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I typed into the terminal this:

ip link set eth0 address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

the XX for my numbers and so on.

But it says permission denied.

Source: http://androidforums.com/incredible-tips-tricks/78668-how-spoof-mac-address.html

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    I doubt Android supports this, there's no legitimate reason for changing the MAC address. Any method to do so would also be chip-specific I think.
    – Matthew Read
    Jan 29, 2011 at 22:00
  • I merged your old question with this one so you should be able to edit it now and clean it up a bit, all under your new ID.
    – Matt
    Jan 30, 2011 at 9:43

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This seems like your terminal doesn't have root access. Is your phone rooted? and did you type su to get to the root user first? On my phone you can tell if you're using root privileges by checking the prompt, $ = no root, # = root.

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  • i didn't root..
    – user2562
    Feb 1, 2011 at 18:47
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    As far as I know, you need root to do this.
    – aleksikallio
    Feb 2, 2011 at 7:22
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Root is needed so if you have that turn on your wi-fi and write

su
iplink set eth0 address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

and it's done.

("iplink" without space between)

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Check http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525230

You actually need to change some stuff in the bcm4239 driver to allow it to read the mac address from somewhere else. The above kernel reads the file /data/local/mac.dat.

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    An answer which requires the reader to go to a different site to get any useful information isn't really an answer.
    – ale
    Jul 5, 2012 at 15:22

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