Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet

Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet

Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet. Media Access Control (MAC) address is a unique identifier of 12 characters. Every device which is able to connect to network either via WiFi or Ethernet has a MAC address. Many organizations provides WiFi service, but to improve WiFi network security, MAC address filtering is used. Once you provide your MAC address
of your android device, you will be able to access WiFi. Even when you are making your android mobile as WiFi hotspot, you can secure your network with MAC address filtering setting. Here are the steps to find MAC address:

Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet
Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet

 

Note: There are many Android device manufacturing companies, which makes slight different options to find MAC address. I had make research on Samsung, HTC,  Sony and Micromax, to find MAC address.

Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet

MAC address by navigating to About Device:

1.) Press home button and tap on Menu -> Setting.
2,) Scroll down to “About” options provided, and tap to select “phone identity” or “Hardware information”.
3.) Search for WiFi MAC address and find the 17 character MAC address including “:” repeating 5 times.

Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet
Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet

Find MAC address by Navigating to Wireless networks:

1.) Navigate to Settings -> Wireless Networks -> WiFi.
2.) Select option button, and tap on “Advance” or “Advanced WiFi”.
3.) Scroll and Find MAC address and note down your 17 characters(including “:”).

Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet
Find MAC address of Android Mobile or Tablet

Hope this post made your search for MAC address easy. If you are not getting MAC address by implementing either of the above steps, then do comment below, with the problem and model number and Name, so that if possible we would look on that and find solution for the same.

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