Mobile Phone

[bazcom]

4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE 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:

FIRST Emergency

The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the 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.

SECOND Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does your car have remote keyless entry? 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 mobile 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 mobile phone!"

THIRD Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.

FOURTH 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(I needed a magnifying glass!) 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.

This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends

[Banks]

im almost tempted to test the keyless entry over the phone, but that means i have to involve someone else which could be extremely embarrassing if it doesnt work... lol

[Dirbatua]

none of this stuff is valid anymore cept the 112 number, only place it used to work is on very old nokia phones and the keyless entry thing has never worked.

[66Sikness]

The serial number one does, just tested it on my phone (Nokia N76)

Battery one doesn't

[Bax]

112 is still the number to dial.

And serial number would only work on Nokias.

[nicko]

i just tried to unlock my car then but it didnt work,

the serial number thing works

battery thing doesnt work

and the 112 thing, well who didnt know that

[s_ikari2015]

The serial number is actually called the IMEI number. The trick of pressing buttons to get it displayed is simply so you don't have to take the battery out of the mobile phone to find the IMEI.

Keyless entry is bollocks. Mythbusters busted it, as well as the tennis ball theory.

Sadly not all phones have "reserve" power anymore. The 112 is very good to know, however.

[cr212]

yeh you can also dial 911 and 000 instead of the 112.

another trick if ur being mugged at a atm you put ur pin in backwards and it still dispenses the cash but alerts the police and doesnt debit ur account. i havent actually tested this theroy tho.

[Banks]

Originally Posted by cr212

yeh you can also dial 911 and 000 instead of the 112.

another trick if ur being mugged at a atm you put ur pin in backwards and it still dispenses the cash but alerts the police and doesnt debit ur account. i havent actually tested this theroy tho.

behave!! banks giving away free money....? pffffftt, when that day comes let me know lol

whats stopping me from doing that everytime?

[Bax]

Yeah I don't believe that one, cops are lazy enough as it is haha.

I might try it tomorrow though.

[scrabet]

hmm i might try that atm one lol nah, i dont think it would work cos what botu the passwords that are like (2002) you would forever be getting the cops to come lol

[kowan]

Originally Posted by cr212

another trick if ur being mugged at a atm you put ur pin in backwards and it still dispenses the cash but alerts the police and doesnt debit ur account. i havent actually tested this theroy tho.

OHHH give the poor police a break!!!

Please do not do this as the police have enough on their plates with all the donuts they have to eat per day.

[Bilbs]

Samsung A711 Dont have keyless entry to test it, Imei DOES work, and should work on every brand/type of phone, 112 is the international emergancy for mobile no, but in aus you can also use 000, in US you could use 911, just that 112 saves you from having to know all of the emergency numbers

[LeojVS]

i will try the bakwards pin # tomorrow night....