What I am trying to do is that the numbers to which my application sends messages to, are passed to the BraodcastReceiver...but so far either I am getting null or BroadcastR
You starting an Activity instead of broadcasting Intent.
Try to change
startActivity(intent);
to
sendBroadcast(intent);
UPDATE:
You set no action and no component name to the Intent.
Try create intent as following:
Intent intent = new Intent(context, YourReceiver.class);
intent.putExtra("phN", phoneNo);
sendBroadcast(intent);