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I need to use a unique ID for an Android app and I thought the serial number for the device would be a good candidate. How do I retrieve the serial number of an Android device in my app ?
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So are NFC tags really UNIQUE from each other, at least in their SERIAL NUMBER? And can we rely on the fact that no 2 NFC tags can have the same serial number? I'm highly skeptical about this as there ...
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I bought a lot (500+) cheap China tablet with AllWinner processor and Android 4.0.3. All tablets expose the same serial number. I can't deploy my application simultaneously on several devices (with a ...
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I am developing an android application that targets Android 4.0 (API 14) and above. I am looking for a serial number that is unique per device and that persists for ever (dies with the device, does ...
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I have been using pyusb to access the detail of a printer plugged in via USB. I currently have the following code working, but it appears that different devices require a different index. Here is my ...
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In my project i want to get the serial number and IMEI number using iOS SDK, What API's we can use to get in iOS7. I went through few links where they are using IO Frameworks, If we use those Apple ...
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I wondering about how serial number generators and validator work. My aim would be to generate a serial number with five parts consisting of numbers and letters only. I enjoy coding as a hobby and ...
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At first it may seems it is very easy question and some body may be trying to give me advice to try Google, it may be so. But for me it is very hard I have try Google, Stack Overflow and can’t find ...
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Does MonoTouch have a simple mechanism for retrieving the device serial number (not UDID) of an iOS device? Is there a third-party library which I can use to obtain this? In case it matters, I'm ...
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How do I get the motherboard ID or serial number from Delphi code? Is there any example code or articles that I can look at?
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I ordered a bunch of NFC tags from a Chinese supplier (I know, red flags) with the promise that they will serialize my tags as instructed so it will work w/ our software and avoid serial duplicates. (...
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I want to build a desktop application and be able to publish product keys or serial numbers.Before the user can use the application he will be requested to enter the product key/serial number. ...
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I am trying to fetch MachineGuid from the registry, to create some level of binding with the OS for my license system. From the documentation I can use string key = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\...
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I was wondering how to get the unique id of a USB storage device. I already know how to fetch the SCSI serial id from this post : USB-drive serial number under linux C++ The post mentions using the ...
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I have read about the IOKit-Extension to get the serial number from an iPhone inside an app: blog.jdevelop.eu Actually i know one App in the Appstore which reads out the serial number and displays it,...
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I have written three different methods that make use of native CreateFile and DeviceIoControl calls in order to retrieve the HDD Serial Number (not the Model Number). The first one uses S.M.A.R.T., ...
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How can I get CPU serial number under Linux (Ubuntu) without root permissions? I tried cpuid command, it works without root permissions, but appears to return all zeros (I believe because something ...
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I'm developing a system including NFC tags and Android phone , using unique ID of NFC tags . But don't know what is the differences between 4 types NFC tag . I've found this : "NFC-compatible ...
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I receive bytes from an RFID reader when presenting a card, but I'm unable to figure out how to derive the card ID from these bytes. For example, I have a card that has these numbers printed on it: ...
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I am using WMI with C++ to get the physical disk serial number. On Windows 7 64bit, I get a string with the serial number. While when running the same application on a Windows XP 64bit machine I get ...
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I have an application that creates a serial key as follows: Take customername Sign customername using privatekey and sha/dsa algorithm Then license can be checked by decoding with public key, and ...
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How can I read the hard disk serial number for IDE and SATA drives in VB.NET? (I don't want the volume serial number). This info should be gathered both for XP and Vista if possible without ...
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I am developing an android app by using xamarin forms (in the future, maybe a uwp app will be developed, not an ios App). I've tried some libraries such as https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/...
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I know there are two articles in CodeProject (one uses WMI and the other no WMI but in C++). I tried the WMI way, not only it's slow, but it is also unreliable. So, that's why I decided not to pursue ...
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