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Mobile Physical address

Can any body tell me how to know what is my mobile Physical address
as in computer
as my wifi network requires me to be preregistered with my physical address
thanx alot in advance

What you looking for is the MAC address of the Wi-Fi chipset.
Start->Settings->Connections then pick the option for Wi-Fi, or, if not, 'Network Cards'. The problem is that this option depends on the Phone manufacturer, and OS version, you may have to dig around to find it. The screen you are after looks like the attached Network1 image. Click on the entry for the Wi-Fi chipset for your device. A screen similar to Network2 will appear.
The MAC address of the card appears in the textbox as a sixteen character hex address. Note that in this particular case the textbox display pairs them up and then drops any leading zeros from the value. It is this address you will have to register with your Wi-Fi router and you may also have to select the Use Specific IP address radio button too, it will depend on how your router is set up.
Trial and error may also be the order of the day.
Your router may also expect the address to entered as separate hex byte values, in this case it would be FE:80:02:1A:6B:FF:0F:E9
Good luck!

thanx alooot
am so grateful
this was vary useful
i hope it will work, will try soon
thanx again

If it doesn't work, search the registry on the phone for the keyname 'MAC'. I have an MWg Zinc II and the real WiFi MAC address is held in the data entry for this registry key:-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\ETEN\SystemInfo\Wireless\WLAN\MAC
My previous post could have been wrong.
A MAC address should be 48 bits - 6 bytes - 12 hex characters i.e. 12:34:56:78:9A:BC

I found it
thanx alooooooooooooooooot man
I've submitted mine to the university network
waiting the activation "48 H" until i can try
but am sure that this is the one
thanx indeed

got caught viewing IP cams at work.. but how?

hey guys, so theres this app in the market called KWeye, it lets you view IP cams, which my work uses. i recently got a call from the big boss's secretary, ive never even met the big boss, or his secretary, but somehow they called me on my cell, knew my name and told me to stop. how the heck could they know my number? they may have gotten my name because my cell is registered with the company, but how could they know my cell number?
the apps permissions are:
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (i think this is to take screenshots)
INTERNET (obviously to view the ip cam)
READ_PHONE_STATE (does this permission show my contacts/own number?)
thanks

The cams most likely have logs on them of who is viewing them. Most likely if they are internal only cameras there is only 1 ip that should be in the logs. If a new IP showed up in the logs its a simple matter of finding out who owns the IP. In this case its a cell phone company. They contact the cell phone company and ask them which cell phone account had this IP at this time. They get your phone number, match it with your name and presto.
This is of coarse assuming you are using 3g to check the cams. If you are on Wifi then its probably a simple matter of them matching up the IP to your phones mac address then matching that mac that they most likely have on file if they own the phone and matching it to your phone.
How did you figure out how to access the cameras in the first place? You would need to know the cameras IP I would guess.

soraxd said:
hey guys, so theres this app in the market called KWeye, it lets you view IP cams, which my work uses. i recently got a call from the big boss's secretary, ive never even met the big boss, or his secretary, but somehow they called me on my cell, knew my name and told me to stop. how the heck could they know my number? they may have gotten my name because my cell is registered with the company, but how could they know my cell number?
the apps permissions are:
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (i think this is to take screenshots)
INTERNET (obviously to view the ip cam)
READ_PHONE_STATE (does this permission show my contacts/own number?)
thanks
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I believe its the same as a wireless printer and the IP cam system will show whats connected (networked) to it.
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trevoryour said:
The cams most likely have logs on them of who is viewing them. Most likely if they are internal only cameras there is only 1 ip that should be in the logs. If a new IP showed up in the logs its a simple matter of finding out who owns the IP. In this case its a cell phone company. They contact the cell phone company and ask them which cell phone account had this IP at this time. They get your phone number, match it with your name and presto.
This is of coarse assuming you are using 3g to check the cams. If you are on Wifi then its probably a simple matter of them matching up the IP to your phones mac address then matching that mac that they most likely have on file if they own the phone and matching it to your phone.
How did you figure out how to access the cameras in the first place? You would need to know the cameras IP I would guess.
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You posted that as I was replying but yea this is what I was saying.

