Wednesday, November 26, 2008

4 things you (probably) never knew your mobile 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:

(1) 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.

(2) Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This 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 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 his mobile phone. 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 boot).

(3) 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.

(4) 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. If your phone is 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!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's really informative!

;)

iml said...

Indeed I was not aware of how handy the hphone can be.

Michelle Mak said...

the first one can be done..but the last two..my fone came out with command error...

my fone siao kut..

doc said...

Kyels,

some of the info are new to me, too!

;)

doc said...

Iml,

now, doesn't the hp command a little more respect??

doc said...

Mich,

ask your friend to try on his/her hp & see if it works.

Anonymous said...

Seriously? There's reserve energy on my phone? That's handy :)
*looking around for a phone to experiment on...won't be my phone*

doc said...

Fibrate,

just tried it today - the *3370# code doesn't work for my Treo. Let me know if you can do it with any other phones.