interesting mobile facts

[golfball]

sorry if repost but :

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE 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: -

1.

The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112. If you find
yourself out of 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.**

2.

Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote
keys? 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!"

3.

Subject: Hidden Battery power
Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important
call and you don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve
battery. To activate, press the 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.

AND

4.

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.

Please spread this useful information around

[countzerouk]

2 and 3 sounded way too good to be true.
2 is absolute b*****ks and is on urban myths website.
3 is the code to enable half rate codec which reduces the voice call quality and hence uses less power. There is no secret battery reserve.

The other 2 are well worth knowing although AFAIK the IMEI blocking only applies to a small number of countries. The scum know this and your stolen mobile will soon be on it's way to some developing country where it's not implemented.

[bagpuss]

3 is the code to enable half rate codec which reduces the voice call quality and hence uses less power. There is no secret battery reserve.


It is true that the makes a local selection to use HR, but if you are in a low signal strengh area or the site you are connected to is not configured for HR than you are not going to be doing anything to save your battery power.

And on Point 1. (I am sure I have said this already on here )

You do not need a SIM card to dial 999 or 112, in fact when you dial 999 the phone still dials 112, its just shown as 999.

And before everyone walks up mounting not worying about signal for the phone. If you have not got any signal from any SP then sorry to point out the obvious but it will not work.