Hmm...phone companies don't just hand those out. Unless they had a warrant then that's not the route they took. Were you on their wifi or 3g and were you using the phone to access any other company systems (email). More likely they saw a weird ip and grepd their logs for any other connections at that time from that address and were able to tie it back to your username on some other service.
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so nobody thinks its cause of the read_phone_state permission?

I would say the definatly traced it back to the MAC address of you phone.
The IP Cams must store logs. I.P address is do-able but they would really need to catch you in the act. (as you were connected). IP address's obviously change all the time (If they are DHCP) so linking your IP address directly to your phone number isn't pheasble. Even if you are connected with an IP of 192.168.0.100 , there is no direct link between this IP and your cell. (When using DHCP)
They would most likely.
See your IP Address (Notice you are conencted)
> Get MAC address from logs
> Get Phone Number and Name from Company Mobile Phone records (Records of MAC address will almost certainly have been made)
The READ_PHONE_STATE way would be much more complex. (This is all presumption, I have essentially made this up but it's probably close to accurate)
The IP Cam Admin or whatever, would need the knowledge to promt the App your using to ask the android OS to supply this information and then the app to broadcast it. Unless of course for some reason this app constantly broadcasts this information, which I doubt as this would be seriously unsecure
Considering as soon as you connected, you MAC address will of been recorded by either the Cam or the routers logs. This information is already there so no need to go the long way round.
Also , I would discount this.
They contact the cell phone company and ask them which cell phone account had this IP at this time. They get your phone number, match it with your name and presto.
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No offence but I very very much doubt this would happen, You have not broken the law by accessing these cameras, just company policy (maybe). There is no way on Earth that your mobile provider would hand out your personal details and mobile number because your boss asked for them. Never going to happen. They will give them to the police, under the correct circumstances (Fraud, abuse, etc etc). Knowing the external IP of the handset but not the phone number, or owners name will probably just make the network more suspicious of you.
Thats my 2p on this one anyway!

I agree it isn't likely. I was just putting it out there as a possibility. It could happen to say that it would never happen isn't true. Its technically possible. If someone wanted the info bad enough they could get it.
I'm willing to bet that if the company in question was Apple and the boss he was referring to was Steve Jobs, Apple would find a way to get the info from the phone provider. Apple has certainly found ways around those pesky laws in the past.
Its not likely but it is certainly a possibility in theory.

IP address changer

Hi,
exist some HOMEBREW app which can let me change the IP address ?
Somebody told me that it exist.
Thanks.

Well, you can easily specify your own IP address for WiFi networks. That's built into the phone.
For the cellular network... I'm not aware of a way, though it probably does exist. I'm not sure anybody has coded it as a WP7 app, though.
Why do you need to do this? Your IP address quite probably changes every time you reboot your phone; why do you need it to be a constant value?

GoodDayToDie said:
Well, you can easily specify your own IP address for WiFi networks. That's built into the phone.
For the cellular network... I'm not aware of a way, though it probably does exist. I'm not sure anybody has coded it as a WP7 app, though.
Why do you need to do this? Your IP address quite probably changes every time you reboot your phone; why do you need it to be a constant value?
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For me this threat is also interested. And why would be practice to be able to put static IP address is simple, what to do when you want to connect in WIFI environment where is no DHCP.
Or let say ISP, give you STB with WLAN on which is not enabled DHCP.
Cheers.

As I said, specifying your own IP address is easy on WiFi (specifically for networks without DHCP). Open the WiFi settings page, press-and-hold on a network, and select Edit. If you connect to a network that doesn't have DHCP, it should prompt you for the settings when you first connect.

GoodDayToDie said:
As I said, specifying your own IP address is easy on WiFi (specifically for networks without DHCP). Open the WiFi settings page, press-and-hold on a network, and select Edit. If you connect to a network that doesn't have DHCP, it should prompt you for the settings when you first connect.
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My friend, this what you are wrote is written in user manual which I am get with my optimus 7. There is also written that is procedure for connecting on hidden network is press-and-hold on any wlan net and change the name according with hidden net and I could not reach hidden net until I am receive latest fw(few days ago) and I have optimus 7 almost nine month.
In any case, what you are wrote not applies for optimus 7, maybe for some other phone apply, but not for optimus 7, at least with OPN Firmware.
Cheers.

