IMEI Protection

Raytracer · #1 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 08:56 AM

Hi Erel,
Hi to all,
i have found this article:
http://www.peterfoot.net/RetrieveIMEIThroughTAPI.aspx
the code is in Visual Basic... is possible a conversion in Basic4PPC format?
Thanks for your replies.

P.S. - Sorry for my English...

taximania · #2 (**permalink**) 04-18-2008, 07:48 PM

Conversion done

Pretty easy to use.
Put all 3 files in the same directory.

All respects to the author of TapiLib.dll
Consider my .dll freeware, just ignore the bit's that don't do anything ;-)

Works fine on my O2 XDA Orbit WM5
I've not tried it compiled yet.

Raytracer · #3 (**permalink**) 04-18-2008, 08:27 PM

You are great, taximania!
I'm sure many users will appreciate your work! (me included)

taximania · #4 (**permalink**) 04-18-2008, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raytracer

You are great, taximania!
I'm sure many users will appreciate your work! (me included)

I've just edited my post, and seen your reply.
And I forgot to include the zip file.

Friday night is never the right time to get technical

Here are the files ...

maXim · #5 (**permalink**) 04-18-2008, 09:11 PM

Hi taximania,

in a few minutes away we have published the same library (almost)...
http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/showt...1657#post11657

sometimes happens...

Best Regards,

Massimo

HTC · #6 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 02:26 PM

Hi maXim & taximania,

both have all done a good job!

schimanski · #7 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 09:53 AM

Hello Taxmania!

Your dll is a very nice thread and I use it to protect my application with the IMEI. But, when I try to compile the application for the device (.Net Compact Framework 2.0, optimized) it will take an error in the line phoneID.setstrings. Where is the mistake?

Thanks for answer...

Erel · #8 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 10:11 AM

setstrings is an input only method (you can see that only 'I' appears in the description).
I'm not sure what it's supposed to do but you can try to change the line to:
phoneID.setstrings = ""

Elrick · #9 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 10:33 AM

Hi maXim and taximania! Thanks for this library - this is what i'm looking for! But I have some doubts - will this method work on all devices with all WinMobile versions?

Cableguy · #10 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 12:41 PM

Thanks to Agraham's help, in a few days I'll be able to post my aproach to software protection, using the MAC Address as a crypto key....
IMEi will only work on Phone enabled devices, but is my belief that all devices running WM, being them SmartPhones, PDA or whatever, will have at least one network adaptor....