Setting hostname on Nexus One

[Guest Amir K]

Hi,

My Nexus One is connected to my home network, but when looking at the router's DHCP table, all the computers show up with a client name (identical to the host name), but the phone's client name is empty. Same is true for my Nokia N95, BTW.

Is there a way to set a host name?

Thanks

[Guest JonnyRockets]

I'm pretty sure it's not possible to assign a host name to an Android device.

[Guest ranblv]

Have you tried adding an entry to /etc/hosts ?

[Guest commodoor]

Linux methods don't work on the nexus. it didn't work for me

[Guest ranblv]

on xda I saw this reply on the same topic:

"Technically it's in /system/etc/hosts, /etc is a symlink. If you want to edit it, create a hosts file on your SD card and then cp from terminal with root privileges. Or you could adb push it from your computer."

I think adb should work easily, cause I added files there when Cyanogen added the manual multi touch files for the browser.