Cell Phones in an Emergengy
Anyone know if these are true????
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 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. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
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.
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 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. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
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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False. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by cubslover
False.
All of them? Have you tried the key thing?0 -
quote:Originally posted by cartod
quote:Originally posted by cubslover
False.
All of them? Have you tried the key thing?
Snopes will give you the breakdown.
There is no way a keyless will operate a door lock remotely over the phone.0 -
You can try that keyless entry thing, but all youll find is yourself looking like a dumbo
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp0 -
yup - check snopes, this has been posted many times (including once by Harry). How could an RF signal possibly be transmitted over a cell phone conversation? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by slipgate
yup - check snopes, this has been posted many times (including once by Harry). How could an RF signal possibly be transmitted over a cell phone conversation?
This only for a small, but interesting point. When I orginally read about the cell phone unlocking the car door thing a few years ago my buddy and I immediately tried it. I knew why it should not work (it didn't) but I also knew of a slight, possible reason why it MIGHT work.
EVERY receiver (cell phone is a receiver AND a transmitter) is also, by default, a weak transmitter. Even your car radio, while being only a receiver, is also a weak transmitter. In response to what that car radio receives, (and your cell phone, weather radio, etc) it also gives off weak radio waves. So for that reason I at least had to try the unlock the car door thing since truthfully, a radio frequency on one end of a cell phone conversation should provide at least a small, but probably unnoticeable, effect on the other end of that cell phone conversation. But if that is true, apparently not enough effect to be noticed.0 -
The free cell phone information number is correct.
Smitty0 -
Everytime I need a cellphone for an emergency situation; there's no coverage for a few miles in any direction.
Does the "hidden battery power" thing work? I can imagine several times I could have used a little spark.0 -
quote:Originally posted by gunnut505
Everytime I need a cellphone for an emergency situation; there's no coverage for a few miles in any direction.
Does the "hidden battery power" thing work? I can imagine several times I could have used a little spark.
It works on a few different models, but definitely not on all phones.0 -
I was in Los Angeles during the Rodney King incident. I worked in Santa Monica and lived up in the Santa Clarita Valley. During the riot period you could not make a call or receive a call on the cell networks! It was tied up with all the emergancy personal. Cell phones were worthless to the average individual at that time.[:0][:0]
I hope the capacity is higher now and the calls can be handled. My phone was a 4 watt car phone not the 1/2 watt phones we have today and I could not get any signal, just a busy.
So in a real emergency be prepared to use signal fires like the Indians![:D]0 -
The fourth one is true as well. The number is called the IMEI Number. It is printed on the same sticker as the serial number on all new phones. If your phone is stolen, just call your provider and they can disable the phone permanantly. 0
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