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omega
omega

Reputation: 650

getting IMSI from android phone?

I am developing an app that requires to get the IMSI. I use:

TelephonyManager mTelephonyMgr = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String imsi = mTelephonyMgr.getSubscriberId();

It works for most phones, but a few handsets only return 6 digits instead of 15. Which is wrong.

Anyone knows an alternative way to retrieve the IMSI programatically? Other APIS? methods?

Regards

Upvotes: 20

Views: 51152

Answers (3)

Aleadam
Aleadam

Reputation: 40381

According to this post you can use 

String imsi = android.os.SystemProperties.get(android.telephony.TelephonyProperties.PROPERTY_IMSI);

but SystemProperties is not directly accessible, so you will need to use one of the tricks in the answers for this question: Where is android.os.SystemProperties

You may also need SystemProperties source.

Upvotes: 8

juyujuyu
juyujuyu

Reputation: 89

This code works well in my project.

TelephonyManager telephonyManager = (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String imsi = telephonyManager.getSubscriberId();

and don't forget the permission:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>

Upvotes: 7

bogdan
bogdan

Reputation: 51

first: from Wiki

An IMSI is usually presented as a 15 digit long number, but can be shorter

shorter refers to an older imsi model that was 14 digits. it isn't relevant here

second: it not depends on handset but rather on network

it returns 6 digits because the android software on that particular handset is configured to return only the non-personal identifying part of the imsi - the first 6 digits which define the country and network operator

Upvotes: 5

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