THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DOThere are a few things that can bedone in times of grave emergencies.Your mobile phone can actually be alife saver or an emergency tool for survival.Check out the things that you can do with it:FIRSTEmergencyThe Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.If you find yourself out of the coverage area ofyour mobile; network and there is an emergency,dial 112 and the mobile will search any existingnetwork to establish the emergency number for you,and interestingly this number 112 can be dialledeven if the keypad is locked. Try it out.SECONDHave 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 yourkeys in the car and the spare keys are at home,call someone at home on their mobile phonefrom your cell phone.Hold your cell phone about a foot fromyour car door and have the personat your home press the unlock button,holding it near the mobile phone on their end.Your car will unlock.Saves someone from having todrive your keys to you.Distance is no object.You could be hundreds of miles away,and if you can reach someone who hasthe other 'remote' for your car, you canunlock the doors (or the trunk).Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out andit unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'THIRDHidden Battery PowerImagine your mobile battery is very low.To activate, press the keys *3370#Your mobile will restart with this reserve and theinstrument will show a 50% increase in battery.This reserve will get charged whenyou charge your mobile next time.FOURTHHow to disable aSTOLEN 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 phoneyour service provider and give them this code.They will then be able to block your handsetso 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 itcan't use/sell it either.If everybody does this, there would beno point in people stealing mobile phones.ATM - PIN Number Reversal - Good to KnowIf you should ever be forced by a robber towithdraw money from an ATM machine, you cannotify 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 isbackwards 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 beimmediately dispatched to the location.This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppershowever it is seldom used because people just don't know about it.Please pass this along to everyone.This is the kind of information people don't mind
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