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Guide to Change Android Device Name For WiFi and Bluetooth

by akash
April 19, 2023
in Android, How To
Change Android Device Name For WiFi and Bluetooth

Change Android Device Name For WiFi and Bluetooth

Are you a new smartphone user? You want to change your Android Device Name or want to change your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth name, but you don’t know how to do this. You can easily change the Android Device Name without Root. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are the most used connectivity features on Android smartphones. If you are sharing internet data via Wi-Fi tethering or transferring files from your device to another device via Bluetooth, it always shows as a generic or customized name of the detected devices. So if you want to change your Android Device Name for WiFi and Bluetooth.

Contents

  1. Change Device Name On Android
  2. Method To change Android Device Name from settings
  3. Method To Change the name of Wi-Fi
  4. Change the Name Of the WiFi Hotspot and Tethering
  5. Method To Change or Rename Bluetooth Device

Change Device Name On Android

This is a very simple way to change Android Device Name, do not need any root access or need to install any 3rd party application. To customize this, you must change the name for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity from settings. This is a beginner’s guide for Android smartphone users. All options already exist under Phone Settings, we will guide you in just a simple way. So let’s go to Change Android Device Name for WiFi and Bluetooth.

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Method To change Android Device Name from settings

If you are using an Android 4.2 or above device then you can change the name of your Device name.

This is a simple way to change your device name on Android smartphones. This is the best way to change the WiFi and Bluetooth names in most new devices. Let’s follow the steps.

Change Device Name on Android
Change Device Name on Android
  • First, open the “Settings” option on your Android device.
  • Then scroll down and click on “About“.
  • Now navigate to the “Device Name” and tap on it.
  • After that type, any name (whatever you want to change) and click ok.

If you have Huawei or Honor device, follow these steps.

Change Android Device Name
Change Android Device Name
  • First open the “Settings” option on your Android device.
  • Then scroll down and click on “System > About Phone > Device name.
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Method To Change the name of Wi-Fi

To change the name of your WIFI, first, need to turn on WIFI from the notification panel. Then click and hold the WiFi icon for a few seconds, it directly goes to WiFi setting.

change the name of your WiFi
change the name of your WiFi
  • In the WiFi configuration screen, tap on the “WiFi direct” option.
  • Now tap on the “device name” option to rename the WiFi name.
  • Then type any name (whatever you want to change) and click ok. Done!

Change the Name Of the WiFi Hotspot and Tethering

If you want to share your Internet with your friends then need to enable Wifi Hotspot and Tethering. You will see your device name in the detected device. If you wanna change this name then follow the guide below.

Change Name Of WiFi Hotspot And Tethering
Change Name Of WiFi Hotspot And Tethering
  • First open the “Settings” option on your Android device.
  • Then scroll down and click on “Hotspot and Tethering“.
  • Now navigate to the “Setup WiFi Hotspot” and tap on it.
  • After that change the network name with any name (whatever you want to change) and click ok.
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Method To Change or Rename Bluetooth Device

Nowadays most users don’t use Bluetooth to transfer files, but if those users ttill use Bluetooth and want to Rename their Bluetooth device names then this a simple way to change it easily.

Change Name Of Bluetooth Connection
Change Name Of Bluetooth Connection
  • First, turn on Bluetooth in your device.
  • Then click and hold the Bluetooth icon for a few seconds, it directly goes to the Bluetooth setting. Or go to settings > Bluetooth.
  • If your device running in Android 4.2 then click on three dots and select “Rename device” or “Rename Phone” from the selection.
  • After that type, any name (whatever you want to change) and click ok.
Rename Bluetooth device name
Rename Bluetooth device name

Nowadays to change the name the Bluetooth device to the newest smartphones. Changing the device name from Settings > About device > Device Name automatically changes the Bluetooth name for the device.

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That’s it, this is our simple guide to changing the name of your WiFi or renaming WiFi, and also change or rename Bluetooth device name.

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akash

akash

Akash is an Android enthusiast. He is a tech-blogger by passion. He loves to help other people with his experience. He also likes installing ROM's, root's experiment on many Android devices and he learned a lot of things from this. Current Devices: Honor 8, Honor 6, ZTE Axon 7, Huawei P9

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