Ah... I don't have an LG phone, so if there's some weird quirk to their WiFi drivers, I can't help you with that. Sorry. :-(

JosipoGo, have you connected your phone to Zune and done updates that way? Go to Settings=> about phone and tell us what version of OS you have.
I am thinking you may be running NoDo on your phone, as anything with Mango or above should have the ability to change IP address. Yes, your shipping firmware (if it is NoDo version) may not have this feature, and it wouldn't be on your phones manual if that is the case.
If you have never done system updates, you should be able to add this feature by preforming the Zune update (if an update is available for your phone).

ICS STATIC IP- How to setup up your static ip.

I figure i would post this in the General section, as this might help others that may need help setting up their static ip .
Here are the steps to set up static ip for anyone needing to do this.
1. go to system settings
2. click on wifi
3. click on add network
4. enter your network ssid
5. choose your security
6. enter your password for you network
7. click save
ok here is where you have to let it find the network, let it connect and aquire an ip address (even thou it is not the correct one) let it do its thing. do not skip this step otherwise you will not be able to configure the ip or save it.
once it says it is connected go back and do steps 1-2
you will see your network and it should say connected.
long press on your network name. it will bring up 2 options.
1 forget network
2 modify network config.
click on modify network config
it will bring up a bunch of settings. scroll down till you see a box that says :" Show advanced options"
click on the box. ( do not save or cancel the window)
scroll down a little bit and you will see 2 boxes
1 proxy settings
2 ip settings <<< click on the lower right hand coner and change this from dchp to static.
once you do this you will see settings under that box input all your info into these boxes *****( leave 3rd box that says " network prefix length" at 24 )******* once you have completed click save and your phone should be connected to you static ip network..
1 ip address
2 gateway
3 network prefix length (Leave this at 24)
4 dns 1
5 dns 2
6 ******* CLICK SAVE ********* not cancel or you will have to repeat the process. LOL Dont ask how i know this 3 times.. LOL
I hope this helps everyone. Sorry for putting up these instructions late, but unfortunatlly i got a little busy trying to fix a loss of root.
If this helped hit the Thanks button.

I would recommend that anyone wanting to get a "static" ip address go into there router and tell there router to set the ip from the mac address. A little of work because it depends on how to do it from router to router but works well in dd-wrt.
You can find how to set static leases in dd-wrt under the "services" tab. This simply allows you to keep your phone a dhcp phone when abroad while keeping a specific ip while at home. In fact, I get the mac address of every device on my network and use this table to set my house statically without having to do anything on the device itself. Comes in handy to know what devices have what ip and therefore and easy way to keep on top of your network security.

^^ that's what I do too.
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jackler1 said:
I would recommend that anyone wanting to get a "static" ip address go into there router and tell there router to set the ip from the mac address. A little of work because it depends on how to do it from router to router but works well in dd-wrt.
You can find how to set static leases in dd-wrt under the "services" tab. This simply allows you to keep your phone a dhcp phone when abroad while keeping a specific ip while at home. In fact, I get the mac address of every device on my network and use this table to set my house statically without having to do anything on the device itself. Comes in handy to know what devices have what ip and therefore and easy way to keep on top of your network security.
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I also do this. With 10 devices connected and 4 of them I need to know the static address for things to work properly. I can't imagine setting static on each device. Its like a 3 click process via my router regardless of what OS the device is running.

