5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do  

That's so cool. i tried some of it but the battery charge one does not work. well at least for my phone

You are a genius! Do you work in cellphone company? That was very useful. Thanks very much.

Louise,

It appears that some of this is true or partially true and some isn't. Take a look at this site:
http://www.snopes.com/inb...

Snopes is a great site to check out urban legands on! I love this one!

Hey Louise! This is some great information to know! I
had no idea about any of these things! These really are
some great tips for cell phone users. I printed this
list out for my boyfriend. He is always forgetting to
charge his phone when I am trying to reach him when he
is gone for the day telling me his battery ran out so
he couldn't call me. Well now he won't be able to use
that excuse anymore! Thanks for some really serious and
useful tips! I will pass this along to my friends who
I am sure will be very thankful to get them!

Hi Louise, This is very informative and handy information to have, unfortunately my car just unlocks with a key but great for people with a remote for unlocking. Thank you for these tips I am sure they will be useful to know in an emergency. Huggles. Ellie :D

Here's few things that might make things little easier. The 15 digit number you get after pushing *#06# is called "IMEI" number, short for International Mobile Equipment Identity. Almost all phones, you can find that number when you take the battery off instead of pushing *#06#. Matter in fact, you should be able to find that number right on the box of the phone came in. By the way, this method only works with GSM based phones, such as AT&T and/or T-Mobile. You may be able to pull up IMEI numbers off of CDMA based phones, such as Verizon & Sprint, but from my understanding, calling the IMEI number into the service provider will do very little, or at least no more than just calling in & telling them your phone got stolen. As far as free directory goes, there is also another option where if you have unlimited, or even decent amount of text messaging, you can send an information or the question to 46645. It will send you a text message back with information you're looking for. You can send a text message to 46645 something like "Home Depot, 19008", then it will send you back a text message, possibly more than 1 or 2, with all the home depots in & near the zip code 19008. It will give you the address & the phone number. The service is provided by google for free. Although it will work with most, that battery power thing doesn't work with ALL brands & models of the cell phone. What I would suggest is before putting it on the charger for the night, try it out & make sure it works with your model before just assuming that it will work. As far as unlocking the car door through cell phone, there is a claim out there that it won't work. http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp. This article talks about opening the door with remote through the cell phone. There is a little section where people thought it was possible because they were in fact with in the range of the keyless remote so they "thought" they unlocked the door through the cell phone but in fact, it was just within the range of the remote itself. Now! If this really works, then great, but just like anything, I wouldn't solely depend on this without trying first. But then there's also a claim that this method works better with GSM based phones, or network, than CDMA based network. Also there are few free services out there. Let say you're going to a non formal social event that you want to get out of it sooner instead of having to stay till the end. There's a website that gives you a call at a preprogramed time. Site is called "http://www.getmooh.com/" Tell the person, "I have to go. I just got an emergency call". Also there's a phone number you can call if you wanna find out the song that's playing at the moment & you wanna find out the name of the song. It's 1-866-411-SONG. Hold your phone to the speaker for about 15 seconds & they'll send you a text message with the song informations. Oh, by the way, THIS SERVICE IS NOT FREE. They'll give you only the first try for free but the rest, you have to subscribe to it. Then there's an information you can get for food. If you send a text message to 34381, it spells diet1, with a restaurant menu item, it will send you back the nutrition informations. Hope you'll enjoy...

Hey these are really good tips for everyone to know, I didn't know you could do all this with your cell phone. You posted some good information...Thanks, I will pass it on.

This is the third or fourth time I have seen this information posted here on MyLot. I'm not coming down on you for plagiarism, but I want to know if you know which phones these codes work for, or which service? I have tried all of these, and the only thing that I can get to work for me is the car lock trick. None of the other codes work for my Kyocera, nor any Nokia's that I have encountered. This would be a great help if it was listed which phones the codes work for for the battery power, and the lockdown trick. I didn't try the 112 thing, because I haven't been outside of my area, and its not nice to play with emergency services.

Good information. This isn't really a phone function, but a useful piece of advice anyway. Apparently if you put your emergency contact number on your phone under a name of "ICE" (In Case of Emergency) and if you are ever in a bad situation where you're hurt or something, Emergency personnel will look for that on your phone so that they can contact somebody.

Hello Louise

I only knew about the last one of these. All of these ideas are nifty, but I will never remember them. Perhaps I need to print out this list and keep it somewhere.