kobi2002

Don't know if this was covered but someone told me you car unlock your car through the cell phone. Basically if you lock your keys in the car and the second remote was at home, you call home, let the person put the remote up to the phone and you hold your cell phone 1 foot ( I put it on top of the windshield) and bam car is open. I tried it and it does work. It's almost like I want to breakdance now I know it can be done. Anyone ever try this?

lyk3n0other8

I heard of this. Always wanna try, always forget

Dedpheonix

Yes this has been discussed.

And yes this does work. I've done it through my Treo.

mrchan625

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hrmm intresting i shall try this tommorow =]

B18Ch1ck

i fact-checked this one myself on t-i.net

check here 9 pages on it!

Sic TL-S

Thats a sweet concept. Does this only work on 3g TLs or could it be done on the 2g TLs too? Also does it matter what type of cell phone you have and do you have to have internet on your phone for this to work?

JCL622

this works on all cars as far as i know ~ with the exception of my step Dad's DB9 i know that it has worked on every other car i've tried it on

reloaded

Do both of the phones have to be cell phones or can the person at home have a regular home phone?

RSA_Secure

Jim in Oregon

Pure fiction...it can't work.

Aznpersuasion

i'm going to have to try this one out. lol
~Jason

kobi2002

I said the same thing till I tried it. I don't know if it works on all cars or cell phones,but I used to moto's and also a landline and a cell. I still wonder how but whatever

HQTL6SPD

Supposedly cell phones and keyless entry/alarms work on the same frequency, you have to hold cell phone within 1 Meter of door handle for it to work.

ifrisbee

URBAN Ledgend

keyfobs use RF, cell phones don't

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

drdamian

try this website.. connect2car.com . you can use your cell phone to do everything. im thinking of getting it.. i saw it in person, its really cool. just wish they made it for my bb.

ifrisbee

URBAN Ledgend

keyfobs use RF, cellphones use RF to transmit digitized voice. The microphone only digitizes sound waves. not RF waves.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

WhiteDiamond3.2

Was your car parked in frfont of your house when you did this? Cause if your car was close to your house then all it was, was the second remote opening the door and not through the cell phone. To really test this drive a couple of blocks away and try it.

csilano

If you think this works, I have a great deal on some swamp land in Florida, and If you act now I will toss in a bridge and no extra cost.

ankur914

Your offer seems quite tempting and intriguing. Where may I inquire about further details?

fant0m_TL

HEY - I saw this on the internet AND TV... they would never lie to me!

kobi2002

You could keep that swamp land, I live in brpward county .
But for real I don't have that much time to come on this site and lie. i did this about 10 blocks away. Someone mentioned it to me and I laughed.Last night I said hell let me try it and banm it worked. I also have an 06 evo but that did not work, so i don't know the principle behind it. Thought it was impossible

rimz

as in the Aston Martin DB9...? ...sorry to hijack for a moment, but please post a picture of that...i'll own an Aston Martin before i die, damnit!

JoeyASPEC

I tried this with my roomie today. I went to my car and called him to ask him to try it out. (Apartment is not within range of parking lot just fyi) I did NOT unlock, lock, or open the trunk. However, he DID scare the everlivin' outta me by hittin panic! It was kinda cool... I'll try it myself some other time to see if it works. Very cool

Jim in Oregon

Wow..when I was standing about 20 ft from the car with my wife standing next to the car, when I called her on the cell and hit the unlock on the fob......amazingly, it unlocked the car....he he

I suppose next we can open garage doors with two cell phones and a garage door opener.

Now don't you wonder that if it truly worked, it would be in the owner's manual?

"Hi honey, I'm almost home but I forgot the garage door opener. At the count of 3, hit your garage door opener. I'll just keep driving into the garage door because I know it'll open."

I heard that if you have two cell phones and the key, by turning the key in an imaginary slot, you can start your car.

he he...all the above is me at the keyboard after too many beers on a Friday night....time to sleep it off.

sunny201

ROFL! posts like these are y i love AZ... sooo does this work or not?

