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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by jrowley on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @02:57PM (#12849051)
oh this is sweet!

For anyone who is confused:

Star #3001#12345# Start

I love how it opens up a separate app. Good stuff

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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by lorenzhs on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @05:24PM (#12850158)
That first # is extraneous. It's

    *3001#12345#*
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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by joecool1029 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @06:10PM (#12850546)
Sorry, none of us could figure out how to escape the asterisks, how'd you do it? Feel like I'm trying to triforce here.
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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by e12e on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @06:34PM (#12850730)
GP used indenting (which wraps text in (the equivalent of a) <pre>-tag -- intended for code listings and such:

  I'm an asterix * and I'm ok
  [ed: ***proof-no-space*required**]
However, a single asterix * with spaces on both sides is also "escaped": I * blink * all day and sleep all night?

So: " * #999# * " should work.

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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by oarsinsync on Thursday November 03, 2016 @09:35AM (#12863786)
*asterisk
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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by lorenzhs on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:45AM (#12853493)
Yeah, formatting on HN is a bit of a dark art. This explains it: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by loeg on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @09:14PM (#12851558)
This one works, thanks.
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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by loeg on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:58PM (#12849547)
Doesn't seem to work on Verizon.
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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by bdamm on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @06:48PM (#12850823)
Worked on my version of Verizon. Wow is that ever cool.
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Re:Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer by loeg on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @09:14PM (#12851560)
The extra '#' made it not work, I think. Yeah, neat!
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