Android Question Android 6.0.1 - serial1.Address issue

[Arf]

I was debugging a lack of connection on a colleagues Nexus 7 today, it's one of the newer nexus 7s, running android 6.0.1. Unfortunately my nexus is one of the older ones and isn't offering me an upgrade so I need to drive to his place to replicate the problem.


Anyway, I need to find the MAC of the tablet's bluetooth, in order to set my product up to connect to the tablet. Usually this works fine, but in the case of his tablet, the MAC address is not being read correctly.

serial1.Address returns a MAC of 020000000000, always.

Is there a different method I can use to get the BT mac in the meantime, or could something else possibly be causing this strangeness? I'm using B4A 5.80 Beta.

Thanks

 

[Erel]

It is no longer possible to read the device Mac address in Android 6+.

http://developer.android.com/about/...android-6.0-changes.html#behavior-hardware-id

 

[Arf]

Noooooooooo!!! Disaster..

I think I have a simple workaround, will try it.