Where can I find the ANDROID_ID on my device?

Question

I know that you can find IMEI and MAC address and others by going to Settings -> About phone -> Status. You can also find IMEI by typing *#06# on the keypad. Is there any way to get the ANDROID_ID on the phone itself, as opposed to via this bit of code?

Secure.getString(getApplicationContext().getContentResolver(), Secure.ANDROID_ID);

Answer 1

You can do this via adb. Does not require root, as far as I know (tested on a Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.1 built from AOSP source):

shell@android:/ $ content query --uri content://settings/secure --projection value --where "name='android_id'"              
  Row: 0 value=<your ID in hexadecimal>

Answer 2

settings get secure android_id from adb shell is the simplest, I find — no extraneous output and does not require root. (From a regular terminal on the device, root is required.)

shell@mydevice:/ $ settings get secure android_id
0123456789abcdef
shell@mydevice:/ $ 

Answer 3

As eldarerathis variant didn't work out for me, and I didn't want to install an app just for that, I've found a different way. Only possible drawback: It requires root.

adb shell
$ su
# cd /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases
# sqlite3 settings.db
sql> select * from secure where name='android_id';
26|android_id|1234567890abcdef1

The android_id is found in the third column here (anonymized in the example).

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EDIT:

Note that this is NOT the android_id used by the Google apps. Google seems to have decided for some confusion here. For Play Services, there's a separate android_id stored by GTalk, as pointed out by a blog post (also see this answer by HassleFixes, who is the autor of StripSearch, and thankfully pointed this out in the comments):

• call up your dialer
• dial *#*#8255#*#*
• watch out for "Device ID"
• remove the leading android-
• what remains, is the android_id used by Google Services

I've verified that: the android_id retrieved this way works fine on a device with no Google-Apps installed (used with the BlankStore provided by the NOGAPPS project).

Answer 4

The above answer has $ content query --uri content://settings/secure --projection value --where "name='android_id'" in it

If you're executing this from shell then you'll need to escape the quotes around android_id else they get interpreted and the SQL statement doesn't have them, resulting in an unknown column.

My full command from bash looks line...
$ adb shell content query --uri content://settings/secure --projection value --where "name=\'android_id\'"

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