0.0.1 5555 in this example), and to forward the outbound packets back the other way: cd /tmp mkfifo backpipe nc -kl 5555 0 backpipe As long as the nc commands stay running in a Terminal window, the packets will be forwarded as expected. You can type Control-C in the Terminal window to quit the nc commands once you're done using the emulator. (Option 1 is usually easier than Option 2, especially if System Preferences Security & Privacy Firewall is switched on.) Option 2: Use to redirect TCP packets from port 5555 (or any other port you like) on the interface to the odd-numbered port on the loopback interface ( 127.0.0.1:5555 in this example): sed '/rdr-anchor/a rdr pass on vmnet8 inet proto tcp from any to any port 5555 - 127.0.0.1 port 5555' /etc/pf.conf sudo pfctl -ef - This command sets up port forwarding using the pf packet filter system service. The line breaks are important. Be sure to keep them intact when copy-pasting. You will also need to adjust the interface name from vmnet8 if you're using Parallels.
Vmnet8 is the name of the special NAT device for the Shared Networking mode in VMWare Fusion. The appropriate network interface in Parallels is likely.
Connect to the emulator from the Windows machine: C: adb connect ip-address-of-the-mac:5555 Replace 'ip-address-of-the-mac' with the IP address of the Mac, for example as listed by ifconfig vmnet8 grep 'inet '. If needed, replace 5555 with the other port you like from step 4. (Note: one way to get command-line access to adb is via in Visual Studio.) Alternate technique using ssh If you have enabled Remote Login on the Mac, then you can use ssh port forwarding to connect to the emulator. Install an SSH client on Windows. One option is to install.
The ssh command will then be available in the Git Bash command prompt. Follow steps 1-3 from above to start the emulator, kill the adb server on the Mac, and identify the emulator ports. Run ssh on Windows to set up two-way port forwarding between a local port on Windows ( localhost:15555 in this example) and the odd-numbered emulator port on the Mac's loopback interface ( 127.0.0.1:5555 in this example): C: ssh -L localhost:15555:127.0.0.1:5555 mac-username@ip-address-of-the-mac Replace mac-username with your Mac username as listed by whoami. Replace ip-address-of-the-mac with the IP address of the Mac. Connect to the emulator using the local port on Windows: C: adb connect localhost:15555 (Note: one easy way to get command-line access to adb is via.) A small caution: if you use port 5555 for the local port, adb will think that the emulator is running locally on Windows.
This doesn't cause any trouble in Visual Studio, but in Visual Studio for Mac it causes the app to exit immediately after launch. Alternate technique using adb -H is not yet supported In theory, another approach would be to use adb's built-in capability to connect to an adb server running on a remote machine (see for example ).
But the Xamarin.Android IDE extensions do not currently provide a way to configure that option. Contact information This document discusses the current behavior as of March, 2016. The technique described in this document is not part of the stable testing suite for Xamarin, so it could break in the future. If you notice that the technique no longer works, or if you notice any other mistakes in the document, feel free to add to the discussion on the following forum thread:.