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Highbinder
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« on: February 28, 2010, 09:52:09 AM »

I ran across this information and thought I'd past it on, it was all new to me because I don't have a cell phone perhaps you may .....

 

 

For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car,
purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you.)


 
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 dialed 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 cell 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).

THIRD Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys  *3370#. Your
cell phone 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 phone 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: *#06#. 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.

And
Finally....


FIFTH Free Directory Service for Cells

Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for
411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not
carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation
even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option,

simply dial: (800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all.

 

Progra
ow this stuff already Smiley anyway it seemed interesting and helpful.
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« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 10:18:26 AM »

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp


Don't count on the car thing Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 10:41:59 AM »

Here's another one: Anytime your cellphone is on, it is reporting its (your) GPS location to the phone company, accurate to a few feet. Law enforcement can and do ask for this information on a daily basis. No search warrant is required. Just last week the Obama administration argued to a federal appeals court that "the FBI and other police agencies don't need to obtain a search warrant to learn the locations of Americans' cellphones."  Embarrassed

I suspect the phone can track your whereabouts even when turned "off." (It's probably what that secret power reserve is really used for.) One of those lead lined bags we used to use to protect film from airport x-rays probably would help here. Put the phone inside it. Of course, if you're driving, the RFID that the government forced automakers to put in their cars after 2007, also is reporting your GPS location to anyone that wants it.  Angry

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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 12:01:06 PM »

....funny you should bring this up


....just last week I was given a phone number by a company to get some information I needed. I dialed it once using the area code on my cell phone (we got rid of our land line)....and I got a message stating that...."this number is not available from my calling area"...I didnt think much of it, because we live way up here in Northern Michigan...and we have problems alot of times trying to dail out to certain numbers....so I thought to myself...okay...maybe I just need to dial a "1" first...so I hung up and redialed....this time using a 1 before the area code....well....a woman picked up and began to speak...French...to me ! .....I promptly hung up !


......now Im just patiently waiting on the cell phone bill...to see if I indeed...called France...and if so...how much was I billed for the call ? ..  Cool
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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2010, 12:15:51 PM »

how much was I billed for the call ? ..  Cool

$5.99 a miniute.  Wink
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« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2010, 05:16:52 PM »

Quote
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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 cell 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).

This is So STUPID
The antenna for you door locks aren't even in the doors!!!

They were trying this at work the other day... I told them they looked like complete maroons.
 2funny 2funny 2funny 2funny 2funny 2funny 2funny
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« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2010, 06:53:48 PM »

i wonder, how does the cell phone know you are standing beside your car?

"IF" that did work you could unlock every car in the world...
here is how it really works,
take your cell phone and call onstar and ask them to unlock your car,,,,
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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2010, 09:58:20 AM »

....funny you should bring this up


....just last week I was given a phone number by a company to get some information I needed. I dialed it once using the area code on my cell phone (we got rid of our land line)....and I got a message stating that...."this number is not available from my calling area"...I didnt think much of it, because we live way up here in Northern Michigan...and we have problems alot of times trying to dail out to certain numbers....so I thought to myself...okay...maybe I just need to dial a "1" first...so I hung up and redialed....this time using a 1 before the area code....well....a woman picked up and began to speak...French...to me ! .....I promptly hung up !


......now Im just patiently waiting on the cell phone bill...to see if I indeed...called France...and if so...how much was I billed for the call ? ..  Cool
Sure, scare some poor french chick.

Your cell company has a translations problem, as in translating keypad tones to the proper place. Likely from MI, you called Canada. I once found out the country code for the USSR was 7. Canada is 011 so you might have stutter keyed on these little dinky keypads.
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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2010, 09:59:47 AM »

i wonder, how does the cell phone know you are standing beside your car?

"IF" that did work you could unlock every car in the world...
here is how it really works,
take your cell phone and call onstar and ask them to unlock your car,,,,
Or tape a key to your cellphone.  cooldude
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« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2010, 05:20:35 PM »

I put my door lock code into my cell phone address book.
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« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2010, 09:51:37 PM »

my favorite cell phone scam fear tactic is the one were these people put four cell phones in a group with a popcorn kernel in the middle, then call the phones at the same time and pop the corn kernel.  well, it doesn't work.  i don't know how they did it, but i couldn't!  my kids wanted to see if it would work and i told them it wouldn't, had to prove 'em wrong again!

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« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2010, 04:44:29 AM »

Don,

Your information on the emergency number 112 is great.  I've been riding with people and we've had a problem and then we play "Who's got service?"

Since we can't try it out to see if it works I was wondering if you had some more info on it?

Paul
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« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2010, 05:34:08 AM »

snopes claims that's false too

http://www.snopes.com/science/mobile.asp

It also says the hidden battery power claims (*3370#) is false also. that changes the coding method....which allows for a possible clearer quality call...AT THE EXPENSE OF USING MORE BATTERY POWER (just the opposite of the original claim).

actually, i went to a different link at snopes...and it had this actual page of info...word for word...and debunked most of it...saying it was either false...or not quite right....or sort of right but....etc.

The only reason i checked....was because as en Engineer, with a heavy RF background in my early days, i pretty much knew the key thing had to be false..................

i just hadn't had time to check back here until today.........
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« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2010, 07:29:00 AM »

Hey Paul....I don't have any more information on this stuff and from what everyone is saying most of it is bull stuff anyhow.... Sad too bad, some of it sounded pretty good.
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« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2010, 12:01:06 PM »

Hey Don

My cell phone just powered down and I restarted and typed
*3370# but it is still deader than a doornail

got any other numbers? Shocked

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« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2010, 02:23:35 PM »

112 worked on MY phone.  Even with the keys locked.

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« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2010, 02:15:31 AM »

It was my understanding that dialing a "1" on a cell phone sends you overseas automatically. 1's aren't used as they are on land lines.
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