For those of you who have a car that can be unlocked by that remote button on your key ring: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, and you don't have "On Star," here's your answer to the problem!

If someone has access to the spare remote at your home, call them on your cell phone (or borrow one from someone if the cell phone is locked in the car too)!

Hold your (or anyone's) cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the 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, or have the "horn" signal go off, or whatever)!

I have AT&T wireless phone. Mine is a MPx200. I had to put the phone on speaker to make it work.

Im gonna have to try this. Be back in a bit with the report. :D

If it works, post your cellphone type, if not still post your cell phone type.

hmmm, sounds interesting....i dont have an alarm though so it doesnt help me:(

it would be crazy if this works

still waiting for JDs results he must still be out trying it. haha..or maybe he really tried locking his keys inside so he could have the real effect, then realized.."wait, I dont have a backup remote"

It makes sense in theory. Remotes use sound waves that correspond w/ the reciever on the car... I would just think that there would be too much interference on a cell hpone for it to work.

ok does this go ONLY for the stock alarm? or for aftermarket as well?

some one sent my father this article, I googled the sucker, they say it doesn't work... thats why they invented on star
I think the speaker and reciever on phone especially cellphones can't pick up the frequencies that far out of audiable spectrum. Plus there has to be VERY little distortion for the computer to comprehend it as the correct code, cellphone speakers suck, especially on all the nextels, it's like the rice of the cellphone world with the flashy lights and they... END RANT

so has anyone tested it? does it work?

come on J!!!

wow i think im going to go and try this ill let u guys kno when i get home i have an after market alarm and a motorola celly....please work it would be soo cool

anyone try it yet?

Ill try it out later with my samgsung n400

J u try it yet?!?!??!!?

It was on the radio this morning. They tried it and it didn't work.

lol

another trick if the remote battery is low or you are to far away from the car for it to activate try pressing the remote against your head and then presing the button! this somehow magnifies the signal

so... did it really work or is this BS?

BS

ORIGINAL: ninja205

another trick if the remote battery is low or you are to far away from the car for it to activate try pressing the remote against your head and then presing the button! this somehow magnifies the signal



yup, ive heard that works

I called my car & it didn't unlock. [&o]

no work here either

Just tried it and it doesn't work. Have a Samsung E105 and stock remote. I just tried it quick cause it is 1 degree out but can't get it to work.

Just tried it and it doesn't work. Have a Samsung E105 and stock remote. I just tried it quick cause it is 1 degree out but can't get it to work.

i know someone who actually did this i dont know the exact details but my aunt called my other aunt when she was lockled out and it worked. she has a honda accord and a verizon phone

Yet, the people who tried it first hand had no success...

LG 710 '00 F250 doesn't work[&:]

it only works for your aunts brothers wife or summin like that everyone has a story that it works but never works first hand hehe
Some one send this into the Myth Buster

i tried it with a aftermarket...and no it doesnt work...i have a nextel i730...