Save static IP in Galaxy S2 ICS
Hi,
After many tries I've found that in order to save a static IP WIFI entry in a Samsung Galaxy S2 under Ice Cream Sandwich you need to fill ALL fields, even the "Network prefix length" field (whatever that is).
So, even though it shows "24", that field is actually empty. Just enter all your IPs plus 24 in that field and you're done.
JP

I'm assuming 24 refers to /24
jessPear said:
Hi,
After many tries I've found that in order to save a static IP WIFI entry in a Samsung Galaxy S2 under Ice Cream Sandwich you need to fill ALL fields, even the "Network prefix length" field (whatever that is).
So, even though it shows "24", that field is actually empty. Just enter all your IPs plus 24 in that field and you're done.
JP
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or 255.255.255.0, which is the subnet for a Class C network and the default network in most home home routers that assign DHCP.
*However* - depending on how you like to manage your own home network, starting from your router, it doesn't necessarily have to be a /24 network. Yes it's more work, but it's not the only option.
(At least I think I'm right. Cisco courses were several semesters ago. ;p)

jessPear said:
Hi,
After many tries I've found that in order to save a static IP WIFI entry in a Samsung Galaxy S2 under Ice Cream Sandwich you need to fill ALL fields, even the "Network prefix length" field (whatever that is).
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The "24" left untouched works fine on my SR on UCLE2. What "that is" is the bit length (measured by 8 bits per dot-delimited octet) of the network label portion of an IP address. Where 192.168.1.XXX IDs the network and the Xs are available for node IDs or endpoints. The first 3 octets there are a 24 bit prefix.
jessPear said:
So, even though it shows "24", that field is actually empty. Just enter all your IPs plus 24 in that field and you're done.
JP
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On SR and Cappy in ICS I have found that default entry holds when appropriate. What did you mean "Just enter all your IPs plus 24 in that field and you're done." ?
phillybits said:
or 255.255.255.0, which is the subnet for a Class C network and the default network in most home home routers that assign DHCP.
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That will work equally. The 255s indicate the potential node IDs in octets 1-3 are blocked as part of the network ID and the 0 in the 4th octet opens all (255 potential node IDs for assignment) in this subnet mask.

jessPear said:
Hi,
After many tries I've found that in order to save a static IP WIFI entry in a Samsung Galaxy S2 under Ice Cream Sandwich you need to fill ALL fields, even the "Network prefix length" field (whatever that is).
So, even though it shows "24", that field is actually empty. Just enter all your IPs plus 24 in that field and you're done.
JP
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On my friend's Xperia Active, that just got updated to ICS, I also tried to quickly input some fields under advanced menu to see if the WiFi would work.
Boy was I wrong!
I had to delete my old WiFi connection, then I had to follow these step-by-step instructions and I had to fill ALL fields in one stroke after pressing "Save". Only then the WiFi worked normally, else it wouldn't transmit data over the internet.

When i try and connect the save button is not pressable.

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ICS STATIC IP- How to setup up your static ip
Just want to say Thank You. This really help.
This is the first time I write massage & i cannot find the thanks button so I write this.
galaxyuser88 said:
I figure i would post this in the General section, as this might help others that may need help setting up their static ip .
Here are the steps to set up static ip for anyone needing to do this.
1. go to system settings
2. click on wifi
3. click on add network
4. enter your network ssid
5. choose your security
6. enter your password for you network
7. click save
ok here is where you have to let it find the network, let it connect and aquire an ip address (even thou it is not the correct one) let it do its thing. do not skip this step otherwise you will not be able to configure the ip or save it.
once it says it is connected go back and do steps 1-2
you will see your network and it should say connected.
long press on your network name. it will bring up 2 options.
1 forget network
2 modify network config.
click on modify network config
it will bring up a bunch of settings. scroll down till you see a box that says :" Show advanced options"
click on the box. ( do not save or cancel the window)
scroll down a little bit and you will see 2 boxes
1 proxy settings
2 ip settings <<< click on the lower right hand coner and change this from dchp to static.
once you do this you will see settings under that box input all your info into these boxes *****( leave 3rd box that says " network prefix length" at 24 )******* once you have completed click save and your phone should be connected to you static ip network..
1 ip address
2 gateway
3 network prefix length (Leave this at 24)
4 dns 1
5 dns 2
6 ******* CLICK SAVE ********* not cancel or you will have to repeat the process. LOL Dont ask how i know this 3 times.. LOL
I hope this helps everyone. Sorry for putting up these instructions late, but unfortunatlly i got a little busy trying to fix a loss of root.
If this helped hit the Thanks button.
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i did everything right and it says connected to my router but i cannot access the internet not browser not play market not outube says no connection...

