By Alexandre Alapetite on 2008-01-24;
updated 2008-04-12
Get a mobile phone’s Bluetooth MAC address
It is often useful to know the Bluetooth MAC address of a cell phone.
With another computer, it can be discovered.
Furthermore, on some mobile phones, it is possible to type a special code to read this address:
*#2820# on some Nokia and Samsung models.
When the above is not sufficient, I propose a mini Java program (J2ME)
to download and run on your handheld device to read its Bluetooth MAC address.
Bluetooth MAC address reader
All the steps below are to be done on your mobile phone:
- Point the Web browser of your mobile phone to this page, shortcut: http://alex.alapetite.fr/tag/btmac
- Download the Java mobile Bluetooth MAC reader - (JAR 2.3KB)
- Accept to download, and run the program.
- (Optional) Allow the program to send a response over Internet to be able to read your Bluetooth MAC address on this Web page.
- The Java program will display the Bluetooth MAC address.
- You can close the program (Exit button).
- (Optional) After you have run the above program, you may read your Bluetooth MAC address on this Web page.
Footnotes
The above program is also an example of dynamic JAR file,
enabling some session communication between the Java MIDlet and the Web page seen from the mobile phone’s browser.
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