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Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate.Tested: T-Mobile GSM phones CAN unlock your car.
wsdmag.com — I was skeptical, to say the least, about this rumor, and was about to dismiss it as one more Internet hoax. But I thought I better try it out first. Well, low and behold, it works. I tried it with a Motorola v330 GSM cell phone, and it reliably opens (and relocks) the car.
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- gwill11, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12It works on our Toyota!
- .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"It's possible this method might work with cars that use something different than standard RKE systems, but it doesn't work with the vast majority of models. "
- modeless, on 10/12/2007, -22/+8Tested: digg users ARE gullible and scientifically illiterate.
At least 130 of them at the time of this post. - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I've tried it with three different cars.
It didn't work. - ext237, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Haven't tried this with my car. But one time I got to work and realized I forgot my magnetic card key at home. Called my wife, she held my keycard up to her cell phone and I held my cell phone up to the card reader and the door unlocked ... as my boss just happened to opened the door from the other side. I was immediately fired for attempting to hack the company security system.
Ok, I made it all up, but its as plausible as this story. No digg.
- sdrawkcaB, on 10/12/2007, -10/+8I cannot see how this possibly works. I would love to try it but I can't even find out what kind brand of remote system I have let alone find somebody else with it! (using my own wouldn't be as wierd as somebody else's that doesn't have the same code, when that other person's remote shouldn't work even right next to the car!)
- 0o0Moylan0o0, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9i dont think it works on other peoples cars, only ur own set... and spare set
- Evoguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Wow.. just wow. I was pretty sure that phone Vocoders were bandpass of 20Hz to 4KHz since that was the bulk of the human voice frequency spectrum. So there's no way the carrier modulation would get through that, I guess it'd have to be somehow modulating the phone's carrier itself? At GSM 900Mhz I could *maybe* see how that'd make it through the switching network and modulate the signal out to the handset.. even that seems dubious though. I would think the Vocoded data would be packet switched digitally in the actual phone network though, so any modulation of the first phone's carrier would be lost wouldn't it?
- Evoguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I was just thinking about this a little more... On the other side of the transmission, the speaker is definately out for reproducing the 315MHz carrier, so it must be the actual tower broadcast carrier or some internal circuit leakage from the phone after it demultiplexes the signal? GSM is TDMA right? So the actual tower wouldn't be able to affect the car's system at all without being demuxed by the phone... how much power are these phones leaking anyway? It'd have to be something fairly significant, unless it's feedback through the antenna or something. Makes me worry a bit about holding it next to my head constantly... hehe
- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -15/+7^^^ Seriously, this makes no ***** sense. I am up for trying it when my wife gets off work in a few hours.
- ActiveMatx, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7So all I do is dial *315, and then press SEND.
holy crap that is easy! Works for me too! Im throwing away my bump keys now. - socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7So...to put it simply a cell phone reproduces audible sounds from the remote phone and is incapable of reproducting the Radio Frequency signals that a keyless entry would produce and car would require to unlock.
- hotbeefman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8I'd love a better explanation. That guy writes like stereo instructions.
- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -7/+341) Lock your keys in the car.
2) Have someone who has a working key fob handy call your cell phone.
3) Hold your phone near the car and have the other person press the unlock button.
4) Somehow your car unlocks.
This makes no ***** sense by the way. - StevoCJ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+66I'll just note that locking your keys in the car probably isn't essential to this test (and could turn out to be rather embarrassing).
- hobnob, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8but f'ing funny
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Shhh, don't tell *him* that.
- ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5bury
- longofest, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm thinking the person who calls you and presses the button has to be within a couple meters from the car in order for this to work... the cell phone thing is just a smoke screen
- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -7/+341) Lock your keys in the car.
- tangledweb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+62I think that the most likely explanation is that the "tester" performed the "test" in his own driveway with two people and two phones but underestimated the normal range on his keyless locking system. Sure, standing near your car with a phone and having somebody else stand 50 feet away with a phone and keyfob unlocks the car, but doing the same thing holding two bananas works too.
- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but...
1) This makes no ***** sense and
2) I don't know the blog or the guy and such a dubious claim needs things like video evidence or something else to back this up. - ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I have my money on the fact that he actually WAS holding a banana and only THOUGHT it was a GSM phone.
