Has Anyone Tried These?

[Trem]

Just had an email off my mate and it had some interesting stuff in it about mobile phones, I was especially interested in the car keys one -

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:

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.

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 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!"

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.

 

[TdC]

iirc *3370# is an old nokia code to do whatever. do a google for "nokia secret codes"


as to the car opening thing, that's cool, though I am semi certain it won't work.

 

[Will]

It reduces call quality, so your battery will last longer, apparently.

 

[rynnor]

Hmm - I'm dubious about the car unlocking one - may have to experiment.

As I see it the remote unlocking uses a radio signal and I'd be amazed if A. that part of the spectrum was transmitted over the network for voice calls and B. that your speaker would output in radio frequency and C. that the microphone would pick up radio waves.

Are these perhaps all lies?

 

[Chilly]

first one isnt a lie

 

[mank!]

Hmm - I'm dubious about the car unlocking one - may have to experiment.

As I see it the remote unlocking uses a radio signal and I'd be amazed if A. that part of the spectrum was transmitted over the network for voice calls and B. that your speaker would output in radio frequency and C. that the microphone would pick up radio waves.

Are these perhaps all lies?

i saw this on another forum, it was proven on brainiac and mythbusters apparently

 

[Chilly]

brainiac is the least scientific "prove" program there is. its shite. all they do is nuke caravans.

 

[Jupitus]

all they do is nuke caravans.

Gets my vote then

 

[nath]

brainiac is the least scientific "prove" program there is. its shite. all they do is nuke caravans.

Aye, and they measured the speed of the air flowing out of your mouth in a sneeze by how fast it moved a ping-pong ball.

Very scientific stuff.

 

[mank!]

i didn't claim it was scientific!

 

[Dukat]

Gets my vote then

OI!!!

 

[Tom]

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.

works

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 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!"

total bullshit

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.

reduces audio quality

 

[DaGaffer]

OI!!!

You like caravans? I think you're in the wrong place* old bean.













*on Earth.

 

[Dukat]

You like caravans? I think you're in the wrong place* old bean.

*on Earth.

Hehehe, sorry, its a bit of an in-joke... my CS alias is/was PikeyReaXion.

Its from the film snatch ya' see I'm not really a Pikey! Honest!

*Steals Dagaffer's Turban*

 

[Guest]

"beddy"

 

[Sparx]

its all bollocks

if your phone has no signal then its not reaching the masts therfore you have no outgoing or incomming calls.

I've tried the calling your phone and sending signal down to the car, does not work

As stated the code is an old code to lower audio quality

 

[Bodhi]

its all bollocks

if your phone has no signal then its not reaching the masts therfore you have no outgoing or incomming calls.

So why does my phone say "Emergency Calls Only" when I have no signal? Is that perchance so it can search for ANOTHER network so I can make emergency calls?

 

[GReaper]

Have you locked your keys in the car?

Reminds me of my uncles car from ages ago. It didn't use a radio signal but instead used infra-red! At the time I had one of those TV remote control watches which could capture the signal from the key fob, save it and then send it to the car to open it whenever I felt like it.

I found it quite funny! But I don't think he was amused that a £50 watch could open his car so easily.

 

[Himse]

the car thing does work.

I've tried it.

 

[Will]

the car thing does work.

I've tried it.

Really?

 

[mank!]

i tried it whilst stood by my car and it works

 

[Himse]

Really?

Well ours worked, i went and stood right down the bottom of the hill (way more than 300ft) and did it, and it unlocked the car.

 

[rynnor]

Well ours worked, i went and stood right down the bottom of the hill (way more than 300ft) and did it, and it unlocked the car.

Hmm - interesting - I may have to try a real test by phoning the Mrs with my spare key when I'm out and about.

 

[old.Tohtori]

The emergency works, it's just a "requirement" for all phones to have. Every phone should have the ability to dial 112, even with the power turned off(not sure) and pin locked, in case of...well...emergencies.

The carkey thing might have to od with models and different type of ways it's sent to the car. No idea on that.

The extra power code thing is class for sending messages on low battery.

 

[rynnor]

The only plausible suggestion I've heard on the car keys/phone one is that possibly the mobile phone which operates on the microwave band somehow amplifies the signal of the radio based remote key - it wouldnt work from the next county but it could maybe be far enough away to convince people it works.

This is a very loose theory tho...