Great Tips for Cell Phone Users

[TurcoLoco]

There are a few things that can be done in times of 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: 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 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 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 cell phone!"

THIRD: Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys: * 3 3 7 0 #
Your cell 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 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 serial 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.

FIFTH: Free 411 Calls
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) FREE 411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.

[traderonline]

thanks for sharing some valuable tips. hidden battery power will be really useful to me.

[TurcoLoco]

thanks for sharing some valuable tips. hidden battery power will be really useful to me.

A friend e-mailed me back pointing on the possibility of these tips being fiction by referencing this link.

Well, I was able to verify the accuracy of most of them myself, the one I could not check on yet was the door unlocking but a co-worker confirmed this morning that was also true.

So, I guess those sites informing people about hoax news could be a hoax as well?

Of course there is a chance that these tips may not work or be applicable to some people but imo, it is worth a try!
Forexample, the 'hidden battery' tip didn't work on mine. It came up with the question: "Change active speech codec?" or may be it does after selecting the option "OK", who knows? I have a friend working for T-Mobile, I will pick his brains...

~TL