What you learn: You will learn how to read out the phonenumber of the device your application is running on.

Difficulty: 1 of 5

Questions/Problems: Simply post below...

Description:
Nothing is easier to be done, if you know where to search for it
The SystemProperties provide a bunch of data of the current Phone-'Properties', like:

• the operator-Name (i.e.: "T-Mobile" or "AT&T"
• the ISO-Country-Name (i.e.: "us" or "de")
• and of course your Phone-Number

This is how to get these Strings into your Java-Code:

On the emulator this will return: "15555218135", "us" and "Android".

Regards,
plusminus

this code does not work in the current SDK

Hello eee333,

have a look at this post, I think you should find a solution there:
http://www.anddev.org/viewtopic.php?p=10711#10711

Please post here if you get it solved

Best Regards,
plusminus

Your guidance was excellent +/-.

Per the link you provided I discovered:

The methods to retrieve the different parameters (imei, Line1Number, countryISO, etc.) are in the documentation under class TelephonyManager:

http://code.google.com/android/referenc ... nager.html

code example:

TelephonyManager mTelephonyMgr = (TelephonyManager)context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String imei = mTelephonyMgr.getDeviceId();
String phoneNumber=mTelephonyMgr.getLine1Number();
String country = mTelephonyMgr.getNetworkCountryISO();

etc.

Jim

doesn't work for me, but following code is ok:

Just a quick one .

Which permmisions do I have to give in the Manifest

Figured it our and got it working through the emulator but not when i load it on the phone ??

Only trying to retrive the phone number.

Any ideas . Do you have to manually store the phone number on the phone somewhere ?

I looked under about >Status and phone number and it says unknown so i guess its not reliable to get the phone number from the phone ??

c6bro wrote:I looked under about >Status and phone number and it says unknown so i guess its not reliable to get the phone number from the phone ??

Correct.

Thanks jasont for the response.

I guess I'm going to have to verify the phone number by using an sms gateway or something similar.

may be create registration app where they add there own phone number and it gets verified by sending an message to the number which is then intercepted on the way in to activate the app which I have created..

Really need to verify or get the genuine number in the phone.

anybody got any other ideas to verify mobile/cellular number