Saint Garrett Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 FOUR 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 all Mobile Phones is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and your mobile will search any existing network in your areato establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked. This works on all phones worldwide and is free. It is the equivalent of 000. 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 thousands 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: I didn’t believe this when I heard about it! I rang my daughter in Sydney from Perth when we went on holiday. She had the spare car key. We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!' THIRD Hidden Battery Power To activate, press the keys *3370# (remember the asterisk). Do this when the phone is almost dead. Your mobile will restart in a special way with this new reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery life. This reserve will get re charged when you charge your mobile next time. This secret is in the fine print in most phone manuals. Most people however skip this information without realising. 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 # Ensure you put an asterisk BEFORE the #06# sequence. A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. Ifyour phone ever 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 done this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. This secret is also in the fine print of most mobile phone manuals. It was created for the very purpose of trying to prevent phones from being stolen. Also -ATM PIN Number Reversal - Good to Know !! If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse. For example, if your pin number is 1234, then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location. All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Sorry to be the one but someone would have. CLAIM: The worldwide emergency number for cell phones is 112. Not quite. 112 is the Europe-wide emergency phone number. Throughout most of the European Union and some neighboring countries, dialing 112 will connect callers to local emergency services. The system doesn't include North and South America, Asia, or Africa. According to some sources, many, but not all, cell phone models are pre-programmed to redirect calls made to any of the most common emergency numbers (e.g., 911, 999, 000, 112) to the proper local services regardless of the caller's location. And many, but not all, cell phone models and service providers will allow the most common emergency numbers to be dialed even if the caller is outside his or her regular service area, or the phone lacks a SIM card. However, no mobile phones can put through calls, emergency or otherwise, from locations where no cell service exists at all. Within the U.S., dialing 911 remains the most direct and reliable way of contacting emergency services regardless of what kind of phone you use. Don't dial 112, unless you want to play Russian Roulette with your life. CLAIM: Unlock a car door with your cell phone and a spare remote key. False. As discussed previously in these pages, cell phones and remote keyless entry systems work on entirely different radio frequencies. Therefore, cell phones are incapable of re-transmitting the signal from a remote key to unlock a car door. CLAIM: Press *3370# to access 'reserve battery power.' False. On some Nokia phones, users can punch in special codes and toggle between speech codec modes to 1) enhance voice transmission quality at the cost of diminished battery performance, or 2) enhance battery performance by decreasing voice quality. Apparently, some users have misconstrued the latter as "tapping into reserve battery power." On that score the email is doubly erroneous because *3370# is the code for enhancing voice quality — so using it actually decreases battery life! CLAIM: Press *#06# to disable a stolen cell phone. Not exactly. On some cell phone models, but not all, pressing *#06# will cause the phone's 15-digit International Mobile Equipment Identity to be displayed. Some service providers, but not all, can use that information to deactivate the handset. In any case, it isn't necessary to supply an IMEI number to cancel your cellular account in the event of theft; simply call your provider, give them the appropriate account information, and tell them the phone was stolen. Oh yes and reversing the PIN doesn't work either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StDunko Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Yeah I'm pretty sure the ATM pin number thing does not work. What if your pin was pallendromic, you'd have the cops showing up every time you got a tenner out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stain Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Yeah I'm pretty sure the ATM pin number thing does not work. What if your pin was pallendromic, you'd have the cops showing up every time you got a tenner out! Im sorry, but you can only respond to this thread with material cut and pasted from elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Yep, the PIN thing is a load of old baloney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draino76 Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Im sorry, but you can only respond to this thread with material cut and pasted from elsewhere. Im sorry, but you can only respond to this thread with material cut and pasted from elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stain Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Im sorry, but you can only respond to this thread with material cut and pasted from elsewhere.. Yep Im sorry.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Sorry about cut and paste but I am to old to retype such long messages. Bit surprised the OP has been treated with respect as I was sure some would have come on and been sarcastic towards him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Tone Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/mobile-phone-blogs/the-top-5-urban-myths-around-mobile-phones-are-they-complete-bobbins/ Does this count as cut and paste? Top urban myths about mobiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Allegedly, Marc Almond had a couple of pints of spunk pumped out of his stomach while Chris Peacock was having an electric toothbrush retrieved from his ringpiece. Allegedly. Not that this is anything to do with PIN numbers. Just trying to steer this thread in a different direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stain Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 Allegedly, Marc Almond had a couple of pints of spunk pumped out of his stomach while Chris Peacock was having an electric toothbrush retrieved from his ringpiece. Allegedly. Not that this is anything to do with PIN numbers. Just trying to steer this thread in a different direction. We already have the Newsnight thread to cover this sort of thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 2 November, 2012 Share Posted 2 November, 2012 We already have the Newsnight thread to cover this sort of thing But they are handy things to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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