Things You Never Knew Your Cellphone Could Do...

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THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO...

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies.
Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for
survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:


*I*
* The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112.* If you find
yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an
emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to
establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112
can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.**


*II*
* Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote
keys?*
This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone:
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call
someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person
at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on
their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your
keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away,
and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you
can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car
over a cell phone!"*


*III*
Subject: Hidden Battery power
Imagine your cell battery is very low , you are expecting an important call
and you don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve
battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with
this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This
reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
AND


*IV*
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on
your phone:
* # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your
handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. when your phone get
stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They
will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the
SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever
stole it can't use/sell it either.
If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile
phones.
Please spread this useful information around
 
I will definitely be trying out the car remote one :) even though i think it would be very hard to lock your keys in the car when you have a remote. wouldn't it?

I tried one i saw on top gear the other day which is IF you hold the remote up to your head it drastically increases the range! :) and it works!
The only thing with that is (with my car at least) once you have opened the car by the remote if you don't open a door within 30 seconds the car automatically locks again! so the extra range does not help because you don't get there in time lol
 
Sorry, remote unlocking is a myth _http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

4 is a good one to know, though
 
is number 2 really true?unlocking the car with the mobile?
 
nice tips m8 but i think the remote ones a bit of a non starter.
these thing transmit radio frequencies not sound. might come in handy if yer a shepherd and you leave yer whistle at home tho :)
 
II - FALSE

III - FALSE, *3370# activates enhanced full rate codec on Nokia phones, this improves sound quality but will drain the battery quicker. #3370# disables it and defaults back to half-rate. Restarting your phone anyway usually makes the battery appear more charged.
 
Ahhhhh you guy's take all the fun out of stuff don't you, you boffin spoiling type people..........

Poor Dutcho"hug" , but the line "Please spread this useful information around" is always a dead giveaway for dodgy info.
 
car unlocking does work, they tested it out live on brainiacs
 
well i think this thread should be closed now lol
I think 112 works on landlines aswell just incase you find a phone and the number nine is missing
 
just tried the car remote using 2 different cars and bugger all. bet it cost me a £1 as well lol . so we should all club together for a 0898 number and put ring this number and it will give you money out of a cash machine .IT REALLY WORKS bet some twonk would try it.
 
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