Ok I see IMEI is not valid as a device identifier for Android
devices. What do you guys suggest to use instead of the IMEI to
identify the device? Is there any best practice in Android environment
to do that?
I'm asking because I also working on that part of my application right
now.
Thanks
I'm currently using ANDROID_ID but it looks like I need to switch it up to a
custom one because of the Archos 5. I will probably be using a
concatenation of a custom 3 letter designating the app,
android.os.Build.PRODUCT
and the ANDROID_ID. My assumption is that the ANDROID_ID will be unique
This is what I have been using for a unique phone id.
Settings.Secure.getString(contentResolver,
Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID);
On Oct 20, 10:11 am, Greivin Lopez greivin.lo...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok I see IMEI is not valid as a device identifier for Android
devices. What do you guys suggest to
That is what I was using also. But Mark Murphy picked up an Archos 5 and
found that it does not return a 16 byte hex number like described in the
SDK. This will no longer work for me if I can't expect the ID to be 16
bytes. My previous post explains how I am going to use the ID along with
I think you could use IMEI value. IMEI = International Mobile
Equipment Identity which is a unique number for every GSM, WCDMA, IDEN
phone.
The way to retrieve the value is by using something like this:
import android.telephony.TelephonyManager;
TelephonyManager telephonyManager =
Greivin Lopez wrote:
I think you could use IMEI value. IMEI = International Mobile
Equipment Identity which is a unique number for every GSM, WCDMA, IDEN
phone.
1. Not all Android devices are phones (e.g., ARCHOS 5 Android tablet).
2. Not all Android phones are GSM. I hope CDMA phones will
Exactly.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote:
Greivin Lopez wrote:
I think you could use IMEI value. IMEI = International Mobile
Equipment Identity which is a unique number for every GSM, WCDMA, IDEN
phone.
1. Not all Android devices are phones
That was added in 1.6.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Wayne Wenthin wa...@fuligin.com wrote:
Is this no longer available? I find it here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html#MANUFACTURER but
when I try to use eclipse just gives me an error.
The reason I am
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