Query credit balance with *101# / Guthaben mit *101# abfragen

[horald]

Hi guys,

I am new here. Therefore I do not know exactly whether I am right here. I recently bought a Linux cell phone from Pine64 with a Manjaro operating system. I still "nibble" at some settings on the phone. But what bothers me most at the moment is that I can't check my credit balance. On Android this is normally done with *101# but on the phone Manjaro doesn't let me type * and #. If I create a contact with the shortcut, then this is not called. Does anyone know any advice? Here is the version info from the phone:

distrib_id=Manjaro-ARM
distrib_release=20.10
distrib_codename=
distrib_description="Manjaro ARM Linux"

Since my English is unfortunately not that good, I have also formulated the request below in German.

Many greetings
Horst

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Guthaben mit *101# abfragen

Hallo Leute,

ich bin neu hier. Deshalb weiß ich leider auch nicht genau, ob ich hier richtig bin. Ich habe mir vor Kurzem ein Linux-Handy von Pine64 mit einem Manjaro-Betriebssystem gekauft. Ich "knabbere" noch an einigen Einstellung auf dem Handy. Was mich aber zur Zeit am meisten stört, ist, das ich mein Guthaben nicht abfragen kann. Unter Android geht dies normalerweise mit *101# Aber beim Telefon läßt Manjaro mich kein * und # eintippen. Wenn ich einen Kontakt mit dem Kürzel anlege, dann wird dies nicht angerufen. Weiß jemand einen Rat? Hier die Versions-Info vom Handy:

distrib_id=Manjaro-ARM
distrib_release=20.10
distrib_codename=
distrib_description="Manjaro ARM Linux"

Viele Grüße
Horst

[wibble]

I've never looked into how those codes work. Does it make a 'call' with them and you get a text message back or something? If that's how it works you could test it using mmcli - see its man page for details. Also see if there's an issue already reported either to the Manjaro bug tracker or upstream at https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/Apps_Issues/-/issues - I assume Manjaro is using Phosh and its Calls app.

[MonCon]

I just tried and had the same behaviour on my Manjaro OS, and when I tried to be clever and created the string in 'text editor' and copy-pasted it into the dial pad entry box it crashed the dialer app.
I can input *101# into UBPorts OS though, not that that helps if you prefer Manjaro.
Sorry, that doesn't really help.