Monday, January 12, 2009

5 Things your cell phone does

5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do -- Things That Could Benefit You

For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, and wallet.
Good information to have with you.)

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 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. . . 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. 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!'

THIRD
Hidden Battery Power... Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell
phone will restart with this reserve and will show a 50% increase in battery strength. This reserve will get
charged when you charge your cell phone 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: *#06#. A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset.
Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If 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 stolen phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but 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.
And finally:

FIFTH
Free Directory Service for Cells Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411
information calls -when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which
makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial:
(800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all.

Program this into your cell phone now. This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on
to your family and friends!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sandy, I heard you all talking about this earlier today. These are all awesome. My wife didn't believe me about the car keys but it completely works.
Thanks for the tip-
Josh

Kristina Kay said...

Thanks for these tips! I can use the directory assistance one for sure, and the dead battery thing might save my daughter as her phone is always dying on her! Useful information.

Unknown said...

I'm disapointed that you would post hoaxes on your blog.
TRUTH available here.

- 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.

- 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!

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