I was informed that its a SIM issue, and that some SIM cards do not store the telephone number in the appropriate way to retrieve the number
On May 5, 1:32 pm, Vinay S <s.vinay....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <d...@cowlark.com> 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
