how to withold number on mobile phone

pondie1

how do you withhold your number on t mobile phones?

doctor40

don't know about t-mobile in particular, it varies more with what model of phone you have. You'd need to go into your phone settings somewhere and set it to "withold my number" or something similar. I find just putting 141 in front of the number you want to dial works .:D

sunshinesquirrel

hi

i think you should be able to go into the settings menu on your phone and go to call settings. there should be an option to show/hide number or something like 'own number sending' option and you will be able to select the option to withhold your number from there.

Rikki

I have always had mine withheld by my network o2. Some phone allow you to alter your own settings my last two have.

Settings ~ Calls ~ show or hide number.

stiffnuts

#31#then number.then press dial this works for any mobile network

ariba10

Why would you want to withhold your number?

Personally I do not answer withheld numbers, land line or mobiles.

456789

and before someone asks - no you can't withhold it for texting

pondie1

ariba10 wrote: »

Why would you want to withhold your number?

Personally I do not answer withheld numbers, land line or mobiles.

my husband does a lot of charity work (home visits etc)and he ends up with some of the people phoning him back after doing visits

brightonman123

i have a sony ericsson- go to settings, calls- show/hide number?

or try the 141 as for normal landlines..?

pondie1

brightonman123 wrote: »

i have a sony ericsson- go to settings, calls- show/hide number?

or try the 141 as for normal landlines..?

cant find that option in sony ericcson w580,no calls option in settings,will tell him to try the 141

Leopard

stiffnuts wrote: »

#31#then number.then press dial this works for any mobile network

It does not work for CPW O2.

If you try it, a message will come back saying "UNKNOWN APPLICATION".

Not even CPW O2's Technical Support are able to set the network default to withhold your CLI. They concede that on O2 proper it's possible (and, indeed I have it) but they say it can't be done on CPW O2. :rolleyes:


If you configure the 'phone itself to withhold your number, you can't override that on individual calls by entering the prefix 1470 before dialling the desired number (as you can if you have had your network set it by default). So, the only way then to get through to a number that rejects incoming calls that do not identify themselves is to go back into the configuration of the 'phone and change the setting back: which is a pain.

The only practical way to withhold your CLI on CPW O2 is thus to prefix the number you're calling with 141.

Which is also a pain if you swap SIMs between 'phones because you have to store both versions of some numbers in your Contacts list on all your 'phones.