Getting Windows Phone version and device name in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML

Question

In Windows Phone 8 Silverlight I use

 Environment.OSVersion.ToString()

to get Windows Phone version and

DeviceStatus.DeviceManufacturer+" "+DeviceStatus.DeviceName

to get device name.

These APIs no longer work with Windows Phone 8.1 XAML. I have found

Windows.Security.ExchangeActiveSyncProvisioning.EasClientDeviceInformation()

this seems to return the manufacturer and device name but OS is returned as just "Windows Phone".

Is there a way to get the exact Windows phone version?

Beachhead

From what I've read, getting the version does not seem to be possible. May I ask why do you need it? – Upsydaisy

The documentation msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/… and msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/windowsphone/develop/… says that it is supported in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML. – Bischoff

@Upsydaisy for an API call, they use it for some analytics – Beachhead

@Bischoff works with 8.1 Silverlight but not 8.1 XAML – Beachhead

Did you ask the people with the API about this? They might have some idea. Also, for now you could just pass 8.1. Yeah, that's not a real solution, but I don't know if such exists. – Upsydaisy

Answer 1

This is currently not possible In Windows Runtime 8.1 (Phone and Windows). It does look like it might be planned thanks to Morten Nielsen and Pete Brown

EDIT: This is now possible in Windows 10. See this SO answer as well as this article for more useful features.

Perretta

and what about https://mcmap.net/q/658296/-how-to-detect-windows-phone-8-1-os-version-programmatically ? shouldn't I use that? – Chronaxie

Firmware version is not OS version. There are many different version for a particular OS. While The main OS is 8.1, the actual version used depends on what updates MS or the carrier has pushed out. – Perretta

Answer 2

For 8.1, you can use this project on Github https://github.com/Microsoft/phone-info that includes an example application for retrieving both static and dynamic properties of a Windows Phone device.

For Windows 10, the APIs that were used to gather these data on (8 and 8.1) have changed. I have found one blog post https://www.suchan.cz/2015/08/uwp-quick-tip-getting-device-os-and-app-info/ for someone who has created a helper class that retrieves the following properties from a Windows 10 UWP app

current OS family - phone/desktop/...

current OS build number - 10.0.10240.16413

current OS architecture - x86/x64/ARM

current App Display Name

current App Version - 3.0.2.0

current Device manufacturer - Nokia

current Device model - Lumia 1520

In his post he shows how to get basic data about current device, operating system and application.

give it a try maybe it helps

Sworn

Thanks, but my question is about 8.1 so this is not a solution for me. – Beachhead

for 8.1 you can use the DeviceStatus Properties under the DeviceStatus class in the Microsoft.Phone.Info Namespace – Sworn

@IgorKulman I edited the answer to include 8.1 let me know if that does the job. – Sworn

Answer 3

In Windows Phone 8.1:

Windows.Security.ExchangeActiveSyncProvisioning.EasClientDeviceInformation().FriendlyName

It worked for me!

Melicent

That only returns the name of the device, not the OS version as asked for. – Addictive

You also have the following properties:Id, OperatingSystem, SystemSku, SystemProductName, SystemManufacturer, SystemHardwareVersion, SystemFirmwareVersion, SystemFirmwareVersion – Melicent

Oh. you're right it hasn't the versión numbre. Sorry – Melicent

None these say Windows 8.1 or the extended version number, nor the devicename – Matadi