I am trying to get the MacAddress of my phone using serial1.Address. I've tried placing this before and after serial1.Initialize("serial1") and/or before and after serial1.Connect(...). This works just fine on an Android 4.4 phone but on Android 6 it returns the address 02:00:00:00:00:00. How do I get the MacAddress of an And. 6 phone?
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Android Question serial1.address returns wrong value on Android 6
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Android 6 does not provide the Mac anymore.
Search Androids developer site or the forum. this has been asked a few times.
Search Androids developer site or the forum. this has been asked a few times.
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I found Erel's code below in another thread to get the MacAddress but I can't get it to work. I get the following error message:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Method: getWifiMacAddress not found in: b4a.example.chatactivity
B4X:
Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
Dim jo As JavaObject = Me
Log(jo.RunMethod("getWifiMacAddress", Null))
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I guess I also have to incorporate the Java code from Erel's example into my Activity but I don't know how to do that.
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Help us help you. Post the link to that thread...
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...s-with-serial-on-android-6.60452/#post-420300
Just copy and paste it.
Note that it returns the Wifi mac address not Bluetooth.
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I guess that won't help me very much with my Bluetooth-based app. I'll have to abandon that part of it. What exactly were the programmers at Google thinking when they took this out of A.6?
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Google do not want developers to have simple access to permanent ids.
The wifi Mac will probably be removed in the future as well.
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