Geoff Cole Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Hi All, A colleague sent me the following as an e-mail Ihave printed it out and put in my camper doc file. I am posting it as it might be useful to fellow travellers. FOUR THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO 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: 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 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 mobile 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 boot). Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!" (Note that this will only work if your spare key has a zapper on it. My spare Fiat key does not!) THIRD Hidden Battery Power Imagine your mobile battery is very low. 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 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. Regards to you all Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grocer jack Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Geoff Cole - 2008-01-14 1:50 PM 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 mobile 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 boot). Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!" (Note that this will only work if your spare key has a zapper on it. My spare Fiat key does not!) I can't speak for the other 3 items but the following debunks the car unlocking one: Unlock Your Car Door with a Cell Phone Netlore Archive: Locked out of your automobile? According to this forwarded email, you can have someone transmit a signal from your spare remote key via cell phone and unlock your car door in a pinch. Description: Email hoax Circulating since: July 2004 Status: False Analysis: See below Email example contributed by Amanda, 19 July 2004: Subject: Unlock your car from the outside! This only applies to cars that can be unlocked by remote button. Should you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home. If some one has access to the spare remote have them telephone you on your cell phone. Hold your (or anyone's) cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person press the unlock button, hold it near the phone. Your car will unlock. I tried it and it works. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. Comments: Comforting though it may be to imagine you can unlock your car door in an emergency by receiving a distant signal via your cell phone, it can't possibly work — not with the technology as it now stands, at any rate. Here's why: Your remote car key operates by sending a weak, encrypted radio signal to a receiver inside the automobile, which in turn activates the door locks. Since the system works on radio waves, not sound, the only conceivable way a signal from your spare remote could be picked up by one cell phone and relayed to your car's onboard receiver by another would be if both phones were capable of sending and receiving at exactly the same frequency as the remote itself — which they can't be, given that all remote entry devices operate at frequencies between 300 and 500 MHz, while all mobile phones, by law, operate at 800 MHz and higher. It's apples vs. oranges, in other words. Your cell phone can no more transmit the type of signal needed to unlock a car door than your remote key is capable of dialing up your Aunt Mary ... though no one can predict what miracles the future may bring. Based on this I reckon that the rest are urban myths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grocer jack Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Sorry, that previous post came out a bit of a mess. Following is a debunking of the part of Geoff's post re unlocking you car using your mobile Unlock Your Car Door with a Cell Phone Netlore Archive: Locked out of your automobile? According to this forwarded email, you can have someone transmit a signal from your spare remote key via cell phone and unlock your car door in a pinch. Description: Email hoax Circulating since: July 2004 Status: False Analysis: See below Email example contributed by Amanda, 19 July 2004: Subject: Unlock your car from the outside! This only applies to cars that can be unlocked by remote button. Should you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home. If some one has access to the spare remote have them telephone you on your cell phone. Hold your (or anyone's) cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person press the unlock button, hold it near the phone. Your car will unlock. I tried it and it works. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. Comments: Comforting though it may be to imagine you can unlock your car door in an emergency by receiving a distant signal via your cell phone, it can't possibly work — not with the technology as it now stands, at any rate. Here's why: Your remote car key operates by sending a weak, encrypted radio signal to a receiver inside the automobile, which in turn activates the door locks. Since the system works on radio waves, not sound, the only conceivable way a signal from your spare remote could be picked up by one cell phone and relayed to your car's onboard receiver by another would be if both phones were capable of sending and receiving at exactly the same frequency as the remote itself — which they can't be, given that all remote entry devices operate at frequencies between 300 and 500 MHz, while all mobile phones, by law, operate at 800 MHz and higher. It's apples vs. oranges, in other words. Your cell phone can no more transmit the type of signal needed to unlock a car door than your remote key is capable of dialing up your Aunt Mary ... though no one can predict what miracles the future may bring. Still not that well done but you get the point, and I'll get me coat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Newell Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 The third one is false as well. D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handyman Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 i thought it was going to be........... SECOND Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. you can use you mobile phone to phone your mate to go get your spare keys and bring them to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twooks Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 handyman - 2008-01-14 2:53 PM i thought it was going to be........... SECOND Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. you can use you mobile phone to phone your mate to go get your spare keys and bring them to you naw - that don't work either :-> me fone's inda car innit >:-) B-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 If your mobile is one of the old fashioned heavier types then it can be used to smash the window to gain entry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred grant Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 me spare keys are in the safe in the locked ouse - so thats also badgered then my luvvers. freidlandfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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