I have a game that locks its save file to your android device ID. This is fine and good until you factory reset your phone or install a ROM and your hard work it lost due to the ID change.
Now, I am aware you can change your ID. But I would like a little clarification first..
If I use GTalk on my dialer I get say this ID: (*#*#8255#*#*)
200*********** etc..
But is a use an app I grabbed from the play store called Change Android ID *Root I get a completely different result.. So are they both reporting different ID's or is one wrong?
Also, what harm can be done changing your ID and is it safe to post your ID on say a forum?
Thank you for any help given.
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You may have heard that blizzard released their mobile authenticator for android via the android market.
Now the thing i was wondering is where serial is stored.
In the java emulator it was stored in a xxxx.db file, and in iphone in an xml file,
correct me if i'm wrong though.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Serial>US-1234-5678-9123</Serial>
<Token>AQIDBAUGBwgJCgsMDQ4PEBESExQ=</Token>
<TimeDifference>-631</TimeDifference>
</Authenticator>
or this is perhaps an xml file to compile it for iphone/touch,
anyway, there is (or has to be) a way to change the serial , i've been looking in every xml or db file on my G2 but no succes yet, perhaps anyone else have found something?
I've encountered some difficulties with using the Blizzard Mobile Authenticator on my rooted handset. Seems it treats mine differently to a non-rooted handset and can be unusable. I've reported the problems on the official WoW forums here.
Regarding changing the serial code, why is this ever necessary? You can view it through the applications controls should you ever need to look it up. And you can always replace the authenticator on your account.
high class problem... i dont know it
jokeyrhyme said:
Regarding changing the serial code, why is this ever necessary? You can view it through the applications controls should you ever need to look it up. And you can always replace the authenticator on your account.
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Haha, I answered my own question yesterday. Forgot to unlink my phone from my account before wiping it for a ROM update, and had to call Blizzard for help. It's lucky I had my original serial code written down. I can now see the value in being able to cause a fresh authenticator to behave like an older one.
This is something that has been talked about on another thread over at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=557862
But from what I have been able to get, the data is stored in the file:
/data/data/com.blizzard.bma/shared_prefs/com.blizzard.bma.AUTH_STORE.xml
Now, how the token file is encoded... I can't say. Haven't gotten to that part yet.
jokeyrhyme said:
Haha, I answered my own question yesterday. Forgot to unlink my phone from my account before wiping it for a ROM update, and had to call Blizzard for help. It's lucky I had my original serial code written down. I can now see the value in being able to cause a fresh authenticator to behave like an older one.
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dont mean to bring up a super old thread, but i couldnt find any answers (the post linked here shows how to read the serial from file, but not how to make it persistant or change it to something else) (sorry if its preferred to make a new thread to ask the question, seems like every forum prefers a different method, and this one seemed to be pretty spot on for what i was wondering)
I wanna try out different roms but keep the serial persistant. I could on my iphone by backing up the authenticator in itunes.
but even backing up app+data in titanium back up leaves me with a different serial.
Is there any way to get a backup with a persistant serial in it? I really dont want to leave my account unsecured, I dont want to have to carry around an extra keychain but im not going to deattach and reattach the authenticator every time i want to flash a rom.
bisby said:
dont mean to bring up a super old thread, but i couldnt find any answers (the post linked here shows how to read the serial from file, but not how to make it persistant or change it to something else) (sorry if its preferred to make a new thread to ask the question, seems like every forum prefers a different method, and this one seemed to be pretty spot on for what i was wondering)
I wanna try out different roms but keep the serial persistant. I could on my iphone by backing up the authenticator in itunes.
but even backing up app+data in titanium back up leaves me with a different serial.
Is there any way to get a backup with a persistant serial in it? I really dont want to leave my account unsecured, I dont want to have to carry around an extra keychain but im not going to deattach and reattach the authenticator every time i want to flash a rom.
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iìll try to see if after 1+ year something changed and finally we can have an answer..
im in same condition.. id love to use mobile autenticator on android on my sgs2 BUT im kinda flashing roms kernels and testing every week different roms..
was hoping in titanium bkup.. but seems they wrot aint workin.. sooooooo any suggegstions?
Hi there. First of all I'm sorry if this is not the right place to post this.
Anyway, someone I know bought an used iPhone 6 only to discover that it's somehow an Android device heavily modded (it looks like an iPhone 6 on the outside, which is an issue because it doesn't have the three buttons the android apps are meant use). I'm not even sure if it's possible to make this usable, the iOS stuff is glitchy and Android apps don't seem to work that well either.
I'm not really a developer but I play around with Tasker/xposed and stuff so when I realized there wasn't an actual shortcut for the android settings (I can only access the iOS version of the settings, which the factory reset doesn't seem to be working), I decided to download the trial version of Tasker and see what I could fiddle so I could find out how this was done. On my first try I couldn't find a thing and now Tasker keeps crashing, I can't keep it open long enough to enable logging.
