Question

I am developing an app that requires to get the IMSI. I use:

TelephonyManager mTelephonyMgr = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String imsi = mTelephonyMgr.getSubscriberId();

It works for most phones, but a few handsets only return 6 digits instead of 15. Which is wrong.

Anyone knows an alternative way to retrieve the IMSI programatically? Other APIS? methods?

Regards

Answer 1

According to this post you can use

String imsi = android.os.SystemProperties.get(android.telephony.TelephonyProperties.PROPERTY_IMSI);

but SystemProperties is not directly accessible, so you will need to use one of the tricks in the answers for this question: Where is android.os.SystemProperties

You may also need SystemProperties source.