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#1 ·
no idea if this is true but...


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. 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
 
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#4 ·
#1 Any mobile will allow the use of 112, 911 or 999 to go through any network and even with the sim removed. Also the keylock that allows you to dial 999 or other emergency numbers is the bain of a motorcyclists life as inside your leathers pocket your mobile dails the police even on keylock and you can be sure that the police can hear you and by sound of the engine revs do you for speeding

#2 Would only work on very old car alarms/central locking and nothing to do with the signal from the keys but the mobile signal overwhelming the car reciever circuits, these days it's needs a rolling encoded number for the alarm which needs to be on the same frequency (430mhz) which is no where near the 800/900/1800/2100 mobile frequencies.

3# A load of cr@p, if you turn off any electrical device, leave it off for 5 minutes then turn it back on you get a slight refresh from the battery. Never done it on a flat bike battery, turn off leave for a few minutes then the batter that stopped turning over the starter will spin it for about half a second.

4# The phone companies have been able to do this for years but never seemed to want to. Now via police and Ofcom pressure they've started doing this as standard. Ever heard of a cloned phone, well all they're doing is taking this number and programming it into another phones firmware. The IMIE number is also normally on a sticker within the battery compartment as well as being on the outside of the box that the mobile came with.

Kymmy
 
#6 ·
112 is effectively now a EUROPE wide emergency number (not world wide I don't think). Certainly if your subscribed network is not available 112 (or999 in the uk or 18, 17 & 15 in france) will work using any available network. If there is NO network coverage a mobile phone will not work (unless of course you've got a setellite phone...)
 
#7 ·
Agree with most of the above, but I believe you can call emergency services even if you can't get a signal from your provider BUT there is a signal from another provider. This can happen out of town where one provider has a better coverage than another.
 
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