[Dodge]

Received this email from a friend and here are a couple of good tips re your mobile to try

*II*
>Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote
>keys?
>
>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 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 cell phone!"*
>
>
>*III*
>Subject: Hidden Battery power
>
>Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important
>call and you don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve
>battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell 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 next time.
>

 

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[Magicrik]

Thanks Mate ive got a nokia.......im gonna run the battary down too see if that battary thing work.

 

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[YakAtak]

love the first idea, don't think it will work with my old Suby though.

 

[HiRAEdd]

Damn, I was too slow hehe
I was really disappointed when I found out "Change active voice codec" did not mean my phone would automatically translate my voice into another language hehe

 

[milan72]

I have heard the same thing about the deyless entry over the mobile phone but can't test it out.

I call my car (Dual Cab Hilux 4wd) 'Basic Barry' as it doesn't have climate control, carpet, velour interior, CD player or remote locking. It does however air conditioning. Can I turn that on with a mobile phone..... oh, what's the point???

hehe...

Cheers,

Milano.

 

[Platycat]

>Subject: Hidden Battery power
>
>Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important
>call and you don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve
>battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell 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 next time.
>[/quote]

*3370# improves sound quality (using EFR), but reduces battery life.
#3370# resets sound quality to normal.

If you were to dial #3370# and the sound quality was set to high, then it'll decrease audio quality, but might give you some extra battery time.
It doesnt magically recharge the phone or anything, it just puts it into low-quality audio mode. If the battery is flat, then its not going to help that much.

by dialing *3370# it sets it to high audio quality, which means more processing, which will shorten the battery time

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=nokia+secret+codes

 

[Blaen]

Working in the industry I see these little tips pop up all the time, these 2 have been flaoting about for sometime, but as others have pointed out they are really unfounded.

Except maybe the first one, new technology is being worked on by a partneership between an extremely large Global Mobile Network and Handset Manufacturers. It will see the development of new features of mobile phones, bluetooth technology and various day to day items such as cars, ATM's, computers etc. In the way of turning the mobile in to a electronic wallet and set of keys.

Some of the high end cars particularly European ones give you the ability to intigrate certain brnads of mobiles into your car, so you can unlock them, link in and locate them via GPRS and GPS (handy if you have lent your expensive car to the kids for the night) and even to the point of having the heating system fire up before you get into the car.

It's currently working in a couple of small areas in Europe as test areas, but it will still be a couple of years before we really see it here in Australia. Personally I don't like the idea, the amount of people that have had their phone stolen or lost it everyday is enough to scare me off of having all my financial details in mine.

However there are presently vending machines in Australia that will charge a Coke or a Sweet Treat to your mobile phone account, once again still in small numbers but they are out there. If you are on the network that Little Johnny is about to sell off.