Three Things Your Cell Phone Can Do in Emergencies
October 25th 2008 06:48 am
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you are 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.
Locked Out of Car
Does your car have remote keyless entry? If you lock your keys In the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home from your cell to their cell. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button while holding the clicker close to their cell phone. The car will unlock. Update 11/19/08: According to Snopes, this is impossible. However, I have had people report they have unlocked their car. Try it before you need it. Let me know if it works.
Battery Reserve Power
If your cell battery is very low, press the keys *3370#. Your cell phone will restart in reserve power mode.
This was sent to me in an email from a friend. I had heard of the remote unlock, but not the other two. If it helps you in a pinch, I am glad.
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Bob responded on 25 Oct 2008 at 2:29 pm #
Excellent advice, cool about the clicker and phone.
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Jade responded on 28 Oct 2008 at 12:42 am #
Wow this is cool. Wonder if these works on all type of phones.
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Annie responded on 28 Oct 2008 at 9:59 pm #
I can’t wait to try that remote unlock trick!!! I have to send these great tips to my kids away at college! Thanks!!!
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anajz responded on 29 Oct 2008 at 8:48 am #
These are great hints. We tried the cell phone lock out while the car was sitting right outside and it worked! DH thinks that we should try it the next time one of us travels without the other.
I plan to print out these suggestions and place them in my wallet, the glove compartment of all vehicles and in the extra key drawer.
Thanks!
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carol at A Second Cup responded on 29 Oct 2008 at 11:15 am #
I had not heard the phone thing either. That may come in handy some day. Great post.
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Bryce responded on 30 Oct 2008 at 11:59 am #
Cool tips. I have a friend who actually did the remote entry thing when his wife locked her keys in their car. That reserve power thing seems a little odd. Why would you have to dial a number to tell your phone to use power that’s just sitting there? I’m going to have to deliberately run my battery down to try it out!
Roxy's Best Of... responded on 02 Nov 2008 at 9:28 am #
Thanks for the tips. Seems from your comments that the remote unlock has worked for others. We tried it the other day when our nanny locked her keys in the trunk of her car, but we don’t have particularly good cellphone service out here in the Roxticus Valley, New Jersey, and her husband was also using a cellphone to click on the unlock button… maybe that’s why it didn’t work.
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Guntars responded on 05 Nov 2008 at 11:14 am #
“..your cell battery is very low, press the keys *3370#. ” This combination don’t help for my Nokia 6233!? Or this combination work only when is low battery?!
Nature's Sunshine Girl responded on 06 Nov 2008 at 8:51 am #
I tried the 3rd tip but it didn’t work with my 2 cellphones. Maybe, they’re not yet ‘low batt’. I think the 1st tip works like 911. I accidentally dialed 911 twice before and had bad experiences from doing those mistakes. I’ll reserve punching ‘112′ on my cellphone when I really have an emergency. I haven’t tried the 2nd tip because my car broke down and I brought it to the shop. Thank you for sharing us the tips. :)
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CyberCelt responded on 22 Nov 2008 at 6:22 pm #
Thank you all for visiting. Please try out these on your cell phone, before you use them. As you can see, there has been varying degrees of success from my readers.
Michael responded on 08 Dec 2008 at 7:19 am #
I knew the emergency number before, but today I will try these other two out on my Nokia cell and report back if they worked