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 Post subject: Cell phone tricks
PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:00 pm 
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(* # 0 6 #) brings up serial #. I tried this, works
112, emergency network connection. Didn't try. Mixed results from snopes.
There's some others, but they seem silly.

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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:10 pm 
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There are tons of codes, which ones work depend on make/model.


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:28 pm 
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911 calls emergency services.
Do it enough and you get a funny response :beer:


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:31 pm 
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On a GSM phone (ATT and TMO) 112 WILL call 911... I can confirm this, I have personally tried it with both carriers... Working for 911 has its perks... It will NOT work on a verizon or sprint phones. The reason behind this is that there are other countries that you can take you GSM phone to that use 112 as their emergency number. Well the reverse is also true, people travel here and bring their phones, and they only know 112, therefore 112 will also put you into the phone trunk system for 911. The other trick is that every cell tower has a phone number individual to the tower, just a normal phone number. If you call the phone number to a T-Mobile tower, it will transfer you to the 911 system for the area that it resides... So if you call a tower number for a tower in Spokane, it will transfer you to the Spokane 911 center.

As for the other codes, they tend to be specific to the carrier... ATT uses *#.... Sprint uses ## codes...


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:32 pm 
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N7QOR wrote:
911 calls emergency services.
Do it enough and you get a funny response :beer:


Yes, we trace your phone...find your address and send lots of cops there... Its really actually quite funny for us... :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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In the GSM spec, it requires that all phones regardless of location to able to dial emergency services via 112.

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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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Madhatter wrote:
N7QOR wrote:
911 calls emergency services.
Do it enough and you get a funny response :beer:


Yes, we trace your phone...find your address and send lots of cops there... Its really actually quite funny for us... :lol:


How good is the phase2 thing getting?
Still a general broadcast & close?

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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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In the old days of analog cell phones, there was a Motorola(?) phone that had a code which let you cycle thru the current channels on the tower you were connected to. Apparently, it was some development/test code that was left in the production model. So you could listen to any calls on your current tower.


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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nickcarr wrote:
In the old days of analog cell phones, there was a Motorola(?) phone that had a code which let you cycle thru the current channels on the tower you were connected to. Apparently, it was some development/test code that was left in the production model. So you could listen to any calls on your current tower.


Self-test mode, used for doing RF alignment on the phone. There were various ways of doing it. Jumper straps, changing the pin arrangement on the control cable, and in later models typing in a code on the keypad.


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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nickcarr wrote:
In the old days of analog cell phones, there was a Motorola(?) phone that had a code which let you cycle thru the current channels on the tower you were connected to. Apparently, it was some development/test code that was left in the production model. So you could listen to any calls on your current tower.


And then, there was the good ol' PRO-2006 (of which I have 2)


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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N7QOR wrote:
And then, there was the good ol' PRO-2006 (of which I have 2)


Pro-34 for me... and later Pro-2006. The really fun days of monitoring. :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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I had a Realistic 2004, which of course broke, like everything else from RS I've owned.
However, while it worked I listened to early cell calls (800mhz), the best from L/E agencies.
Seems some prostitution sounding phone calls also.
Kinda like the old 46mhz cordless phones sometimes..

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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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the Outlaw wrote:
Kinda like the old 46mhz cordless phones sometimes..


I'm amazed at how many people *still* use them.


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
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the Outlaw wrote:
Madhatter wrote:
N7QOR wrote:
911 calls emergency services.
Do it enough and you get a funny response :beer:


Yes, we trace your phone...find your address and send lots of cops there... Its really actually quite funny for us... :lol:


How good is the phase2 thing getting?
Still a general broadcast & close?


5-10' is about average, but depends on a few things like view of the sky, how may cell sites are visible to the phone etc etc...

You can literally tell if someone is in the kitchen or bedroom... Or if you keep repeating it, can watch them move around their house...


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 Post subject: Re: Cell phone tricks
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:00 pm 
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Probably like Google Latitude.
My 'smart' phone freezes up every other day.
Windows 6.
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