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Got these in a mail, Dunno how true these are but they seem legit, had never even heard about the emergency battery bit, will try next time the battery is nearly out. Only charged mine this mornin so it'll be a couple of days. Let us know if you try it and it doesnt work.


Interesting Facts about Mobiles Phones


Very Useful information

Check this out. It is very interesting!

1. Emergency Number : The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.

If you find yourself out of 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 while the keypad is locked. Try it out.

2. Keys Locked in the Car? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a Mobile Phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone on your mobile phone. Hold your mobile phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the Unlock button, holding it near the phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves time for someone to drive your keys to you. Distance is not a problem. 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 boot).

Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!"

3. Your Mobile Battery is Very Low , you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger". Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery. To activate the battery, the key-in *3370# your cell will restart with this reserve and your instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.
 
1. Emergency Number : The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.
It should say this in your phones manual

2. Keys Locked in the Car?
Won't work....


3. *3370#
This Nokia code activates Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your Nokia cell phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%. You wanted *#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time.
 
1. This is true 112 is the standard Eu emergency no. you can dial this on a phone even if you don't have the PIN to unlock it (or I think even from a phone without a SIM).

2. urban legend
[broken link removed]

3. DON'T DO THIS!!!!
usually these combinations of * & no.s are used to do things at an OS or configuration level to mobile phones (or to PBXs).
According to this:
http://www.chairwars.com/cgi-bin/mobile/YaBB.cgi?board=tips;action=display;num=1080774492
this will activate "EFR", which actually consumes more power :)

In general, a little googling will tell you if these things are real or hoaxes (unfortuately usually the case). I usually try to find multiple sources telling me how something works from the web before I'll try it, but then I'm a bit of a cynic...
 
1. 112 is the standard number from any phone type, not just mobiles.

2. How on earth could anyone expect this to work?
 
Yes I can confirm 112 is an emergency number,I "discovered" this while pretending to Ring Barney for my child one night so she could say goodnight.At least the guy on the other end of the phone seen the funny side of it.....!
 
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