List details five little-known but useful functions associated with cell phones.
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 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 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)... It works
fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone! '
THIRD: Hidden
Battery Power
Imagine your mobile battery is very low, to activate, press
the keys *3370# your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument
will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you
charge your mobile 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.
FIFTH: 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 police will be immediately dispatched to the location.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime
Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it...
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving,
so comment and share it to your family and friends.
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