5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do

Beemer4life · #1 03-25-2007, 10:23 PM

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 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!'

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 . And Finally..

FIFTH

Free Directory 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.

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Thunder22 · #2 03-25-2007, 10:42 PM

ummm, you might want to google the first 4, they're urban legend....

that email is floating around again... sorry.

xnsf · #3 03-25-2007, 10:45 PM

ohhh....very cool

a very happy thank you!

Fr0zty · #4 03-25-2007, 10:54 PM

I tried it with the X...

it was a no go

MrLabGuy · #5 03-25-2007, 10:54 PM

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.

Did not work on Cingular

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. 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!'

Did not work on Cingular

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.

Did not work on either of my Motorola phones...SLVR and KRZR.

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 . And Finally.

A number did come up after entering in * # 0 6 # but I'm not sure what that does...I did not need to imput the additional numbers.

For what is is worth.

B-Line · #6 03-25-2007, 10:57 PM

As always, you can SNOPE it.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp

But here is a little known cell phone feature that I use CONSTANTLY... It is amazing and works immediately and hassle free.

Instead of calling 411, you can SMS text message google. You do this by:
1) Send a txt message to "GOOGL" which translates to 46645
2) In the subject area, put name of city, and thing you are looking for.. Ex: Los Angeles Standard Hotel -- THEN PRESS SEND. You don't even need any puncutation.
You will immediately get a text message with the address and phone number.
So again, go ahead and try this now on your cell,

1) SMS text message GOOGL (or 46645)
2) In subject write (New York Peter Lugers)
3) Press SEND. -- Wait 3 sec. and you will have the info.
*** No more expensive 411.*** and you don't have to listen to any advertisements like on FREE 411..

B