Samsung Galaxy Apollo Mobile Phone
 

Does anyone know how to get a basic 'keypad' to appear on this phone? I needed to enter *#06# to get the IMEI but there is no keypad! This problem is now solved with an app but it would be good to know for the future.

How do you dial phone numbers on it if there's no keypad ?

Me, too.
On Android whatever, I could find the IMEI by going thru the menus to find it. Then, prompted by a message from BOAC, I updated to Android whatever plus summat. (2.2 firmware).
Now, I can't find the IMEI and have downloaded the same app as BOAC.
Keyboard comes up for the obvious needs, such as texting.
Otherwise, one has to go to Phone, and Keypad.
That might be the answer, as to enter *, etc on my old phone, I had to have the phone keypad working.
In fact, thinking about it , that must be the answer. Press phone, press keypad, leave keypad highlighted, (rather than, say, call log) and come out. The next time you press phone, it will go direct to keypad.

AO - I reckon I've tried every version of that and all that happens is it tries to dial *#06# and no-one answers......................

Mix - the clue is in the words 'basic keypad':)

Erm, yeah..... but if you can get a keypad on your screen that has the numbers 0 through 9 on it to enable you to dial a number, then on a telephone that keyboard tends to have * and # on it too.

That's what I don't understand about your predicament.

Standard Android long press on the menu button

Not standard on this one BF - that takes me to a Google search page and then whinges about no internet connection. As AO says, Samsung appear to have removed the option with the latest firmware 'upgrade'. There is zilch in the 'handbook' or on line.

Mix - it is not a phone number I wish to use. The phone keypad appears with the phone app, as the text keypad appears with a text function. Make sense? What is missing is an accessible keypad like wot Motorola, Nokia etc have.

BOAC,

Not to worry... :)

AO - a brilliant move in fact. I tried your suggestion - into phone/keypad and then out of phone. Back into phone and *#06# into the keypad and up comes the IMEI. Totally arse-about-face (as they say in public schools:rolleyes:) but it works.

try settings, About Phone then Status. Lists mine anyway. Plus *#06# works as well on my Galaxy.

terrain - don't upgrade the firmware! That listing disappears (see AO's post above). I think it is 2.2 that has nadgered it.

Terrain,
BOAC is right. I used to be able to get IMEI as you describe, but the upgrade to firmware 2.2 loses that capability.

Bush - on this "Galaxy Apollo" a long press on the menu button brings up something called "task manager", which just tells me what I last used the phone for. Maybe it does more......

As BOAC and I were the ones with the problem, and are now happy, maybe we should let this thread die.

It's a bloody good phone, does all that Apple expensive-phone does for about 1/4 of the price. PLUS - you can change batteries yourself, and add memory yourself, rather than pay Apple shareholders hundreds of pounds for an extra Gb or two.

It's there on 2.3.4 so try and get that if you can.

For some reason, Samsung are slow on firmware upgrades for Apollo. Maybe cos it is a "budget" phone, unlike the "full" galaxy. I'm not sure I'll be alive when they release 2.3.4 on the Apollo.
As 2.2 doesn't seem much better than whatever I had before, is there anything on 2.3.4 that is more interesting?
thanks
AO

Rather worryingly, after TS's post, I plugged in on W7 to find a 'firmware update' waiting. It nadgered my home screen! AND it still seems to be 2.2:confused: