THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO...

rlachermeier

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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:

*I*

* 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.

*II*

* 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!"*

*III*

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.

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*IV*

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
 
the unlock works................
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(carolinadoublej @ Oct. 23 2006,00:04) My phone comes with Theft Deterrent. Go ahead try to take my wallet
LMMFAO!!

--Wag--
 
I tried to unlock my car with the cell phone and it didn't work... At least for me.
 
Plug in ICE (acronym for In Case of Emergency) in phone book. If you are in need of medical assistance and your phone is found on you, an emergency contact can be called.

Tried the door unlock. Didn't work for me either.
My cell is great... some call them "Notel", but I think it's a "No Service" as that's what it usually displays... seriously, I mean about 70% of the time it would be better if GPS could locate me a phone booth!
 
And I quote.. "Comforting though it may be to imagine you can unlock your car door in an emergency by receiving a distant signal via your cell phone, it can't possibly work — not with the technology as it now stands, at any rate.

Here's why:

Your remote car key operates by sending a weak, encrypted radio signal to a receiver inside the automobile, which in turn activates the door locks.

Since the system works on radio waves, not sound, the only conceivable way a signal from your spare remote could be picked up by one cell phone and relayed to your car's onboard receiver by another would be if both phones were capable of sending and receiving at exactly the same frequency as the remote itself — which they can't be, given that all remote entry devices operate at frequencies between 300 and 500 MHz, while all mobile phones, by law, operate at 800 MHz and higher.

It's apples vs. oranges, in other words. Your cell phone can no more transmit the type of signal needed to unlock a car door than your remote key is capable of dialing up your Aunt Mary ... though no one can predict what miracles the future may bring. "
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I tried at lunch time. It didn't work. I was at 7-11 approx 2 miles from where my wife works.
 
(rlachermeier @ Oct. 22 2006,12:02) *II*

* 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!"*
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Sorry, but trying to pass a signal that's greater than 400 MHz through a cell network and reproduced by the speaker on the phone ....... I don't think so!
 
Hmmm thats funny..

I just 1 hour ago had my co worker go stand by my truck in the parking lot. She called my work phone from my cell phone.

The truck is about a mile away and I am located inside of a solid brick shielded building with not windows.. and it worked fine..
 
(thrasherfox @ Oct. 23 2006,15:13) Hmmm thats funny..

I just 1 hour ago had my co worker go stand by my truck in the parking lot. She called my work phone from my cell phone.

The truck is about a mile away and I am located inside of a solid brick shielded building with not windows.. and it worked fine..
Could it be because you were on a land line? I tried cell phone to cell phone. I'll try from a land line later today.
 
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