- afex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27only GSM bananas will work.
- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but...
- dext3r, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Interesting. It would be cool to make some kind of "answering machine" type device. call the number, enter the password, the machine 'presses' the button the duplicate keyfob, and it unlocks your door. Supposing this was legit, though.
- ActiveMatx, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4....wait, wha???
- Stalks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10wait, this could make money ..
An unlock service, automated. Thousands of spare keyfobs at the ready. You lock your keys in the car, but wait! You subscribed to KEYLESS ENTRY INSURANCE™! Ring the number, enter your 24 digit pin, hold the phone in front of the car and BHAM! That £10 a month just paid off. - Alex.w, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8£10/mo, i think the model might stretch to using an 0900 number (50p/min).. If its £10/mo.. paying a locksmith to come out every six months is cheaper.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I think I'll just stick with not leaving my keys in the car.
- bubs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I think they call this "OnStar"
- Darkkish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Unless you've locked your keys OUT of your car.
http://www.bofunk.com/video/2424/blondstar.html
- gothicx00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Ok... The only thing that comes even close to making sense here is two basic facts. One, the signal is OOK which is about as basic as radio transmissions get. It's sorta like morse code, in that a transmission for a predetermined period is considered a 1 and the absence of that signal is considered a 0.
The second is it must have something to do with additive and subtractive frequencies. When more than one frequency is emitted from a source, or intermix in a space, the result is not just the source frequencies but also the sum and the difference of those frequencies. Example: 315mhz and 18mhz interacting in the same space would result in both 333mhz and 297mhz. If the phone itself emits a constant frequency, then if you try and transmit 315mhz, and one of the additive or subtractive frequencies falls with in the range of the phones mic, it is technically possible for that frequency (315mhz) to end up being recreated on the other end. Many many things would have to line up correctly for it to happen, or the tolerence of the reciever must be very liberal (meaning if it picks up the OOK signal on a frequency close to 315mhz it will still engage the lock solinoid).
If you think this is dumb please let me know, but it's the best I can personally come up with.- robwistar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3no.
it doesn't matter what radio frequencies anything is travelling at: your cell phone microphone picks up sound waves and the cell phone speaker on the other end transmits sound waves. unless your car locking system works by making noise (which it doesn't) this is not going to work.
(note: something with digg is screwy, this was supposed to be in response to gothicx further up.) - gothicx00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But you must understand that sound frequencies and radio frequencies can and do interact on occasion. It takes the right circumstances but it can happen, especially anything below about 450-500mhz.
I'm not saying what I said was how it happend. It's a theory. And the only one (as an Audio Engineer) that makes sense to me.
- robwistar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3no.
- addisonj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12hmmm... i smell a gone in sixty seconds sequel coming on... this time staring vin diesel as a former car thief who has turned to a cop, terrorists capture the presidents daughter and want 120 cars in 24 hours or else they kill her! there only choice is to steal them! Vin diesel's geeky computer hacker sidekick buddy (played either by the nerdy CSI guy who is a lab-tech, or the lead character from numb3rs) comes up with a brilliant plan to steal the final car from a bunker using just his cell phone and key fob he bought of ebay. In between these bits are horrible acting, exploding cars, a gang fight, and some check getting half naked in a car...
Take that michael bay- StevoCJ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Make it two chicks completely nekkid and I'm there
- CiscoTM, on 10/12/2007, -10/+8Works, did this before with my Cingular Cell phone
- dkreifus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also cited from the snopes article:
"It's possible this method might work with cars that use something different than standard RKE systems, but it doesn't work with the vast majority of models."
Opps. Clicked wrong reply.... meant for the post below. VVV
- dkreifus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also cited from the snopes article:
- gadgetsguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+56A classic case of sheep leeding sheep! Hahahahahaaaa
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You get dugg up, the story gets dugg down. It is only fair.
- DoctorNo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15From the cited article:
"More than a few people have inadvertently fooled themselves into believing the cell phone method of unlocking car doors actually works because they tried it and achieved the desired results — not realizing their cars were still within range of their keyless remote devices, and the signals that unlocked the doors were transmitted the usual way [i.e., through the air], not via cellular phone connections."
- letaalio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Try this out.
Find out how far your key-remote works (just walk away from the car and try to unlock it until it doesn't work), then put your remote to your head and push unlock again. Magically it DOES work now. I've tried this and it is true.- crackhammer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Now to point the key fob at my head and talk into my cell phone - it's BOUND to work!
- TonyCubed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That method was on Top Gear! haha
- warmcat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Yes, but why can't the cellphone and antenna simply be increasing the range of the key fob signal when you hold them close together, and on the other side the cellphone and antenna close to the lock receiver pick up the signal and couple it better too? Two clarifying tests spring to mind... try it again with the battery removed from both phones, and try it again with the fob person 10 miles away not marginally far away.
- Skeuomorph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6For me, this trick works best touching the unside of the chin and yeilds an almost 50% longer range.
- incongruity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I refused to believe this and laughed at the wife for doing it... until I tried it. For whatever reason, it worked much more so with her mini-s' integrated key and fob as compared with my WRX's separate fob.
- MirageTX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, one of my friends tried to show this to me, and when he did it, he was able to unlock his car from further away from normal. The thing he didn't notice is that when you're putting it to your head or chin or whatever, you're just holding it "backwards". When you typically use it, the buttons are oriented towards the car, and the rest of the fob is towards your body. When you hold it against yourself, you typically have it oriented in the opposite manner. I had him hold it in this fashion well away from his body, and he had the same results as holding it to his head.
Remember kiddies, when performing a "scientific experiment", only alter one variable at a time.
- vern01, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11I think people post things like this just to get hits on their sites. ITs FALSE in case you were taken in.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp- mavX, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Actually it's true. Just did it to my car!
Phones: Nokia 6280 (receiver) and Nokia 6320 (sender)
Car: 2003 Audi A3
My jaw dropped to the pavement :] it worked! - rpark, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1How far were you? mavx
- sanitychek, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1No matter what snopes says about a different system, this was demonstrated on TV - "Brainiac Test Tube Baby" during the summer. They did the obvious thing of testing with and without the phone in the loop. It only worked in the former case.
- mavX, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Actually it's true. Just did it to my car!
- persisting1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Now if I can only get my phone to find my car keys.
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3heheh, won't unlock my car, no keyless unlock. you better get a slim jim if you want it
- addisonj, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4your cell phone doesn't have a built in slim jim? phhh... lol get with the modern age. :P
- BurtCokain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Doesn't work on a Ford Focus or a Vauxhall Corsa using Sony mobiles.
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wonder if we should heckle the fools who even bothered to try this, despite the obvious contradiction to the way phones and radio frequencies work?
- jakibakes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4for the people it works with: can you use an audio recording device to record the key fobs button press, then play it back to open the car?
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Keyless entries use whats called a Rolling Code so that recorded broadcasts can't be used to unlock the car. Both the car and the Keyless module have a matching random number generator that is in sync and produces a matching number each time. The car scans for the next 300 or so numbers in case it missed a broadcast. So, a recorded broadcast not heard by the car would work until the keyless module was used again. When it was used all the codes up to that point get buried. This also means that there is a point when the keyless module and the car will become out of sync by pressing the unlock button 300 times or more away from the car. Most cars have a way to resynchronize such as turning the ignition key to the on position then off 8 times without starting the car or the such.
- jeylux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2actually everytime you start the car it resyncs most RKE units with delphi units (GM.)
- raabco, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2I just signed up on digg, and managed to give this my #1 digg.
I'm digusted with myself, as I did this while trying to figure out how to give it -101 diggs.
quick, someone post some mediocre softcore porn so that I might rectify this situation! - Swampthing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Doesn't Onstar advertise that they can unlock your car remotely if you mistakenly lock your keys inside? Supposedly you call the number from your cellphone and they do some magic, and voila, it's open! Now if you were too stupid to also lock the cellphone in the car too...
But perhaps there is a ring of truth to the way this technology works.- disillusioned, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9On star has a special two-way system that allows them to track all sorts of data, like when your air bag deploys and where you are. It's not just a basic cellular system, or, it is, and it uses some basic SMS-based system to trigger the events. Regardless, OnStar != people with cellphones holding key fobs nearby.
- jeylux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you call the onstar company from any phone give them your pass codes and they can onlock your car. It's not the same because they're not transmitting a keyfob signal, they're sending an unlock signal direct to the CPU on the car from their celluar eqp. not from any type of radio frequency. They're two completely different systems.
- weiran, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Does it work with my infrared remote?
- Yoshi39, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3No Infrared is light there for it can't be transmited by a radio signal.
- SuperFarStucker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Light *is* a radio signal, or more precisely an electromagnetic wave. However, light is out of the frequency range of common "radio" devices. Even low IR is upwards of 400 THz, compared to 0-6 GHz common for radio devices
- zcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't see why it shouldn' work just as well with IR as with an RF remote.. IE not at all.
A phone passes audio ("Acoustic waves") in approximately the range of 300Hz to 3KHz. How it gets that audio to the other end is basically irrelevent, audio is the only information getting passed.
The RF remote and IR both use Electromagnetic waves, at frequencies outside (WAY outside) the very strict passband enforced by digital encoding of the phone signal.
“It ain’t the same ballpark, ain’t the same league, ain’t even the same ***** sport.”.
- LILkillaBEE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2On Citroen C3, 2005 doesn't work
1st mobile nokia6630, 2nd siemens cx70 - Smiley09, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If you have keyless entry how could you lock yourself out of your own car in the first place? You press the button to lock/unlock the car, which would be in your hand. If you are leaving the car you would be outside with the remote in your hand, you would then press the button to lock the car, put remote in your pocket, and then walk away...
The only way I see people locking themselves out is by having the door open, locking it, throwing the key into the car and then shutting the door hoping to try this out and not finding the spare remote.- afex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4it has happened to my girlfriend before. she will use the physical locks on the door to lock it, e.g. open door, hit lock on door while getting out, shut door. a little while ago she ended up having her keys slide out of her pocket while she was getting something from the back of the car, and she locked them in there. i believe she has changed her method of locking since then.
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Getting into a car without the keys isn't hard.
I know a few peeps who do it all day long. - ElMoselYEE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2video or i call fake
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The ultimate "keyless entry system"
http://www.themediadrome.com/Images/tv/lapd_pasquariello.gif - clark24, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27To those of you that this is not working for... You must first make sure to lock your keys in the car before attempting this hack! Not only is your cell phone able to transmit the signal from your key fob, but it also knows when your keys are actually locked in the car. The further away the person with the spare is, the better this seems to work too! When I called my uncle in Washington state (I live in South Florida) he didn't even have to press the unlock button and my car just started unlocking itself. However, when I called my sister, just 10 miles away, she had to press it about a half dozen times before it unlocked. Weeeiiiiirdd! I guess the most important thing is that you lock the keys in your car and don't have a spare in the general vicinity! Once you've done that, this hack is bound to work! Good luck!
Update!!! I've found that you can improve the efficiency of this hack by putting the person on speakerphone. The catch is that you need to be around a lot of other people, I find that co-workers and members of the opposite sex work the best. I have not been able to figure it why this works yet exactly. Since I once read an article on the Internet about how to build your own radio, I'm pretty much an expert on waves and tides and such. I'm sure I can figure this all out. I think it has something to do with the brain waves transmitting the 4.815162342 frequency across the wave paths which in turn amplifies the signal of your key fob! Just a hunch though, I will post again when I have done more research.- Alex.w, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Why is this getting modded down, I had to try so hard not to wet my self laughing thinking of all the people that are going to try this "hack".
My fav part was "I'm pretty much an expert on waves and tides and such." - Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Its getting moded down because we don't find clark24 funny. It is obvious by the end that he is joking like everyone else who has said "it works."
Sorry, not funny gets a red thumb in my book. (Also, anyone talking about + or - normally gets a -. I expect to be at -25 at least by the time I wake up. Now that I've mentioned it, maybe higher. Now possibly lower. *****.)
- Alex.w, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Why is this getting modded down, I had to try so hard not to wet my self laughing thinking of all the people that are going to try this "hack".
- vprice509, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10'news article' submitter :
It's "lo and behold", not "low and behold". I was going to add, "you illiterate *****", but that wouldn't be very nice.- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It could be that he used the spellcheck. But then didn't actually reed the thing.
- PabloEscobar666, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Somebody with a Sony TV remote control please call me and change the channel from my TV.
- vihung, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Just think, if you were in Soviet Russia, you could press a button on your TV to change your remote
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Only someone completely gullible or completely oblivious to grade school level science concepts would fall for this obvious stupidity. I had just heard this idea being touted around on the net a week ago. Someone must have went on a campaign plastering this everywhere.
Like a cell phone is really gonna rebroadcast a RF signal that it somehow recorded from a remote phone which was meant only to record audible frequencies. i.e. sound. - arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Even if the described method does work it is still the keyfob that is unlocking the car and not the cell phone as the title says.
- joecomputerdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4you can also use your car key fob to unlock all GSM phones.
It works... try it! - ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm on Cingular and I can dial *help on my mobile phone, and someone comes out and unlocks the car.... OR changes a flat tire, etc. Let's see your GSM phone change a tire smart-guy!
- stasis88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1dumb...
- rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I like how my car can be unlocked from a satellite. Although I really wish I could send a text message to a certain number and have it *lock* my car. It would work for times like last night when I thought I forgot to lock it in the parking lot.
And by just owning the car (Mercedes), I get free roadside assitance for life. None of this OnStar/AAA crap. Although, for the record, the one time I called them about a question, the advice was "try to move your car and see if moves -- if not you may have caused a lot of damage, so you'll have to call us back."
- stasis88, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Why are so many people supprised by this, this isnt new, I have heard of this over 5 years ago and tested it. Doesnt work with all cars but some do. Not news though...
- r00td00d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0***** folks - my cellphone has enough trouble carrying my voice, much less the signal from my keyring.
- ggudggid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, like I was standing next to my car and locked my keys in it. I had my wife stand next to my car and call me on my phone. I put my phone next to the car and she pushed the unlock button and it unlocked my car! We got in and rode home together. It's like, magic!
- Drizzit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You do know just about every cell phone provider has this service.
- djsath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If it's on the internet, it must be true.
- v1sor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually *SAW* this happen on an episode of Sky One's "Brainiac - Test Tube Baby" recently. The host stayed in the studio and Jon Tickle stood by the car - the mobile phone rang, the transmitter was blipped, and it unlocked the door of the car.
Having seen this, the wife and I attempted a reconstruction using my VW Passat and unfortunately it didn't work - but then my transmitter is a little on the dodgy side anyhow.
Anyways, I'm sure you can catch a repeat of the episode we saw by watching Brainiac enough (in the UK anyways).
v - LiquidPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I live in the U.S. so I don't think we get that show.
I'm guessing something that if this BS actually works, it's something to do with the antennae itself, not so much that it's a cellphone. I'm thinking it's like taking off the fobs tiny antennae and attaching a CB radio antennae or something.
But I digress. Find this mysterious Brainiac episode on the net and let the rest of the world see for itself.
- v1sor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually *SAW* this happen on an episode of Sky One's "Brainiac - Test Tube Baby" recently. The host stayed in the studio and Jon Tickle stood by the car - the mobile phone rang, the transmitter was blipped, and it unlocked the door of the car.
- chedabob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1you guys are missing the fact that each keyfob is unique. thats why you cant buy generic fobs. you have to get a new one coded. otherwise, one guy, could open every car with the same brand alarm.
i can understand sending it through the phone (although i reckon its waaaaaaaaaaay out of the range that both the phone can pick up and produce), but they would have to have a fob that matched yours. which is damn near impossibly, unless they had your spare.
anyways, who is stupid enough to lock keys in their car?- gothicx00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1um, i don't know where you are buying cars, but every car that i've bought that remote keyless entry (numerious fords and a couple of dodges) came with two fob. Even the used cars i've bought had two fobs. If you ever bought a car that only came with one fob you got ripped off.
- chedabob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, i meant they are unique to each car. you can have multiple fobs, but you cant just grab a fob for the same model alarm, cos it wont be for that particular one.
- dupswapdrop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The way I use to open any locked car with my cellphone is to slam it upside the window as hard as I can till the window brakes.
