How to identify a mobile at execution or installation time

Identifying the type of phone your application is running on is sometimes useful for optimised application (or to handle compatibility across different OS platforms). Symbian OS has the capabilities to identify a mobile device:

 at execution time: this is most useful to execute device specific code

 at installation time: this is generally used for installing device-dependent files (ex: bitmaps) or code with heavy platform dependencies.

Identification at execution

One of them is at code execution. A Call to the HAL::Get() function will return a code identifying your device hardware :


#include <hal.h> // also link to hal.lib

TInt mUid = 0;
HAL::Get(HALData::EMachineUid, mUid);


For Nokia Series60 devices the mUID will be unique for each device type:

NS60 Mobiles		mUid value
Nokia 3230		0x10200f97
Nokia 3250		0x200005F8
Nokia 3650		0x101f466a
Nokia 3660		0x101f466a
Nokia 6260		0x101fb3f4
Nokia 6600		0x101fb3dd
Nokia 6620		0x101f3ee3
Nokia 6630		0x101fbb55
Nokia 6670		0x101fb3f3
Nokia 6680		0x10200F99
Nokia 6681		0x10200F9C
Nokia 6682		0x10200F9B
Nokia 7610		0x101fb3f3
Nokia 7650		0x101f4fc3
Nokia N-Gage		0x101f8c19
Nokia N-Gage QD		0x101FB2B1

Nokia E60		0x20001856
Nokia E61		0x20001858
Nokia E70		0x20001857

Nokia N70		0x10200F9A
Nokia N80		0x200005F9
Nokia N90		0x10200F98
Nokia N91		0x200005FC
Nokia N92		0x200005FA

Sendo-X		0x101FA031
Siemens SX1		0x101F9071
Samsung SGH D720		0x10272F38
Samsung SGH D730		0x10272F39
Panasonic X700		0x101FF525

 
 

NS80		mUid value
Nokia 9210 and 9290		0x10005e33
Nokia 9300		0x101f8ddb
Nokia 9300i		0x1020E048
Nokia 9500		0x101f6b26

 
 

UIQ Mobiles		mUid value
Sony Ericsson P800		0x101F408B
Sony Ericsson P900		0x101FB2AE
Sony Ericsson P910		0x10200AC6
Motorola A9xx		0x101f6b26

 

Identification at installation

The identification of the mobile at installation allow to install different files on different devices. A modification of the PKG file is needed. The UIDs shown above are still valid:
;
; Files to install
;
IF MachineUID=0x101fb3dd; 6600
; install Nokia 6600 specific files
"\Symbian\6.1\Series60\Epoc32\release\thumb\urel\EZBoot6600.ini"         -"!:\system\apps\EZBoot\EZBoot.ini"
ELSEIF MachineUID=0x101f466a ; 3650
; install Noka 3650 specific files
"\Symbian\6.1\Series60\Epoc32\release\thumb\urel\EZBoot3650.ini"         -"!:\system\apps\EZBoot\EZBoot.ini"
ELSE
; install file for other devices
"\Symbian\6.1\Series60\Epoc32\release\thumb\urel\EZBoot.ini"         -"!:\system\apps\EZBoot\EZBoot.ini"
ENDIF


This installs a EZBoot.ini file that is tailored for specific devices (here Nokia 6600 and Nokia 3650).

See details: http://www.newlc.com/How-to-identify-a-mobile-at.html