Posted on 05/10/2008 1:51:49 PM PDT by nancyvideo
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 Mobiles 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 ..
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Yep Snopes has an article about the claims.
Thanks, good info I didn’t know and have written down for possible use, esp. the battery reserve.
Thanks for the interesting post and well worth sharing.....
We tried trick no. 2 and it did not work.
Coolest thing I do with my cell phone besides talk.
The snopes article - some stuff is apparently true - others aren’t.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
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 ..
This is a myth. Doesn’t work. Different frequencies.
555-1212
Not sure where in the world this article applies to, but in the US the emergency number is 911. Even for a deactivated cell phone 911 will still work on it ... it will search for *any* active carrier in order to connect to the 911 system.
I had the unfortunate circumstance of being a passenger in a car which rear-ended another vehicle stopped at a red light, and when dialing 911 on my cell, it immediately went into "emergency mode" which locked out any incoming calls other than from the 911 system. Afterwards, the phone was still locked in 'emergency mode' and I had to deactivate it manually.
Just something to be aware of, thats all
I can’t believe rightbias fell for this this.
1. 112 works only with GSM cell phones. I doubt it will work outside Europe. Other areas have different emergency codes (911 in the North America). I’ve never tried dialing 112 from the US and have never had to in Europe - but it’s good to know.
2. Go ahead, try it. Burn all the minutes in your plan trying to make your cell phone act as an RKE repeater. If you can get it to work let me know.
3. This is the full rate codec code for GSM phones (don’t know if CDMA uses the same code). It will actually reduce your talk time, not improve it. But the conversation will be clearer.
4. This is a GSM only feature. Everyone should record this number, called the IMEI, or at least record the one listed in very small print in the battery compartment of the phone, which is about 99.999 accurate. The CDMA equivalent is called the ESN. If you manage wireless for an enterprise you can use an up-to-date, secured list of IMEIs to impress your auditors.
5. You still get nailed for the per minute charges, just like any other “toll free” call on a cell phone.
This list seems to have originated in Europe since the parts that are more or less accurate pertain to GSM phones.
If you use Verizon or Sprint in the US, you have CDMA (Bell Mobility or Telus in Canada). If you use T-Mobile or AT&T in the US (Rogers or Fido in Canada) you uses GSM. Your CDMA phone won’t work in Europe, or most other countries outside North America period.
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We successfully unlocked my husband’s car this way. I was at the far back of the house - there was no way the signal travelled that far other than through the cell phone.
My phones from Motorola for the past 3 years have been GSM. (Sprint) CDMA is so 90’s.
My friend and I tried #2 just now....he walked two blocks away, and around the corner, and was unable to directly unlock his car (2007 Scion TC). However, we connected via cellphone and I held the phone 4 inches from the car door. It unlocked!! But, I tried this with my ‘99 Camry, and it didn’t work.
Mine comes in handy when in the emergency of not having a bottle opener around.
Yup, always snopes these things. Mostly bunk in this case. For example, 112 is Europe’s 911 for cell phones. Only the last one re free info is mostly accurate.
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