JoeyASPEC

yeah. try it. when it works it's like "WOAH!"

Trackruner228

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Hm I think mythbusters should do something to try out if this really works I wish I had an extra cell phone lying around to try it.

sunny201

I dont think you need another cell phone, you just have to have another person on the other end with the 2nd remote

blazinginder

I tried it today...didnt work

fant0m_TL

yeah... i tried it... i live in waukesha - thats about 40 miles away from where i am now (work) - about 231 blocks west of lake michigan. I just called my dad (at home) and and had him use his cell (same as mine - cingular 8525).

it worked. I had him unlock my car, and hold down the unlock to make the windows roll down... i couldnt believe it!




NOW ALL YOU IDIOTS WHO BELIEVED ME IN THIS POST NEED TO GIVE ME YOUR KEYS BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY YOU SHOULD BE DRIVING A TL!!

6spMike

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

6MTUA5

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this is just crazy. i too, will have to try this on my 2G.

6MTUA5

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Well, was looking at some other threads about this, and people are trying to get the Mythbusters to try and find out the truth behind this one --- That Thread


I found these links that seem to say it doesn't work, but people insist that it does

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/phonelocks.html

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...nlock_door.htm

reloaded

Yea i just tried to yesterday on my 2002 tl-s and it does not work. I put it right next to the window and had my bro press and hold unlock..no result. My cell phone is from cingular btw. I have no idea how u guys are making it work.

TLyoung'un

so what.. all these people claiming it works are straight out lying? That's not very nice O_O

darksom1

This worked on my Legend. No bullshitting - had gf do it! First, I had her try to unlock and lock doors without cell phone to ensure I was out of range. Then I called her and had her do it, and the shit worked!!! However, I wasn't able to get it to work on my 03 TL-S. I know for a fact that the Legend was an aftermarket alarm. I am not sure if I did it factory or aftermarket with 03 TLS. Maybe that makes a difference? Anybody with factory did it and isn't lying?

I'm going to try it on my 3G when it's daylight! Hopefully NBP makes it work!

avs007

Actually, cell phones use RF too, just a different frequency. Cell phones use licensed frequencies. Key fobs don't...

Even if it operated on the exact same frequency, this still shouldn't work... Here's why....

1.) Cell phones are optimized for voice traffic. So when the phone digitizes your voice, the compression/encryption schemes used have voice in mind, so it throws away part of the spectrum that it doesn't need, to minimize data it sends over the network. (Think MP3, but more tuned to voice). And heaven forbid your home phone uses VoIP or something and happens to negotiate a very lossy codec...

Anyways, whatever signals the phone sends/recieves, is through the microphone/earpiece. The speaker on the earpiece ain't gonna be broadcasting RF, and the microphone certainly wasn't designed to recieve RF. The networks certainly weren't designed for it either. That's why since the advent of GPRS/3G-IO/etc, you can't use your cell provider's voice network for your laptop to dial a dial-up network provider, UNLESS your cell provider has the equipment to handle that, because the regular packetizers on the network will certainly filter out the signals.

(I deal with these kinds of things at work)

darksom1

Yo, whether it was divine intervention or man-made invention - my shit worked!! I did it multiple times with the Legend and that was a few years ago! Seriously, I know some of these people are bullshitting, but I am not. Now, I may not be able to say all that technical jargon and what not, but I can say it worked! So maybe it's the phone (whenever I did it, it was when the Razr came out cuz that's what I used!), but whatever it is, I am not lying. I have the Verizon XV6700 now (same as the Cingular 8525 and the Sprint PP6700?). I will try this and let you guys know, though I don't have faith in it doing it now cuz I think I tried it with factory and it didn't work on my 03. Either that or it's vice versa, factory worked and aftermarket didn't. Don't just discount it - try it!

Some people rob banks, we come on AZ and mod and do crazy shit to our cars! Whatever right? It's all good!

3rdGenHybrid

it shouldn't matter where you hold your phone then...because the transmitter for the Key fob isn't in the door handle...it should be in the multiplex in teh fuse panel...

INSPIRE 32V

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this is very interesting