You can if you're only developing for a particular model, such as the
Symbol models, or whatnot. Anyhow, according to Collin and others, you
can also control the usernames on a unit by programmatically reassigning
them. It's too bad that Palm and it's licensees haven't worked out a
simple hardware standard for unique unit ID's yet, because it'd be a
great tool for cpy potection and unit control.
//* Rus Daniel Nesse
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Lippincott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:01 AM
>To: Palm Developer Forum
>Subject: Re: Accessing Serial number Programmatically ?
>
>
>>There is a flash ID
>You forget that not all Palm models have FLASH (nor do some
>Visors). And
>I'll bet this won't change in the future unless FLASH becomes
>practically
>free.
>
>> Is there any other unique id or number stored inside the PDAs?
>I think the answer is that there is no 100% way to identify every Palm
>device uniquely (via software). The HotSync Name is about as
>close as you
>can get but its not factory assigned or permanent (maybe a
>combination of
>the HS name and the FLASH ID, if its present).
>
>I remember reading a press release on Palmgear (or another
>Palm site) some
>time back about a company/developer that could generate a
>unique ID for any
>Palm including FLASHless models. I know that's not much help but
>unfortunately I can't remember any more than that.
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