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Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - paolo - 09-04-2005
I got this E-Mail today... I tried... and it didn't work for me.... May be you can try this...
>Locked your keys in your car ???? Did you know this??
>
>If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call
>someone on your (or someone else's) cell phone.
>
>Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other
>person at your home press the unlock button of your key fob (clicker),
>holding it near the phone on their end. Your car doors 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 cell phone!)
>
>
>
>I locked the car had my youngest daughter call me while I was far away
>from the car. I clicked open into the phone and I could hear the car
>doors unlock through her cell phone. My daughter confirmed that sure
>enough the doors opened.
>
>Pass this one on to your friends
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - OAC_Sparky - 09-04-2005
paolo,Sep 3 2005, 10:03 PM Wrote:I got this E-Mail today... I tried... and it didn't work for me.... May be you can try this...It doesn't work.
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Urban myth. :)
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - FocusGuy7476 - 09-04-2005
Mythbusters anyone.
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - OAC_Sparky - 09-04-2005
http://snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - tdot-zx3 - 09-04-2005
Thats so dumb. Hopefully your trying to trick the board and actually didnt try that ... =P
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - paolo - 09-04-2005
tdot-zx3,Sep 4 2005, 02: Wrote:Thats so dumb. Hopefully your trying to trick the board and actually didnt try that ... =P
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Did anyone read my post? I said it DIDNT work... LMAO but I said try it...
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - ANTHONYD - 09-04-2005
Nope.
It won;t work.
Woulda been cool though.
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - paolo - 09-05-2005
ANTHONYD,Sep 4 2005, 08:13 AM Wrote:Nope.
It won;t work.
Woulda been cool though.
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thats what i said in the beginning of the post, dont you guys know how to READ?
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - CanadaSVT - 09-05-2005
....and ya can change TV channels over the phone too :lol: Some peoples children!
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - OAC_Sparky - 09-05-2005
CanadaSVT,Sep 4 2005, 10:46 AM Wrote:....and ya can change TV channels over the phone too :lol: Some peoples children!Actually, if you have the old (I mean really old) tv remote control that uses a sound to change the channel (the actual reason people started calling the remote a "clicker"), that could work over the phone.
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Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - paolo - 09-05-2005
CanadaSVT,Sep 4 2005, 10:46 AM Wrote:....and ya can change TV channels over the phone too :lol: Some peoples children!
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this is true. a lot of newer phones have IrDA interface on them, someone wrote an App for symbian OS that you load on the phone, and it turns the screen into a universal remote, which beams out through the phones IrDa port.
Locked Your Car? No Key? Try Using Your Cell Phone - nass - 09-06-2005
paolo,Sep 4 2005, 05:15 PM Wrote:CanadaSVT,Sep 4 2005, 10:46 AM Wrote:....and ya can change TV channels over the phone too :lol: Some peoples children!
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this is true. a lot of newer phones have IrDA interface on them, someone wrote an App for symbian OS that you load on the phone, and it turns the screen into a universal remote, which beams out through the phones IrDa port.
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yeah my phone has bluetooth on it and you can load a program on the phone that can control your computer with your phone, as long as you have a bluetooth dongle on the PC
works great