Telephony manager in Application class - android

When I try to use telephony manager to retrieve the phone number from an Activity class, I am able to do it successfully. But I will be using the phone number in multiple places of the app, therefore I shifted the phone number to be a static field in my application class.
public class FourApplication extends Application {
static String phonenumber ;
#Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
ParseObject.registerSubclass(Post.class);
// Add your initialization code here
Parse.initialize(this, "**********", "*********");
ParseACL defaultACL = new ParseACL();
// If you would like all objects to be private by default, remove this
// line.
defaultACL.setPublicReadAccess(true);
ParseACL.setDefaultACL(defaultACL, true);
phonenumber = getPhoneNumber();
}
public String getPhoneNumber()
{
TelephonyManager tMgr =(TelephonyManager)this.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String mPhoneNumber = tMgr.getLine1Number(); ;
Log.i("mPhoneNumber : ", mPhoneNumber);
return mPhoneNumber;
}
}
What is the mistake I am making here? I read through a few Context related questions and threads, Not able to figure out what's going wrong in my code as I am noob here.
Edit : My question is, When I move the telephony manager part to the application class, it doesn't return a phone number. Why is that?

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Please use the following piece of code.You got your problem
TelephonyManager tMgr =(TelephonyManager)getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
You are not passing the correct context of Activity for TelephonyManager, So that its return null.

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