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There are many reasons for wanting to change the MAC address of your device. Now launch a Linux terminal, and type the following commands: Ifconfig. If you meet those prerequisites, go ahead and connect your Android device to your PC over USB.

Finally, you should have a Terminal Emulator installed on your phone. Sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot. Its address is a unique code made up of 12 (XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX) characters for a particular hardware like saying the network adapter of WiFi devices. The second being, the change is temporary.MAC is the acronym for Media Access Control. The first being, it almost always works only on devices with mediatek processors. Now there are two limitations to this method. Note that the MAC address change through this method is permanent and does not change upon device restart.ĭid this method work for you? Have you an easier method than this to change the MAC address? Let us know in the comments below! Limitation: You should see the new MAC address you entered.

You have successfully changed your MAC address! To check the same use the command: ‘ busybox iplink show eth0‘.

Change ‘XX:XX:XX:YY:YY:YY’ with any MAC address you desire.

To change the MAC address, type the following command and hit enter: ‘ busybox ifconfig eth0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:YY:YY:YY‘.

Your current MAC address will be displayed.

Now, enter this command: ‘ busybox ip link show eth0‘ and press enter.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will consider ‘ eth0‘ to be the interface name. Make note of your network interface name.

To know your current network interface name type ‘ ip link show‘ and hit enter.

If you have not already granted access to the app, it will prompt you for root access.

Open terminal window app and type these commands: ‘ su‘ and hit Enter.

The download link can be found on the top of this post.Īssuming you have both Terminal Window, ROOT and Busybox on your device, follow the below steps: Please note that even this method makes use of the ‘Terminal Window’ app. If you already have Busybox installed on your device, just ignore these steps. Just open the app, tap on ‘install’ and you are good to go.