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10:18 pm
These tricks will work on ANY cell phone. Enjoy!
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:
Subject: 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.
SECOND:
Subject: 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 ).
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:
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.
10:52 pm
Some of this is just misleading and most of it is total bullshit.
Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.
Not in North America. It's 911 here.
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
If you're "out of coverage area of your mobile network" then it doesn't matter what you dial, your signal won't reach a cell tower so your cellphone simply won't work.
interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it.
Yes, 911 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked, the SIM is locked, you're out of paid airtime, your phone has been deactivated but please don't try this unless you have a real emergency. The 911 operators are busy enough without having to deal with people who are just playing around with their phones.
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...
This won't work because car remotes don't use audio signals. You can't transmit IR or RF signals over an audio channel.
Hidden Battery Power
According to Nokia Codes "*3370# This Nokia code activates Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your Nokia cell phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced by approx. 5%" So it does just the opposite of what's claimed. And that's only if you have a Nokia phone.
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
Finally, something that's actually true and useful.
(800) FREE 411 or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all.
Assuming these numbers work from Canada in the first place, this is cheaper than calling 411 but it's not true that you won't incur any charges at all. At the very least you'll have to pay for air time and maybe even long distance.
And finally, with the exception of the first and last items these "tips" -- if they work at all -- would only apply to GSM phones.
10:53 pm
They all work. I tried them (including the car one) all in NORTH AMERICA with my Nokia 2760 and works. The "112" number works everywhere it WILL connect you to a network. "Hidden battery Power" it may not be your definition of "hidden power" per se, but it actually is. The "car trick" works only 3 out of 5 times. If it didn't work for you dosn't mean it won't work for other people's cell phones.
11:36 pm
March 31, 2007
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As the forum admin, I'm not sure what to do about this post, since there is a bit of truth to some of what was written. I would have deleted it had it been forwarded in an e-mail to me, but for now I'll let visitors filter out the incorrect parts themselves...
8:07 am
As the forum admin, I'm not sure what to do about this post
I'd leave it as is to serve as a warning to gullible people who take what they receive in e-mail as gospel truth.
What worries me the most is that someone will actually try this stuff, e.g. 112 in North America, in a real emergency situation only to discover to their horror that it simply doesn't work.
For those who still don't believe, the page you linked-to Peter has a link to a CITY-TV clip on this. They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words, so maybe the equivalent of a few million words will speak with more force than mere web pages:
"Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do"
P.S. In case you hadn't noticed, it really peeves me that so many people fall for this and myriad other e-mails that continue to spread on the Internet even years after they've been debunked 😉
11:05 am
Apple said:
I tried them and 1, 3, 4, and 5 all work.
Re 1, even "If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network"? That's a neat trick.
Re 3, please explain what "work" means, i.e. how can you tell?
Re 4, agreed it works. (See my original post.)
Re 5, were you able to make the call "without incurring any charge at all"? That too is a neat trick.
P.S. In 1. and 5. the verbiage I quoted are the claims made in the original e-mail.
8:59 pm
Re 3, please explain what "work" means, i.e. how can you tell?
#3
My phone was very low on battery... I typed in the code (*3370#) My battery went up 50% after I turned off my phone and turned it back on. Called some people, let my phone stay on for 5 hours and my phone was still working at 10% left of battery. Call quality was the same as a fully charged phone. Very neat trick!! 🙂
3:23 pm
Very neat trick!!
So your phone's manufacturer has a built-in feature that extends the life of the battery by 50% -- something that would give them a tremendous competitive advantage -- but nevertheless they chose not only to disable that feature, but also to hide from all but the most determined hackers who are now telling the world about it via an e-mail?
Hmmm... Must be another one of those dastardly conspiracy theories 😉
3:37 pm
I just tried the car trick and yes it works only 3 out of 5 times... 60% only
4:42 am
I can confirm that dialing 112 on speakout will connect you with emergency services the same as dialing 911. I accidently pulled my Nokia 1112 cellphone out of my pocket and even though the keypad was locked it managed to dial on its own 1+1+2+send, so that when I pulled it out it said dialing emergency.
I hung up as fast as I could but I still got a call back from the police department who asked if I had been in a car accident on a street near where I was (they know your location). When I told them I had accidently called that number they kept insisting that someone with my phone had been in an accident.
