Display Own Phone Number In Your Android Phone Status.

Android users can check their own mobile phone number in the phone status. Many android versions messaging features need  "My Phone Number" on the SIM card to link your picture to your contact in the contact list. But in India many mobile service operator doesn't include the phone number data with their SIM card. That's why when you check your phone status you can see that in "My Phone Number", there is no phone number or Unknown is displayed.


In this post I will try to solve this problem. I will tell you the procedure to write your own phone number on your SIM card and Hence displaying it in your Android Phone Status. Here in this tutorial I will use the Samsung Galaxy Y Young but the process will be similar for other phone models and other Android versions.

Writing Your Own Phone Number On SIM Card.

First you have to add your phone number information into your SIM card. The process in different from adding contacts to your SIM card. Follow these simple steps described below:

• First, Go to  Contacts and Press the Left Sub Key for more options.

• Now, click on More in the options and the click on Settings.
• Now, You can see Own Number option in Settings.

• Open Own Number setting By clicking on it.
• Enter Your Name and Phone Number in it and click on save button.

Now you have completed writing your own phone number for Your SIM card in your phone.

 

Display "My Phone Number" in my Phone Status.

For displaying your own phone number in your phone status first you will need to write it in your SIM card settings as described above.
If you have already completed above steps you can check your phone Status by going to Menu>>Settings>>About Phone>>Status.
Here you will see "My Phone Number" is not displayed yet.
For displaying it in status you will need to restart your phone and then check your phone status again.

Now, your own phone number will be displayed in the status.

Note:- In some other brand dual SIM phone like Spice and Micromax you can do this by going to your SIM Management Settings and adding  your phone number for that particular SIM.

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