ICS and Development Device ID

[dautley]

I'm just curious, is everyone on a leaked ICS build showing a Development Device ID number under system settings/ developer options/
just under USB Debugging? I never noticed this before on my old Ally or on the Bionic using Gingerbread.

Anyone know how,why, and by whom this is used?

 

[Bowslayer]

I have it. No clue what it's for though. Sorry not much help.

 

[Somniferum]

I have it as well. Running 232.

 

[johnlgalt]

The device id is yet another manner that your apps can be linked to your phone. Most apps are linked to your account, but some, particularly those that you could not pay for via market, used device id so that you could not buy an app and then install it on several devices.

It used to be hidden only, and maybe after the final is out, it will be hidden again.

It's the same thing that TiBu complains about after you FXZ to stock then install a new leak.

 

[dautley]

I noticed TB complaining about that before, keep the old number a few times and the new one a few times, its didn't seem to make a difference.

 

[johnlgalt]

Same. I kept restoring the old one b/c I use one particular app, aCar, that I bought via PayPal and it used to register to the device. However, apparently somewhere along the way he initiated his own registration method so that it registers to an account name as well, without using deviceID.

I've since allowed the new deviceID to stay and I've had no problems with aCar either.

Also, aCar now has an unlocker in the App Store- but when I started using it it did not. Benefit of the donation version was that it was cheaper, but it was locked to a single device - the Play Store unlocker allows as many devices as you have linked to that Google account.