How to get the core hound pup without having an cellphone or buying one

[DrWho1988]

I'll repost this again because it seems that people don't like to read through forums. This will solve all "Invalid Serial" problems

Ok here is how to get the serial number if a few digits are cut off like so:


Step 1: Navigate to the Directory that contains blizzard_mobile_auth_EU_BattleNetMobileAuthenticator.jar. In my case this is the Desktop

Step 2: In the directory should be a folder named: blizzard_mobile_auth_EU_BattleNetMobileAuthenticator-properties


Step 3: Inside of the blizzard_mobile_auth_EU_BattleNetMobileAuthenticator-properties is a file named default_rms_#Token#Record.db. Right click this file then chose "Open with..." and select Notepad or another Text viewer. I use Notepad++ which you can get here



Step 4: In the file contents there will be a lot of gibberish along with a few bits of text. One of the bits of text will look like this "EU-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX".


This is your serial number. When Battle.net asks for the 14 digit number it is this omitting the hyphens ("-").



Some more helpful info:
You can add and remove an authenticator a seemingly endless amount of times. The reason you'd wanna do this is to get the Corehound pup on multiple characters. Delete the blizzard_mobile_auth_EU_BattleNetMobileAuthenticator-properties folder to generate a new serial number and codes.
The Authenticator app generated a new serial number each time I did this (5 times in my case. I had 5 character's I wanted the pup on).
Like some people have said before the spell DOES disappear after removing the authenticator. But honestly once you have the pups on as many characters that you want just keep the authenticator on your account. It doesn't have to be the "original" authenticator for this to work, you just need an authenticator on the account.
Because the authenticator does in fact generate a new number each time, I would think that this is something Blizzard cannot detect.

I hope this helped everyone and enjoy

[Demonicmaster]

I made a trial account to test this out before using it on my friends paid for retail one...
I did as you said and was able to successfully add the authenticator to the trial account. However it's been well over 12 hours now and no pup in the mail.
So Question, Does this require at least a classic retail account to work ? My character is level 1 there, Do L1 toons not get mails ? or does this method no longer work ?

Thanks.

Trial accounts can not get mail nor can they use the AH.

[bedak]

It works!
Got my pet instantly!
+rep and thank you

[Ashyda]

download link is broken. Any other links for rep?

[xxxdiabloxxx]

Yeah, i would like anothe rlink ? its DEAD like a... yeah

[franknbeans]

I can confirm that the trick with attaching an authenticator, making sure you got the mail, then removing the authenticator and learn the pet works. I didn't use the emulated authenticator, just used my phone, thanks for the info though

[DrWho1988]

download link is broken. Any other links for rep?

Here is the Authenticator .jar file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/353710/WoW%2...henticator.jar
And here is the cell phone emulator: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/353710/WoW%20Stuff/MidpX131.exe

Virus Scans:
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[hackerlol]

Sorry for bumping this old thread but I thought I should post this.
Blizz seems to have fixed the workaround we used to remove the authenticator and keep the pet as the Core hound spell from my Companion tab is gone. However you can still use this to add an additional pet entry for those going after the multiple pet achievement as It does not go away .