Series60 mac address bug affecting Nokia N80 smart phones

Series 60, the operating system running on many smartphones, sometimes reports the mac address of the wireless network adapter on the phone incorrectly (enter *#62209526# and press send/call to find the reported mac address).

I think the only consumer device this will affect at present is the Nokia N80, as this is the only model with built-in WiFi.

The good news is I’ve hacked up a quick form to fix incorrect mac addresses. If you’re having trouble accessing a network that uses mac address access lists, put the reported address in the box, click Go and see if it works using the new mac address.

Click here to fix your mac address »

9 Responses to “Series60 mac address bug affecting Nokia N80 smart phones”

  1. AgileCowboy  on July 26th, 2006

    Adam,

    I used your “mac address fixer” to convert the mac address as reported by my Nokia E60. From “00:15:DE:3E:25:C3″ (reported) to “01:5D:E3:E2:5C:03″ (fixed). When I entered the fixed IP address in my Linksys gateway it comes up with a message saying:

    “The second character of MAC must be even number: [0,2,4,6,8,A,C,E]“.

    I haven’t made a connection yet using the Nokia, so I don’t know what the Nokias real mac address is. I wasn’t even aware of the bug, so thanks for providing the info & fix!

  2. Bernd  on August 5th, 2006

    Hello Adam,

    until now my N80 only connected to my router with mac-filters disenabled. Using your fix it works fine now.

    Thank you for this faboulous and simple fix!

    Greetings from Germany

    Bernd

  3. jrsdead  on September 18th, 2006

    This also fixed my Nokia N91 mac address

  4. Eric  on October 5th, 2006

    Hi Adam,

    I used your mac-fixer but the resulting mac-address is not valid according to my belkin router as it is a multicast address. So, I still can’t make a connection.

  5. ahmad  on November 7th, 2006

    please help me how i can find mac address fro nokia 6680 ? please send me email to aha2090@yahoo.com

  6. OM  on February 6th, 2007

    Abay AHMAD chutiyeh.. 6680 mein wifi hi nahin hai tou MAC ADDRESS gand main lo gay kiyaaa??

  7. E  on March 27th, 2007

    Is it possible to change the mac address of a cellphone?

  8. brad  on August 27th, 2007

    hello,
    i am in state, and i need to change my wlan mac address and imei for my nokia e61i someone hack my gsm,thank you to give me more information.

    brad,


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