Wonder why do I get this error?

String srvcName = Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE;
TelephonyManager telephonyManager = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService(srvcName);
String deviceId = telephonyManager.getDeviceId();

From where are you calling that method?

I was trying to do this:
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import android.content.Context;
import android.telephony.TelephonyManager;

public class GeIMEIID {
public GetIMEIID(int iMEIID) {
String srvcName = Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE;
TelephonyManager telephonyManager = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService(srvcName);
String deviceId = telephonyManager.getDeviceId();
}
}

getSystemService() is a method specified in android.content.Context. You can call it only on some concrete extension of Context. In your example, you're calling it on this (an instance of GeIMEIID), which is not a concrete extension of Context.

You can call it on, for example, an Activity because Activity is a concrete subclass of Context.

anybody in the long beach,ca area that can help me out?