But at least the IMEI is more likely to be unique, since telephone connections depend on it, and checking its uniqueness (and correspondence to the printed label) is probably written into some stringent phone qualification tests.
On Aug 18, 10:49 am, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > Nathan, > > The docs say that getDeviceId is the IMEI for GSM or its equivalent for > CDMA devices. > > Glad it works for you, but I have two issues with this: > > 1 - It requires a special permission, for no good reason from users' > point of view (unless the app already needs this). > > 2 - There might be devices that don't return the IMEI correctly, just > like the DROID 2 doesn't generate the ANDROID_ID correctly. > > Note that using the right IMEI value in the low-level cellular radio > code (so phone calls work) and returning it all the way to application > layer are two different things, at least it would seem that way. > > -- Kostya > > 18.08.2010 19:39, Nathan пишет: > > > > > Great. I can just wait to see if angry customers ask why their trial > > is already over. > > > Nonetheless, I couldn't find 9774d56d682e549c among my trial users. > > Maybe no Droid 2s have tried it yet. > > > I'm using this as the id but I believe it does the same as ANDROID_ID. > > > TelephonyManager manager = > > (TelephonyManager)context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE); > > > String imei = manager.getDeviceId(); > > > Nathan > > > On Aug 18, 7:41 am, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Do you think this should be logged at code.google.com as an issue. I > >>> did as search for ANDROID_ID there and nothing came up. > >> I think the right people are looking into this problem. Hopefully, it > >> will turn out to be easy to correct. > > >> -John Coryat > > -- > Kostya Vasilev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com -- 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
