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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Jusme on 20 November 2010, 21:03:32
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Things you never knew about your mobile phone.
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 Mobiles 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 mobile 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 mobile. Hold your mobile 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 boot). Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!
3.) Subject: Hidden Battery power.Imagine your mobile 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 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. 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. 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 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 did this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones....... :-/
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the keys locked in the car thin does work, have tried it a few times at work to amuse workmates.
most of the nokia codes dont work on the newer handsets anymore.
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1) Europe only
2) False
3) False
4) Only on Nokias IIRC
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Guffer I'll leave you to argue with Vauxfan about number 2 ??
No.3 I actually did some time ago.
No.4 Just worked on my phone, my sons and his friends, so, a Nokia N85. Blackberry curve. & Samsung M8800 are really. Nokia IIRC's.. :-/ ;)
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I always thought * # 0 6 # was an industry standard.
In fact I've just tried it on the wife's Samsung and it works.
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1) 112 and 999 both make an emergency call, wherever you are, and your phone will attempt to make a call on any network that it can find if it's not on its' home network. It will even do so without a SIM card. This doesn't mean whatever network it lands on will allow this.
2) Total BS.
3) Total BS.
4) This will tell you the phone's IMEI which is indeed a serial number unique to the phone. The network operators could add this to a register of stolen mobiles but, in my experience, they probably won't bother. You would be much better off telling them your phone number so whatever scumbag can't use your SIM in another phone at your expense.
.. and I speak with some authority as I've been working in software development for the mobile phone industry since 1992.
Kevin
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3, iirc is known as activating half rate......drops the call quality, so may save a little power, when the phone is in use for a voice call.
the savings quoted, are however total BS
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tried no.2 on a vectra once worked fine then second go didn't work cause it stopped the central locking working :(