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Topic: Can you use this tip.......... |
Charles Curtis
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 9:56 am |
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| Ever lock your guitar in the car with the keys? If it opens with a transmitter, (this works with my Toyota) and someone is home with another of the same, call them on your cell phone, have them press the open button on the transmitter while you hold your cell phone a few inches from the door. My son told me that he was informed that this signal can be recorded on a recorder etc. |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 11:39 am
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| The remote on my keyring is the transmitter I'm referring to. Doesn't it transmit a signal? It works on mine. |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 12:29 pm
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| Of course your remote transmits a signal. Are you saying that you can call someone on your cell phone, have them point their remote at their phone, send it to your cell phone, and by pointing your cell phone at the door, it will unlock? I haven't tried it, but that's what Snopes says is untrue. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 1:51 pm
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If it is radio frequency signal,
no it won't be transmited over a cell phone.
But if it is a audible signal it will be.
I believe all cars use a differently scambled radio burst signal, not audio. |
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 2:06 pm
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A ball bat will work just fine!  |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 3:21 pm
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I don't believe that would work with a digital, RF-encoded transmitter, as I believe most all of them are, now. If they used audio tones (ultrasonic?), then it might work, depending on the fidelity of the phone. Still, I don't know of any cars that use that type of technology, since it's sort of "stone-age" in today's digital world.
Most of the transmitters nowadays are digital (pulse-code) technology, and that allows thousands of possible combinations. In fact, if you really think about it, if they didn't have a lot (thousands) of possible combinations, it would really create havoc on the lot at a new-car dealership! With a range of about 50 feet, which is about average, you'd press the button on your remote, and dozens of other cars nearby would lock or unlock, or their trunks would open!  |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 3:25 pm
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Or any mall parking lot.... Oh the horror of it all!  |
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Don Walters
From:
Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 3:33 pm
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Sounds like a plot for a "B" Sci-Fi thriller.
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 4:19 pm
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| A friend of mine sent me this info this morning; despite the snow, I went out with a trusty umbrella to my car. I took out my cell phone and dialed my wife inside; she then took her "remote", pressed the open feature on the remote next to the mouthpiece of her phone while I held my cell phone a few inches from the door of my Toyota and it unlocked. Instead of all this naysaying I hope one of you will try it and verify this. Jeeez! |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 4:26 pm
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I just tried it with our Ford Ranger and it didn't work.
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 4:38 pm
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Charles, I'm not married and don't have the guts to ask one of the other tenants to help me try the test myself.
Did your wife try the opener without you being on the phone? She might have been close enough for it to open it anyway.
My remote is on my key chain in my pocket, and there have been many times that I have locked or unlocked my vehicle from inside my apartment. Sometimes the button gets held in long enough to set off the panic siren!  My garage is about 50 feet away. |
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Bill Crook
From:
Goodlettsville, TN , Spending my kid's inheritance
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 6:23 pm
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Charles........
If your wife was within 50-75 feet of your car, then it's more than possible that her remote unit opened the car. NOT THE CELL-PHONE !!!!!
Depending on how good the battery is in the remote unit, the distance is subjective.
I agree, doing this over the cell-phone is a myth. It's all a very small RF signal being transmitted to your car radio which then routes the requested operation to the "Body Control Computer" located behind the glove compartment of your dashboard.
Bill
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2005 7:48 pm
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So far off topic - I'm speechless.
See if you can unlock this with your cell phone! |
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