Apps Looking for a unique phone identifier

[James McMurray]

Hi, I'm trying to find a qay to uniquely identify a device that is not tied to the SIM card. That is, some sort of serial number or device identifier that will be different between two phones and will not change if the user swaps SIM cards. TelephonyManager.getDeviceId() and .getSimSerialNumber() won't work, as they are tied to the SIM card.

BlackBerry has DeviceInfo.getDeviceId(). Does something like this exist in Android?

 

[miXer]

You can use:
TelephonyManager t = Context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String dID = t.getDeviceId();

 

[James McMurray]

As I mentioned in the opening post, TelephonyManager.getDeviceId() and .getSimSerialNumber() won't work, as they are tied to the SIM card. I'm hoping to identify unique devices, not SIM cards.

 

[JiMMaR]

what about getting the device's IMEI ?
How to Get the Phone IMEI Android Software Developer

 

[miXer]

As I mentioned in the opening post, TelephonyManager.getDeviceId() and .getSimSerialNumber() won't work, as they are tied to the SIM card. I'm hoping to identify unique devices, not SIM cards.

On TelephonyManager help site it says getDeviceId() returns the unique device ID, for example, the IMEI for GSM and the MEID or ESN for CDMA phones.

 

[RNekic]

Check out Secure.ANDROID_ID:

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