With the (hopefully) eminent release of the cupcake update for the android os – this is supposed to be fixed with the addition of Settings.Secure; though I guess we won’t know until it gets released?
Anyway — basically you can modify system values in a specific database, so any program that calls Settings.System.Android_ID can be given any id of your choosing.
Just load up adb and navigate to the sqlite database: /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
Run the query;
1 | select * from system; |
You’ll see plenty of information which can then be changed. Running the following;
1 | update system set value=’dead00beef’ where name=’android_id’; |
Would give you an ultra-slick android_id of dead00beef 🙂
Note that this will NOT change the android id used by google products since they use one that is linked to your gmail account that the phone is associated with…