There
are 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:
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 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)...
Editor ' s Note: It works fine! We
tried it
out and it unlocked our car over a
mobile
phone!
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 get 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.
ATM - PIN Number Reversal - Good
to
Know
If you should ever be forced by a
robber to
withdraw money from an ATM
machine,
you can
notify the police by entering your
PIN # in
reverse. For example, if your pin
number is
1234,
then you would put in 4321.
The ATM system recognizes that
your PIN
number is backwards from the ATM
card
you placed in the machine. The
machine
will still give you the money you
requested, but unknown to the
robber,
the police will be immediately
dispatched
to the location.
This information was recently
broadcast on
CTV by Crime Stoppers however it is
seldom used because people just
don't
know about it
