An update from my side as well. We've been working with Trevor and
Google, and our kernel engineering team is aware of what needs to
change.

- Suzanne


On Aug 20, 12:57 pm, FrankG <frankgru...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Trevor,
>
> This was my impression too on the 16th August
>
> "Try to set "ro.serialno"  with setprop .. "
>
> But I assume that other vendors have also no clue about this property.
>
> Good luck !
>
>   Frank
>
> On 20 Aug., 21:04, Trevor Johns <trevorjo...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > Just to follow up a bit here, the reason we believe this is happening is
> > because ro.serialno isn't set on these devices. (Note that the ro.*
> > properties currently aren't required by the CDD/CTS.) Unfortunately, it
> > seems that we're using ro.serialno as the seed for the PRNG when generating
> > ANDROID_ID.
>
> > See: 
> > frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/setting­s/SettingsProvider.java:416
>
> >http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#uX1GffpyOZk/packages/Setting...
>
> > I've gone ahead and opened up a bug here for tracking purposes:
>
> >http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10639
>
> > (We suspect that the Droid 2 isn't the only phone affected by this, likely
> > just the most noticeable instance.)
>
> > We have a fix for this checked into our internal Git repo, so once that
> > change propagates to vendors this shouldn't be an issue on future devices.
> > For existing devices though, if you absolutely depend on the uniqueness of
> > ANDROID_ID, you'll unfortunately need to rely on some other identifier
> > (IMEI, WiFi MAC, etc.).
>
> > --
> > Trevor Johns
>
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, suzanne.alexandra <
>
> > suzanne.alexan...@motorola.com> wrote:
> > > Andrew,
> > > I don't know that this is reported in any public bug system. I've
> > > reported it within a Motorola bug system.
>
> > > - Suzanne
>
> > > On Aug 20, 12:33 am, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)"
> > > <cor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > John, have you had any complaints yet about conflicts from duplicate
> > > > > unique ids?
>
> > > > I handled it in code.
>
> > > > -John Coryat
>
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