5 Cool Things Your Cell Phone Can Do
Life Saver
Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Here are five things you may not know you can do with your cell phone.
FIRST
In an 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
If you lock your keys in the car
If your car has remote keyless entry, it may come in handy someday. 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 or trunk will unlock. Distance is no object.
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power
Should your cell battery become very low, you can activate Hidden Battery Power by pressing 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.
Should 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 that 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 it or sell it.
FIFTH
Free Directory Information for Cell Phones
Cell phone companies are charging $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don’t have to.
You can get free 411 information by simply dialing (800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:26 am
I just made a copy of these and printed it out so I can install the info in our cell phones later. Thanks for this useful information.
June 27th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Thanks for the tips Ron. I sent them to my parents .
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:06 am
Thanks Ron! We tried the tip on unlocking your car doors from our cell phones and it works great!
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Do know that on the “free” info that you will still be using minutes on your plan. Not entirely free! Great ideas though.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
The ABC TV station had a story last week on 20/20 about cell phone myths. Numbers one through three (see above) are not true according to 20/20.
ABC stressed that number one above is a grave error, because 911 is the only emergency number anyone should know.
I am not sure about four and five above.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Aloha Mike,
I admit to passing along these tips from someone else, and have received a variety of comments. Some things seem to work on some phones while not on others. I do not doubt anything you say here, so I will accept your comment and leave the post up there for people to decide and find out for themselves.
I really do appreciate the feedback.