On Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:24:14 PM UTC+1, Adrian Custer wrote:
> Hey all,
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> Does Firefox OS provide any way to uniquely identify a device?
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> Is this possible both at the UNIX level ('adb shell') and from within
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> app code (with suitable permission)?
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> The Android community has been tackling this need for a long time and
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> has developed multiple approaches though, in modern versions, the OS
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> provides a way for user code (Java) to obtain a unique id per device. See
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> *
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> http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html
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> * http://www.pocketmagic.net/2011/02/android-unique-device-id/
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> * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13744565/android-device-id-confusion
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> for discussion of the issues and various solutions.
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> So far I am poking around in /proc and /sys land from 'adb shell' but
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> have not yet found anything canonical. There is
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> cat /sys/devices/virtual/android_usb/android0/iSerial (MSM7627A)
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> cat /sys/devices/virtual/android_usb/android0/idProduct (9025)
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> cat /sys/devices/virtual/android_usb/android0/idVendor (05c6)
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> but I am not sure how 'unique' the iSerial number is. (Note that the
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> idVendor is probably, in general, related to the list on the page:
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> http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html
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> or on the more complete page:
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> http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids
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> though I am working only from my own device.
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> I have not yet found a way to extract the IMEI (GSM telephony), let
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> alone found a way to identify future CDMA devices (ESN/MEID) or devices
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> without any telephony.
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> Thanks for any help,
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> ~adrian
For future reference: When you have a packaged application the host will
contain a UUID that can be used to identify the phone. That doesn't work from
adb though.
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