1. The secret emergency number

Okay, you might say who doesn’t know the emergency hot-line number? Everyone could dial 911 right? But consider this situation, you’re in an emergency and there’s no line on your cell phone, or you’re in a foreign land and you don’t know who to call, so what would you do?

The solution is dial 112, by calling this number your mobile phone will search existing network in that area and it will establish an emergency number for you. And 112 is the only number you could dial even if your phone’s keypad is locked. Don’t trust me? try it yourself.

2. Lost or stolen phones

I don’t know if this had ever happened to you but I have witnessed a few of my friends fell victim to pick pockets and their cell phone got stolen and some lost their phone while commuting, the fortunate thing is that they had backup to their important contact. The unfortunate thing is well…. they lost their phone. Be it pick pocket or losing a phone by accident, it can be very frustrating.

What I cannot show you is how you can recover your cell phone, but what i can show you is how to disable the cell phone you’ve lost by disabling it, of couse you’ll need some preparation beforehand. What you need to do is code in *#06# into your cell phone and it will display your cell phone’s serial number, this serial number is unique to each phone, write that down and keep it in a safe place, if the unfortunate happen and you lose your phone, you can call your service provider and give them the serial number you had, they’ll disable the phone rendering the phone useless even when the other person replace the SIM card in it. Now you can rest assured that no one can use your phone ever again. If everyone do this there won’t be a point to steal other people’s cell phone anymore.

3. Precaution before buying a cell phone

This is a step to prevent you being cheated into purchasing what you thought it is but isn’t. Code in *#0000# and it will show you the manufacturing date the phone. Then you can identify whether the phone is new or old. The bad news is however whether it work on certain phone is not determined, I’ve tried it on Nokia phone and it worked but when I tried it on a Motorola phone it didn’t work. You could try it and post comment here whether it worked on other brands of cell phone.