Android – Call/Dial from the adb shell command line

Check if the “phone” service is up and running

C:\android\DialPhone>adb shell
# service check phone
service check phone
Service phone: found

Dial a specific contact in the contact list

# service call phone 1 s16 "davanum"
service call phone 1 s16 "davanum"
Result: Parcel(NULL)

Dial a specific phone #

# service call phone 2 s16 "+15084157509"
service call phone 2 s16 "+15084157509"
Result: Parcel(NULL)

Home work – try these and leave me a comment on what it affects in the emulator

# service call phone 8 i32 0
service call phone 8 i32 0
Result: Parcel(NULL)
# service call phone 8 i32 1
service call phone 8 i32 1
Result: Parcel(NULL)

Other options

# service
service
Usage: service [-h|-?]
       service check SERVICE
       service call SERVICE CODE [i32 INT | s16 STR] ...
Options:
   i32: Write the integer INT into the send parcel.
   s16: Write the UTF-16 string STR into the send parcel.