4 Things about your mobile

[db4]

Here are 4 things about your mobile that some of you may not know
and may find of interest and could get you out of trouble.
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 po lice 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 however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it.
 
 

[WeCan-Octavian]

Interesting stuff, the battery one doesnt work on my phone though!!!!!

[db4]

I was sent info buy email from a friend  I have tried the lock in car key it worked

[troutmasterfunk]

Great info  
Battery thing don't work with iPhone mind..

[Detectski]

The pin number thing...

For this to work the banks would have to stop people choosing numbers that are the same backwards as forwards e.g.7007, wonder if they do this?

[dances with badgers]

nice one db ,i have learnt something else today apart from i hate work lol

[WeCan-Octavian]

BUMP

[carling]

cheers nick

[Val Beechey]

Well of course if DB4 had put it in the right place to start with we'd have found first time, wouldn't we ?   

Val

[dances with badgers]

best thing about mobile phones is the off button

[Chef Geoff]

The articles from an Australian mag so I doubt if all those features apply here

[rjm]

The pin number thing...

For this to work the banks would have to stop people choosing numbers that are the same backwards as forwards e.g.7007, wonder if they do this?

I doubt this one as my bank has given me a number that reads the same backwards or forwards.

These information articles originate in different countries so it may apply in the country it was written.