4 things your mobile can do, that you might not know !

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4 things your mobile can do, that you might not know !

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Hi all,

Here some tasty tit-bits...

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 dialled 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).
Someone else'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
gets 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.

regards

Tim
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Post by NaRyan »

999 Also works (also on most new phones just pressing and holding 9 for a few seconds works), I know this because I have had to do it.
That's why the phone displays "Emergency Only" or "E"

*3370# (if you have used that code use #3370# to deactivate it) **Nokia code by default, however my Sony-ericson also mentions it**
DO NOT USE THIS!!!
That code activates the full rate audio quality codec, and will reduce your battery length by 5% to 10%

To save battery power **possibly only Nokia**
*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - lower quality sound, you should gain about 30% more Talk Time
*#4720# Deactivate Half Rate Codec

Locked keys in car.....
Test that on a friends car last year.
Result, locked door.
Coppers asking us what we were upto :lol:

*#06#
Correct, that is your phones code, write that down, if it gets stolen, contact your phone operator and it gets deactivated (even if they put a new sim card in it or switch networks)

You can register your mobile with These peeps if you so wish.
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