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FOUR THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO
Archana
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There are a few things that can bedone 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 worldwidefor Mobileis 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 dialled 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 cellphone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlockbutton, 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).

Editor's Note: 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 verylow. 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 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 stealingmobilephones.

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



Source: CTV
Karthi
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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

really nice

Sudhakarvas
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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

Hi it is simply superb.....!

Psumitha
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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

very helpful information...

Thanx for sharing.

Arun
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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

Thanks !!!! Archana,

For sharing the informative article.

Harish
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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

Hi Archana,

Thanks for posting. I have tried the Second one and it does work.

Cheers !!!

Ritesh
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  Rated +1 | Posted 05-10-2009

Hi Archana Thanks for posting such a useful information. 2nd on is very interesting. let me try this with my car.

Ritesh

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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

Hi Archana

Nice Posting

Regards
Ashutosh

Uma
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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

@ Archana..

Very informative,Thanks......

:)

Anand
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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

Dear Archna...

Really funny ma'mm,

Geeta
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  Rated 0 | Posted 05-10-2009

Hi Archana,

Thxz for sharing..thats was really informative.

Regards
Geeta



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