Works first time every time! - redmachodevil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
they claim its not true, and they test out all these "urban legends" pretty well- v1sor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's also an article that has not been updated since 2004, and keyfob technology has moved on a lot since then.
As for people locking their keys in the car, surely they'd NEED the fob and/or key to actually LOCK it, as the 'old fashioned' way of pre-locking the door as you get out of the car seems to have all but vanished now.
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- v1sor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's also an article that has not been updated since 2004, and keyfob technology has moved on a lot since then.
- gamma911, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was on brainiacs and it seemed to work there so at the moment I still believe it..
My car is to old to try as I still open it with you guessed it -- a crowbar - JonnyDrama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it worked for me... BMW X5 - Cingular provider - and 2 sony erricson cell phones. I'm gonna try the Banana idea later - if it doesn't work, at least I'll get to eat the banana...should be easier than digesting my cell phone.
- yatoobin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It works!!!
1. Just call someone that has a duplicate key fob that will open your car.
2. Tell them you locked yourself out of the car.
3. Ask them to bring you the duplicate key fob.
4. Press the unlock button on the duplicate key fob.
5. Suffer endless humiliation from the person who brought you the duplicate key fob. - acruxksa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is great. I wonder just how many people I can pass the word to?
Hours of entertainment just dropped into my lap:):)
I can hear it now.
It's not working!
Are you holding the phone upside down in your left hand?
No.
Well, on Thursdays you need to hold the phone upside down in your left hand, Duh!!! Oh, wait, that's Tuesdays .............................................
Well anyway, you get the idea. Gotta go, the phone company just called and told me I needed to cover my phone because they are going to be blowing out the lines and I might get some dust coming out of my phone. - pevensen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't see how this can work, unless the fob transmits using a) sound and b) sound in the audible range. Cell phone only transmit a small range of audible sound.
I suspect that those who got it to work were calling someone who was near enough that the signal from the fob itself made it to the car, apart from the cell phone. - adiosk8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1worked with my sidekick and honda civic...had a friend go a few blocks away, something way out of normal range, I was suprised my self
- photojunky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1not tried - but have a feeling this would work. ever seen a UPS driver transmitting the data from their handheld via a regular landline phone mouthpiece to headquarters? i had one do it in my office a few years ago. i am sure now they do it wirelessly. it all depends on the frequency reponse of the microphone in the cell phone.
- acr2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uh, no that isnt how it works.
When UPS does that its just like a modem. The computer is sending AUDIO data back to another modem.
This is totally different.
- acr2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uh, no that isnt how it works.
- killapril, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
- v1sor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
*yawn*
Read the bottom - "Last updated: 27 july 2004"
Things have changed since then. Unless that says 2006, I wouldn't say it's not the case! And besides, like I said further up, I actually saw this working on a science program in the UK less than 1 month ago. I'm going to be determined to get a vid cap of that now! LOL
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- v1sor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
- xino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Flagged as inaccurate, but it inspired a very amusing conversation here so I guess I will give gwill11 partial credit for that. haha
- xino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Too bad there is no "my#1 commented story" feature on digg yet because I would definitely mark this one of them.
- joeyrego, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0FYI. Just wanted to add that i was able to do it. My Details were: Two cell phones both using Cingular as a provider. 2005 GMC Denali. Stock clicker.
Heres how i did it. Two People needed
1. Give your keys/clicker to your friend and make sure they have a cell phone with them.
2. Get out of range so that the clicker no longer works. Test by walking away from the car. Durning your friends walk away from the car have them try to lock or unlock your car every 2 seconds or so until your friend can no longer unlock or lock your car.
3. Go maybe 20 to 25 feet beyond that distance to be sure that they still can't lock or unlock your car.
4. Have your friend call you on their cell phone.
5. Answer your cell phone with you right next to your car.
6. Kind of point your phone to your car
6. Have your friend push either the lock or unlock button for your car. VOILA!!!!...your car should lock or unlock depending on the button they chose.
Now....heres the question. IF you are able to do this over cell phones...CAN yousave a message to your voicemail while clicking your remote and unlocking your car? If that was possible...what can of worms could be opened up with this new knowledge for people with less than good intentions..
Stay tuned..I'll let you know my findings...
Good luck..
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