Other things helpful to know about your cell phone

MsMcDucket

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELL 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
Subject: 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
Subject: 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 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, 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 cell
phone!"

THIRD
Subject: Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, pressthe keys *3370#
Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a
50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge
your cell next time.

FOURTH
Subject: 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.
And Finally....

FIFTH
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) FREE 411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at
all. Program this into your cell phone now.

orbison11

wow msm

that is cool. thank u

orb

mrsjones5

Hey thanks hon, great info I wanna try the keyless lock one...looks like fun and pretty cool if it works.

GoingGoingGone

My son and I just tried opening his car with the remote control over the cell phone... it didn't work! :(

Thanks for all the tips though! Especially the 411 tip... We pay $1.50 for each 411 call now!

GGG

Seeker4

Not sure, but this seems like a bogus list. None of the one's I tried worked, the same as with GGG and the keyless entry. Can a phone relay radio signals??

Anyone find that any of these work? Would be interesting if they did, but I have some doubts.

S4

MsMcDucket

Not sure, but this seems like a bogus list. None of the one's I tried worked, the same as with GGG and the keyless entry. Can a phone relay radio signals??

Anyone find that any of these work? Would be interesting if they did, but I have some doubts

My husband has a Razor phone and we were able to put the code in to prevent anyone else from using it. I haven't tried the 112. I guess that I should. I can tell them that I dialed it by accident.

MsMcDucket

I tried the 112 and my phone stated attempting emergency call! I ended it before it went through!

Jourles

My wife sent me this same email asking me if they were true. This is what I replied to her:

LMAO! esp the one when calling someone on their cell to have them unlock your doors! LOL

The only one that *might* be plausible is the 411. You would have to call it first to find out. It's probably a porn line.

MsMcDucket

When I dialed the free 411 number. It said that it would attempt to find the number. . . and it also gave this website address: http://www.free411.com/index.php

I couldn't try the car lock out thing because no one's away from the house. Our car keys will unlock all our cars even if we are in the house.

One car has autostart and it works in the house as well. What's the sense of having autostart if it didn't?

Jourles

OK, let me hit these one by one ---

The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112

First of all, this number is part of the GSM standard. It will only work on phones that operate on GSM networks. In the USA, this only includes Cingular(now AT&T again) and T-Mobile. It won't work if you have Verizon or Sprint/Nextel.

Have you locked your keys in the car....

This is a crack up! THIS WILL NOT WORK. The only way it would work is if your car was in the driveway and the person you call is in the house. You can figure it out from there...

Hidden Battery Power

Another joke. Let's face it folks. There are people out there in the world who send these emails out just to see how viral they can get.

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

Simple. Forget writing down your ESN(electronic serial number). Just call your provider and tell them your phone was stolen/misplaced. They will flag the ESN as stolen and the phone will not be able to be registered on a new account. Of course, this whole idea is null and void if the thief knows how to crack the security code and brings the phone to another provider which has no record of your previous esn.

Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls

Try calling it and see how it works. They get their money by selling timeshares, etc. The reliability isn't that good either. But hey, its free.

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