10 phone tips.

Seloth

http://lifehacker.com/345501/top-10-telephone-tricks

Sio i'Cork like

No good for irish phones.

charybdis

Seloth wrote: »

http://lifehacker.com/345501/top-10-telephone-tricks

Did you even read any of this?

Capt'n Midnight

6. Avoid annoying calls with a custom silent ringtone. Amazing no one else thought of it :rolleyes:

2. Swear like a sailor to skip directly to a human operator.
When that Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system's making you navigate an endless menu of options, put your potty mouth to good use. Some IVR's are programmed to listen for naughty words and speed you along to human help when they hear them.
If that don't work with Eircom then no use to most people, and since they are recording your calls it would be a disaster if you go legal

A much better idea is this sort of thing www.speaktoahuman.co.uk

ekevosu

4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO
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:

FIRST 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.

SECOND 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!'

THIRD 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.

FOURTH How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phon! e: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

tony 2 tone

ekevosu wrote: »

4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO
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:

FIRST 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.

SECOND 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!'

THIRD 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.

FOURTH How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phon! e: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
Better explanation of the "tricks"

Mister Fister

ekevosu wrote: »

SECOND 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!'

Stupid! if your car has a remote keyless thingy how are you supposed to lock yourself out if you need the damn key to lock it in the first place?

MarkR

You can also control a radio controlled car. Wonder could you transmit a baby monitor thing?

Ron DMC

MarkR wrote: »

You can also control a radio controlled car. Wonder could you transmit a baby monitor thing?

Do you reckon you could increase the range of walkie talkies that way too?
e.g.


walkie))))))))))[Landline]

---

[Landline]((((((((((walkie


Where )))))) is the range of the walkie and

---

could theoretically be a call as far away as Australia.

EDIT: I'll draw a proper diagram later, but I think you know what I mean.

BDW

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

Do you reckon you could increase the range of walkie talkies that way too?
e.g.


walkie))))))))))[Landline]

---

[Landline]((((((((((walkie


Where )))))) is the range of the walkie and

---

could theoretically be a call as far away as Australia.

EDIT: I'll draw a proper diagram later, but I think you know what I mean.

I believe that it only works with mobile phones as it's something to do with the singnal they use

seamus

Mister Fister wrote: »

Stupid! if your car has a remote keyless thingy how are you supposed to lock yourself out if you need the damn key to lock it in the first place?

It doesn't work anyway.

All the mobile phone does (in essence) is convert a sound signal to an electrical signal and transmit it.

In order to transmit any other type of sound wave between a pair of mobile phones, the frequency used by the device would need to be within the receivable and transmittable range of the mobile phone.

Since the range of frequencies audible to the human ear is only a fraction of the possible spectrum, it's unlikely that this will work, unless your key fob makes a sound like a tuba when you press it.

Furthermore, since radio controls are electromagnetic waves (and not audio ones), my explanation is an exercise in futility - mobile phones cannot transmit electromagnetic waves (they *use* electromagnetic waves).

Any results are probably tainted - the caller is too close to the device they're trying to control. It's also possible that the antenna on the mobile provides a certain amount of amplification of the radio signal coming from the key fob to make it appear like it's opening the car from a further distance.

Capt'n Midnight

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

walkie))))))))))[Landline]

---

[Landline]((((((((((walkie

CordlessPhone))))))))))Base[Landline]

---

[Landline]Base((((((((((CordlessPhone

That's how DECT phones work, they even have then in New Zealand

But seriously any device emiting RF would only interfere with other RF devices by adding to the background noise. Thankfully most devices have good filters and there are allocated frequency bands and frequency hopping means that many devices can tolerate more noise than older versions.

You can thank this lady for WiFi BTW.

MarkR

seamus wrote: »

unless your key fob makes a sound like a tuba when you press it.

I would purchase this product. :pac:

Fabio

Anyone try out the reserve phone battery? I did and nothing happened to the phone at all!

aine-maire

Fabio wrote: »

Anyone try out the reserve phone battery? I did and nothing happened to the phone at all!

yeah, it didn't work for me either! (nokia)

tony 2 tone

The reserve battery thing is actually setting your phone to run at a lower sound quality but gives you longer talk time.

*3370# This Nokia code activates Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your Nokia cell phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%
#3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) .
*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time.
*#4720# With this Nokia code you can deactivate the Half Rate Codec.

garbanzo

didn't work for me too so I guess that gicves us "source" and "confirmation" on that idea !

IRISH RAIL

Those codes depend on make and model numbers

and the car unlocking with the phone does work

reganovich

ekevosu wrote: »

4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO
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:

FIRST 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.

SECOND 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!'

THIRD 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.

FOURTH How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phon! e: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

Bar 112 none of this stuff works

2Shae

I have done the car unlocking trick on a 2001 vw bora and a 2005 vw passat, it doesnt work on all cars, but it does work on some, so dont just say it doesnt work, proof is better than pudding, top gear have also proved it works.

Ronan H

Top Gear also proved that holding the key fob to your head will open the car from a distance that is too far away when held away from the head... That was weird...

Head

Edit: Sorry, not phone related so slightly off topic (