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Having trouble with your Nokia Phone? Nokia service technicians use the following codes to test their Nokia phones. Now you’ll be able to do the same thing. Please note: these universal test codes are to be used at your own risk.

Here they are! Enjoy.

1. *3370# Activate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%
2. #3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) OR *3370# ( Favourite )
3. *#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time
4. *#4720# Deactivate Half Rate Codec
5. *#0000# Displays your phones software version, 1st Line : Software Version, 2nd Line : Software Release Date, 3rd Line : Compression Type. ( Favourite )
6. *#9999# Phones software version if *#0000# does not work
7. *#06# For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number). ( Favourite )
8. #pw+1234567890+1# Provider Lock Status. (use the “*” button to obtain the “p,w”and “+” symbols)
9. #pw+1234567890+2# Network Lock Status. (use the “*” button to obtain the “p,w”and “+” symbols)
10. #pw+1234567890+3# Country Lock Status. (use the “*” button to obtain the “p,w”and “+” symbols)
11. #pw+1234567890+4# SIM Card Lock Status. (use the “*” button to obtain the “p,w”and “+” symbols)
12. *#147# (vodafone) this lets you know who called you last
13. *#1471# Last call (Only vodofone)
14. *#21# Allows you to check the number that “All Calls” are diverted to
15. *#2640# Displays security code in use
16. *#30# Lets you see the private number
17. *#43# Allows you to check the “Call Waiting” status of your phone
18. *#61# Allows you to check the number that “On No Reply” calls are diverted to
19. *#62# Allows you to check the number that “Divert If Unreachable (no service)” calls are diverted to
20. *#67# Allows you to check the number that “On Busy Calls” are diverted to
21. *#67705646# Removes operator logo on 3310 & 3330
22. *#73# Reset phone timers and game scores
23. *#746025625# Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature “SIM Clock Stop Allowed”, it means you will get the best standby time possible
24. *#7760# Manufactures code
25. *#7780# Restore factory settings
26. *#8110# Software version for the nokia 8110
27. *#92702689# Displays - 1.Serial Number, 2.Date Made, 3.Purchase Date, 4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs), 5.Transfer User Data. To exit this mode you need to switch your phone off then on again. ( Favourite )
28. *#94870345123456789# Deactivate the PWM-Mem
29. **21*number# Turn on “All Calls” diverting to the phone number entered
30. **61*number# Turn on “No Reply” diverting to the phone number entered
31. **67*number# Turn on “On Busy” diverting to the phone number entered
32. 12345 This is the default security code
33. press and hold # Lets you switch between lines
34. *#92702689#*3370# Warranty details
35. #3370# Basically increases the quality of calling sound, but decreases battery length
36. *#0000# Deactivates the above

Shows your software version

1. *#746025625#This shows if your phone will allow sim clock stoppage
2. *4370#

Half Rate Codec activation (It will automatically restart)

1. #4370# Half Rate Codec deactivation. It will automatically restart

Restore Factory Settings

1. *#7780#

Manufacturer Info

1. *#3283# Date of Manufacturing

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Many of you have probably logged on to Mobile-review.com a week ago and realized the website was down. It went down after being hit by a Denial of Service (DoS) hacker attack. This is something that is not out of the ordinary for some popular websites. What surprised the entire mobile community is the continual bombardment of these attacks. For five continuous days the site was being attacked - this involves generating multiple queries to the targeted website. The machine that hosts the website gets so busy handling those queries, that it doesn’t provide any content back to regular users. This is no difficult to pull off if you are hitting a regular website but to bring down a high traffic website requires a well orchestra plan of action with the involvement of thousands of computers submitting queries to that exact website. Pulling off a hack like that requires hackers were organized and working together.

So what caused this high profile stunt to happen to this website? We don’t know the real reason yet however; suspicion is on the critique that was written on the new Apple’s iPhone. Other readers think that fanboys aren’t likely to go that extreme and then who could it be then?

Eldar Murtazin, the editor-in-chief of the Russian-based website, sent out an open letter in an attempt to raise the issue to the public. He has also offered a $10,000 USD reward for anyone able to provide evidence of the people involved. To read the entire letter from Eldar Murtazin click here.
To read more about the article that might have triggered the shut down click here.

However, we will risk by providing you a short summary of the article from Eldar Murtazin here:

Fashion and nothing else

What characterizes all fashion-savvy solutions? A good, recognized brand (the iPhone has it), quaint design (in stock), top-notch materials (got’em), relatively hefty price tag (obviously). Meanwhile, the maker can provide only the core functionality with no bells and whistles – fashion-conscious users put it very low on their lists, they rather need a thing grabbing everyone’s eyes and displaying their status. The success of the Nokia 8800 and all of its variations results from the above mentioned factors.

So, the iPhone is a real fashion phone? Exactly, it is the only class it belongs to.

This means the iPhone’s direct rival can by, say, the LG Prada. By the way, these two solutions are very resembling philosophy-wise and in the sense of some technologies used.

Finally, we have figured out what kind of phone it is, and come to realize that it is neither an enterprise solution nor a multimedia-heavy device. Apple has made a bold move by shutting itself away from the segment of premium MP3-players, which have already become its signature, and slipped into the lower price-bracket. Its top of the line solutions are replaced by the iPhone, which can be dragged along as a second or even third phone, allowing you to brag about your status and lots of cash. That’s why there are no price cuts for the phone, which would’ve made it too affordable (even more than it is today, which wasn’t on Apple’s to-do list).

The hype around the product lets it reach the main goal – make its owner the talk of the town for some time. This is what characterizes every fashion-savvy solution.

The path they have picked is quite good, especially for the US market, where it will be rivaled only by Nokia, which is relatively weak on this market. That is, there no competition with the fashion-savvy Nokia 8800 in its American iteration, while the Nokia N95’s sells well, but nothing outstanding about it. With an army of the iPod owners behind its back and player replacement dates on the near-horizon for many users, the company has made all the right moves and offered a product that made the market go crazy. However the figures they give us are a tad shady, since about 25 percent of all sales were generated by profiteers, who wanted to gain something from the fuss around the iPhone. Well, they failed. But that’s what we are going to focus on in the articles to come. –>

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HTC announced their new HTC Touch, an innovative touchscreen mobile phone with fingertip control. This handset features the new TouchFLO touchscreen technology which enables navigation on the screen using only your fingers; The phone can also distinguish stylus and finger use. You can see a demo of the new TouchFLO technology by visiting www.htctouch.com.

HTC Touch is a tri-band GPRS/EDGE enabled device with Wi-Fi support. As in all HTC phones, the Touch is working on Windows Mobile operating system and this time it is version 6 Professional. Part of the software pack contains Outlook Mobile, Office Mobile, Windows Live and Internet Explorer. These great features are put together in just 99.9 x 58 x 13.9 mm and 112 grams (about the size of LG Prada, but 2mm thicker and 27 grams heavier). The innovative touchscreen is 2.8″ wide in the diagonal and has 240 x 320 pixels resolution with 65K colors. All your data will be saved either on the 128 MB internal memory or on the 1GB microSD memory card included in the box. HTC Touch has 64 MB RAM. The phone is also equipped with a 2 megapixel camera and comes in two color variants: elegant soft black or alluring wasabi green.

HTC Touch is already available in the United Kingdom and will hit the market in Asia and the rest of Europe until the end of the month. As for South and North America, it will be launched there in the second half of 2007. Come in to Thegadgetlink.com/blog to see when it will become available to local vendors or network provider like Fido, Rogers, Cingular, T-Mobile, etc…

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