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: -
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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 dialled even if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.**
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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!"*
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.
Please spread this useful information around
Re: THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO
112 has always been a standard alternative to 999.
Re: THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO
Useful stuff. Nokia's can be set to warn of GATSO's apparently. Trouble is, you have to go through the setting up polavav each time you turn it on, so a detector is a bit easier! Sorry, that was pretty useless info really!!
Re: THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO
I was amazed by the car lock one, but then it got me thinking! How do you lock your remote car keys in the car in the first place? ;)
Re: THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO
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Originally Posted by b_1_rd
I was amazed by the car lock one, but then it got me thinking! How do you lock your remote car keys in the car in the first place? ;)
By testing out the thread about how you unlock your car with your mobile phone in the first place ;D ;D
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Re: THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO
Quote:
Originally Posted by Harleychic
[quote author=b_1_rd link=1159905124/0#3 date=1159991047]I was amazed by the car lock one, but then it got me thinking! How do you lock your remote car keys in the car in the first place? ;)
By testing out the thread about how you unlock your car with your mobile phone in the first place ;D ;D[/quote]
No need to try this on HC's HD not worth alarming ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D
Re: THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO
Quote:
Originally Posted by gixerjonny
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 dialled 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).
Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!"*
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.
Please spread this useful information around
5.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.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ONFIRE
5.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.
Dumb Question but do other phones do this as well?
Also whats the code for the GATSO code?
Looks like I might need to get a NOKIA (Ive got a Siemens & a Motorola at the moment)
Do I need bluetooth as well?
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Amante, the Nokia battery thing does not work. If you do a quick Google search you will see that lots of people have tried it and all got the same results - nothing!