The Dumbest Trick Ever
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Originally Posted by NERV
surprisingly, this also works with your tv, if you put a phone in fornt of your tv and call it with another phone and point the remote at the phone it will go thru the mysterious intarweb and work your tv :P 
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Originally Posted by sqela
is this some kind of joke?
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Relaying remote entry system signals via telephone might work if the signals were sound-based, but they're not. An RKE system transmits an encrypted data stream to a receiver inside the automobile via an RF (radio frequency) signal, a signal that can't be effectively relayed via cell phone. (In any event, RKE systems and cell phones typically operate on completely different frequencies; the former in the 300 MHz range and the latter in the 800 MHz range.)
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Originally Posted by DarkShadow
heh works on my cousin'* chevrolet prizm, tried it myself 
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We have a member in Mn that swears this works. I suppose it'* possible for some Cell systems to 'carry' the signal, but I would expect the possibility to be greater with an analog cell system, and impossible with a digital system.
I doubt the truthfulness of this, but I'll test it on both cars today with my cell and Katies.
I doubt the truthfulness of this, but I'll test it on both cars today with my cell and Katies.
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Originally Posted by willwren
We have a member in Mn that swears this works. I suppose it'* possible for some Cell systems to 'carry' the signal, but I would expect the possibility to be greater with an analog cell system, and impossible with a digital system.
I doubt the truthfulness of this, but I'll test it on both cars today with my cell and Katies.
I doubt the truthfulness of this, but I'll test it on both cars today with my cell and Katies.
I feel like I've been reading Mythbusters or something. I look forward to your results. I think it would be cool if it would work but don't know if it will. I'm a skeptic.
