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LinkBack February 8th, 2009, 03:52 AM

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matthiasgalica
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Changing(spoofing) MAC address

I'd like to spoof the MAC address on my G1, is there a way to do it without having root access? I'm running RC33, and I'm thinking there might be a way to do it using adb, has anybody tried this yet? Thanks, -Matthias

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February 8th, 2009, 04:02 AM

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February 8th, 2009, 04:06 AM

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Ha, since when is anything on the G1 illegal? If you're running OS X on an Apple machine you can change your MAC address with one simple command from the Terminal. Linux is similarly easy. I figure that since Android is Linux-based there must be a way to do it, the question is just whether it requires root access.

February 8th, 2009, 04:17 AM

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Well it would depend how deep in the system the MAC address is. Do you need to sudo to make it work on OS X/Linux?

February 8th, 2009, 04:21 AM

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That's correct, for your entertainment: OS X: http://osxdaily.com/2008/01/17/how-to-spoof-your-mac-address-in-mac-os-x/ Linux: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/09/how-to-change-mac-address-of-your.html I'm currently searching the developer forums, as this might be an easy app to make quickly, if it can be done. (Also it would be a really awesome app in conjunction with a WiFi sniffer app.) Your thoughts?

February 8th, 2009, 04:32 AM

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If it needs sudo then it needs root I'm afraid.

February 8th, 2009, 03:54 PM

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I am not sure how to acomplish this, but from prior knowledge the MAC address is semi-hard coded into the NIC (Network Interface Card, I know it's a chip these days but the acronym still stands). Part of the MAC address is the manafacturer ID which is normally hard coded, the remainder of the address is left to be incremented when the card is rolled out, so supposedly no two addresses are ever the same. As the ID can be flashed prior to rolling out the card, by nature it can be changed after the fact. To do this, you will have to have low level access to the hardware, which can only be done at the OS level. The ifconfig method mentioned a few posts down will give you what you want, you could write a small script to do this or write a library which can be used by java. Enjoy! __________________ Thyme wounds all heals

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1 Changing the MAC address on a device is similar to altering the serial number on something. This may or may not be illegal, that really depends on the device, and more importantly how its being used. Basically as soon as you change the MAC address and try and use a fake one you're falsifying information. Which on a low level means you're probably breaking the user agreements or terms of service. (i.e. changing the MAC address on a cable modem means your device is trying to connect under a different user account as some cable companies (comcast) uses the MAC address as the only thing tied to your account). 2. Truly changing a MAC address is not an easy task. Sure in Linux and OS X you can tell the system to use a different address, the physically coded address' in the hardware is still the same, and if THEY are asked to authenticate they will provided their unique id number. (changing a MAC address at the system level is something network engineers will do to manage network/user security) Can they be changed, yes, with either software or with a diagnostic tool. Should they be changed, not really. They are meant to be unique, and if they're being used to identify you as an account holder you're breaking TOS. Is it illegal, only in how you use it.

February 17th, 2011, 07:01 AM

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You need a usb chord a rooted phone and terminal emulator I posted this tutorial over at rohitab under Leisure Suit Larry But it never seem to have posted and the more the merrier After your rooted head into terminal emulation type su and go into /data/misc/wifi Look for a file called nvram.txt Copy it to your sdcard and then to your cpu desktop open it with notepad and at the bottom of nvram.txt is the mac address This i was able to verify and test on android Citrus Ciena Edit that mac address and save it as nvram1.txt onto sdcard Now go back to data wifi misc and copy nvram.txt to nvram.bak Head into gui and then settings then wifi then turn on the wifi but don't connect to any wifi turn off the wifi,switch back to terminal Copy the nvram1.txt to data misc wifi remove the original (make sure you got it backed up) Rename nvram1.txt to nvram.txt head back into gui and then settings then wifi Now for me it immediately stated unable to turn on wifi Ignore it and try to turn it on anyways When it turns on your newly edited mac address will take effect Connect to your AP NOW B4 REBOOTING YOU MUST CHANGE NVRAM BACK TO THE ORIGINAL! did this and verified a fake mac address with tcpdump-arm Busybox ip link show eth0 And a router with wpa2 table reflected the new fake mac
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February 17th, 2011, 11:40 PM

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or use the notepad app from the market. copy the nvram to sdcard so forth so on... but when you reboot you gotta chmod the file with 755...

