Getting Windows Phone version and device name in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML

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In Windows Phone 8 Silverlight I use

 Environment.OSVersion.ToString()

to get Windows Phone version and

DeviceStatus.DeviceManufacturer+" "+DeviceStatus.DeviceName

to get device name.

These APIs no longer work with Windows Phone 8.1 XAML. I have found

Windows.Security.ExchangeActiveSyncProvisioning.EasClientDeviceInformation()

this seems to return the manufacturer and device name but OS is returned as just "Windows Phone".

Is there a way to get the exact Windows phone version?

From what I've read, getting the version does not seem to be possible. May I ask why do you need it? — yasen, Jun 09 '14 at 14:13
The documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.osversion(v=vs.110).aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/windowsphone/develop/microsoft.phone.info.devicestatus.devicemanufacturer(v=vs.105).aspx says that it is supported in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML. — cvraman, Jun 09 '14 at 14:13
Did you ask the people with the API about this? They might have some idea. Also, for now you could just pass 8.1. Yeah, that's not a real solution, but I don't know if such exists. — yasen, Jun 09 '14 at 15:05

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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This is currently not possible In Windows Runtime 8.1 (Phone and Windows). It does look like it might be planned thanks to Morten Nielsen and Pete Brown

EDIT: This is now possible in Windows 10. See this SO answer as well as this article for more useful features.

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answered Jun 09 '14 at 15:17

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and what about http://stackoverflow.com/a/24929167/429521 ? shouldn't I use that? – Felipe Sabino Sep 24 '14 at 20:06
Firmware version is not OS version. There are many different version for a particular OS. While The main OS is 8.1, the actual version used depends on what updates MS or the carrier has pushed out. – Shawn Kendrot Oct 06 '14 at 19:24

Rami Sarieddine · Answer 2 · 2015-12-06T12:17:24.290

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For 8.1, you can use this project on Github https://github.com/Microsoft/phone-info that includes an example application for retrieving both static and dynamic properties of a Windows Phone device.

For Windows 10, the APIs that were used to gather these data on (8 and 8.1) have changed. I have found one blog post https://www.suchan.cz/2015/08/uwp-quick-tip-getting-device-os-and-app-info/ for someone who has created a helper class that retrieves the following properties from a Windows 10 UWP app

current OS family - phone/desktop/...

current OS build number - 10.0.10240.16413

current OS architecture - x86/x64/ARM

current App Display Name

current App Version - 3.0.2.0

current Device manufacturer - Nokia

current Device model - Lumia 1520

In his post he shows how to get basic data about current device, operating system and application.

give it a try maybe it helps

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answered Dec 06 '15 at 07:27

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Thanks, but my question is about 8.1 so this is not a solution for me. – Igor Kulman Dec 06 '15 at 10:24
for 8.1 you can use the DeviceStatus Properties under the DeviceStatus class in the Microsoft.Phone.Info Namespace – Rami Sarieddine Dec 06 '15 at 12:12
@IgorKulman I edited the answer to include 8.1 let me know if that does the job. – Rami Sarieddine Dec 07 '15 at 09:35

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 16 '15 at 19:03

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In Windows Phone 8.1:

Windows.Security.ExchangeActiveSyncProvisioning.EasClientDeviceInformation().FriendlyName

It worked for me!

edited Jan 16 '15 at 19:03

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answered Jan 16 '15 at 18:42

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That only returns the name of the device, not the OS version as asked for. – andyhammar Feb 05 '15 at 11:53
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You also have the following properties:Id, OperatingSystem, SystemSku, SystemProductName, SystemManufacturer, SystemHardwareVersion, SystemFirmwareVersion, SystemFirmwareVersion – Toni Moreno Feb 06 '15 at 12:40
Oh. you're right it hasn't the versión numbre. Sorry – Toni Moreno Feb 06 '15 at 13:01
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None these say Windows 8.1 or the extended version number, nor the devicename – djack109 Sep 24 '15 at 18:08

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