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:
1. 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 dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
Also in Australia , the Australian emergency number 000 can be dialled whilst your mobile phone keyboard is locked. This is another reason why 000 receives so many false emergency calls!
2. 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).
Editors Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!"
3. 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.
4. How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone!:
star-hash-zero-six-hash
* # 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.
Not only the above, but also in Australia your stolen phone is added to a "Stolen Mobile Phone" database, so if your phone is found later on it can be returned to you.
Comments (42)
on: February 19, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply
Mind - Blowing informations,
GOOD TO READ BUT DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW...
you know why -
bcoz service #1 & #2 do work
but Service #3 & #4 are not at all effective,
my mobile service provider VODAFON denies of any such facility availed to any customer on stolen instrument neither does the battery backup work for my nokia instrument...
even-though the first two service can be very handy at times.
on: February 19, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply
This is great Information.
At least any one give information other then sex or scandal
on: February 19, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply
These are very good to know. Thanks DB.
on: February 19, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply
*3370# normally works only on NOKIA phone...its 30% actually..
the car trick doesnt work with every car security system...i have tried
i lost a tata indicom set...gave the *#06# IMEI(ESN in case of cdma network)to they service operator they didnt help....motherfuckers
on: February 19, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply
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on: February 19, 2008 10:41 PM | Reply
Very usefull information. Thank you for sharing these with us.
on: February 19, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply
It's Very useful
***** 5/5
on: February 19, 2008 11:25 PM | Reply
good info..
just to add..in Australia 000 emergency number can be dialled even in a no network zone or without a simcard in the phone
on: February 19, 2008 11:48 PM | Reply
nice tricks...thank you :)
on: February 20, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply
good job, give more details about it......
on: February 20, 2008 12:30 AM | Reply
Thanks for the info's.
It was really helpfull...
on: February 20, 2008 1:03 AM | Reply
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really appreciate who had share the information.
tks
best regards
on: February 20, 2008 1:39 AM | Reply
Nice post man:)
give me some more info.
on: February 20, 2008 2:20 AM | Reply
hey thatz a nice stuff dude
on: February 20, 2008 2:28 AM | Reply
Ooh coool.... so now debonair is converting itself to a techie blog....
Is that so Mr. Editor..
Then please provide me with the new link of your MMS scandals.... lolz
on: February 20, 2008 4:09 AM | Reply
Great information. Very very helpful too. :) I just hope none of the debonairblog visitors find themselves in such a situation where they have to use the numbers.
Much thanks
on: February 20, 2008 4:55 AM | Reply
addendum for entry number one. mobile all over the world will dial the local emergency number while keypad lock is on.
999 for UK.
100 for India
911 for US. actually 911 can be dialed on all phones.
now this only works for mobile phone purpose built for that country. the reason it does not work on most phones in India is because most of the population buys gray market phones, which are mot built to be used in India. but but one from a legit shop you can dial 100.
on: February 20, 2008 5:20 AM | Reply
good post buddy
before coming to this conclusion i have to check out whether it proves your point. I liked the remote keyless entry. I have to check it out for myself. Anyways looks like a good post. Do keep enlighting us.
thanks
on: February 20, 2008 7:17 AM | Reply
Great article. I tried the hidden battery power thing, and it was right. My phone did have a reserve power. thanx for the article.
on: February 20, 2008 8:32 AM | Reply
This doesnt work in United States!!
on: February 20, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply
Hey thanx man... I din't knew you could charge your battery with just a code
on: February 20, 2008 12:40 PM | Reply
the concept of *3370# works only on nokia 3310 and 3315 models and not on any other nokia mobiles. hope the editor has checked this fact.
on: February 20, 2008 2:04 PM | Reply
Thank u for the valuable info
on: February 20, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply
Hi!
Team Debonairblog,
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thank n regards
priyank
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on: February 20, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply
nice article.. thanx 4 dis..
on: February 21, 2008 5:54 AM | Reply
simply superb..........
on: February 23, 2008 12:32 PM | Reply
cool info..
but #4 just doesnt help..i lost a nokia phone recently n wen i contacted the nokia cust. care they said they didnt lock phones...wats d use then...
on: February 23, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply
thanks for the very useful information
on: February 23, 2008 11:57 PM | Reply
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Will it work with bike remote ???
on: February 24, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply
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on: February 24, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply
it really works alot! thnx debonair
on: February 25, 2008 12:47 AM | Reply
Very interesting to know..hope DB will post useful things like this after seeing the response this post has got.Thanx.
on: February 25, 2008 11:38 AM | Reply
i know all these things.one more point i tell you nokia 1600 phones
you dial *#5513# and see your mobil screen opposite.and again dial *#5511# to reset your phone ok....
on: March 8, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply
This is a very good piece of information, thanks.
on: March 18, 2008 3:17 AM | Reply
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on: March 19, 2008 2:13 AM | Reply
Good info,
cellular companies do not help in blocking the cell phone with the imei...
TRAI shld intervene.
thanks for the tips.
on: March 20, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply
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on: March 25, 2008 2:08 PM | Reply
Thank you man for this great info.
Just keep them coming.
These are really handy at times.
Thanks a lot!
on: April 23, 2008 10:25 PM | Reply
the recharge no *3379# is not working in nokia6630 cell
the car idea was supurb
on: May 10, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply
well try this Way .. go to a nice Tv shop... where there are lots of tvs, and call someone on your cell phone. Have them point their remote control at their phone and press the "off" button - all the TVs in the place will switch off!
Wait - that didn't work? No? Neither does the remote entry trick. A cell phone isn't an RF repeater any more that it's an IR repeater.
on: May 13, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply
very good inforamation