5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do

[carlos]

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Subject: 5 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
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you
find
yourself out of t he coverage area of your mobile network and there
is an
emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search an y 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
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.&nb sp;
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
Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your cell battery is very low. 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.

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 #. 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 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
does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile
phones.
And
Finally....

FIFTH
Free Director y Service for Cells

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.

This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving,
so

pass it on to your family and friends.



Yung 2nd, do you think this idea works. Has anybody among tsikoters tried it?

[the josh]

Nice to know

[empy]

i thought #2 was an urban legend...

[Psylocke]

no one answers 112

#2 doesn't work

#3 turns on half-rate encoding. improves battery life a tiny bit. there's no reserve battery!

#4 show the IMEI. can be changed on most phones.

#5 dunno... could someone try it? :D

[tinky]

tried #5, thanks for this info.

[GerardTagayty]

number 5? but you still use some of your minutes right? unless after 8 pm na or its a weekend?

[tinky]

i tried #5, free 411 call nga pero tagal mag-connect.

[A121]

i miss the good old 3210 days..

[JiggeR671]

if you own or will buy a sony ericsson phone

press: >*<<*<* it will bring you to service info, service test and text label

under service info
model info :model number of the phone
software info: software of the phone
sim lock :network lock,service privider lock etc
configuration: imei, frequency of the phone(gsm900,1800,1900 etc.)
under service test
you will be able to test everything about the phone..camera,volume,
keypad,screen etc. this is very helpfull lalo na kung bibili kayo ng
second hand na phone.
text label
nde ko alam kung para san ito. kung meron nakakaalam dyan please
share it.

[teeyoh]

want to know the software version and manufacture date of your NOKIA?

just press *#0000#
could be useful especially if somebody sells you a 2nd hand unit.