{"id":1501,"date":"2011-11-24T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2011-11-28T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:39:50","slug":"xperia-play-service-menu-life-timer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Xperia Play Service Menu &#038; Life Timer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P0021_112411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1503\" title=\"Xperia Play Service Menu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P0021_112411-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P0021_112411-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P0021_112411-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P0021_112411.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After spending a few weeks playing with Android on a HTC HD2 Windows Mobile phone, I decided it was about time to upgrade to a full fledged Android phone.<\/p>\n<p>The HD2 running Android would actually meet all of my needs except for the fact that this particular HD2 was originally from T-Mobile US and is not compatible with Rogers 3G.\u00a0 That means that I am limited to EDGE\/GPRS data speeds, which is nearly unusable nowadays (it was great 8 years ago).<\/p>\n<p>After checking out the selection of Android phones Rogers is currently offering, I decided to try out the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.\u00a0 So far I really like it.\u00a0 I have until Dec 5th to decide if I want to keep it; assuming I have used less than 30 minutes (<a title=\"Rogers Wireless Store Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rogers.com\/web\/content\/support-terms\/store-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Rogers Wireless Buyer&#8217;s Remorse &#8211; see under return policy<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Today I decided to check my call timer.\u00a0 Unlike other phones I have used in the past, the call timer is not easily found.\u00a0 In fact you need to access a hidden service menu to find it.\u00a0 It took me a while to find this info, so I figured it would be worthwhile to post instructions (see below).\u00a0 Enjoy.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h3>Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (and possibly other SE Android phones)<\/h3>\n<h3>From the call screen, dial *#*#7378423#*#*\u00a0 to access the service menu<\/h3>\n<h3>Select &#8220;Service tests&#8221; (other options are Service info &amp; Service settings)<\/h3>\n<h3>Scroll down to &#8220;Total call time&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>Hit home or back a few times to exit.<\/h3>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I suggest you don&#8217;t make any changes unless you really know what you are doing.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending a few weeks playing with Android on a HTC HD2 Windows Mobile phone, I decided it was about time to upgrade to a full fledged Android phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[129,132,130,131],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-rogers-wireless","tag-service-menu","tag-sony-ericsson","tag-xperia-play"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}