How to Get Meid and Imei Information Using Adb Commands on Android 5.0

Is there an android shell or adb command that I could use to get a device's IMEI/MEID?

I figured out how to do this. You need to run adb shell dumpsys iphonesubinfo in a shell. It will give you a bit more than you need, but it will also return IMEI or MEID number.

Edit (2017): In Android 5.0+ you'll need to use the service call command. More info about that can be found here.

adb shell dumpsys iphonesubinfo not working since Android 5.0 Lollipop

You can always just use service call command to call the service methods.

here are the TRANSACTION CODES for the iphonesubinfo service in android-5.0.0_r1:

 1  getDeviceId
 2  getDeviceIdForSubscriber
 3  getImeiForSubscriber
 4  getDeviceSvn
 5  getSubscriberId
 6  getSubscriberIdForSubscriber
 7  getGroupIdLevel1
 8  getGroupIdLevel1ForSubscriber
 9  getIccSerialNumber
10  getIccSerialNumberForSubscriber
11  getLine1Number
12  getLine1NumberForSubscriber
13  getLine1AlphaTag
14  getLine1AlphaTagForSubscriber
15  getMsisdn
16  getMsisdnForSubscriber
17  getVoiceMailNumber
18  getVoiceMailNumberForSubscriber
19  getCompleteVoiceMailNumber
20  getCompleteVoiceMailNumberForSubscriber
21  getVoiceMailAlphaTag
22  getVoiceMailAlphaTagForSubscriber
23  getIsimImpi
24  getIsimDomain
25  getIsimImpu
26  getIsimIst
27  getIsimPcscf
28  getIsimChallengeResponse
29  getIccSimChallengeResponse

Most methods require root. But fortunately getDeviceId (the one you need to get device's IMEI/MEID) does not.

For proper parsing of the service call command output on the device side and without external dependencies see my answer here

Also read Calling Android services from ADB shell for more details.

Android -- get MEID from JNI

I believe Dalvik implements all the same JNI interfaces that the JVM does, so while it's a bit fiddly, it's perfectly possible to make calls from native code through JNI to arbitrary Java classes and methods.

/* assuming you already have */
JNIEnv *env;
jobject context;
/* then call (with error-checking) */
jclass cls = (*env)->FindClass(env, "android/context/Context");
jmethodId mid = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, context_cls, "getSystemService",
    "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Object;");
jfieldID fid = (*env)->GetStaticFieldID(env, cls, "TELEPHONY_SERVICE",
    "Ljava/lang/String;");
jstring str = (*env)->GetStaticObjectField(env, cls, fid);
jobject telephony = (*env)->CallObjectMethod(env, context, mid, str);
cls = (*env)->FindClass(env, "android/telephony/TelephonyManager");
mid =(*env)->GetMethodID(env, cls, "getDeviceId", "()Ljava/lang/String;");
str = (*env)->CallObjectMethod(env, telephony, mid);
jsize len = (*env)->GetStringUTFLength(env, str);
char* deviceId = calloc(len + 1, 1);
(*env)->GetStringUTFRegion(env, str, 0, len, deviceId);
(*env)->DeleteLocalRef(env, str);
/* to get a string in deviceId */

Get IMEI via ADB only for old Huawei models

You could display it on screen:

adb am start -a android.intent.action.CALL -d tel:*%2306%23

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