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[Q] Short WPA-PSK Wifi Password

Hi there,
I just installed MIUI_Au 1.5.6 R1 (although this issue may be Android wide, I haven't had the chance to test on any other roms yet) on my HTC Desire and love how it is looking! I have one major problem with it though and that is I cannot connect to my wifi network. The password for my wifi is under the 8 character minimum acceptance length. I have no way of changing this password (I'm in corporate housing, hence I don't have access to the router).
To sum up what happens:
- Enter wifi settings
- Pick the wireless network I want to connect to
- Tap in the box to bring up keyboard
- Punch in password
- Try to tap "Connect" but it is greyed out
- Enter extra characters until 8 character length is reached
- "Connect" button becomes active, but trying to connect obviously fails since it is an incorrect password
Note that I have successfully connected to this network with my laptop (Macbook running OS 10.6.7).
How can I connect to my wifi network (only network around that I have access to) with such a short password or am I just stuck?
The security type on the network is WPA/WPA2 PSK.
Thanks ahead for any help or responses!
Colin

Same issue here with windows mobile, any ideas????

The WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) key must meet one of the following guidelines:
- Between 8 and 63 characters (A longer WPA key is more secure than a short one)
- Exactly 64 characters using 0-9 and A-F
If your access type is WPA/WPA2-PSK, then there is no way your password is under 8 characters.

some routers do allow short passwords for this type of wifi, but is there a solution to force short password to the mobile without asking the router owner to change his password to longer one?

A router will allow you to have a shorter pass-code on WAP but never on WPA/WPA2-PSK because of encryption. You can't force a phone to accept a shorter code. What i'd suggest is that you go on your router and change the password length, a lot easier.

how to crack wps psk iball batton wifi
Sir, I have a lenovo a 536 android device with rooted .sir how I can hack wps psk WiFi from easy steps sir I want to know that answer tell me as soon as possible

[Q] Cant even locate my network from my pandigital

okay, i just got barnacle tether on my phone. Xperia Play. and i have an decades old (lol) pandigital novel black. i cant even find my barnacle network on the tablet, but i can find it on my dads table, his pc, and my brothers phone and pc. oh yeah, and my laptop. so why cant i find it on my tablet? someone please help!!!
This is what i see
UNDER WIRELESS LAN
SSID
current" 2wire1
BSSID (Optional)
Wireless Encyption
set WEP key (40-bit or 104-bit
Access Control
Restrict NAT to selected MAC addersses (this is turnedd off)
Channel
current: 1
Custom Wifi Ad-hoc
Skip wpa_supplicant (this is checked)
UNDER INTERFACES
Wan
Current rmnet0
LAN
Current: eth0
UNDER ADVANCED
DHCP
LAN host Configuration
NAT
Network Address Translation
This is on my tablet
ADVANCED
Regulatory domain
Set the number of channels to use
Wifi sleep policy
specify when to shut off ifi
MAC address
00:27:13:e8:78:a6
IP SETTINGS
use static ip (unchecked)

proxy settings with wifi

Hello,
Mate 7 Marshmallow B560
I have to connect to an open wireless router with proxy.
At the first connection on this wifi, the advanced settings of wifi are not available.
If afterwards I go back in wifi settings I have access to advanced settings and I can enter the proxy and associated port BUT the Connect button is grayed out!
Same problem with secure wifi wap or another when we return in advanced settings after accessing the wifi once: the Connect button is grayed out. It must be accessed from the first wifi coonexion.
Do you have a solution ?
thank you in advance
François

Hello,
Same problem for me... is there a solution ?

Manually connect to wifi not broadcasting ssid

I saved my home wifi network profile and set it to connect automatically but as soon as I disable broadcasting ssid in the router, it wouldn't connect. I don't see any place to manually input ssid and password. It was there on previous Android versions.

Isn't that under add Wi-Fi network any longer?
I'm using a Note 8 ROM, and I believe the networking setup is the same as stock S8.
Go to Settings/Connections/Wi-Fi and at the bottom is "Add network".
The settings you need are there.