Static
17mayis said:
i did everything right and it says connected to my router but i cannot access the internet not browser not play market not outube says no connection...
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Same problem. It cannot connect to the wifi otherwise the wifi icon turns blue. Any solution?

17mayis said:
i did everything right and it says connected to my router but i cannot access the internet not browser not play market not outube says no connection...
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ashkala said:
Same problem. It cannot connect to the wifi otherwise the wifi icon turns blue. Any solution?
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Well if you followed the directions correctly then you should be able to connect. I have done it this way over and over everytime i change roms, and it works everytime.
Sounds like u are connected to a ghost ip address that says u are connected but not connected to the real ip address. If you have your router setup with a static ip address, then these directions will work. If you have it set to dhcp on your router than all you have to do is set your name, security,password and then the phone should do the rest.
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Wifi static IP

Hi, I use static IP's on my router.
Unfortunately the HTC Titan appears to require a DHCP server allocated IP address.
How can I overcome this problem please, of at all?
Thanks

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Forum search is your friend. Just searching for "WP7 static IP" will answer your question, in the negative at that. Maybe WP learns that trick in its next iteration.

Actually, Tango has this feature. For some reason, though, MS decided to not enable it by default, you have to set a key in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Connectivity\WiFiSplashUX]
"EnableStaticIP"=dword:1
see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1637690&highlight=export+sim

Localhorst86 said:
Actually, Tango has this feature. For some reason, though, MS decided to not enable it by default, you have to set a key in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Connectivity\WiFiSplashUX]
"EnableStaticIP"=dword:1
see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1637690&highlight=export+sim
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Thanks, how can I change the registry?

Unless you are at least interop or wp root tools unlocked, you can't. You can use the registry editor built into WP root tools to edit this key.
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Localhorst86 said:
Unless you are at least interop or wp root tools unlocked, you can't. You can use the registry editor built into WP root tools to edit this key.
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sorry to sound dopey but not sure what you mean, can you expand please?

well, your phone has to be unlocked in order to allow access to the registry. However, Developer unlock and Chevron Unlock do not suffice as they won't allow access to the registry either.
In order to access the registry, your phone needs an interop unlock, wproottools unlock or full unlock.

Localhorst86 said:
Actually, Tango has this feature. For some reason, though, MS decided to not enable it by default, you have to set a key in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Connectivity\WiFiSplashUX]
"EnableStaticIP"=dword:1
see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1637690&highlight=export+sim
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i added the value using WP7 RootTools on my Samsung Focus but can not see the "Static IP" in wifi settings

What's your OS version number?

What about not setting as fixed on the phone and assigning the IP address you want to use every time in the router to the mac address of the phone.
I do this for our IP phones as they seem to do strange things when programmed with a fixed IP address, but if I leave them to DHCP and tell the router to assign the same IP address every time I get the same result but the IP phone is happy

SeaComms said:
What about not setting as fixed on the phone and assigning the IP address you want to use every time in the router to the mac address of the phone.
I do this for our IP phones as they seem to do strange things when programmed with a fixed IP address, but if I leave them to DHCP and tell the router to assign the same IP address every time I get the same result but the IP phone is happy
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The word for this is "static leases", btw.
Tbh, I would assume people have a valid reason to use static IP adresses, allthough I can not follow it. I use static leases myself, but there might be routers that do not allow assigning static leases.
In such a case, If I wanted to achieve static adresses on certain networked devices (NAS, managed switches, home servers etc.) I would handle it differently:
enable the DHCP Server and statically assign IP Adresses that are not within the IP Range to selected devices.
PS: Static leases have the big advante that you can change your static adresses without needing to access each individual device. Heck, they don't even have to be turned on to manage your IP adresses.
EDIT: more information about static leases can be found here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Static_DHCP

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What's your OS version number?
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My OS version is 7.10.8107.79

7.10.8107 Windows Phone 7.5 Consumer Refresh, I think you need to be on Tango (7.10.8773 Windows Phone 7.5 Consumer Refresh 3 (CR3)) for this to work.