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That didn't work on my iphone on att. :(
by jrowley 10y ago
That didn't work on my iphone on att. :(
- joecool1029 10y agoIt'll work, I just have no idea how to escape special characters here, see my parent.
- Pyxl101 10y agoWorks on my phone. Reminds me of phreaking. What other secret codes are there like this? How did you come to learn about this one?
- shavingspiders 10y agoIt's called USSD, there's a short list on Wikipedia. A lot of them are carrier dependant, and some carrier models of certain handsets will block some codes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Service_Data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...
- jamestnz 10y agoNot the OP, but I remember these codes from my first phone, a Nokia 5110. In addition to the already mentioned code of [STAR]3001#12345# there is also [STAR]#06# which will show your IMEI. There were plenty of others (including spelling out 'WARRANTY' to get the manufacture date of the phone) but I forgot most of them. Interestingly, on the iPhone, dialling anything of the format [STAR]# ...anything... # will cause the screen to go grey as if a separate app, then after a short delay tell you that your code was invalid.
- jrowley 10y agooh this is sweet! For anyone who is confused: Star #3001#12345# Start I love how it opens up a separate app. Good stuff
- loeg 10y agoDoesn't seem to work on Verizon.
- lorenzhs 10y agoThat first # is extraneous. It's *3001#12345#*
- joecool1029 10y agoSorry, none of us could figure out how to escape the asterisks, how'd you do it? Feel like I'm trying to triforce here.
- e12e 10y agoGP used indenting (which wraps text in (the equivalent of a) <pre>-tag -- intended for code listings and such: I'm an asterix * and I'm ok [ed: ***proof-no-space*required**] However, a single asterix * with spaces on both sides is also "escaped": I * blink * all day and sleep all night? So: " * #999# * " should work.
- oarsinsync 10y ago*asterisk
- lorenzhs 10y agoYeah, formatting on HN is a bit of a dark art. This explains it: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc