My nephew has sent me cell phone tips

[suntrack2]

As follows:

Useful Mobile Tips





> > > 1) Emergency number: The Emergency Number
worldwide
> > > for Mobile 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 interestingly this number 112 can be
> > > dialed even while the keypad is locked. Try it
out
> > >
> > >
> > > 2) Locked the keys in the car? 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
> > > home, call someone on your cell phone. Hold your
> > > cell phone about a foot from your car door and
have
> > > the other person at your home press the unlock
> > > button, holding it near the 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!"
> > >
> > > 3) Imagine your cell battery is very low, you
are
> > > expecting an important call and you don't have a
> > > charger". Nokia instrument comes with a reserve
> > > battery. To activate, key is *3370# Your cell
will
> > > restart with this reserve and your instrument
will
> > > show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve
will
> > > get charged when you charge your cell next time.
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tell me your experiences that how your cell phone helped you particularly in the "difficult times",

sunil

[Wolverine]

I used my cell phone so infrequently that I got rid of it three years ago.

[The_Radiation_Specialist]

cool tips! didnt know you can unlock your car through a cellphone. gonna have to try it once.

[suntrack2]

thanks Wolverine, you got it before three years, means my nephew is keeping old knowledge, i don't know but my nephew was sent me this, for a few time i laugh

and I moved hand on my head.

if you don't get any result, please don't give blaim. Radiation specialist!

today cell phone become a toy in our hands.

sunil

[Nicolas]

why is this magical reserve battery in nokia undocumented? I haven't checked it, but I'm sceptic. Also how can you unlock your keys through a cell phone? I assume those signals are ultrasound at least. Good speaker that can produce those! Again I haven't tried it as I lack a car for the experiment .

[Robert Andersson]

why is this magical reserve battery in nokia undocumented? I haven't checked it, but I'm sceptic. Also how can you unlock your keys through a cell phone? I assume those signals are ultrasound at least. Good speaker that can produce those! Again I haven't tried it as I lack a car for the experiment .

I don't have any experience with such keys, but I would have guessed they used EM (radio), and Wikipedia seems to agree. How you could use a cell phone, without some delicate modifications, to do that feat escapes me.

[Argos]

Smells like an urban legend.

[NEOWatcher]

Smells like an urban legend.

You beat me, I was just about going to post snopes

[NEOWatcher]

Smells like an urban legend.

and here for 112

[Roy Batty]

From here it appears keying *3370# has nothing to do with a reserve battery & would actually decrease battery life!

'EFR CALL QUALITY
To activate EFR (Enhanced Full Rate) Enter the code-
*3370#
This improves call quality but decreases batterylife by about 5%
To deactivate it, Enter the code-
#3370#'

[SeanF]

The car lock one doesn't work, I've tested it.

The battery one threw up red flags for me right away, just based on size/weight. Where is that extra 50% power supposed to be stored?

[NEOWatcher]

The car lock one doesn't work, I've tested it.

I think the basis for this one is some older answering machines (or some other device? - I just remember the concept)
It was sound activated, and had a fob you could carry to call it up and control it.

[01101001]

1) Emergency number: The Emergency Number
worldwide for Mobile is 112.

Check that. 112 appears to be a standard for GSM phones, about 70% of cell phones.

Wikipedia

The telephone number 1-1-2 is the international emergency telephone number for GSM mobile phone networks. It does not necessarily work on other mobile phone technologies.

Wikipedia

More than 1.6 billion people use GSM phones as of 2005, making GSM the dominant mobile phone system worldwide with about 70% of the world's market. GSM's main competitor, cdmaOne, is used primarily in North America and [2] parts of Asia.

Make sure what emergency number works on your cell phone where you are, before you need it.

During an actual emergency, is no time to try to figure it out.

[Nicolas]

I don't have any experience with such keys, but I would have guessed they used EM (radio), and Wikipedia seems to agree. How you could use a cell phone, without some delicate modifications, to do that feat escapes me.

No matter if it uses EM or ultrasound(which it apparently does not use), we agree it won't work. Is there a word such as "overdebunked!"?

[paulie jay]

Gee Suntrack, you could have got rid of all those ">>>>" form the message!

[Robert Andersson]

No matter if it uses EM or ultrasound(which it apparently does not use), we agree it won't work. Is there a word such as "overdebunked!"?

"Overdebunked", on this board? Nah...

[Candy]

Gee Suntrack, you could have got rid of all those ">>>>" form the message!

1) Emergency number: The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile 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 interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even while the keypad is locked. Try it out

2) Locked the keys in the car? 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 home, call someone on your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the 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!"

3) Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger". Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery. To activate, key is *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and your instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time

No, still looks the same.

I got rid of the cell phone and refused to have one after 9/11. Kind of seems backwards.

[01101001]

No, still looks the same.

Yeah. All the disinformation is still there.