very interesting

[tamirra]

FOUR 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:

FIRST
Emergency

The
Emergency Number worldwide for all Mobile Phones
is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your
mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112
and your mobile will search any existing network in your area to establish the emergency
number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even
if the keypad is locked. This works on all phones worldwide and is free. It is the equivalent of 000.

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 thousands 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: I didn’t believe this when I heard about it! I rang my daughter in Sydney from Perth when we went on holiday. She had the spare car key. We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'

THIRD
Hidden
Battery
Power

To activate, press the keys *3370# (remember the asterisk). Do this when the phone is almost dead.
Your mobile will restart in a special way with this new reserve and the instrument will show a 50%
increase in battery life. This reserve will get re charged when you charge your mobile next time.
This secret is in the fine print in most phone manuals. Most people however skip this information without realising.

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 #
Ensure you put an asterisk BEFORE the #06# sequence.

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 ever 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 done this, there would be no point in people
stealing mobile phones..
This secret is also in the fine print of most mobile phone manuals. It was created for the very purpose of trying to prevent phones from being stolen.

Also -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.
All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law.

This information was recently broadcast on by Crime Stoppers
however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it.

[TWR]

Am I correct in saying, If the makers of which ever Mobile makes a statement that the phone IS CAPABLE then if found not capable of offering these service no matter where in the world, they can get done?

[sara3]

well here's the original post, plus responses.. http://www.snopes.com...sehold/cellphones.asp

[karenmac60]

I would presume so TWR, but I have never seen a mobile company claim to be able to do any of the above. It's an email which does the rounds every so often.

[Maydup]

My ATM pin is a palindrome but the cops have never come to rescue me.

[DrFilth]

can't see the pin number one being correct as itchy's brother had the pin number
0000 so he would never forget it

[Buenchico]

I seem to remember de-bunking most of this stuff last October!

See here
http://www.theanswerb...s/Question951700.html
and here
http://www.theanswerb...s/Question951701.html

[netibiza]

I have tried most of them and they DO NOT WORK.of course the emergency number does work, and that is about it! Just another urban myth!

[tamirra]

Sorry to have bothered you all, seems like i wont be on anymore as everytime i seem to post on here you take the Fosters, yes i do know why, if any of you have forgotten it was when my daughter was very sick and i needed some help.

[ummmm]

No ones taking the pish....

[sara3]

tamirra, that's very unfair. I'm sorry about your daughter (but had no idea of anything else you'd posted) but there is no link between whatever happened then, and this.

lots of people forward things like this with good intentions, but when you've been using the net for a long time you see these things over and over, and just become aware that they're usually not correct.

[TWR]

Tamirra, Sod them that's my moto, there are a lot on here that think they run the show, if you like the site & enjoy the posts, do not let critics get at you, we all make mistakes, do not let them win x

[woofgang]

tamirra its DANGEROUS to post things like this without checking, someone could rely on the info in an emergency and be injured when it didn't work. Its worth checking stuff like this out at the snopes website before reposting.

[netibiza]

Don't get upset tamirra, you tried to help us and we helped you. I had to laugh cos I spent hours by my car trying to open it with the mobile phone. Good luck to your daughter.

[AB Editor]

Yeah, and you should try this too:

[AB Editor]

I wouldn't worry Tamirra.

We're not really taking the fosters out of you, but more than this stuff gets circulated so much.

snopes is interesting reading, much of it reads to be true.

Spare Ed

[Old_Geezer]

112 is a European number. It is also used in other countries, but I do not believe it to be universal. Check on Wiki.

The unlocking car nonsense has been doing the rounds for ages. try it yourself, it won't work. Those who think they have tried it and it works were probably testing near enough to their car for the unlock to work normally.

There is no hidden battery power. Do you think manufacturers of handsets would spend effort putting in extra power and keep it secret ?

The handset code in known as the IMEI and is usually readable from the label under the battery. Yes if you know it a service provider should be able to bar the handset from service on their network. People can still steal mobiles though as they are probably destined to be sent abroad.

I don't believe for a single moment that ATM machines have a secret second number thus doubling the chances of guessing it ? And anyway how fast do you think police respond ?

I'm so glad I'm not gullible.

[AB Editor]

I quite like the troll science stuff. Mainly because sometimes you wish it would be true.

Spare ed.