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locked car door open via of cell phone
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Posted By:
Ron
Oct 06, 2004
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Received email that if your car door is locked and you lose (misplace) your keys and remote, call home via cell phone, have someone push the "unlock" on the other remote near a phone while you hold the cell phone next to the car. This is suppose to unlock the door, however isn't there a difference with radio waves and sound waves?
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Grimreaper
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 | 02:46 PM
...Oh and one more thing, that WHOLE Roswell incident was like a TOTAL conspiracy man....the crash was caused by the signal from a weather baloon being relayed via the Citezen Band network which caused an overload in the spaceships reactor drive unit, which shut down, thus causing the crash... |
Grimreaper
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 | 02:49 PM
...but if you REALLY wanna cry about it, why not try to convince these guys? They'll put you on TV for sure...Dorks.... |
JustaGuy
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 | 04:50 PM
Grimreaper, it *has* been put on TV by some journalists who tried it and it worked for them.
You obviously have not read up on the subject, so why dont you take your ignorant prejudice elsewhere? |
Justaguy
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 | 04:56 PM
Grimreaper, this is a link to the story I mentioned above:
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/3EFBFFFF00E600A90017001CFEAB/ |
Dexter
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 | 03:30 PM
I want to throw out one more thought...I tested this with several cars and all with the same results, that is, whenever the other cell phone was way outside the normal key fob's range (30 miles) it never worked. However, we were able to get the key fobs to work at what appeared to be an extended range. For example, my car is iffy at ~50 feet (my battery is almost dead) but at about 100 yards I held it to my phone and "beep-beep". It was even pretty repeatable. I held it away from my cell, nothing, moved it close and it worked, moved it away, nothing, moved it close and it worked.
So here's my thought, what is the possibility that the key fob |
justaguy
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 | 04:06 PM
Dexter, that seems to be pretty much my experience too, but it stopped working for some reason.
I am going to try again with my cell phone and see if that makes any difference. |
Rich
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 | 12:29 AM
I've tested this using two digital cells phones and it works from several miles. The one time I NEEDED it to work no one was at home with a cell phone and the home phone didn't do it. My quess is that the fob uses a digital signal so the cell was compatible but the home phone (cordless) uses radio a radio frequency and doesn't replicate the signal exactly. |
paul
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 | 02:51 AM
This actually has worked for us in the past on several occasions. No shit it really did work. My son locked the keys in the car twice and my wife once. We also tested it when we first heard about it.
But my wife just tonight locked her keys in the car. We tried it with several phones tonight and couldn't get it to open so my son is driving the spare keys to her. Land line and black berry and cordless landline phone to an unknown brand cell phone didn't work. Could be the phones could be the key fob my son says that this particular fob doesn't open the doors half the time when you are standing next to the car. We could speculate all day weather it is true or not but for me I know it can be done. It is just a matter of conditions. 1. two cellphones, 2. make model of car, 3. condition of the key fob. If harmony isn't achieved you get to go for a drive. |
Dylan
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 | 09:46 PM
So I was incredibly skeptical of this when I got it from a chain email. I did the normal snopes and google search. Didn't believe it at all. Then just for yucks, my mother and I decided to try it with our iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G with her 2009 Mini Cooper (keyless). To our utter shock, it worked perfectly. But not with any other phones or car that we have as a family. I was even giving her all kinds of scientific explanations why it's not possible (or so I thought before trying it) right up until we tried it. Call me a liar, but we tested it up to about 4 miles away. Crazy. I still don't know how it works but I'm trying to find something that proves it. |
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