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September 6, 2011
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MAC address for WP7 Devices

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I wanted to connect my WP7 device to my home WiFi. However, I will need to know the MAC address of the WP7 before I can connect.

Can anyone let me know where to get it?

Many thanks in advance.

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Joe Teh

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go into SETTING, next , About
press (more info) bottom ,,,,  and you can see MAC address


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mirhoseini

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anything for the HTC HD7 Customers?

EDIT: here's what i did.

1. turn on SSID

2. turn on DHCP

3. view Attached Devices (take note of the device with no name an a Mac Address, thats probably your phone)

4. went to LAN IP setup (may be called something similar on your router)

5. added the MAC Address, IP and Made a device name HD7

6. checked phone to insure connect.

7. back to router, Turn off SSID, turn off DHCP

all done.

 

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For my Samsung Focus, I called Samsung directly.  Here's what they told me to do:

--Go to the Phone section (as if you were going to make a call)

--enter ##634# and select "Call" (might have been ##643#)

--It did not call anything.  There should now be a "Diagnosis" option in your app list

--Go to Diagnosis and a keypad comes up and enter *#1234#

--It should bring up a menu that includes the WiFi Mac Address

 

I'm curious if this works for anyone else.

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Ralff11

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I'm looking on my WP7 phone I don't see that the information is exposed. You may want to turn of MAC filtering for a moment, connect your phone to your router, and then look in the router settings page to see if it displays the MAC address of connected devices.

 

UPDATE 4/27/2011

 

As of the NoDo update you can see your MAC address in Settings->About->More Info

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I'm looking on my WP7 phone I don't see that the information is exposed. You may want to turn of MAC filtering for a moment, connect your phone to your router, and then look in the router settings page to see if it displays the MAC address of connected devices.
Joel Ivory Johnson | http://www.j2i.net | Device Application Development MVP | Software Engineer

Yup, they only way is to make sure your wireless network is visible, connect with WEP or other security and afterward make your network invisible again.
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seems like microsoft just "forgot" to implement that...
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atrioom

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I cannot believe this was missed..

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TonyTone

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I too am not too impressed with this... also a little let down with the fact that there is no more drag and drop :-/ are there any apps out there that will display the system info of a WP7 device and also allow drag and drop access. Seems the OS has gone the way of Apple, locking everything down to using Zune app... I am a Network Engineer and on my old Touch HD I used to use it to store apps and files as if it were a USB Pen drive. Oops! kinda went off topic there... so erm.. yeah...

 

we need to see the devices MAC address :-)

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Shaun Jennison

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Don't have a phone yet, but isn't the mac address on the box?
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Matt Alter

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Not missed and not forgotten... just didn't make the cut.
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Zen Rebel

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I couldn't agree more. I should be able to find the MAC address in the phone settings instead of having connect to another network first and then guess at which device was my phone... so when they say the WP7 is "done" and ready, they mean a reduced feature set that is not ready for prime time?
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lex3001

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If you do this Johan, I believe the connection will be dropped after awhile.
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B_Sherrell

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If you do this Johan, I believe the connection will be dropped after awhile.

That's what I am seeing too - hidden SSID and MAC filtering on - no connection - even with the phone MAC added to the list.

Unhide SSID and turn filtering off - get connected.  Hide SSID and turn filtering back on - everything is fine, until the phone is rebooted, or the wifi turned off and on again.

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