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Things You Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do

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 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: -

 

1 EMERGENCY

 

* 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.** 

 

2 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).

 

 

3 

Hidden Battery power

 

Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger. Nokia phones come 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 

 

4

 

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. 


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    origamimoonknight at 8:35pm on Apr. 22, 2008

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    draconian57 at 4:40pm on Apr. 15, 2008

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    Sounds pretty cool, when I get my cell-phone next year I will have to try those out. Reply...

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    Malcolm at 8:08pm on Mar. 22, 2008

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    Webchat at 12:16am on Feb. 28, 2008

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    Car door unlocking - nope - they are not audio but radio frequency operated - won't work.

    *3370# activates high quality voice coding and consumes 5% extra battery power! However *#4720# activates the half rate codec - the audio quality is diminished but you'll get 30% more talk time. Once recharged you can get back to normal quality with the same command again.

    Disabling stolen phone - correct - this works.
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      bacitracin at 12:24pm on Mar. 4, 2008

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    englslady at 8:54pm on Mar. 3, 2008

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    Is that really true about unlocking the car? The amount of times I have done that I am sure I will try it soon...lol. Reply...

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    KidGuru at 11:46pm on Mar. 2, 2008

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    lol even if there myths very nice post still i like nubmer 4 the most for me wehn my phone got tooken i just clled my phone and they picked up lol and i got it back anyways still thumbs up for me Reply...

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    KidGuru at 11:44pm on Mar. 2, 2008

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    lol even if there myths very nice post still i like nubmer 4 the most for me wehn my phone got tooken i just clled my phone and they picked up lol and i got it back anyways still thumbs up for me Reply...

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    billymcbilly at 11:54pm on Feb. 27, 2008

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    Is this the "stupid things people think are true about cell phones" article? Please tell me you don't actually believe this hehe Reply...

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    Bill Vincent at 8:04pm on Feb. 27, 2008

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    I really wish people would stop posting this all over the net. Most of it is myth, some of it is partially true, in certain instances, i.e. 112 only works in Europe and the #06# only works on SOME gsm phones, *if* your provider has enabled the feature. The hidden battery power is totally fabricated, complete bullcrap, as is the car unlock hack. Phones transmit digitized sound, car fobs use radio signals. Impossible.
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