Get IMEI number with ADB command

Question

I am working with ADB on my Samsung Galaxy device. I want to get the IMEI number of the device using ADB, but I have been unable to do that.

I tried the following:

adb shell dumpsys iphonesubinfo

but it returns nothing.

I also tried with Service Call Command:

adb shell service call iphonesubinfo

but it gives me a strange result like this:

Result: Parcel(                                                        
0x00000000: 00000000 0000000f 00350033 00390038 '........3.5.8.9.'    
0x00000010: 00320037 00380030 00350034 00350031 '7.2.0.8.4.5.1.5.'   
0x00000020: 00300031 00000033                   '1.0.3...        ')

Can anybody help me out with this?

You could try calling an intent like below:
am start -a android.intent.action.DIAL -d "tel:*%2306%23" — esQmo_, Apr 04 '18 at 22:31
@esQmo_ But that will just open Dialer wirh IMEI getting code. I don't user to manually do anything. — yash, Apr 05 '18 at 08:07

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 11 '18 at 07:28

Given the tag 7.0-nougat, I'm assuming you have or are targeting Android Nougat. Android Nougat comes with toybox which acts as an alternative to busybox and has some useful utilities. I managed to use those tools to print IMEI like this:

adb shell
service call iphonesubinfo 1 | toybox cut -d "'" -f2 | toybox grep -Eo '[0-9]' | toybox xargs | toybox sed 's/\ //g'

Since you wouldn't be getting an interactive shell when using a script or an app, you can pass the commands like this:

adb shell "service call iphonesubinfo 1 | toybox cut -d \"'\" -f2 | toybox grep -Eo '[0-9]' | toybox xargs | toybox sed 's/\ //g'"

Devlpr · Answer 2 · 2020-12-06T17:55:34.217

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The following ADB command works on my Windows PC to get clear IMEI result:

adb shell "service call iphonesubinfo 4 | cut -c 52-66 | tr -d '.[:space:]'"

edited Dec 06 '20 at 17:55

answered Jul 20 '20 at 23:06

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thanks for sharing the best code. I get IMEI result by this code, but it's only show 1st IMEI. If I want to get result 2nd IMEI what should we put the code ? thanks for Answers. – You Chhunheng Dec 03 '20 at 17:50
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I changed the code from iphonesubinfo 1 to iphonesubinfo 4, which is the correct service code to get the full IMEI. So try: adb shell "service call iphonesubinfo 4 | cut -c 52-66 | tr -d '.[:space:]'", and see if you get also IMEI 2. – Devlpr Dec 06 '20 at 17:58

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '18 at 16:22

Try putting this code in to a .bat file and running it:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=6*" %%a in ('adb shell "service call iphonesubinfo 1 ^| grep -m 1 \"'\""') do (
set imei1=%%a)
for /f "tokens=6*" %%b in ('adb shell "service call iphonesubinfo 1 ^| grep -m 2 \"'\""') do (
set imei2=%%b)
for /f "tokens=4*" %%c in ('adb shell "service call iphonesubinfo 1 ^| grep -m 3 \"'\""') do (
set imei3=%%c) 
set imei=!imei1!!imei2!!imei3!
echo !imei! > imei.txt
for /f "delims=" %%d in (imei.txt) do (
set DeviceIMEI=%%d
set DeviceIMEI=!DeviceIMEI:'=!
set DeviceIMEI=!DeviceIMEI:.=!
set OIMEI=Phone IMEI  !DeviceIMEI!
)
echo %OIMEI%
pause

I got it from this StackOverflow thread: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34362809/8173870

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 12 '22 at 08:21

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adb shell dumpsys iphonesubinfo works only for phones below Android 5 Lolipop.

Because Android Nougat is over 5.0, you need: adb shell service call iphonesubinfo 1 | awk -F "'" '{print $2}' | sed '1 d' | tr -d '.' | awk '{print}' ORS=

edited Nov 12 '22 at 08:21

Andrew T.

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answered Apr 04 '18 at 22:13

Stackcraft_noob

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i am using Windows as OS so it gives me Error awk not found. What would be Equivalent of awk in windows Command Prompt? – yash Apr 05 '18 at 08:01
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There is no equivalent to awk on Windows. But you can simply install all the *nix tools also on Windows. A very simple way to do that is scoop. Or you have to create a windows tool that parses the command-line result without those tools. – Robert Apr 10 '18 at 09:41

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 19 '20 at 09:24

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Using android-svc:

android-svc --adb call 'iphonesubinfo.getDeviceId();'

would return something like this:

358972084515103

answered Oct 19 '20 at 09:24

Forivin

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 16 '22 at 05:49

You may not have realized it, but you've actually posted the answer to your own question:

  Result: Parcel(                                                        
0x00000000: 00000000 0000000f 00350033 00390038 '........3.5.8.9.'    
0x00000010: 00320037 00380030 00350034 00350031 '7.2.0.8.4.5.1.5.'   
0x00000020: 00300031 00000033                   '1.0.3...        ')

Specifically, the portion to the right:

'........3.5.8.9.'
'7.2.0.8.4.5.1.5.'         
'1.0.3...        '

Simply put it all on one line and remove the single quotes and it becomes:

........3.5.8.9.7.2.0.8.4.5.1.5.1.0.3...

Now remove the dots and you get:

358972084515103

(aka your IMEI number)

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 12 '22 at 06:52

esim imei is available via:

input keyevent KEYCODE_CALL;
sleep 1;
input text '*#06#'; 
uiautomator dump --compressed /dev/stdout\
    |tr ' ' '\n'\
    |awk -F'"' '{print $2}'|grep "^[0-9]\{15\}$" \
    |nl -w 1 -s':'\
    |sed 's/^/IMEI/g'

IMEI1:xxxxxxxxxxxxx
IMEI2:xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Get IMEI number with ADB command

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esim imei is available via: