Proxmark3 on Android?

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Has anyone had any luck getting their pm3ez to work on (unrooted) Android with current firmware (Iceman 4.xxx)?

I’ve tried:

Termux - doesn’t have /dev/ttyxxx access privileges unrooted
Walrus - detects pm3 but never connects
RFID Tools - wrong client version, can’t figure out how to update
AndProx - detects pm3 but never connects

I can get it to work with rfid tools if I flash that client’s fw version, but I’d like to use the newest.

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Reddit seems to suggest you can use a TCP-UART app, but I haven’t tried it yet:

https://www.reddit.com/r/proxmark3/comments/1alnkit/question/

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Do you happen to know the pm3 client command to connect via tcp? ./pm3 still tried to connect via ttyacm0. ./pm3 -h doesn’t seem to list a way either.

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./pm3 tcp:localhost:<chosenPort>

according to :

Addendum:
For those playing at home the above command wasn’t actually taken directly from the link, the mistake was mine, not theirs, my bad

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Hmm. I’m still getting

[!!] Script cannot access /dev/ttyXXX files, insufficient privileges

Seems like it’s still attempting to connect via USB.

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Try this one:

./client/proxmark3 tcp:localhost:<chosenPort>

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That works! Thanks!

Why does that client work and not pm3? Pm3 configured for just tty or something?

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Great question, I wish I knew

But I’m not one to pass up the chance to bother someone:

@iceman, would you mind explaining the difference between ./pm3 and ./client/proxmark3?
Or anyone else who knows :classic_smile:
Thanks!

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Haha. Beautiful.

Well thanks for your help. Your Google fu process to be better than mine!

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./pm3

is a shell script where it tries to detect the serial port automatic and help you list and choose one to connect to the proxmark3 client. You can see it as a wrapper script. It passes some help text, call it with -hh to get the client full help text.

client/proxmark3
is the executable

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