THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO

[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

[Carsick]

112 has always been a standard alternative to 999.

[mike]

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!!

[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?

[HC8]

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

[b_1_rd]

OH! Get it

[ONFIRE]

[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

[ONFIRE]

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.

[Amante_271]

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?

[Scott_W]

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!