The root seems to have been made using the kingroot app (evidenced by the KingUser, which was the only thing I could find). Removing root access doesn't seem to do a thing.
Sooo... I've ran out of options and decided to post it here as a far cry for help. I realize I have not given you much and more info is probably required, but I'm not sure how to acquire it. The "About phone" on the menu doesn't give me much, device name is Android, Carrier is unknown and Version is 8.1.2 (12A405). Model number is MG492CH/A.
Thanks for your help and I'm sorry I couldn't provide any more useful information.
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. A goggle search of your model number shows it as an iphone clone. It doesn't surprise me that it uses Android as iOS would be next to impossible obtain. But the bad news is there is no information on XDA about your device. The closest I could find was this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2778862 To return to stock you'd need the android factory image for your phone and a method to flash it. Both would be specific to the phone. The only other thing I can suggest is to ask in this forum, http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-blocks-gapps-uncertified-devices-custom-rom-whitelist
So apparently Google is blocking Google Apps from being used on uncertified devices, but we can white list devices with Custom ROMs, with the Android ID.
So far so good.
According to a comment in that post, a new Android ID is generated each time the device is factory reset. (flashing new ROMs etc)
Still good.
So, why the hell is there a 100 device limit per user when white listing a device?
Does it distinguish between the device itself, or is it a 100 ID limit? Does this mean we are limited to literally 100 factory resets across all our devices???
Someone clarify this to me please.
My rom is from 15. march. If I don't update, I have not to do register the phone, right? Normally all working fine. Maybe "never touch a running system" is a interesting thing now
I heard you can use Titanium Backup to restore Android ID under Menu/Manage Android ID.
I did a factory reset yet a certain app still recognizes me, so can't be the device ID it sees, I'm guessing (I'd also like to know if that number is changable in a .prop file somewhere, I didn't see it in build.prop). My other guess is the IMEI number that's saved in the phone, even though it has no sim card anymore, but I don't know how/where to change that. Any other IDs that apps can use to recognize a phone? I'm running Oreo 8.1.
Edit: My phone is Qualcomm based, not MTK, which there's a bunch of apps out there that can change the IEMI on MTK phones.
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I did a factory reset yet a certain app still recognizes me, so can't be the device ID it sees, I'm guessing (I'd also like to know if that number is changable in a .prop file somewhere, I didn't see it in build.prop). My other guess is the IMEI number that's saved in the phone, even though it has no sim card anymore, but I don't know how/where to change that. Any other IDs that apps can use to recognize a phone? I'm running Oreo 8.1.
Edit: My phone is Qualcomm based, not MTK, which there's a bunch of apps out there that can change the IEMI on MTK phones.
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It isn't legal to change IMEI , he isn't responsible for this , look into your Google account settings , maybe your app still recognize you because of that .
im not worried about the legal end of things, and ill double check my phone in a few minutes, but im pretty sure it doesn't use the same google play account that is associated with that phone. And I was reading about how you cna use Xposed to spoof your iemi temporarily, might look into that.
RaiZProduction said:
It isn't legal to change IMEI , he isn't responsible for this , look into your Google account settings , maybe your app still recognize you because of that .
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Depending on the country it is illegal to change your imei. In some countries you can be arrested just for omhaving the tools to do so.
Yeah, we don't discuss imei altering on xda.
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Hey guys,
so I lately had a bunch of issues with my Samsung and had to restore several backups etc after failed firmware updates.
Sometimes I lost a few apps, had to reinstall it, etc - it was a HUGE mess. I'm fairly certain at some point bumble downgraded me because I had so many reinstalls/reactivations/etc.
Here's the issue - I'm trying to create a new account and its easy to get around geo-location, IP and new phone-number and verification but I'm fairly certain they also track my device-ID or device-IDs if that changed with the backup/restores/reactivations.
I downloaded device-ID-changer and all the apps show up, ASIDE bumble... I'm wondering if I screwed up something like the registry (if android has something like this) with all the re-installs... the app opens, works, all good, but I can't sign up on this device because of the ID.
I'm on Pie so every app has a separate ID but Device ID changer cant find app.bumble.com.
I can sign up just fine from my tablet (on Nougat) - set geo-location/proxy/verification, easy - works every time, but as soon as I log in on phone I'm getting kicked off.
Where could the issue be? Why can't Device ID changer not find the app? Is there a way to find out if something went wrong with the install? I HIGHLY doubt they hardcoded all my device IPs in the installer (tried offline installs as well, so 0 change they send data down)
Could someone check if Device ID Changer 2019 can find com.bumble.app in the list on their phone?
thanks