Unknown Features of Your Cell Phone

5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do

By Dr. Dunkenstein, published Feb 23, 2007
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FIRST

Subject: 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. Interestingly, this number can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.

Try it out.

SECOND

Subject: 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 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. It 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

Subject: Hidden Battery Power


Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. 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

Subject: 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 gets 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.

And Finally....

FIFTH

Subject: Free information line


Unknown Features of Your Cell Phone

Did you know that your cell phone has hidden battery power?

Credit: Oliver Kendal Hamilton

Copyright: istockphoto.com

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Wow - those are sweet!

Posted on 01/03/2008 at 5:01:45 PM

 
Cool article, but I don't think the key locked in the car one works. For that to work, it would require that they keys use sounds to transmit over the phone like that. Interesting read though, and I'm going to try some of this stuff out. Who knows, I might be wrong on the keys one too.

Posted on 11/15/2007 at 6:11:00 PM

 
*#06# does not work for NON-GSM phone. as long as your phone is a GSM phone ( a phone that takes a sim card) it will work

Posted on 09/28/2007 at 11:09:00 AM

 
to find the serial number of your cell phone just remove the battery and it is written under there.

Posted on 09/13/2007 at 7:09:00 AM

 
kuss and cum on all of these

Posted on 08/16/2007 at 9:08:00 PM

 
What is difference between "UNKNOWN" and "PRIVATE" when you receive these calls? Is there ANY way that you could find out who is calling you at midnight?

Posted on 07/31/2007 at 9:07:00 AM

 
2 of the 4 suggestions do not work on LG phones - battery reserve and serial number suggestions

Posted on 03/01/2007 at 3:03:00 PM

 
Um, this is an e-mail hoax. Most of the things are not true. Here's the snopes link- http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp

Posted on 03/01/2007 at 8:03:00 AM

 
The only thing that worked on my Motorola was the free 411 number which will come in handy. Thanks!

Posted on 02/27/2007 at 6:02:00 PM

 
Great article but I'm still trying to figure out how to turn mine on.

Posted on 02/24/2007 at 7:02:00 AM

 
Terrific tips! I had heard the one about lost car keys before but never the others.

Posted on 02/23/2007 at 6:02:00 PM

 
Not the article I expected.

Posted on 02/23/2007 at 6:02:00 PM

 
My daughter just had her SECOND cell phone stolen and we went online and got a list of the calls made by the phone and were able to find out from calling those numbers who stole her phone! Thanks for the great information!

Posted on 02/23/2007 at 5:02:00 PM

 
WOW! What wonderful information! Thanks.

Posted on 02/23/2007 at 4:02:00 PM

 
Now it's 7 minutes later and almost full power! Thanks for posting this; my spam blocker prevents me from getting this info.

Posted on 02/23/2007 at 3:02:00 PM

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