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Hot off my e-mail:
MOBILE PHONE HELP
I don’t know if these things work but if they do it could be useful.
A few things that can be done in times of grave 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: -
*EMERGENCY*
*I*
*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 if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.**
*II*
*Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys?*
This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a mobile 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 your cell phone. Hold your mobile phone about a foot from your car door and get 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).
Duggy's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!"*
*III*
Subject: Hidden Battery power
Imagine your mobile’s 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, 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.
AND FINALLY
*IV*
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.
Please spread this useful information around.
Hugs
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Nigel said,
>Please spread this useful information around.
Are you sure it is actually useful? Have you checked to make sure that you're not just propagating misinformation?
Hmm, let me see. Apparently not. All of the following information is available either through Google or common sense.
1. 112 is an emergency number in the EU (including the UK). NOT worldwide. Useful to know, I grant you, but not valid everywhere.
2. The only signals that a phone relays are mid-range audio signals, heavily compressed. Car door openers work on radio signals (electromagnetic radiation, not sound). These are not picked up by the microphones in handsets, nor relayed across the network, nor can be played via a speaker. Ergo, this cannot work.
3. This one is just absurd. Nokia phones do not have a "reserve battery" that is not used unless you enter a secret code. What would be the point? It would add bulk and expense and be totally useless to all those people not "in the know". According to my Googlings, this code changes the Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) configuration which controls the quality of speech sent over the network. In most cases it will do nothing; in some cases, it will actually reduce battery life by about 5%. I would not recommend trying it.
4. This is true for most phones (it does not work with all models). Okay, almost right. A fair suggestion.
If you're planning on spreading this information around, please make corrections before doing so (i.e. by taking out points 2 and 3, and amending 1 and 4).
David
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If I sound rude, I apologise in advance. I am, however, tired, and hence less likely to be tactful. Points 2 and 3 annoy me, because they are obviously stupid and yet people pass them on without checking them.
David
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Why have 16 people read my reply to my reply, but only 11 have read my reply to which my reply to my reply replied?
It seems odd.
David
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Location: United States
Registered: August 2006
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When in doubt, people, Snopes it. 112 won't do you any good outside of open-air areas in Britain. I've seen the car-door thing debunked already, too.
Sorry, folks. When it seems too good to be true, it usually is.
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I don't own a mobile phone.
I have the sort of car key that you have to insert into the lock and turn.
If Deeej didn't exist, you would have to invent him.
Why is it that when you try and help people it goes tits up?
With technophobic hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Nigel said,
>Why is it that when you try and help people it goes tits up?
You've got it the wrong way round -- when people try to help you on the internet, you should question their motives. 
In other words, the onus is on you to check the validity of something you hear before you pass it on.
It works quite well for me, not just on the internet, but for life in general.
David
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Thanks, Adam. I forgot to mention Urban Legends Reference Pages (snopes.com), but it is an excellent site and I heartily recommend it.
Adam said,
>112 won't do you any good outside of open-air areas in Britain.
That is true -- but in this case the original email didn't suggest otherwise. Aside from the London Underground, there is practically nowhere in the UK (except for really remote areas like the Scottish Highlands) where you can't get a mobile signal from at least one network these days. I think it is still a worthwhile piece of information.
David
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