You mean you actually want to enter the letters into the display? Not have a dialer showing the letters on the keys?
I doubt that exists. Back in the days we didn’t enter letters either, we merely pushed the corresponding number. The letters were just for easier memorization.
What appliance or service are you trying to use? Maybe easier to start from the back and reverse engineer it.
(and no inputing the number corresponding to the letters like on an old phone didn’t work either)
Just to be sure, are you trying to enter the numbers like T9 texting by hitting 222 to type a C, so you’d be entering “* # * # 222 44 33 222 55 444 66 # * # *”
Or are you entering like you’re dialing JG Wentworth at 877-CASHNOW, where the C would just be a single 2? So what you’d want to enter is “* # * # 2 4 3 2 5 4 6 # * # *”
And have you tried the other method?
A bit more context about what/why you’re trying to do may also help us to help you figure it out.
I don’t think any common phone system is set up to accept actual text input, so I doubt you’re supposed to be sending the actual characters “CHECKIN”
I just entered “##2432546##” into my phone’s stock dialer, and I got a pop-up saying that check in was successful, so I suspect that’s what you’re , but I’m not entirely sure what that means.
Also when I copy/pasted “##CHECKIN##” into my dialer it automatically converted the letters into 2432546
From a little googling, it looks like its a way of forcing your phone to check for updates, but most of the sites I could find referencing it were a decade or so old, so there’s a chance that may not be used as much anymore, or it’s possibly something that varies from one manufacturer, carrier, whether your phone is locked to a carrier or unlocked, software version, etc. to another.
I tried both options although i haven’t tried the second one in simple dialer (like someone suggested), will try next.
Im trying to get microG to work as some apps need google services to function (protonmail for example needs it to send notifications) and for microG to work you need signature spoofing i chose to go the fakegapps by thermatk route as it seemed the easiest. In the instructions it says to run *#*#CHECKIN#*#* after the other steps are done
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Simper dialer seems to meet your requirements.
Note that I read that the Simple Tools suite got acquired by a shady corporation, so you might want to look for an alternative.
Fossify phone is a forked version of Simple dialer in active development and without all the shitty ads and telemetry SMT apps now have
The same people also forked other SMT apps, check them out if you didn’t know them
You mean you actually want to enter the letters into the display? Not have a dialer showing the letters on the keys?
I doubt that exists. Back in the days we didn’t enter letters either, we merely pushed the corresponding number. The letters were just for easier memorization.
What appliance or service are you trying to use? Maybe easier to start from the back and reverse engineer it.
Just to be sure, are you trying to enter the numbers like T9 texting by hitting 222 to type a C, so you’d be entering “* # * # 222 44 33 222 55 444 66 # * # *”
Or are you entering like you’re dialing JG Wentworth at 877-CASHNOW, where the C would just be a single 2? So what you’d want to enter is “* # * # 2 4 3 2 5 4 6 # * # *”
And have you tried the other method?
A bit more context about what/why you’re trying to do may also help us to help you figure it out.
I don’t think any common phone system is set up to accept actual text input, so I doubt you’re supposed to be sending the actual characters “CHECKIN”
I just entered “##2432546##” into my phone’s stock dialer, and I got a pop-up saying that check in was successful, so I suspect that’s what you’re , but I’m not entirely sure what that means.
Also when I copy/pasted “##CHECKIN##” into my dialer it automatically converted the letters into 2432546
From a little googling, it looks like its a way of forcing your phone to check for updates, but most of the sites I could find referencing it were a decade or so old, so there’s a chance that may not be used as much anymore, or it’s possibly something that varies from one manufacturer, carrier, whether your phone is locked to a carrier or unlocked, software version, etc. to another.
I tried both options although i haven’t tried the second one in simple dialer (like someone suggested), will try next.
Im trying to get microG to work as some apps need google services to function (protonmail for example needs it to send notifications) and for microG to work you need signature spoofing i chose to go the fakegapps by thermatk route as it seemed the easiest. In the instructions it says to run
*#*#CHECKIN#*#*after the other steps are doneLOL you can’t type letters into a dialer…