How to get into your car if you lock the keys/remote inside.
#22
12-19-2008, 05:50 PM
#23
12-19-2008, 05:56 PM
Your remote car key operates by sending a weak, encrypted radio signal to a receiver inside the automobile, which in turn activates the door locks.
Since the system works on radio waves, not sound, the only conceivable way a signal from your spare remote could be picked up by one cell phone and relayed to your car's onboard receiver by another would be if both phones were capable of sending and receiving at exactly the same frequency as the remote itself - which they can't be, given that all remote entry devices operate at frequencies between 300 and 500 MHz, while all mobile phones, by law, operate at 800 MHz and higher.
It's apples vs. oranges, in other words. Your cell phone can no more transmit the type of signal needed to unlock a car door than your remote key is capable of dialing up your Aunt Mary ...
Since the system works on radio waves, not sound, the only conceivable way a signal from your spare remote could be picked up by one cell phone and relayed to your car's onboard receiver by another would be if both phones were capable of sending and receiving at exactly the same frequency as the remote itself - which they can't be, given that all remote entry devices operate at frequencies between 300 and 500 MHz, while all mobile phones, by law, operate at 800 MHz and higher.
It's apples vs. oranges, in other words. Your cell phone can no more transmit the type of signal needed to unlock a car door than your remote key is capable of dialing up your Aunt Mary ...
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12-19-2008, 06:16 PM
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12-19-2008, 06:32 PM
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I'd like to see it work. Me and my work mates tried it last year and it will NOT work. Well at least on any thing in our parking lot.
#27
12-19-2008, 07:58 PM
This is no joke. My wife locked her keys and remote in her car. She called me to ask me to bring her the spare key and remote.
We were talking on cell phones. I grabbed the spare key/remote out of the drawer, held the remote against my cell phone and pressed the open button. At the same time, she held her phone against the car's lock.
It opened!!!!!!!!
We were talking on cell phones. I grabbed the spare key/remote out of the drawer, held the remote against my cell phone and pressed the open button. At the same time, she held her phone against the car's lock.
It opened!!!!!!!!
#28
12-19-2008, 10:12 PM
I've done it with my OL's Nissan and with some other cars also. Get someone to do it with you it does work. Don't believe everything you hear on the radio.
#29
12-19-2008, 10:13 PM
When I've tried it I held the phone's earpiece about 2 inches from the door lock area.
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12-19-2008, 10:21 PM
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I was on my way to a friend's place once, and I got hungry. All I had was a package of unpopped corn. I called up my daughter and asked her to turn on the microwave and hold the phone up to it.
Next thing I know, the corn started to pop!
Next thing I know, the corn started to pop!