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February 19th, 2011, 10:18 AM

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Maybe someone here with some Android Bourne Shell scripting know how can help me I have this script which will change MAC address on the fly but i cant seem to check if file exist when using if then else statements here is a simple check if exist script call but it wont echo what i want =========== #!/bin/bash if [ -e "/data/misc/wifi/nvram.bak" ]; then echo "!@#"; fi; echo "1111" ========== AND HERE IS MY MAC CHANGE SCRIPT WHICH WORKS i just want to see if the bak file exist or not so i dont overwrite the bak with the fake ran it like so: copy the .sh script to sdcard copy it to /data/local while in the sdcard directory run it with sh /data/local/test.sh OR you can sh test.sh with the file in sdcard (either way) which works fine except the check exist conundrum =========== #!/bin/bash echo "Enter Fake MacAddress:" read macx; echo "# Motorola Ciena B2B Test nvram by BRCM JP, 2010.07.15 # $Copyright (C) 2008 Broadcom Corporation$ # $id$ sromrev=3 vendid=0x14e4 devid=0x432f boardtype=0x569 boardrev=0x32 boardflags=0x200 # Specify the xtalfreq if it is otherthan 38.4MHz xtalfreq=38400 aa2g=1 aa5g=0 ag0=255 # 11g paparams pa0b0=0x1695,0x1695,0x1542 pa0b1=0xFB50,0xFB50,0xFBF8 pa0b2=0xFF3E,0xFF3E,0xFF8C pa0itssit=62 pa0maxpwr=69 ofdmpo=0x66666668 cckpo=0x2222 mcs2gpo0=0x8888 mcs2gpo1=0x8888 # 11g rssi params rssismf2g=0xa,0xa,0xa rssismc2g=0xb,0xb,0xb rssisav2g=0x3,0x3,0x3 bxa2g=0 # country code ccode=ALL cctl=0x0 cckdigfilttype=1 ofdmdigfilttype=1 rxpo2g=0 boardnum=1 # xtal pu and pd time control variable # pu time is driver default (0x1501) #r13t=0x1501 ####### nocrc=1 #for mfgc otpimagesize=182 # sdio extra configs hwhdr=0x05ffff031030031003100000

#This generates empty F1, F2 and F3 tuple chains, and may be used if the host SDIO stack does not require the standard tuples. #RAW1=80 02 fe ff #This includes the standard FUNCID and FUNCE tuples in the F1, F2, F3 and common CIS. RAW1=80 32 fe 21 02 0c 00 22 2a 01 01 00 00 c5 0 e6 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 ff ff 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 20 04 D0 2 29 43 21 02 0c 00 22 04 00 20 00 5A ### !!! W A R N I N G !!! ### ### Please do not add anything after this line. ### "macaddr" should be the last item(line) in this file. macaddr=$macx" > nvram.txt; cp nvram.txt /data/local; rm nvram.txt; cp /data/misc/wifi/nvram.txt /data/misc/wifi/nvram.bak; rm /data/misc/wifi/nvram.txt; mv /data/local/nvram.txt /data/misc/wifi; chmod 755 /data/misc/wifi/nvram.txt; ===========
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on top of all that... if you do something like add a blank line at the end of a script file when piping output to create a file... NOTE: OMIT THE <EOF> its there to show the board thats where it would end it will create the file (test.txt) in this case and add a ? at the end of it.. forcing yu to use busybox ls to see the file with a ? and then rm to remove it so long yu add the? ... dont ask me how that exploit works but it does #!/bin/bash echo "123123" > /data/local/test.txt CRLF (BLANK NEWLINE) <EOF> Well i do apologize and it seems to be fixed and im not going to try to cover up the mistake. Ill leave the post here for all to see I do have a copy in my email proving this did occurr now lemme say this no sooner did this happen from my cell bash did the verizon arbitrary unit call me up saying i am being sued. Talking about how he has deep pockets. Lol i got the phone for free for signing up for a plan Then canceled the plan after 2 days The contract was signed by me but the rep didn't sign creating a legal binding contract But this sucks that i cant reproduce this any longer if yu would like to see my email copy of the entire terminal printout let me know pm me... sorry to let y'all down
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February 20th, 2011, 01:48 PM

