Smartphone DeviceId

Question

hi all,

I am writing a function to retrieve the Device ID of a smartphone.
But i don't have the real smartphone. Can I use smartphone emulator to test this application (ie will samartphone emulator support this deviceID)?

Regards,
Rajesh

Answer 1

The emulators generally don't support device ids, I haven't tried this with the new emulator but I suspect you'll either get an error returned or an empty buffer. Another problem you might encounter is on most Smartphone devices retrieving the device id requires a signed application since this api is priviledged. If your target device is Windows Mobile 5.0 you can use the new GetDeviceUniqueID API call which doesn't have this restriction.

Peter

Answer 2

Peter is correct. The Device Emulator images currently do support the DEVICEID IOCTL or the GetDeviceId method.

Answer 3

Is there an option to change the device id of the emulator?

Thx
Patrick

Answer 4

No there is not.

Thanks,

Vladimir