TIP - Stolen Fone?

[Dusti_man]

So you just bought a top of the range nokia from that guy in the market for 20 squids. A phone that usually costs 300 in the shops but is it nicked?

Type *#06# to bring up the fones serial. If it isn't the same as the one printed underneath your battery then theres something rotten in the state of denmark!

Or type *#92702689#, (which spells *#WAR0ANTY#) to bring up a hidden menu which includes when it was made, purchase date, life timer, the last repair date and the option to bulk dump the simcard through a data cable.

You'll need to turn the fone off and on again to put it into normal mode...or wait three minutes.

These codes are switches
*NUMBER# is on
#NUMBER# is off
and
*#NUMBER# Is a status report.

Theres others like ** and ## but they're used mainly for quick control of services like divert and number sending.

[screwedlilbunny]

good one dusti dude!

[strawburrytart]

so what do u do when u find out ur phone is stolen?

[Dusti_man]

Depends on your morals! :D

You could give it to the police so they can return it to it's owner.

Or you could remove all the stickers, take it to a market stall unlocker and get him to change the IMEI code. Makes it quite diificult to recognise.