What your mobile phone could do!

In grave emergencies, your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. This should be a must know for all mobile phone users!

1. Emergency Services

The emergency number worldwide for all mobile phones is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and your mobile will search any existing network in your area to establish the emergency number for you and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. This works on all phones worldwide and is free.

2. Locked your keys in the car?

If you lock your remote keyless car keys in the car 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 on the spare key, holding it near the mobile phone at their end. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.

Distance is no problem. You could be thousands of miles away.

3. Is your mobile phone battery flat? All hand phones have 'hidden battery power'

To activate, press the keys *3370# (remember the asterisk). Do this when the phone is almost dead. Your mobile will restart in a special way with this new reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery life. This reserve will be recharged when you charge your hand phone the next time. This secret is in the fine print in most phone manuals which we skip without realising.

4. Disabling a STOLEN mobile

To check your hand phone's serial number, key in following digits on your phone *#06#. Ensure you put an asterisk BEFORE the #06# sequence.

A 15 digit code will appear on the screen that is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it safe somewhere. If your hand phone is ever stolen, phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the SIM is changed, your hand phone will be totally useless. And even if you don't get your phone back, at least it can't be used/resold either. If everybody did this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

This secret is also in the fine print of most mobile phone manuals. It was created for the very purpose of trying to prevent phones from being stolen.

5. ATM PIN Reversal

If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM kiosk, you can notify the police by entering your PIN# in reverse. The ATM system recognises that your PIN is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location. All ATMs carry this emergency sequencer by law.

Tailpiece.

Got up at 6, the chores and was ready by 6. The maid, Latha, had come and she went about her job meticulously, as usual. From Monday, the original maid, Suma will rejoin and Latha was sad that she was leaving us!

Lekha's urine culture report reached me by mail. Everything is okay. Phew!

Ramesh and his assistants had come by to set the exhaust systems of the bathrooms/kitchen right and clip the grass patch in the courtyard clipped. Lekha had taken a tumble on the courtyard, getting superficial wounds on her left hand and leg. Her new footwear had let her down as she pivoted around on the tiled stretch.

Participated in the 544th episode of the Aazhchakkoottam : "Superstitions and unhealthy practices" by Sri TKA Nair, Principal Secretary to the former PM. It was nice.