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5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Braveht: 7:05am On Oct 28, 2013
5 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 dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out...

SECOND: Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does your car have remote key-less 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)...

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.

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 or sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. Don't you think?

FIFTH : 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 number 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. (9ja police.. I pray o!)

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...

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Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Braveht: 7:07am On Oct 28, 2013
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Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Iykedaprince(m): 7:28am On Oct 28, 2013
Thanks OP for this info.
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Harmvirus(f): 2:11pm On Oct 28, 2013
Wow.. Never knew..Op, thanks for this info
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Nobody: 3:30pm On Oct 28, 2013
No 5 na rough play.
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Nobody: 4:29pm On Oct 28, 2013
aaronson: No 5 na rough play.
Real One.
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by precioussage(m): 7:46am On Oct 30, 2013
this is nice. . .thnks OP
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Ajibel(m): 8:20am On Oct 30, 2013
Excuse me sir, I tried 1st and 3rd, e no work embarassed
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by taosola(m): 11:56am On Oct 30, 2013
Ajibel: Excuse me sir, I tried 1st and 3rd, e no work embarassed
What type of phone did u use o? Because I tried the two here in Ilorin and someone picked my Emergency Call in Lagos and I told her that I was just trying to confirm how it works.
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Ajibel(m): 1:50pm On Oct 30, 2013
taosola:
What type of phone did u use o? Because I tried the two here in Ilorin and someone picked my Emergency Call in Lagos and I told her that I was just trying to confirm how it works.

shocked well I used BB curve doe I have another phone(maybe I should test with that). Was just testing to see if it works. What of the 3rd
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Djtm(m): 1:51pm On Oct 30, 2013
No. 5 cannot work in 9ja.
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by fabolakers(m): 5:19pm On Oct 30, 2013
Naija police will come and tell you to withdraw their own too. grin

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Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Nudob(m): 1:07am On Oct 31, 2013
fabolakers: Naija police will come and tell you to withdraw their own too. grin
lol grin
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Nobody: 9:05am On Nov 03, 2013
fabolakers: Naija police will come and tell you to withdraw their own too. grin

ROFL grin grin
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Nobody: 10:17pm On Nov 10, 2013
O boy this post is more than just informative but educating as well, its painful at times when u have something at ur finger tip and don't know how to use them
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Visocrate(m): 10:57pm On Nov 10, 2013
front page things
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Dermie: 12:37am On Nov 12, 2013
No 5 can't be true...what if my password is 6116, how is the machine gonna detect that? undecided
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by nwaobitex: 9:36am On Nov 17, 2013
nice 1 @op
Re: 5 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do.. by Fluxmega: 3:03pm On Nov 19, 2013
Excellent!

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