5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do

United States
October 16, 2008 11:45am CST
For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you.) 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 key less 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 k eys 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 phone 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 phone 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: *#06#. 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 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 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)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now. This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so Pass it on to your family and friends.
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13 responses
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Oct 08
Good information. This isn't really a phone function, but a useful piece of advice anyway. Apparently if you put your emergency contact number on your phone under a name of "ICE" (In Case of Emergency) and if you are ever in a bad situation where you're hurt or something, Emergency personnel will look for that on your phone so that they can contact somebody.
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• United States
16 Oct 08
I do have the ICE number in my phone! But,,,,, It has been brought to my attention that all of these are not facts Please see the link. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp Sorry about this,.
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@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
16 Oct 08
Hey these are really good tips for everyone to know, I didn't know you could do all this with your cell phone. You posted some good information...Thanks, I will pass it on.
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• United States
16 Oct 08
I apologize about this but,, It has been brought to my attention that all of these are not facts Please see the link. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
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@kcbabez14 (967)
• United States
16 Oct 08
That's so cool. i tried some of it but the battery charge one does not work. well at least for my phone
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• United States
16 Oct 08
It has been brought to my attention that all of these are not facts Please see the link. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
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19 Oct 08
I am glad I am not the only one who makes mistakes. It is quite easy to do and some of the information was right. You put in a correction so do not worry about it.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
16 Oct 08
Hey Louise! This is some great information to know! I had no idea about any of these things! These really are some great tips for cell phone users. I printed this list out for my boyfriend. He is always forgetting to charge his phone when I am trying to reach him when he is gone for the day telling me his battery ran out so he couldn't call me. Well now he won't be able to use that excuse anymore! Thanks for some really serious and useful tips! I will pass this along to my friends who I am sure will be very thankful to get them!
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• United States
16 Oct 08
It has been brought to my attention that all of these are not facts Please see the link. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp Please check the link out. I would hate for anyone to think that they knew what to do in a emergency and they don't.
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@bannok (1)
• Thailand
17 Oct 08
wow so cool and thanks for such a very informative information ,and how do u know this do u work for cell phone company before or not 555 or ur just find the information from internet anyway it is great and helpful for anyone who know we have to face some of this in the crisis time I will go and do check my cell phone can do or not
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• United States
18 Oct 08
Turns out that it is not 100% correct. Sorry for the wrong info,, you can check it out on snopes.com
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@Lazers (152)
17 Oct 08
Wow! Although the battery one doesn't work for me. I suspect this is only in a select number of phones.
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• United States
18 Oct 08
Turns out that it is not 100% correct. Sorry for the wrong info,, you can check it out on snopes.com
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@subha12 (18441)
• India
17 Oct 08
It is something that i got in a mail. these are creally very helpful information. mainly the emergency number and chare thing comes very handly at times.
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• United States
18 Oct 08
Turns out that it is not 100% correct. Sorry for the wrong info,, you can check it out on snopes.com
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• United States
16 Oct 08
This is the third or fourth time I have seen this information posted here on MyLot. I'm not coming down on you for plagiarism, but I want to know if you know which phones these codes work for, or which service? I have tried all of these, and the only thing that I can get to work for me is the car lock trick. None of the other codes work for my Kyocera, nor any Nokia's that I have encountered. This would be a great help if it was listed which phones the codes work for for the battery power, and the lockdown trick. I didn't try the 112 thing, because I haven't been outside of my area, and its not nice to play with emergency services.
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• United States
16 Oct 08
I got this in a e-mail today. I thought that I would put it here quickly to helpe others. I made a mistake. It has been brought to my attention that all of these are not facts Please see the link. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
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@jimbomuso (950)
17 Oct 08
Hi LouiseKnittel! cool info! It reminds me of 'phone phreakers'- early hackers who would use service commands on dismantled payphones to gain access to various networks.
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• United States
18 Oct 08
Turns out that it is not 100% correct. Sorry for the wrong info,, you can check it out on snopes.com
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@macherla (35)
• India
17 Oct 08
what you said is good and nice info but *3370# that is reserve battery wont work in all mobiles.
• United States
18 Oct 08
Turns out that it is not 100% correct. Sorry for the wrong info,, you can check it out on snopes.com
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• India
17 Oct 08
Thats most helpful information. Thanks for sharing. i have downloaded a copy and will definitely print it out.
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• United States
18 Oct 08
Turns out that it is not 100% correct. Sorry for the wrong info,, you can check it out on snopes.com
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@zeethegr8 (785)
• India
16 Oct 08
Wow, thanks for the information. I knew 2 of them, but got to learn 3 new things about the cell phone.
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• United States
18 Oct 08
Turns out that it is not 100% correct. Sorry for the wrong info,, you can check it out on snopes.com
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• Philippines
16 Oct 08
You are a genius! Do you work in cellphone company? That was very useful. Thanks very much.
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• United States
16 Oct 08
nope I do not work for a cellphone company. It has been brought to my attention that all of these are not facts Please see the link. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp Sorry for any confusion!
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