may be handy one day

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 20:36

Subject: FW: MAY BE HANDY ONE DAY

















This Is Not A Joke!





4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW

YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO







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 ph

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 20:38

continued

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.

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 20:39

continued

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.

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 20:40

continued

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.

Please pass this along to everyone.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 20:44

Coachie, Great Post - very informative.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 20:45

Thanks Coachie - very informative, particularly, I thought, about reversing your PIN number if a robber is telling you to withdraw money from your account.



Many thanks.



J

Graham


Joined: 20/10/2007
Posts: 397

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 21:11

If you goole most of these tips you will find most of them are urban myths which have been circulating for a few years.



Graham

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 21:12

Cheers Coachie , the last tip is brill !!!

rocky


Joined: 17/10/2007
Posts: 1749

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 21:21

coachie have you tried the car entry one needed that recently the boss (wife) had to drive 70plus miles to get my spare keys to me the AA man could not do anything makes u wonder about subscribing to these services, He said well I may be able to force my way in through the door but any damage you will have to pay for, and then he said we could try to go throguh the ski hatch in the back seat and I thought at the time I did not know I had one he seemed to think I did have one. It subsequently turned out that I didnt and dont have one so why did I bother wot the AA??

Arthur


Joined: 04/11/2008
Posts: 687

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 21:29

So Rocky.........I'm not the only one who ends up in the brown stuff!!

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 21:38

What a great post thank you so much, I have also driven miles to one of my sons with their spare keys, will definitely try this out

This is the sort of info that everyone would be please to read.

Sheila

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 22:01

Is there a way to print this off might come in handy one day

Sheila

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
25/03/2009 22:27

Me and the missus just tried out the mobile unlocking trick with with our Vauxhall Zafira. It worked!



Lem

RubberDuck


Joined: 16/02/2009
Posts: 72

Message Posted:
26/03/2009 16:09

Reversing your pin number to summon police is an urban legend. My pin number is the exact same in reverse...



Googled it to check: http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/reversepin.html



Also came across an article on the email coachie has posted: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
26/03/2009 19:20

Rubber duck..I have just had a look at those sites you posted..very interesting.I was sent the one I posted here by Daughter.Like it says on your site its very convincing but unless you know about those sites you put up it is easy to get caught..

RubberDuck


Joined: 16/02/2009
Posts: 72

Message Posted:
27/03/2009 05:41

I agree Coachie - there are a lot of 'chain emails' out there that are very convincing in how they are worded. To be honest I did think to myself 'oh great idea' when I read the part about the pin numbers till I remembered my own reads the same whichever way.

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
27/03/2009 15:19

Rubber duck ..Hope every body else reads your post with those site detailson.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
27/03/2009 22:47

I just typed that phone code and my pacemaker sto.........

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
28/03/2009 22:41

Cylad ..I posted because I thought it was interesting not because I was trying to fool anybody or spread dis information as you seem to think...

ataturk


Joined: 09/09/2008
Posts: 712

Message Posted:
29/03/2009 14:57

Coachie dont worry about the idiots who have got nothing worth saying. Your post was interesting and informative.

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
29/03/2009 20:37

Message 20 reminded me of the famous last words of the Mayor of Hiroshima as he glanced out his office window,



"What the f**k was that?"



Lem