How to set specific IMEI in Nokia S60 SDK emulator

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/241425

Question

I'm also interested in other Symbian SDKs that allow to set their emulator's IMEI.

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Solution

Emulator has hardcoded IMEI of '000000000000000'. Replace what with whatever you want to use and continue running your code.

Symbian C++:

    TPlpVariantMachineId imei;
    PlpVariant::GetMachineIdL(imei); 
    imei.Copy(_L("123456789012345"));

Python for S60 (PyS60):

    import sysinfo
    my_imei = sysinfo.imei()
    my_imei = u"123456789012345"

OTHER TIPS

My general approach to these kinds of things is do it in software.

  1. Put the IMEI fetching code into one globally-accessible function, and only use this function for IMEI fetching.
  2. #ifdef __WINS__ can be used in C++ code to selectively compile in the hard-coded IMEI you want to return in the emulator. In Java, you can probably tell you are in the emulator by other means (eg if the IMEI returned is a fixed weird value in the emulator), and act accordingly.
  3. You can go one step further and have a dynamic IMEI. Once you do that, you will find that testing your code with different IMEIs becomes much easier.

I have never actually tried that but here's my best guess:

The emulator doesn't have a proper telephony implementation unless:

  • you link it to an actual phone over infrared/usb/serial. In which case the emulator telephony component will need configuration to use AT commands to pilot the phone (even if the phone isn't a Symbian phone). This allows you to make phone calls, send and receive SMS/MMS but certainly not change the IMEI.

  • you use the SIMTSY module. This is a component that uses configuration files to simulate telephony events. It can pretend to send SMS/MMS, pretend you are receiving a phone call...none of that actually creates any kind of network traffic, you understand. I assume the IMEI is in the configuration file but I don't expect you can properly change it without restarting the emulator. I have never seen SIMTSY used outside of Symbian itself so I don't know whether it is available to third-party developer. It should be open-sourced with the rest of the operating system within the next 2 years, though.

There is also the possibility that the way the SDK itself was built disabled most of the telephony framework for the emulator, using build-time macro. You should check http://forum.nokia.com

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