Emergency Tips

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:20 pm

This is stuff I did not know until today:
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 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 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.

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. Program this into your cell phone now.

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:18 pm

When you do Shelley's tip #5 you just might get me on the other end

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:09 am

Thank you Shelley. That is good to know. I printed it out and will be passing it along to my friends and family.

-1bigsteve (o:

twinsrwe · Post by **twinsrwe** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:02 am

Thanks, Shelley! I will also be passing this information onto my family and friends.

Nadzieja · Post by **Nadzieja** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:04 pm

These were great tips, thanks for passing them along. I will be passing them on also, they can be very important at certain times.

twinsrwe · Post by **twinsrwe** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:52 pm

I copied the list of Emergency Tips and was going to send it on to my family and friends via an e-mail. However, before I send out e-mails I like to check with a couple of web sites which are designed to verify if the information provided in an e-mail is true or false.

I hate to say this, but these tips do not work on all cell phones, nor do all of these tips work.

Here is what snopes.com has to say regarding these Emergency Tips: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp

And this is what truthorfiction.com has to say regarding these Emergency Tips: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/ ... phones.htm

I'm sorry, Shelley, but I thought you and the other members would want to know the result of my search.

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:10 pm

Alas, I tried some and some work, and I see by your links, there are some qualifying circumstances for others and different options for different countries regarding the emergency number 112. I will add this to the list of tips I have in my glove compartment.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:02 am

SteveS. @ Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:18 pm wrote:When you do Shelley's tip #5 you just might get me on the other end

Hi SteveS! Does that mean you work for the phone company?

twinsrwe · Post by **twinsrwe** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:09 am

It is unfortunate that not all cell phones are created equally - it would be a wonderful thing if they were.

kssunflower · Post by **kssunflower** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:45 pm

Drat, they didn't work for me either.

Now, if I can only figure out how to get mine to pop corn...

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:17 pm

Hi Kat...............yes i do. I am a Directory Assistance Operator. I liked that avatar you used for the operator