Change WiFi MAC Address

Question

I'm one of the developers working on the Serval Project and we're looking at using the Huawei Ideos U1850 as the default platform for our Android development activities.

We've purchased a few phones from one of our local resellers here in Australia.

We have noticed that a number of the devices that we've sourced from this supplier all have the same WiFi MAC address.

Specifically the MAC address that we're seeing is as follows:

00:90:4C:14:43:19

Multiple devices with the same MAC address is causing us some issues with our development work and so we have two questions:

1. Is this a common issue with the Ideos U1850 phones?
2. Is there any way to change the MAC address on the phone to something else?

Solution

The idea of a MAC address is that they are intended to be globally unique identifications. I am not sure how you are seeing the same MAC address across multiple devices, this should never happen. I know it perhaps does not answer your question but it should never happen in the first place.

None the less, you can try MAC address spoofing, and a quick Google search reveals the following link: http://www.robmcghee.com/android/changing-the-mac-address-on-android/