Privacy: How to set a random MAC address upon every Wi-Fi connection

Privacy: How to set a random MAC address upon every Wi-Fi connection
I post this for two reasons, the first being I just learned this and therefore I want others to benefit from my newfound knowledge:
"Every time your device connects to a new network it can use a randomized MAC address. Why is this important? To put it simply: Privacy."​which seems to apply to a variety of Android releases:
"Starting in Android 8.0, Android devices use randomized MAC addresses when probing for new networks while not currently associated with a network. MAC randomization prevents listeners from using MAC addresses to build a history of device activity, thus increasing user privacy."​
And the second reason is that those who know more than I do can further add technical value to this topic.
What I did on Android 11 was I changed the following two settings which I believe add to privacy.
Android11-Settings > Connections > Wi-Fi > GearIcon > Advanced > MAC Address Type
Set to either {Randomized MAC} or top {Phone MAC}
Settings > Developer options > Networking > Enhanced Wi-Fi MAC randomization
Turn either {ON} or {OFF}
"Change this phone's MAC address each time it connects to a network that has MAC randomization turned on."
One caveat is the following:
"Once a random MAC address is used for a given network profile, the mobile device will continue to use the same random MAC address even after the user deletes the network profile and recreates the SSID/network profile."
Another caveat is the following:
"There is a bit which gets set in the OUI portion of a MAC address to signify a randomized / locally administered address. The quick synopsis is look at the second character in a MAC address, if it is a 2, 6, A, or E it is a randomized address."
If you're aware of additional technical information on this privacy topic, please add it to this thread so that we all benefit from your knowledge.

Thanx,
I did option 2 - Settings - Developer Options - Networking - Enhanced Wi-Fi MAC Randomization - as to On, and I tried googling where to find your first option 'Randomized MAC' on Android 11, but I can't find a solution as to why I don't see that 'Randomized MAC' option there on my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, it is updated.
May you possibly tell me if you know of whether if I should have both your suggested options enabled and why I maybe can't see option 1 for me?

Hi, I cant find the setting Privacy - Use Randomized MAC on my Galaxy Note 8 but on my Mi Mix 2S, this option is there. Tried MacRandomizationEnabler module on Magisk but there's no changes. Tried it on various Roms Q/R/S for Note 8 but cant seem to get it to appear.

helionexusbiz said:
Thanx,
I did option 2 - Settings - Developer Options - Networking - Enhanced Wi-Fi MAC Randomization - as to On, and I tried googling where to find your first option 'Randomized MAC' on Android 11, but I can't find a solution as to why I don't see that 'Randomized MAC' option there on my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, it is updated.
May you possibly tell me if you know of whether if I should have both your suggested options enabled and why I maybe can't see option 1 for me?
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Try going in WiFi setting while being connected to a WiFi network. You will see a 'gear' icon beside the connected WiFi name. click on that then click on 'advanced'. Hope you will find what you are looking for.
Though I might be too late to reply, but anyway. I just got into (and presumably out of) this mess.

I think I might know where other people might be having issues...
Some routers are set to recognize devices by their MAC address (which won't work anymore with MAC randomization).
First, let me state unequivocally that I have been successfully using MAC randomization on Android 11 (which randomizes per SSID and only changes that randomization under certain circumstances) and I've been successfully using MAC randomization on Android 12 (which randomizes on every connection if you set the Developer options for that).
But I changed a few other (unrelated!) Wi-Fi settings that others might not be setting; (but maybe they matter?).
I don't think most of those Wi-Fi changes I've made are needed for MAC randomization to work per connection, though, as I did them only because I have other tools (like scrcpy and vysor and webdav which you can see in the screenshots below) which work best with a static IP address on the phone (and I hide my router broadcasts for privacy reasons - and yes - I said privacy and not security as Google/Mozilla/Kismet/Wigle/etc. still get your SSID even if you add "_nomap" and "_optout_" to that SSID).
But that's what I think may be DIFFERENT in my setup than in your setup (but I would think my setup would be harder to set up than for most people since my router doesn't broadcast the SSID and my phone doesn't try to reconnect to that SSID when I leave the home due to geofencing tricks).
Anyway, the things I did different from (perhaps?) most people are:
I set Developer options to Enhanced Wi-Fi MAC randomization
(Enhanced Wi-Fi MAC randomization = on)
I set the Android Wi-Fi to request a static IP address
(IP settings = Static)
I set the router to address reservation for that IP address
(Address Reservation = on)
I set the Android Wi-FI to not attempt to reconnect upon failure
(Auto reconnect = off)
I set Developer options to allow wireless debugging
(Wireless debugging = on)
But I want to stress that almost all those Wi-Fi settings I changed that may be different from others weren't necessarily for the MAC randomization feature to work but for other Wi-Fi privacy and functionality features to work, including:
Causing a new Wi-Fi MAC randomization on every connection
Not broadcasting the home Wi-Fi SSID (on the phone) whenever I'm away from home
Not broadcasting the Wi-Fi SSID (on the router) when I'm at home (in addition to using "_optout_" & "_nomap" names).
Mounting the entire phone (root & external SD included) as a read/write drive letter on Windows over Wi-Fi (using WebDav)
Mirroring the Android phone on Windows over Wi-Fi so that I can use the Windows keyboard & mouse & clipboard on the phone (using Vysor and/or Scrcpy) & so that I can just slide an APK from Windows to Android over Wi-Fi to install it onto Android
etc.