Guest Zorglub Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 I'm finalizing Stock Manager and now I'm wondering how other developers are handling registration of software on the Smartphone platform. On the Palm and Pocket PC platforms, Stock Manager uses a registration code based on the device's username (Palm - HotSync Name, Pocket PC - name in Today screen), but there is no similar username on a Smartphone. So I have thought about basing the registration code on the telephone number. This would require of course that a SIM is inserted in the phone. Any comments or ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kallisti Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 FWIW, I believe that's what the all explorer registration system uses. Given that it's a smartPHONE platform, the idea of someone using a device that doesn't have a sim seems fairly insane to me. So yeah, I'd go with the SIM. As an aside, I read somewhere about each device having a unique serial number, can't find anything about it in the API though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zorglub Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 Do you know how to do this? Is it using SimReadPhonebookEntry with the constant SIM_PBSTORAGE_OWNNUMBERS ? I guess I'll have to wait until I can get a real device to try this out, it's one of the things that cant be done in the emulator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rcraswell Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 Look at lineGetGeneralInfo. It returns a LINEGENERALINFO struct which will give you the IMEI number for the device. --ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 IMEI number based is better - my SPV is SIM unlocked, and I use 2 different SIMs in it, so SIM based is not ideal ;) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zorglub Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 I'm finally trying to implement this. There's actually a sample in the Smartphone SDK that shows how to do this, it's called ExTapi. Not that simplem, at least half a dozen API calls are needed! One thing that worries me is the comment at the top of the sample that says: " Sample that demonstrates some functionality of ExTAPI. NOTE: ExTAPI is a privileged API and any application using it must be signed using a priviliged certificate. " Application must be signed by a priviledged certificate ?? So would this include the Orange cert? What about if I wanted to make a version of my software for unlocked devices only? Has anyone actually played around with this? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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