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31/01/2008: "MOBILE PHONE TIPS ...... Picture: A perfect morning"
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.
If your car have remote key less entry this may be handy to know. If you lock your keys in the car and the wife or girlfriend has spare keys, call mobile phone to mobile or house phone. Hold your phone about 12 inches from the locked car door. Have the person elsewhere press the unlock button (while holding it near the phone at their end). Your car should then unlock. Saves a lot of trouble.
When your mobile battery is low. To activate, press the keys star 3370 hash. Your mobile will restart on reserve power with a 50% increase in battery power.
To learn the phone serial number, key in the following: star hash 0 6 hash.
A 15 digit code should appear on the screen. This number is unique to your phone. If the phone gets knocked-off, you might try phoning the service provider and pass on the code while putting a block on your account.
They might be able to stop use of the handset regardless of the new owner changing the SIM card. This would cost them money however in lost phone calls. Maybe they won't do it in Australia?
If everybody deactivated lost phones, there would be little point in others stealing them. Less would be sold too, the downside in blocking use would be more ending up in the garbage sooner, so maybe it's not such a brilliant plan?
Probably better to let the new owner keep using it, if losing the phone was your own fault, this would slow down the garbage land-fill rate a tiny bit.
On the other hand - if the phone was stolen by low class slime, of course stop all future use of it. That would be a reasonable response to make.
