Getiing Location Information (IMEI,MCC,MNC,LAC,CELLID) without GPS

We can get network related information like CELLID , Mobile Network Code ,Mobile Country Code , Location Area Code from mobile device and these network information will help you to find location of mobile user.I got eperience of these network information on different platform.Hope this information will help for LBS app developer.

http://users.zipworld.com.au/~rmills/MCCandMNCValues.htm

Network Data information
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_country_code
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Network_Code

For Blackberry:
I tested this code on 8800,8320,8100,8300 got all correct network information.

GPRSCellInfo cellinfo;
cellinfo = GPRSInfo.getCellInfo();
mcc=GPRSInfo.getHomeMCC();
mnc=GPRSInfo.getHomeMNC();
lac=cellinfo.getLAC();
cellid=cellinfo.getCellId();

For Motorola :
Tested on v3xx,v3x .for testing this code your application must be signed.

cellID=System.getProperty("CellID")
lac = System.getProperty("LocAreaCode")
imsi = System.getProperty("IMSI")
mcc = imsi.substring(0,3);
mnc = imsi.substring(3,6);

For Windows Mobile :

Tested on motorola MC35 (windows mobile 5,.net 2.0)
HTC s710(windows mobile 6.0,.net 2.0)

DLL needed : ril.dll,cellcore.dll

RILCELLTOWERINFO rilCellTowerInfo = new RILCELLTOWERINFO();
Marshal.PtrToStructure(lpData, rilCellTowerInfo);
uint UiValue = rilCellTowerInfo.dwCellID;
cellid = String.Format("{0:X2}", UiValue);
mcc = rilCellTowerInfo.dwMobileCountryCode;
mnc = rilCellTowerInfo.dwMobileNetworkCode;
UiValue = rilCellTowerInfo.dwLocationAreaCode;
lac = String.Format("{0:X2}", UiValue);
IMEI will get using tapi class

For Sony-Ericsson :

All sony-ericsson 7.3 platform above will support this.

IMEI=System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.imei")
MCC=System.getProperty(s1 = "com.sonyericsson.net.cmcc")
MNC=System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.net.cmnc")
LAC=System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.net.lac")
CELLID=System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.net.cellid")

On Nokia .....(From reference) :

IMEI:
>>> import com.symbian.epoc.etel
>>> a = com.symbian.epoc.etel.Etel
>>> b= a.getPhone()
>>> print b.getPhoneId().serialNumber

IMSI:
>>> import com.symbian.javax.telephony.mobile
>>> m = com.symbian.javax.telephony.mobile.EpocGsmMobileTerminal(tad,p)
>>> mads = m.getAddresses()
>>> m = mads[0]
>>> print m.getSubscriptionId


This is not "pure" java, but Jython which acesses Javaphone library, but you should get the point.

And, once you read the IMEI and IMSI... and hence you detect your SIM has been changed by the THIEF who STOLE your phone, you can start a call which can't be stopped by the phone user!
 import com.symbian.javax.telephony.mobile
 p = com.symbian.javax.telephony.mobile.EpocGsmMobileProvider
 ts = p.getTerminals()
 t = ts[0]
 tads = t.getAddresses()
tad = tads[0]
 mc = p.createCall()
call = mc.connect(t,tad,"number") 

Getting IMEI  from all major platforms:

1. Nokia
• System.getProperty("phone.imei");
• System.getProperty("com.nokia.imei");
• System.getProperty("com.nokia.mid.imei");  ....For S40 fp1 onwards but binary need to be signed
  
2. Sony Ericsson
• System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.imei");
3. Samsung
• System.getProperty("com.samsung.imei");
4. Motorola
• System.getProperty("IMEI");
• System.getProperty("com.motorola.IMEI");
5. Siemens
• System.getProperty("com.siemens.IMEI");
6.  LG
• System.getProperty("com.lge.imei");