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Here is the terminal output Im factory resetting and sdcard format reloading to stock with no updates to try and re-produce this problem # ls -l -rw-rw-rw- root root 1425 2011-02-18 15:28 testx.txt drwxrwx--x shell shell 2011-02-17 19:05 tmp # rm testx.txt rm failed for testx.txt, No such file or directory # ls testx.txt testx.txt: No such file or directory # ls -l -rw-rw-rw- root root 1425 2011-02-18 15:28 testx.txt drwxrwx--x shell shell 2011-02-17 19:05 tmp # echo hhvhghhhhhfgchcjchhch> testx.txt # ls testx.txt testx.txt tmp #rm testx.txt # ls testx.txt tmp # rm testx.txt rm failed for testx.txt, No such file or directory # ls testx.txt tmp #
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Okay heres how it works Create a windows notepad shell script testx.sh with #!/bin/bash echo "123123123">testx.txt heres the hex output showing the windows CARRIAGE RETURN + NEWLINE (0d0a) 23 21 2f 62 69 6e 2f 62 61 73 68 0d 0a 65 63 68 6f 20 31 32 33 31 32 33 31 32 33 3e 2f 64 61 74 61 2f 6c 6f 63 61 6c 2f 74 65 73 74 78 2e 74 78 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 now plug in the USB CHORD and setup USB developement debug mode in the settings place that testx.sh into /sdcard UNPLUG THE USB CHORD su cp /sdcard/testx.sh /data/local PLUG THE USB CHORD BACK IN goto /data/local sh testx.sh and you will have a file testx.txt with a hidden ?
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February 20th, 2011, 02:51 PM

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Here's the android terminal output $ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH $cd sdcard $ cp testx.sh /data/local cp: /data/local/testx.sh: Permission denied $ su #cp testx.sh /data/local # cd /data/local # ls testx.sh tmp # sh testx.sh : not found # ls testx.txt testx.sh tmp # ls -l -rw-rw-rw- root root 10 2011-02-20 19:46 testx.txt ----rwxr-x root root 43 2011-02-20 19:46 testx.sh drwxrwx--x shell shell 2011-02-20 18:50 tmp # busybox ls testx.sh tmp testx.txt? # rm testx.txt rm failed for testx.txt, No such file or directory # ls testx.txt testx.sh tmp # rm testx.txt rm failed for testx.txt, No such file or directory #

February 20th, 2011, 02:53 PM

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$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH $cd sdcard $ cp testx.sh /data/local cp: /data/local/testx.sh: Permission denied $ su #cp testx.sh /data/local # cd /data/local # ls testx.sh tmp # sh testx.sh : not found # ls testx.txt testx.sh tmp # ls -l

-rw-rw-rw- root root 10 2011-02-20 19:46 testx.txt ----rwxr-x root root 43 2011-02-20 19:46 testx.sh drwxrwx--x shell shell 2011-02-20 18:50 tmp # busybox ls testx.sh tmp testx.txt? # rm testx.txt rm failed for testx.txt, No such file or directory # ls testx.txt testx.sh tmp # rm testx.txt rm failed for testx.txt, No such file or directory #

October 11th, 2011, 01:12 AM

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#!/bin/ash #a pinginn was here #save as mac-spoof.sh [chmod 777 mac-spoof.sh su > sh mac-spoof.sh ](From term) echo "Backing Up Mac Address To SDcard!" ifconfig wlan0| grep HWaddr >> /mnt/sdcard/mac.log echo "!Org Mac Address!" >> /mnt/sdcard/mac.log echo "Seting Random Address" ip link set wlan0 address 00:12:f0:dd:cc:dc #end this will change your mac addy to "00:12:f0:dd:cc:dc" change as needed i test it in the standerd sdk works with 2.1 it also backs up your org address to the sdcard for safe keeping.. im runing a x10 with 2.3.5 on it an it is not allowing me to set the mac with the ip etc cmd so im going to keep working on a script for the xperia users. but for the rest that shoud work.... also android uses busybox to send all commands to the kernel and busybox uses ash and not bash just a heads up anyway hope this helps sum ppl EDIT::1 #!/bin/ash #writing for Xperia X10 MiUi 1.9.9 #X10 Android 2.2/2.3 set /data/misc/wifi/mac_address to #/data/misc/wi-fi/MAC*address #a pinginn was here #save as mac-spoof.sh [chmod 777 mac-spoof.sh su > sh mac-spoof.sh ](From term) echo "Backing Up Mac Address To SDcard!" ifconfig wlan0| grep HWaddr >> /mnt/sdcard/mac.log echo "Org Mac Address" >> /mnt/sdcard/mac.log echo "Seting Random Address" rm /data/misc/wifi/mac_address echo "00:12:f0:dd:cc:dc" >> /data/misc/wifi/mac_address echo "Your Mac Address Is Spoffed To 00:12:f0:dd:cc:dc" #END EDIT::2 that is currintly work on my android 2.3.5 (MiUi 1.9.9) =D spoffing EDIT::3 also im going to try and get a database of wireless mac addys so that it will pull an replace the address with diff address everytime the script is execed so it can be added to corn =D EDIT::4 after 24hur test changing networks worked fine however enabling GPS restored the org mac address. so im gessing the mac is assinged to the GPS and that must be the same to access the satellites. anyway enjoy spoofing
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