Samsung Galaxy Fame general test mode

General test mode is one of the secret hidden menu inside samsung galaxy fame which allows you to test almost every part of the phone, like sensors test, lcd color test, vibration test, speaker test, etc.

General test mode is very useful to identify which part of your phone that's not working, you should do general test mode just before you buy the phone or when you first have the phone.

To activate general test mode on galaxy fame, all you have to do is open the dialing menu and then dial *#0*# , if enter correctly you will see this menu :

Here's the explaination :

1. the "Red" button will take you to test red color on your lcd screen, make sure you see red color
2. the "Green" button will take you to test green color on your lcd screen, make sure you see green color
3. the "Blue" button will take you to test blue color on your lcd screen, make sure you see blue color
4. if you press the "Receiver" button you will hear echo sound or beeping sound, if you hear nothing then you got a problem.
5. if you press the "Vibration" button your phone will start vibrating otherwise there's something wrong with the vibration motor on your phone.
6. the "Dimming" button will take you to the lcd dimming test, tab on the screen and you will see your the colors become dimmer.
7. the "Mega cam" will take you to rear camera test where you can capture a photo to see whether the rear camera works or not.
8. the "Sensor" button will take you to sensor test menu, consist of acclerometer, proximity, and magnetic (compass). To test the acclerometer move the phone from potrait position to landscape position and vice versa. To test the proximity sensor move your finger to the two circle near front facing camera, that's the proximity sensor, the phone will vibrate and the screen color become green otherwise you have broken proximity sensor. To test the magnetic sensor move the phone around you will see the value change or just press the "selftest" button.
9. the "Touch" button will take you to touch screen test menu, make sure you can touch screen works on every area of the screen.
10. the "Sleep" button will take your phone to sleep/standby mode, press the power button to wake up.
11. if you press the "Speaker" button you should hear beeping sound otherwise you got broken speaker
12. the "Sub key" button will take you to physical button test, all you have to do is press any button such as home button, setting button, back button, volume rocker up, volume rocker down, or power button and you should see the screen will change color otherwise you got a broken button.
13. the "Front cam" button is the same as "Mega cam" but this time you test the front facing camera
14. the "LOW FREQUENCY" button will take you to lcdtest screen where you can test 100 hz, 200 hz, or 300 hz frequency and you shall hear an echo sound.