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Title: Reading Zaurus' Serial Number... How?
Post by: bioHazard on July 06, 2005, 12:24:07 am

Is there a way to get the Zaurus SL-Cxxxx serial number by making a small application?

The diagnostic mode does show a serial number, so I guess it would be possible to get it somehow... Anyone ever tried?

Title: Reading Zaurus' Serial Number... How?
Post by: bam on July 06, 2005, 01:10:32 am

why?

Title: Reading Zaurus' Serial Number... How?
Post by: bioHazard on July 06, 2005, 02:23:47 pm

I have several PDAs that I must identify against a database. I'm looking for a unique number that would serve as a fingerprint. The serial number seemed like the best approach.

Thanks!

Title: Reading Zaurus' Serial Number... How?
Post by: bam on July 06, 2005, 03:01:19 pm

yea but if you can read it...then it can be intercepted and changed before the application gets the data, trust me

Title: Reading Zaurus' Serial Number... How?
Post by: bioHazard on July 06, 2005, 06:33:11 pm

It will be used internally by our IT guys. The customer will never send us this number. So I'm not worried about that.

Title: Reading Zaurus' Serial Number... How?
Post by: Tehas on July 10, 2005, 10:49:55 am

If that doesn't work, would reading the host name work?

Title: Reading Zaurus' Serial Number... How?
Post by: doseas on July 11, 2005, 05:39:42 pm

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Is there a way to get the Zaurus SL-Cxxxx serial number by making a small application?

The diagnostic mode does show a serial number, so I guess it would be possible to get it somehow... Anyone ever tried?
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See if it shows up as the last line in the /proc/cpuinfo file.  There is a place for the serial number, but older Zaurus models put all zeros in that field.