Hi David,

I think you are trying to use TelephonyManager.getLine1Number();

Instead create an object of the TelephonyManager and then call the
getLine1Number();

-Vinay

On May 5, 3:53 pm, David Given <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I'm trying to fetch the telephone number of the device. I'm calling
> > TelephonyManager.getLine1Number(), and it's returning null.
>
> > A trawl of the intertubes shows that there's a potential problem with
> > some SIMs not containing this information; however, Settings->About
> > Phone->Status *does* show the correct phone number, so this isn't it.
>
> > Looking at the code, it appears that Settings isn't using
> > TelephonyManager to retrieve the phone number. Instead it's using
> > com.android.internal.telephony.Phone, an internal API, to do this; so
> > obviously this is working, where TelephonyManager is not.
>
> > Can anyone shed any light on this, and hopefully suggest how I can
> > correctly fetch the phone number?
>
> Does anyone know anything about this?
>
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