Dialing a phone number with a hash (GSM Code)

[Benny Schmid]

Hi all

I just tried to dial a phone number with a hash sign (#) in it. This does not seem to work and instead of dialing a hash sign my phone is trying to dial this as „%23“. Is this a bug or can it be changed? Thanks in advance for your help.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

The Dialer app should decode that into an #, it does so on my device. The flow log just displays it encoded, i'll fix that.

What # actually does or even work in the Dialer app, or mobile network, i don't know.

Android doesn't support sending DTMF tones, if that's what you expect the # to do, but i've heard some able to do it by including a comma in the phone number, e.g.: 123,#,4

[Benny Schmid]

Hi Henrik

Thanks for your answer. i made a script with „call number“ on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone. The Number i would like to dial is *#06# and what I see in the log file from automate is that my phone tried to dial *%2306%23

- Flow beginning

- Location at ?

- Call number

- Called *%2306%23

- Stpooed at end

Could this maybe be a result of the german language I am using on my phone?

[Benny Schmid]

I tried with the comma but it didn‘t help.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

As said, "Called *%2306%23" is just what's logged, the Dialer app should still receive *#06#

System language does not affect URI encoding.

[Benny Schmid]

Dear Henrik

Everything works well now. The only thing with dialing numbers: sometimes I get the following error:

java.lang.SecurityException: User call rate limit exceeded, see Settings.

The flow stopps by failure.

Restarting the flow a few times solves the error until it appears again. Is there a possibility to catch this error without having to restart the flow?

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

You can increase and/or reset the safety limit in setting.

[Benny Schmid]

Many thanks, all works well now.

My first flow is fully functional.

Great App!