rickardliljeberg.com — Tens of thousand of DELL business computers could crash IN THE VINCINITY OF A CELL PHONE!! Are your companies hit? Do you use any of these lines? This is the most bizarre and unexplainable computer bug ever.
Jul 29, 2006 View in Crawl 4
hiredgunJul 29, 2006
This 'hack' can easily be fake. There could be a guy (out of view) who just unplugs the power cord for the computer.
mabhatterJul 29, 2006
I've noticed the problem most pronounced on Motorola phones with the walkie-talkie feature. They make just about any PC speakers crackle just before they ring. At work we have Samsung phones and I have a Nokia (Just phones... not BT, camera, PDA, etc) and I leave them turned on all day within a foot of my Dell and only seldom hear a crackle. It' s just a combination of sloppy sheilding in the PC model and sloppy EMI emmissions on the cell phone.
yensedJul 30, 2006
Didn't work on my HP Notebook(Go Figure)... What really makes me mad tho, is that I bought a cheap Belkin wireless router for upstairs. And if anyone calls/receives a call/Pages the phone, I loose a connection if I'm connected up there.
happyscrappyJul 30, 2006
bloret:Honestly, even though CDMA is technically superior, there isn't a lot of reason for a phone user to prefer it.It provides better handoffs between towers resulting in fewer drops.It allows operators to more easily put in extra towers and microcells to beef up coverage.It degrades more gracefully when overloaded. However, an overloaded cell system isn't a lot of fun with either system.It doesn't make systems nearby make funny noises (dit-dit-dit).And if you believe RF radiation right next to your head is bad, CDMA puts out a whole lot less of it.But I'm not sure all that adds up to enough for a customer to care.The operators like it better because it provides up to 3X more efficient bandwidth utilization and far easier tower placement/setup rules.I really prefer CDMA, but I don't use it because the CDMA operators take advantage of the inability to select your own phone model to use on their system to bolster their profits. That is, my GSM phone lets me put ringtones on it for free and take pictures off it for free, both via Bluetooth. CDMA providers (Verizon) disable this capability so they can charge you for both of these things. GSM operators would do this too, except you can always use your own unlocked phone on their service, with the features you want.
druidgwynnethJul 31, 2006
It may depend on the strength of your cell signal, too. Most cell phones operate at the weakest signal necessary to transmit (to save battery), but if you're in a weak signal area, the RF output will get stronger. Exponentially.
druidgwynnethJul 31, 2006
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vsanityJul 31, 2006
My powerbook G4 did this once. I had my razr sitting on my powerbook, someone called and BAM, screen went black. Its never happened again, and took a reboot to fix.
leth4lAug 2, 2006
VHS? Are you serious?
sully213Aug 3, 2006
Uhhh, since always.If you look at the coax connection on your TV, you may see it referred to as RF/Antenna. The coax cable is shielded pretty good for the most part, but when the inner copper strand gets to the end of the cable near the tap, there isn't nearly as much shielding (really only the brass fitting that you screw onto the modem/TV/etc.), allowing the RF from the phone to ingress to the copper going to the modem and causing it to go haywire.
jhlazo8Aug 3, 2006
This occured when I was using my Nokia/Cing. cell by the pc (dell) when the speakers started to hum....the computer freaked out. Everything seems alright?
lukeyd2006Feb 7, 2007
hmm...maybe thats the same processor speed aswell, i wonder....if maybe the call has affected the processor?
quetivityAug 6, 2007
I guess I will have to try a way to get rid of my xps laptop by dell, anyone willing to take the fall? ;-(