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Recently I got a Google Android mobile phone "Samsung Galaxy I7500". While I'm loving playing with it, I also found some interesting secret codes which can enable/disable lots of hidden settings in the mobile phone. These codes can also show many useful information about the phone.

So in this topic, you'll get several hidden secret codes which can be used in any Google Android mobile phone to access things which are not accessible by default.

FYI These codes have been obtained by decoding various .apk files present in the phone firmware.

DISCLAIMER: This information is intended for experienced users. It is not intended for basic users, hackers, or mobile thieves. Please do not try any of following methods if you are not familiar with mobile phones. We'll not be responsible for the use or misuse of this information, including loss of data or hardware damage. So use it at your own risk.

*#*#4636#*#*

This code can be used to get some interesting information about your phone and battery. It shows following 4 menus on screen:

• Phone information
• Battery information
• Battery history
• Usage statistics

*#*#7780#*#*

This code can be used for a factory data reset. It'll remove following things:

• Google account settings stored in your phone
• System and application data and settings
• Downloaded applications

It'll NOT remove:

• Current system software and bundled applications
• SD card files e.g. photos, music files, etc.

PS: Once you give this code, you get a prompt screen asking you to click on "Reset phone" button. So you get a chance to cancel your operation.

*2767*3855#

Think before you give this code. This code is used for factory format. It'll remove all files and settings including the internal memory storage. It'll also reinstall the phone firmware.

PS: Once you give this code, there is no way to cancel the operation unless you remove the battery from the phone. So think twice before giving this code.

*#*#34971539#*#*

This code is used to get information about phone camera. It shows following 4 menus:

• Update camera firmware in image (Don't try this option)
• Update camera firmware in SD card.
• Get camera firmware version
• Get firmware update count

WARNING: Never use the first option otherwise your phone camera will stop working and you'll need to take your phone to service center to reinstall camera firmware.

*#*#7594#*#*

This one is my favorite one. This code can be used to change the "End Call / Power" button action in your phone. Be default, if you long press the button, it shows a screen asking you to select any option from Silent mode, Airplane mode and Power off.

You can change this action using this code. You can enable direct power off on this button so you don't need to waste your time in selecting the option.

*#*#273283*255*663282*#*#*

This code opens a File copy screen where you can backup your media files e.g. Images, Sound, Video and Voice memo.

*#*#197328640#*#*

This code can be used to enter into Service mode. You can run various tests and change settings in the service mode.

WLAN, GPS and Bluetooth Test Codes:

*#*#232339#*#* OR *#*#526#*#* OR *#*#528#*#* - WLAN test (Use "Menu" button to start various tests)

*#*#232338#*#* - Shows WiFi MAC address

*#*#1472365#*#* - GPS test

*#*#1575#*#* - Another GPS test

*#*#232331#*#* - Bluetooth test

*#*#232337#*# - Shows Bluetooth device address

*#*#8255#*#*

This code can be used to launch GTalk Service Monitor.

Codes to get Firmware version information:

*#*#4986*2650468#*#* - PDA, Phone, H/W, RFCallDate

*#*#1234#*#* - PDA and Phone

*#*#1111#*#* - FTA SW Version

*#*#2222#*#* - FTA HW Version

*#*#44336#*#* - PDA, Phone, CSC, Build Time, Changelist number

Codes to launch various Factory Tests:

*#*#0283#*#* - Packet Loopback

*#*#0*#*#* - LCD test

*#*#0673#*#* OR *#*#0289#*#* - Melody test

*#*#0842#*#* - Device test (Vibration test and BackLight test)

*#*#2663#*#* - Touch screen version

*#*#2664#*#* - Touch screen test

*#*#0588#*#* - Proximity sensor test

*#*#3264#*#* - RAM version

NOTE: All above codes have been checked on Google Android phone Samsung Galaxy I7500 only but they should also work in other Google Android phones.

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Apple iPhone 4, iOS' Hidden Secret. (Dr Mobiles Limited, www.drmobiles.co.nz)

11-April-2011 (Dr Mobiles Limited)--Though iPhone OS 4’s real potency will come when developers seize the new tools and build multitasking apps that do crazy, crazy things, many of the OS’s inherent secrets are coming to light. Updated: More secrets.

You might have spotted some of these screens in our thorough hands-on videos, but most of nuggets below are new discoveries. If you are playing with the iPhone OS 4 beta and notice some cool features we didn’t spot, send a screenshot our way (to Rosa or Wilson), making sure to black out any embarrassing personal data, and we’ll verify it and add it to this compilation.

