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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 28/04/10 14:27, David Given wrote: > [...] > > > 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? > > - -- > ┌─── dg@cowlark.com ─────http://www.cowlark.com───── > │ > │ life←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.^3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ } > │ --- Conway's Game Of Life, in one line of APL > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvhTh0ACgkQf9E0noFvlzjo4ACfTvvkmZS+bx4qbSGdhFXe/Odw > UAcAoL/HYT59nnVL86s6sNymD6wlklEs > =MTvd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

