Automatic retry of a busy number

[acarney]

Is it possible to call a number and automatically redial that number until it's free (or like 10 minutes or something)? I have a Sanyo Vi 2300 but I hope this is not phone specific.

[NINO63004]

not that i know of...none of my phones in the past or my a900 do that now...



Nino

[RavenTBK]

I cant think of any SPCS phone that has ever had that ability.

I do recall, back in my GSM days, my old Nokia 6188 had an automatic busy retry in it. Used it whenever I was trying to get into the radio station during a contest. A bit slow, but still faster than manually dialing. Other than that, no.

[viddywell]

I remember my first SPCS phone had the feature, the Sanyo 4900 Candy Bar ( http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/sanyo/scp-4900.html ) I miss the phone in s sad sorta way. Was a great phone til I fell and broke it.

[SmplyD]

There's a code you can prepend the number with... it's one of the *69 or *67-like codes, I don't remember what it is though. Anyone else?

[kehanra]

My Sony Ericsson did it when I was with Cingular, but I don't know of any recent Sprint phone that can. I'd love to know if there's a code though...

[viddywell]

You're thinking of the *66 code, I believe.

It was *66 to retry until not busy and then ring your phone when the line was available and *86 to cancel all redial requests. To my knowledge though, it's only a landline option nor are any of the *codes that usually work from a landline.

[RavenTBK]

Here's the * codes I've tried and use on a regular basis from my SPCS phone.

*67 works from SPCS phones, it will mark your number as PRIVATE on caller id.
*68 works from SPCS phones, it will unmark your number as PRIVATE and show proper ID info (if you have CID blocked at the account level, like I had for some time)

*70 works from SPCS phones, it will disallow call waiting, sending additional calls directly to voicemail while you're on a active call.

Thats about it. *66 fails, *69 is supposed to read off the last number that called you, but fails, as well as all the other * prefixed numbers, save *18, and *71.

[acarney]

It totally sucks that landlines can do it but cell's can't :(

What do *18 and *71 do? Is there a master list (official or not) of all these feature codes that are not phone specific?

[Kenney_Jason]

*82 is unblocking your number (CID) , not *68.

also, *18 is finding the closest tower to your present location...

not too sure what *71 does....

[acarney]

*82 is unblocking your number (CID) , not *68.

also, *18 is finding the closest tower to your present location...

not too sure what *71 does....


How does *18 work? And what is it useful for? Would your phone not go for the closest tower to your location when you place a call?

[Ricky]

How does *18 work? And what is it useful for? Would your phone not go for the closest tower to your location when you place a call?
DON'T DO IT. It will screw up your incoming calls when roaming.