There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a lifesaver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
1. The emergency number worldwide for mobile networks is 112.
If you find yourself out of 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 this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.
2. Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keys? This may come in handy some day, and it's a 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). Note: It works fine! I've tried it and it unlocked my car over a cell phone!
3. Hidden battery power
Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call, and you don't have a charger. Nokia phones come with a reserve battery. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell will restart with this reserve and the phone will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
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Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - CallmeMaddy
That is really cool. Great article!
2 - aJ
Point 3 is incorrect. There is no hidden battery power. What it does is enable half rate codec which reduces the voice call quality and hence uses less power.
Please do check facts before publishing them..
3 - Snarkattack
Even if point 3 is incorrect, those other ones are way cool...
4 - gentletouchee
@aJ,
thanks for pointing that out but isn't it what it do anyway? it may not be your definition of "hidden power" per se, but it actually is. Such power exists and can be very useful.
The article is not presented in very technical terms so that it will be easily understood.
@all,
thanks for those great compliments! It encourages me to write more.
5 - Clavos
Very cool article!
I especially liked #2 & #4.
Fun stuff AND useful.
6 - Mickey
Anybody try #2? Doesn't work for me!
7 - Clavos
Yep.
Worked perfectly. Sony phone, Ford car, Cingular. Unlocked it, then re-locked it through the phone. Really cool!
8 - schmuck
yeah right clavos, try unlocking it withouth the phone. the same distance away.
and poof! its still freaking opens. do you know why??
cause your car is still in range for the remote keys. that's why!
this functionality is a hoax as well. the signal type of cellphones and the remote are COMPLETELY different
9 - bob
this article is unbelievable idiocy
10 - ILoz Zoc
Looking at a few articles on the net, it would seem impossible for a regular remote key to operate over a cell phone frequency. One article points out cells usually operate in the 800MHz range, while the weak radio transmission from a remote key would be in the 300 to 500MHz range. As such, it would be incompatible with the cell phone.
Urban Legends has a write-up on it.
11 - Chris
Come on guys, use your brains. Sure it sounds cool, but all this if just idiocy. You really think that cell phone companies would deliberately cut their battery life in half and not tell anybody??? And unlocking your doors... it hurts my brain thinking about it. this article was probably written by 2 snickering 19-year-olds and it's been circulating the web and E-mail inboxes since. GSM, CDMA, TDMA, or IDEN networks are NOT interoperable. PERIOD. I'm sure they would use this option for roaming (And Sprint for their Nextel clients) and not just for people who happen to know the "Secret code"!
Check out snopes.
12 - Paul Crew
How do you remotely activate another cell phone?
13 - Bob Dennis
#4 does not work. I have a new Samsung phone and it does not work. BS.
Bob
14 - Honkanen
"Please take note that this procedure works so far only with Nokia phones"
so yeah Bob Dennis, not suprising it doesnt work with your samsung. I have a Nokia and it works fine. Pure Finnish phone genius =D
15 - Motorola Razr Unlocked
That is crazy! You can remotely access another phone?
16 - The Tradergar
#1 IS TRUE
# 2 is FICTION
Summary of the eRumor
A suggestion that if you are locked out of your car and don't have an "Onstar" type system in your car, just call home and have someone use the wireless remote over the phone to your cell phone, and it'll work.
The Truth
Onstar says no way.
(One version of the eRumor says this only works on Onstar systems.)
Onstar users, of course, can have their door locks opened remotely by calling Onstar.
But that's because of the cell phone connection that Onstar has with the system in the car.
The wireless remotes that you use to open your doors are radio transmitters and will only work if you're using the transmitter in the vicinity of the car itself.
17 - The Tradergar
Sorry, That;s #2 if FICTION; Don't know about 3&4
18 - vitriol
1) Hardly genius, it's the equivalent of phoning 999 or 911.
2) A load of crap. How do you suppose a microphone picks up radio waves? It doesn't. For those who found it worked, you were still within the range of the car - it would have worked if you pressed the key next to a banana, the phone had nothing to do with it.
3) A load of crap. Someone else already explained, but it just reduces voice quality of calls, and only on some models.
4) True, but not very effective. Service providers, in theory, pass the information on to a blacklist, which other service providers are meant to check. But that rarely happens, and even if it does, it is possible to change and IMEI. As for it only working on Nokias, that's a load of crap. *#06# works on most makes, and if it doesn't, there is some alternative code. The IMEI is also written on the back of the phone, often under the battery.
19 - spud4700
I tried #2 and it worked like a charm
20 - who cares
who cares
21 - Derek
#4 does work i tried it with my Motorola Slvr L7
22 - George Bush
all you who believe this are as dumb and ignorant as I am.....
23 - zino
all pure hogwash
24 - Joe Ocho
I have a Motorola cell phone. I think it has better ring tones than Nokia...
Also, better games than Nokia.
I will have to try this and see if it works with my Motorola phone.
25 - Ceristimo
Yeah, Motorolas really are cool. I especially like the fact that Motorlas can't ring and vibrate at the same time. They first vibrate a few times, then stop and start playing your ringtone.
Yeah, Motorola's are really cool. It's 2006, and they work like a phone made when my grandmother was young and fresh, and they're having the same technical specs as the first Apple Lisa. But yeah, the games are way better ofcourse. And we all know, you buy your phone for the games it comes with, not for the options that actually really matter.