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I am preparing android hybrid app using html5 and jquery. My project requirement is to fetch device IMEI number using JavaScript/jQuery. Please help me if any body have any idea about it. Thanks in advance!

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Ekta Shukla
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    you specifically want the IMEI number or any unique device identifier would do? – SHANK Aug 21 '13 at 11:32
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8742850/how-to-get-imei-number-in-phonegap – Sasidharan Aug 21 '13 at 11:41
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    its answered in the following link too http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10157220/retrieve-phone-number-or-imei-of-a-smartphone – Chetan Shah Aug 21 '13 at 11:57
  • @SHANK: yea that would be helpful in itself since a lot of IMEI extraction use-cases just reduce down to having any unique identifier for the user's mobile device (e.g. Sybil detection). What do you propose to do? – Hassan Baig Sep 12 '18 at 16:49

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If you are talking about plain javascript and HTML, I do not think you are able to access the IMEI. This is for security reasons. You would be able to do this with a PhoneGap app or a "normal" native app.

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You should add the following permission into your Manifest.xml file:

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

And, with the help of following code you can get the IMEI no.:

TelephonyManager telephonyManager = 
(TelephonyManager)getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);

telephonyManager.getDeviceId();

Note: In case of tablets or devices which can’t act as Mobile Phone IMEI will be null.

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