Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.mobile.android > #22213

Re: Android network Id

Show all headers | View raw

On 2015-08-31, Mike Yetto <unet.lighthouse@xoxy.net> wrote:
> While walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
> Nil <rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote...
>> On 31 Aug 2015, Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> wrote in 
>> comp.mobile.android:
>
>>> My router has a Network map.
>>> Our phones show up as something like android-5foe3ac
>>> The desktops show with the names of the network paths.
>>> Is there a setting in the Android that will allow you to change the
>>> description to something useful so each phone can be IDed?
>
>> I assume it's like a more conventional Linux setup where, if you have 
>> root access, you can rename the host. IOW, you can probably only do 
>> that to your phone if it's rooted.
>
> I'm pretty sure that's the case. If you get into the settings and
> change the device name it only holds for Bluetooth or
> WiFi-Direct.
>
> Mike "of course that can change with your next phone" Yetto

If the router's company has an app that also display the lan map,
then one should be able to change the names of the connected
devices.  eg: Netgear has a free app (Genie) on Google for their
routers that has an edit function to change the connected device's
name.

Back to comp.mobile.android | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Android network Id Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-08-31 16:02 -0400
  Re: Android network Id Big Al <Big_al@invalid.com> - 2015-08-31 16:52 -0400
  Re: Android network Id Nil <rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> - 2015-08-31 18:06 -0400
    Re: Android network Id Mike Yetto <unet.lighthouse@xoxy.net> - 2015-08-31 18:26 -0400
      Re: Android network Id lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> - 2015-09-01 02:09 +0000
        Re: Android network Id Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-09-01 14:26 -0400
  Re: Android network Id Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2015-09-01 07:54 +0000
    Re: Android network Id Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-09-01 14:29 -0400
      Re: Android network Id Nil <rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> - 2015-09-01 17:40 -0400
        Re: Android network Id Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-09-01 17:44 -0400
          Re: Android network Id Nil <rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> - 2015-09-01 19:04 -0400
  Re: Android network Id Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2015-09-01 15:14 +0000
    Re: Android network Id Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-09-01 14:56 -0400
      Re: Android network Id Big Al <Big_al@invalid.com> - 2015-09-01 16:00 -0400
    Re: Android network Id Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2015-09-02 09:17 +0100
      Re: Android network Id Nil <rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> - 2015-09-02 08:08 -0400
        Re: Android network Id Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2015-09-02 18:17 +0000
          Re: Android network Id lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> - 2015-09-02 19:51 +0000

csiph-web