Help Need to bypass wifi setup

[caspian915]

There seem to be a number of threads for this question, but having looked at a few, they seem to be full of attitude and judgment instead of help. The one fix suggested involved downloading ADB tools, etc, which makes absolutely no sense--if you can download those, then you probably don't have a problem...

So I actually need help, not lame judgments from the peanut gallery, because yes, forcing wifi setup without a skip button was an idiotic nice on Google's part.

Where I work on a rig, I need the MAC address to gain access to the approved list of devices on the wireless network here. And since I'm in the middle of the ocean, you can count out tethering from my phone (even if i was on land, my phone goes into panic and gets screwed up by tethering) AND no there is no Starbucks to go pick up free wifi at.

So how exactly an supposed to get the device working? I still have 11 days out here, and I shouldn't have just spend good money to have a paperweight...

(thanks in advance to those who don't post unhelpful, snarky replies like other threads)

 

[argedion]

There seem to be a number of threads for this question, but having looked at a few, they seem to be full of attitude and judgment instead of help. The one fix suggested involved downloading ADB tools, etc, which makes absolutely no sense--if you can download those, then you probably don't have a problem...

So I actually need help, not lame judgments from the peanut gallery, because yes, forcing wifi setup without a skip button was an idiotic nice on Google's part.

Where I work on a rig, I need the MAC address to gain access to the approved list of devices on the wireless network here. And since I'm in the middle of the ocean, you can count out tethering from my phone (even if i was on land, my phone goes into panic and gets screwed up by tethering) AND no there is no Starbucks to go pick up free wifi at.

So how exactly an supposed to get the device working? I still have 11 days out here, and I shouldn't have just spend good money to have a paperweight...

(thanks in advance to those who don't post unhelpful, snarky replies like other threads)

I'm not sure it can be done with out having a wifi spot first to initiate the the wifi radios. This being a wifi tablet needs internet access to go through the setup phase of the tablet. You can try pressing different button combinations and seeing if any of those will work on getting you to bypass the setup. Other than that I really don't know how else to help you. Sorry

 

[rbscairns]

It sounds as though your WiFi router is using MAC filtering to limit devices that can connect to the network to those on a white-list stored in the router's memory.

You will need to work with your network administrator on this. Most good router firmware that allows MAC filtering will display a list of all MAC addresses that are being broadcast by devices with the router's range. Compare this list with the router's white-list and you should narrow your own MAC address down to just one of a few. Yours will be one of the MAC addresses not on the white-list.

With is information, try each non-white-list MAC address until yours is discovered.

If the above is just to much trouble, ask your network administrator to disable MAC filtering on the router until you have completed your set-up and obtained your N7's MAC address.

 

[John Bean]

Although you can't actually use your phone as a working wifi tether for the reasons you stated it may work well enough to get the Nexus 7 past the connect stage before it fails. That should allow you to get into the Nexus 7 settings and find its MAC address.

Edit: I also see that some wifi tether apps like FoxFi show the MAC of any connected devices, so that may be an easy way to see the MAC of your Nexus 7 even if the connection doesn't achieve anything useful in terms of data.