Secret Phone Codes You Didn't Know Existed! By ThioJoe

We all love our smartphones because of how useful they are, but there are some things you probably never knew about them, despite using them every day, and today we're gonna talk about some secret dialer codes. You can access by typing them right. In the same way, you would any other phone number- and these may be referred to in other places as MMI codes or USED codes or possibly interrogation codes. They have a lot of different names, but in any case, no matter what kind of phone you have we're going to talk about some codes for you now quickly. Before, we jump in I want to give a big thanks for the sponsor of this video, audible, I'm sure. Most of you know that audible has an unmatched number of audiobooks.

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That is probably not very useful to you, but still really cool to see, and one cool thing you can check out is by going to the LTE, then serving cell measure menu and looking for the thing called RS or p0, which is actually the actual signal strength, measured in decibels that your phone is receiving, which will be between probably negative 40 and negative 130, where negative 40 is the best possible. So this is the actual signal strength, not just the number of bars, pretty cool. Ok, another neat one is star pound zero, six pounds, and this will immediately just show you your IMEI for your phone, which is simply a unique identifier that every phone has, and you can actually find this in the settings. But this makes you way cooler when you do it this way. Another code, similar to the last one, is star: pound, zero, seven pounds and then hit call which brings up a menu full of legal and regulatory information and, again I think this menu is accessible from the settings, but still it's cool to do it this way.

Ok, next up this one is actually pretty interesting, which is star pound five: zero, zero, five star, seven, six, seven two pounds: this will show you the phone number that is associated with your cell carrier and is actually the number that all of your text messages are sent to before being forwarded to the person you actually sent it to, so it's utterly useless, but still cool and kind of, like a behind-the-scenes look at how cellular networks operate. Finally, we have a few codes for getting info from your cell carrier and this one will show you the actual amount of data you've used and have left, not just what your phone tells you. The code will either be star three to eight two pound or pound three to eight two, depending on what cell carrier you have when you use this one, you should receive a text a few seconds later, with the info telling you about it. Another one is to see your bill balance or to see how much you owe again. This one is slightly different, depending on who you have or as your cell carrier, but it will be either our 255 pound or pound two to five or pound two to five pounds.

So you can maybe save these numbers as favorites and then that'll be a way to always get a quick update on your cell usage. If you want to keep track of that type of thing, okay, so that was iOS and now on to Android OS codes, and these operate pretty much the same ways before you type them right into the dialer, and these should work on any phone model, regardless of the manufacturer and fun fact, in the source code for this OS. These are actually referred to literally as secret codes, which is pretty neat. So this video isn't just clickbait after all. First up is one for a testing menu kind of like the field test menu.

We talked about before to get to it: type in star pound, star, pound, four, six, three, six pound star- and here you can see a bunch of detailed info about your phone, including signal strength, bandwidth, the type of network you're using all sorts of fun stuff and there are other menus with usage statistics and Wi-Fi information. Again something you can just look through that you might find pretty interesting next up. This one is a bit interesting, which is the code star, pound, star, pound four to six pound star pass star, and this brings up an app store. Debug menu I really have no idea what this is used for, but hey most people don't even know this existed. So now you do so look how cool you are now all right.

The next couple we have seen before- and these will also work on this OS as well. So we have the star pound zero six pound code, which, on my phone at least not only brings up the IMEI, but also a bunch of other phone identifiers and even bar codes for each one. Pretty neat might not be a bad idea to screenshot that and save it. If you think, you'll ever need that info in the future. For whatever reason then there's the star pound zero, seven pounds, which also brings up some regulatory labels and legal info and I think this is all just to kind of prove the phone past, certain certifications and testing to be legally sold or something like that and hey.

Would you look at that? It's even valid in India, alright up next is pretty interesting, and I haven't seen this one mentioned many other places. I actually found this digging through the source code myself, because if you didn't know, this OS is actually open-source, and it lets you access a secret visual voicemail menu. So the code is star pound, star pound, eight, eight, six, two six, six, three four pound star pound starts kind of a long one bear with me now on my phone. There are actually two options in this menu. One is sync which I'm not really sure what it does exactly and another one VM config override I believe that stands for visual voicemail and I wouldn't recommend messing with any of these settings, but it still might be cool to kind of just look at, and we have some stuff mentioning technical aspects of voicemail.

You probably didn't even know about, and I know, I didn't okay. Finally, this is another secret code that I found myself buried in the source code and I think this is another one that very few people know existed until now, of course, and I do believe, you need to be at least on Android, OS version, eight or nine to use this, though I don't think it's in earlier versions, but anyway, it's a weird Easter egg feature called pet mode now, to activate it type in star pound, star, pound, seven to nine pounds, star pound star and at the bottom you'll see the dialer icon change to a picture of a cat and a dog. What this does, which is kind of funny, are now every time you receive a phone call, there will be this animation of a cat or ROG paw on the screen kind of indicating to answer your phone, I, guess, and I think there are a few variations that might show up so different cat, paw images or whatever, and obviously this is something that some developer threw in. There is a joke, but I like it, and you might even want to keep it on who knows to disable it again. You can type in the same code and this time it will display pet mode off.

So those are all the secret codes that I know of or at least the ones that I know should work on any phone model. If you have a few favorites be sure to, let us know down the comments, or maybe you know some then I didn't mention that we can talk about down there as well. So if you want to keep watching, I've got some other videos. I think you'll be interested right on here. So if you can check those out and until next time guys be seeing you.

Source : ThioJoe