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user347161
user347161

Reputation: 327

Getting the serial number (not UDID) of iphone programmatically

can anyone tell me the way for getting the serial number of an iPhone (not the UDID).

any immediate help will be appreciated..

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9804

Answers (3)

Mannam Brahmaiah
Mannam Brahmaiah

Reputation: 2283

Here i uploaded some code: But probably App store guys won't allow (As per my idea)

#import <dlfcn.h>
#import <mach/port.h>
#import <mach/kern_return.h>

@implementation ViewController

- (NSString *) serialNumber
{
NSString *serialNumber = nil;

void *IOKit = dlopen("/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/IOKit", RTLD_NOW);
if (IOKit)
{
    mach_port_t *kIOMasterPortDefault = dlsym(IOKit, "kIOMasterPortDefault");
    CFMutableDictionaryRef (*IOServiceMatching)(const char *name) = dlsym(IOKit, "IOServiceMatching");
    mach_port_t (*IOServiceGetMatchingService)(mach_port_t masterPort, CFDictionaryRef matching) = dlsym(IOKit, "IOServiceGetMatchingService");
    CFTypeRef (*IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty)(mach_port_t entry, CFStringRef key, CFAllocatorRef allocator, uint32_t options) = dlsym(IOKit, "IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty");
    kern_return_t (*IOObjectRelease)(mach_port_t object) = dlsym(IOKit, "IOObjectRelease");

    if (kIOMasterPortDefault && IOServiceGetMatchingService && IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty && IOObjectRelease)
    {
        mach_port_t platformExpertDevice = IOServiceGetMatchingService(*kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("IOPlatformExpertDevice"));
        if (platformExpertDevice)
        {
            CFTypeRef platformSerialNumber = IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(platformExpertDevice, CFSTR("IOPlatformSerialNumber"), kCFAllocatorDefault, 0);
            if (platformSerialNumber && CFGetTypeID(platformSerialNumber) == CFStringGetTypeID())
            {
                serialNumber = [NSString stringWithString:(__bridge NSString *)platformSerialNumber];
                CFRelease(platformSerialNumber);
            }
            IOObjectRelease(platformExpertDevice);
        }
    }
    dlclose(IOKit);
}
    NSLog(@"Serial number::%@", serialNumber);
  return serialNumber;
 }

Upvotes: 1

0xced
0xced

Reputation: 26468

Ready to use category on UIDevice: UIDevice+serialNumber. Not sure this would be accepted on the App Store.

Upvotes: 1

miku
miku

Reputation: 188004

Code example (this might be outdated) using a non-public API:

http://www.iphonedevforums.com/forum/sdk-coding-help/145-unique-identifier-iphone.html

@implementation AppLib
...

- (NSString*)getSerialNumber
{
    CFTypeRef serialNumberAsCFString;
    io_service_t platformExpert = IOServiceGetMatchingService(
        kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("IOPlatformExpertDevice"));
    if (platformExpert)
        {
            serialNumberAsCFString = IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(
                platformExpert, CFSTR(kIOPlatformSerialNumberKey), 
                kCFAllocatorDefault, 0);
        }
    IOObjectRelease(platformExpert);
    NSString *serial = 
        [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",serialNumberAsCFString];
    return serial;
}

Upvotes: 4

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