Android Question Wrong BT MAC address with Serial on Android 6

[FrankBerra]

Hi all

Some weeks ago i upgraded to Android M. Everything was OK before but now i doscovered that the Serial library doesn't show the correct BT MAC address of my device.

The code i use is simple:

Dim MacBluetooth As Serial
MacBluetooth.Initialize("test")
ToastMessageShow(MacBluetooth.Address, True)

It displays "02:00:00:00:00:00" instead of the correct MAC address.

I am using Serial V. 1.23
Is out there another updated version?
How to get the mac address with other methods (like reflection)?

Thanks in advance

 

[Erel]

It is no longer possible to get the MAC address: http://developer.android.com/about/...android-6.0-changes.html#behavior-hardware-id

 

[Dey]

Excuse me, you can implement this?
android 6
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...missing-wifi-mac-address-on-android-m-preview

The MAC Address can still be grabbed from the path:
"/sys/class/net/"+ networkInterfaceName +"/address";
Simply doing a file read, or a cat of that file will show the Wifi MAC Address.

Network interface names are usually along the lines of "wlan0" or "eth1"

 

[DonManfred]

the link is broken/page not found

 

[Dey]

the link is broken/page not found

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...missing-wifi-mac-address-on-android-m-preview

 

[Erel]

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
   Dim jo As JavaObject = Me
   Log(jo.RunMethod("getWifiMacAddress", Null))
End Sub

#if JAVA
import java.net.NetworkInterface;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
public static String getWifiMacAddress() {
  try {
  String interfaceName = "wlan0";
  List<NetworkInterface> interfaces = Collections.list(NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces());
  for (NetworkInterface intf : interfaces) {
  if (!intf.getName().equalsIgnoreCase(interfaceName)){
  continue;
  }

  byte[] mac = intf.getHardwareAddress();
  if (mac==null){
  return "";
  }

  StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
  for (byte aMac : mac) {
  buf.append(String.format("%02X:", aMac));
  }
  if (buf.length()>0) {
  buf.deleteCharAt(buf.length() - 1);
  }
  return buf.toString();
  }
  } catch (Exception ex) {
     ex.printStackTrace();
  }
  return "";
   }
#end if

 

[Dey]

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
   Dim jo As JavaObject = Me
   Log(jo.RunMethod("getWifiMacAddress", Null))
End Sub

#if JAVA
import java.net.NetworkInterface;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
public static String getWifiMacAddress() {
  try {
  String interfaceName = "wlan0";
  List<NetworkInterface> interfaces = Collections.list(NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces());
  for (NetworkInterface intf : interfaces) {
  if (!intf.getName().equalsIgnoreCase(interfaceName)){
  continue;
  }

  byte[] mac = intf.getHardwareAddress();
  if (mac==null){
  return "";
  }

  StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
  for (byte aMac : mac) {
  buf.append(String.format("%02X:", aMac));
  }
  if (buf.length()>0) {
  buf.deleteCharAt(buf.length() - 1);
  }
  return buf.toString();
  }
  } catch (Exception ex) {
     ex.printStackTrace();
  }
  return "";
   }
#end if

Erel Thanks for the answer
with Genymotion emulator returns empty string
I do not have the ability to test on devices

change wlan0 in eth1 ok
String interfaceName = "eth1";

 

[johan vetsuypens]

The above Java source from Erel is getting the Wifi Mac address on Android 6.0. Does somebody has the Java code to get the Bluetooth adapter address via the inline Java code ?
Thanks,
Johan

 

[Erel]

It is no longer available: https://developer.android.com/about...android-6.0-changes.html#behavior-hardware-id

 

[postasat]

Hi,

I have an app that use a list of MAC bluetooth address stored, and the user choose to connect to one of them.

I use as example

'button1
serial1.Connect(macphone1)
'button2
serial1.Connect(macphone2)
'button3
serial1.Connect(macphone3)

Now with Android 6 how can I store address to connect only one specific device as above ?
Is there any possibilities to reach this goal ?

Thank you.

 

[FrankBerra]

In android 6+ you can't get your own Bluetooth MAC but you are still able to scan for surrounding BT adapters and connect to them

 

[postasat]

Thank you for your answer.

If I have my phone in a place where there are 10 phone with bluetooth on and I want to connect only to 2 of them which I know, how can I do ?
Can I do it automatically ?

 

[FrankBerra]

Take a look to some documentation around the forum, for example:
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/btautopair-programmatic-bluetooth-device-bonding.25675/
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...luetoothadmin-and-insecure-connections.10925/

 

[watesoft]

you can try dgUID library
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/dguid-unique-id-for-your-device.50253/#content

 

[Arf]

Hi All,
This method is working for me, I am not sure how reliable it is though:

Sub GetMac As String
   Dim p As Phone
   Dim provider As String = p.GetSettings("bluetooth_address")
   Return provider
End Sub

If anyone can comment on the theoretical reliability of this method, I'd be very pleased to hear your thoughts.

 

[FrankBerra]

Whoah!
It is surprisingly working! (Device: Oneplus3, Android 7, no root)
Anyone else that can test?
Anyone expert that can explain why this is working even if getting Bluetooth Mac address is blocked by OS?

 

[Erel]

Also works on Nexus 5X running Android 7. Will probably be removed in a future version of Android.

Based on this post it is only supported by Android 4.3+: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42381871/getting-bluetooth-address-via-settings-secure