Uses for your mobile phone

[Steve (redding43)]

I'm going to guess this is a joke but it would be amazing if it worked:

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 dialed 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 phon! e: * # 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.
 
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends

[tinkerman]

Thats brilliant Steve, but why in the joke section?

[Steve (redding43)]

quote:Originally posted by tinkerman

Thats brilliant Steve, but why in the joke section?

Well I wasn't sure whether some of them actually work or whether it was a wind up. I will move if someone confirms all OK.

2 More ideas that do work though:

When sending a text message place this at the start of the message:

*late 4# - The text will be sent 4 hours after sending. The recipient can't see that you delayed the sending. Great for convincing your boss you are working through the night

*n# sends you a return text message, when your message has been received. My wife uses this when I am flying back into the country, that way she gets 2 hours notice as the text arrives with her when my flight touches down and I turn my mobile on. Not sure why she needs 2hrs notice ;o)

[puma]

look good  handy hints to me will try the car bit out

[saoirse]

The one about the car keys is fascinating

[Crabbit]

All of them are true

[stoop]

Another one with the car - if you hold the key fob to your head and then press it will open the car from a much further distance. Why you would want to do this and look a tw*t at the same time I'm not sure but it does work.

I'm printing these off and will try them all tonight.

[JohnF]

This one has done the rounds a few times:

Emergency - works generally in Europe but not in the rest of the world.

Car keys - no chance.  Remote fobs use radio waves, not sound.

Hidden Battery Power - urban myth.

Stolen phone - network operators already know the IMEI number and in the UK they bar the phone as a matter of course (or at least are supposed to!) when you report it stolen.

JF

[stoop]

JF,

I thought as much. The head one works though -lol

[philrose]

quote:Originally posted by JohnF

This one has done the rounds a few times:

Emergency - works generally in Europe but not in the rest of the world.

Car keys - no chance.  Remote fobs use radio waves, not sound.

Hidden Battery Power - urban myth.

Stolen phone - network operators already know the IMEI number and in the UK they bar the phone as a matter of course (or at least are supposed to!) when you report it stolen.

JF

Also IMEI numbers can be cloned or changed