4 Things you never knew your mobile phone could do!

bananaskin · Post by **bananaskin** » Wed Feb 25, 09 10:13 pm

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).

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.

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. This
information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers however
it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. Please
pass this along to everyone.

newport100 · Post by **newport100** » Wed Feb 25, 09 10:42 pm

A month early for April fools Nana!

bananaskin · Post by **bananaskin** » Wed Feb 25, 09 11:04 pm

Which one dont you believe

Dart Vader · Post by **Dart Vader** » Wed Feb 25, 09 11:52 pm

April fool or not the 112 thing worked on my phone, I thought there were a couple of international emergency numbers, can't remember now.

Did you know that even if you mobile is switched off, if there is power in the battery the mobile companies can make it switch on. Triangulate it's position once on and direct the bizzies to your door. Or rescue you of course if you're in the poop and about to appear in orange pj's blind folded and in chains on Iraqi TV's popular late night show Mohammed's Kitchen Knife-Mare's. You don't get repeat fee's once you've been on it.

They did this a few years ago to catch that fella than "ran off" with his 14 year old schoolgirl lover. Pervert.

Gringo · Post by **Gringo** » Thu Feb 26, 09 10:20 am

Wonder how many people are gonna try unlocking their car???

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Thu Feb 26, 09 10:41 am

What if your ATM pin numbers is a palindrome?

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Thu Feb 26, 09 1:02 pm

Jon wrote:What if your ATM pin numbers is a palindrome?

Mine is

good point Jon.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Thu Feb 26, 09 4:12 pm

Better change that then!! Just way more halfed the chance of hacking yer pin

(Anyone know exactly how much he has cut down the odds?)

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Thu Feb 26, 09 5:04 pm

the phone serial thingy works...

the battery thing does not...i get some garbled message about subscription to a data service from my blackberry

car locks use infra red so if that works (unlikley infra red will not be picked up by a microphone used to pick up sound waves) anyone using a phone while usuing any infrared remote could inadvertently

lock someone in their car
change their TV channel or open their garage door.

you can train your palm pilot to act as you car keys or TV remote though

Dave

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Thu Feb 26, 09 6:33 pm

Palm pilot? A Crewe Member will be along soon...............

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Thu Feb 26, 09 9:30 pm

Kev wrote:Better change that then!! Just way more halfed the chance of hacking yer pin (Anyone know exactly how much he has cut down the odds?)

LOL i have no money in my account anyway Kev

its all in the cars.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Thu Feb 26, 09 9:50 pm

Jon wrote:What if your ATM pin numbers is a palindrome?

How can pin numbers be a Mad Max movie?

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Fri Feb 27, 09 12:18 am

Dave999 wrote:car locks use infra red so if that works (unlikely infra red will not be picked up by a microphone used to pick up sound waves)

Dave, do you lock your car with a Moss alarm, circa 1980 ? If you do, it's probably going off right now ! Modern cars use key fobs incorporating RF transponders. Still ain't gonna work down the phone though

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Fri Feb 27, 09 6:44 am

The GC back in the UK would only unlock/lock if you were quite close.
The Falcon over here has a red button on the fob. I thought it was emergency use to set the alarm off, but with the big car parks over here it is ideal for women who have lost their car!! It works from miles away! I managed to lose the car one day and hit the red button. I could just hear it on another level!!! Cool!

Great for scaring peeps walking past the car as well

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Fri Feb 27, 09 10:29 am

Gareth wrote:
Dave999 wrote:car locks use infra red so if that works (unlikely infra red will not be picked up by a microphone used to pick up sound waves)
Dave, do you lock your car with a Moss alarm, circa 1980 ? If you do, it's probably going off right now ! Modern cars use key fobs incorporating RF transponders. Still ain't gonna work down the phone though

whatdyamean circa 1980

it is 1980

jings

i use keys mate

Dave