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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: matcho mick on July 14, 2014, 10:35:06 pm
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FOUR 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 Services
The Emergency Number worldwide for all Mobile Phones is 112.
If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and your mobile will search any existing network in your area to establish the emergency number for you, and
interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked.
This works on all phones worldwide and is free.
SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car?
If your car has 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 thousands of miles away,
Editor's Note: I didn’t believe this when I heard about it! I rang my daughter in Sydney from Perth when we went on holiday. She had the spare car key. We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'
THIRD
Is your mobile phone battery flat ?
All mobiles have Hidden Battery Power
To activate, press the keys *3370# (remember the asterisk). Do this when the phone is almost dead.
Your mobile will restart in a special way with this new reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery life.. This reserve will get re-charged when you charge your mobile next time.
This secret is in the fine print in most phone manuals. Most people however skip this information without realising.
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 #
Ensure you put an asterisk BEFORE the #06# sequence.
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 ever 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 you r phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody done this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
This secret is also in the fine print of most mobile phone manuals. It was created for the very purpose of trying to prevent phones from being stolen.
Also - 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.
All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law.
This information was recently broadcast on by Crime Stoppers. It is, however, seldom used as people just don't know about it.
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Thanks for the info, I will be trying the flat battery one out.
Cheers Mick.
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A few of those are correct mick but....
The code to find your IMEI number is
Unlocking your car isn't as im not sure about your remote but mine uses radio waves not sounds and as mobiles don't use radio frequencies cant see that one happening .
the ATM emergency isn't. cant put 5335 in backwards can you and imagine if you stuff it up like I do all the time? cops all over the place.. naaa Banks would tell you this but they only say to report it stolen asap
112 will connect you to emergency services depending where in the world you are and if you even have signal.
*3370# if you have a very old Nokia it will enhance the sound.
OLD OLD email
Think its probably on Snopes.com
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bugger i thought unlocking your car was cool,i remember heaven round at glenbawn few years back,guy had a brand new truck/ute, locked with the keys innit,his missus drove 3 hours with the spare keys,(felt bad leaving him there by himself waiting), :P
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Unlocking your car isn't as im not sure about your remote but mine uses radio waves not sounds and as mobiles don't use radio frequencies cant see that one happening .
Yep. Even if remotes (still?) worked on high frequency audio, most phones aren't capable of transmitting those frequencies - they're designed around the typical voice bandwidth. This includes home phones and VOIP.
That may have worked with the old analogue phones and possibly CDMA, but they're both long gone.
Love to hear if anyone can make it work.
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Damn! I'm rooted with the car door business. My old One Tonner has wait for it a key that ya push and turn in a lock on the door............. :o
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Just tried that *3370# and it asks if i want to "change the active speech codec"???????