05-25-2009, 10:29 PM
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Unlocking your car with your cell phone (if keys are locked inside)
I got this in an email with tips on cell phones:
If you lock your keys In the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home ontheir cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car 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).
Anyone have any idea if this is true or possible?
If so it's not a bad tip. 
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05-25-2009, 10:32 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Calgary
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05-25-2009, 10:33 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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How could anybody possibly believe this is true? That is beyond the stupidest thing I've ever read.
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05-25-2009, 10:33 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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That doesn't even make sense.
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05-25-2009, 10:35 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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That is why I asked. Stuff gets answered hear quickly.
Thanks for the link.
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05-25-2009, 10:36 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Calgary
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no worries. i check snopes all the time when emails dont add up or sound fishy
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05-25-2009, 10:39 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 4X4
It's BS. Someone tried to tell me this a couple months ago about garage door openers. He was absolutely convinced (probably still is). I tried to prove it to him by making him walk away and click the thing over our cell phones. When it didn't work, he figured that there was some kind of malfunction in either the phones or the opener.  |
Ugh. People like that just don't have any kind of grasp on technology.
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05-25-2009, 10:40 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Calgary, AB
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This should go in the "Stupid Things You've Seen" thread!
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05-25-2009, 10:55 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss
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05-25-2009, 11:30 PM
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Dances with Wolves
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Section 304
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While it is an urban legend I'd be shocked if we don't see a way to unlock your car with your phone in the next 3 years.
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05-25-2009, 11:32 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Russic
While it is an urban legend I'd be shocked if we don't see a way to unlock your car with your phone in the next 3 years.
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It's already here (see On-Star for example). They can unlock your vehicle for you via cell network and data connection. It just needs to be adapted and the only reason they haven't probably is because the cost outweights the benefits.
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Last edited by BlackArcher101; 05-25-2009 at 11:34 PM.
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05-26-2009, 12:11 AM
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One of the Nine
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"Dude, I lost my phone"
"F***. You'd better go see if your car is still where you parked it!"
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05-26-2009, 12:31 AM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Snopes to the rescue...
I got a knack for that, don't I?
Last edited by BavarianHorde; 05-26-2009 at 12:36 AM.
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05-26-2009, 12:33 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BavarianHorde
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Welcome to the first reply.
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05-26-2009, 12:45 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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We'll all be better once the older generation dies off and the younger generation who doesn't believe or buy anything in chain e-mails takes over. Seriously, my parents fall for this crap on a daily basis.
BTW, the one thing that does work - hold up your lock/unlock key fob and touch your head with it. It will increase the effective radio range.
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05-26-2009, 02:11 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
We'll all be better once the older generation dies off and the younger generation who doesn't believe or buy anything in chain e-mails takes over. Seriously, my parents fall for this crap on a daily basis.
BTW, the one thing that does work - hold up your lock/unlock key fob and touch your head with it. It will increase the effective radio range.
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Yep I do this all the time. Just tap it under my chin and click while I walk away. Probably adds another 40 feet I'd say.
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Originally Posted by Temporary_User
Reading the thread title, I simply assumed that Jpold and Jroc came out of the closet and have a love baby together.
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05-26-2009, 08:29 AM
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Ahahahahahahahahahaha.. I can't believe someone required SNOPES to believe this.
RF doesn't travel through the phone..
Ahahahahahahahahahaha
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05-26-2009, 08:29 AM
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Sleazy Banker
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cold Lake Alberta Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
We'll all be better once the older generation dies off and the younger generation who doesn't believe or buy anything in chain e-mails takes over. Seriously, my parents fall for this crap on a daily basis.
BTW, the one thing that does work - hold up your lock/unlock key fob and touch your head with it. It will increase the effective radio range.
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easy there, Kimosabi. you grew up with the technology already in place....guess who invented some of it.
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05-26-2009, 08:39 AM
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Voted for Kodos
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the remotes that all cars come with now has totally ended my fear of locking my keys in the car. I always lock the car with the remote when I'm already outside the car. Therefore, I can't lock my keys in the car.
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