Cellular Data On/Off

You now have the option to toggle cellular data off.

SMS Character Count

Guilty of running long on short messages? Now you can turn on a character count for SMS.

SMS Search

Just as you can search your inbox, you can now search SMS messages.

Home Screen Backgrounds

You can set separate backgrounds for your lock screen and home screen.

 

Camera Zoom

By tapping the screen or sliding the little bar, you can zoom in and out when taking a picture.

Web and Wikipedia Search

Can’t find what you need on the phone? Jump to the Web or Wikipedia straight from the global search screen.

Borderless Document View

When screens are small to begin with, every millimeter counts. Document previews in the Mail app now eliminate pesky iPhone borders, giving you the most space you can get. (Still not much, but a marginal improvement.)

Streamlined "New Contact" Screen

You can now enter more contact data without leaving the main screen. When you consider that every green plus signifies an annoying jump to another screen, you can easily see how much better it is now.

 

Events, Faces and Places in the Photo Menu

If you are an iPhoto user, you can now sync pics to the iPhone (and iPad) via Events, Faces and Places, meaning less reliance on the artificial act of creating new albums.

Lyrics/Podcast Data Toggle

UPDATED: Though viewing lyrics you pasted into iTunes (or podcast data) on your iPod Touch or iPhone can be fun, apparently some people wanted to be able to turn it on or off globally. Now there’s a toggle. Happy?

Spellcheck!

Now, wherever you’re typing, those little red underlines aren’t far behind. Just remember that Apple’s blind-eye-towards-profanity policy will certainly apply here, as it does with auto-correct.

Resize Photos While Sending

This very cool time-saver pops up when you’re emailing a photo, just after you hit "Send." Depending on how big the file is, you can have two to four size options, including "Actual Size."

New Playlists

On-the-Go Playlists seem to be officially dead in iPhone OS 4, replaced by a more sensible "Add Playlist…" The benefit here is that you know it’s something that will be synced back to iTunes, and you get to name it up front.

Art in Album View

When you browse albums, and find one you like, you get more than just a list of tracks and a shuffle command. You get a little thumbnail of the album itself, and the length, track count and release date.

App-Specific Location Services

By heading to Settings > Location Services, you’ll be able to toggle which apps you’re allowing to find your location and see which ones used the privilege recently based on the little compass arrow icon next to them.

Game Center

There’s not much that can be done in the Game Center right now, but one day it’ll allow you to play against your friends, compete for high scores, and earn achievements.

Email Threading

You can set your email messages to thread.

Long Alpha-Numeric Passcodes

No longer are you limited to guarding your precious data with four numbers! Now you can set longer, alphanumeric passcodes.

Unified Inbox

You can view all your emails in one spot or segregate them to separate inboxes.

App Folders (with Alerts)

A lot as been said about app folders, but did you know that if any alerts hit any apps inside a folder, the folder gets an exclamation point?

Contact Pictures in Emails

If you receive an email from a person who has a picture in your contacts, you’ll now see a tiny image of him or her in the corner.

 

Folders in the Dock

It’s not surprising, but it’s good to know that you can in fact stick folders into the dock.

Closing Apps

Curiously enough, it’s possible to actually close apps from the app tray. All you do is hold down an icon—just as if you’re trying to delete it—and wait for the minus sign to pop up.

A Shiny New Calculator Icon

It’s not a crazy feature, but the calculator icon does look a bit different now—same old calculator app though.

Birthday Calendar

There’s a birthday calendar—which you can toggle off—which compiles all the birthdays from your contacts.

Smart Links For Dates and Addresses in Emails

Addresses and dates in emails now turn into links which can be used to look up the locations or add the dates as events. This is similar to what you see in the Gmail web client.

Double-Tap and Hold Brings Up Phone Favorites

Not our favorite hidden secret, the beloved Phone Favorites shortcut has been demoted. Instead of the double tap—which now brings up the task manager—you have to double-tap and hold. Single-tap holding of course triggers Voice Control. Apparently double-tapping the home button when music is playing will still bring up the iPod controls when the screen is locked.

Bluetooth Keyboard Pairing

You can now pair your Apple bluetooth keyboard with your iPhone.

Failed SMS Notification

In the past, you wouldn’t be aware if an SMS failed to send until you actually checked in the message screen. Now you get a lovely little exclamation mark to notify you that something went wrong.

Note Syncing

Hello! There’s now a toggle allowing you to turn on sync for notes.

