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servalproject / batphone

The Serval Mesh app for Android. EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE.
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Serval Mesh is overwriting device's bluetooth name #115

Open rodneyrod opened 8 years ago

rodneyrod commented 8 years ago

Installed the latest test build from Google Play on two phones and both have had their device name changed to something like:

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I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen or if it's a bug.

lakeman commented 8 years ago

This is by design. It may not be an ideal design, and we may in future need a separate configuration option to control this behaviour. We use the device name as the first step in identifying peers that are also running our software. When our software is disabled, the original name should be restored. We can also use device names as a low bandwidth communication channel, if we can't establish any other link between devices.

skylarmt commented 7 years ago

the original name should be restored

I can confirm that doesn't happen.

ShadwMan commented 7 years ago

I can confirm that this keeps hijacking the bluetooth name. I had to uninstall to stop it from happening. Happens even when Serval is not run.

axelsimon commented 6 years ago

Adding confirmation to this. Even though I have no one to test Serval with and therefore hardly ever run Serval, the sofware makes its presence known and continuously and aggressively overwrites my device's bluetooth name.

Only way to be able to set the name to something "normal" again is to uninstall.