In-Page Video Playback in Mobile Safari

Instead of bumping you to a QuickTime mini app every time you stumble upon compatible video, the new iPhone Safari browser does what the iPad does, and shows you the video right there on the page. If you want to go full screen, you give it a tap. It’s your choice now.

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2011 Tech Review: Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play (Dr Mobiles Limited, Google Android Repair Services)

Mobile gaming is at an all-time high thanks to big-screen touch smartphones. But it was when the Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY was announced that gamers hearts went aflutter. The PlayStation phone has been rumored ever since Sony joined Ericsson and now it’s finally as real as it gets - and it’s in our hands at last.

   
Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY official photos

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY is half phone, half portable game console – Android all the way.

What sets the PLAY apart from other phones on the market are the dedicated game controls – they are pretty much the same controls you’ll find on a PSP Go or a PlayStation DualShock controller. And there’s the 4” touchscreen of course.

How can it get better than that? A catalog of PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games for one (though we’ll have to wait a while for the PS2 games). When the Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY launches, there should be about 50 optimized games in its Playstation Pocket game store. Not a bad startup catalog.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY at a glance:

• General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/2100 MHz, HSDPA and HSUPA support
• Form factor: Touchscreen side-slider with dedicated gaming controls
• Dimensions: 119 x 62 x 16 mm, 175 g
• Display: 4.0" 16M-color TFT capacitive touchscreen, FWVGA (854 x 480 pixels), multi-touch input
• Chipset: Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon platform; 1 GHz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU
• OS: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• Memory: 400MB storage, 512MB RAM, microSD card slot, 8GB card included in the retail box
• Camera: 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash, face detection and touch focus; WVGA video recording at 30fps
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi b/g/n with DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack
• Misc: Sony Ericsson Timescape UI, active noise cancelation with dedicated mic, built-in accelerometer, proximity sensor, digital compass, secondary video-call camera

The PlayStation Pocket game store will be filled with content from Sony Computer Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Namco and others and will be your go-to place for getting new games. The PLAY comes with six games pre-installed to get you started.

Gaming is central to the XPERIA PLAY but it doesn’t eclipse the Android smartphone. A 4” WVGA (480x854) touchscreen, a 1GHz CPU and Android 2.3 Gingerbread allow the PLAY to handle day-to-day smartphone tasks with ease.

    
Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY live shots

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2011 Smartphone Review: Samsung Galaxy S II vs LG Optimus 2X (Dr Mobiles Ltd, 09 551-5344)

Ah, the power of dual-core processors – it lets you do cool stuff like buttery-smooth multitasking, exciting 3D portable gaming or Full HD videos. The latest Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II packs the new Exynos chipset, which pairs a couple of Cortex-A9 cores with a Mali-400MP GPU. Sounds like a potent mix – at least on paper, so we’re eager to pit it against one of the first phones to offer Nvidia’s Tegra 2 platform - the LG Optimus 2X.

     
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II official photos

What we have in our hands is a pre-release test unit of the Galaxy S II, successor to one of the best selling Android phones. Ours runs its two CPU cores at 1GHz but Samsung announced that the speed will be bumped up to 1.2GHz.

Once that’s done, the I9100 Galaxy S II would be the most powerful droid – until the competition catches up, which won’t take long judging by our rumor mill. Anyway, we’re going to use the chance to put Samsung’s Exynos chipset head to head with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2. We’ll be using the LG Optimus 2X for the benchmarks, which runs at the same clock speed as our Galaxy S II – 1GHz.

We’re already working on our Galaxy S II preview but until that’s done, we just couldn’t resist testing some of the most interesting new features of Samsung’s latest flagship. Here’s what this comparison will be about.

First off, this is our first encounter with the Super AMOLED Plus technology, which improves on an already excellent screen. We’ll run the new display through several tests to determine how it stacks up against the old one and other leading displays on the market.

Next, we’ll get to the camera department – the Galaxy S II comes with an 8MP still shooter that can capture 1080p FullHD videos. That’s our second encounter with such a beast and we’ll be pitting it against the LG Optimus 2X camera, that’s for sure. A surprising guest star in the camera test is the Sony Ericsson Arc, which we recently reviewed as well.

After that comes the test of what makes the Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II tick – the new dual-core Exynos chipset. Just keep in mind the Galaxy S II retail version will have 20% more clock speed for each of the two CPU cores.

Finally, we’ll wrap things up with a real-life performance test – how does the Galaxy S II stack up in real world tasks (we’ll be testing the user interface, web browser and games) against a phone with a Tegra 2 chipset (which is quite popular among new smartphones and even tablets).

    
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II in our office

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