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Locked Your Keys In The Car? Get Out Your Cell Phone

Louis E. Frenzel
September 11, 2006

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There has been a rumor going around in one of those dreadful e-mails that your friends and co-workers feel compelled to forward to you all the time. If you lock your keys in your car and you have a remote keyless entry system, you can get outside help to open the car if you have your cell phone with you. Just call someone that has a duplicate key fob that will open your car. Then, hold you cell phone near the door lock and have the person with the key fob call you back. The person with the key fob should then put the key near their phone and push the unlock button. The door should open.

I was skeptical, to say the least, about this rumor, and was about to dismiss it as one more Internet hoax. But I thought I better try it out first. Well, low and behold, it works. I tried it with both GSM and cdma cell phones, and it reliably opens (and relocks) the car.

I have been racking my brain for days about how this works. Two or more different wireless technologies are involved. I even used a 2.4 GHz cordless phone to make the call. The remote keyless entry usually uses on-off-keying (OOK), a form of ASK, to modulate a 315 MHz carrier with the correct serial digital code. Somehow the calling phone picks up this information and transmits it to the receiving cell phone, which then magically retransmits it to the door lock receiver in the car? Yeah, right.

All I can think of is that the digital code from the key fob modulates the sending phone and the receiving phone subsequently picks it up. But how does it transmit the code to the lock receiver in the car? Does the 315 MHz signal ride on the cell phone carrier some how? I thought I was a pretty good wireless guy, but this one baffles me.

If you have any thoughts to share on this, drop me a line at lfrenzel@penton.com. I’ll be sure to pass the word on to the others here next month.





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Can you hear the signal from your key fob? Does your keyfob make a sound?

NO is doesn't therefore it is not generating a sound wave, therefore the microphone cannot pick it up and cannot turn it into a signal that it can generate and send!...how hard is that to comprehend?

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=cmIGT0IrO_0

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This does seem pretty interesting, but it probably doesn't work. Unless your remote sends out ultrasonic or some other type of sound wave to unlock your car, then it might be picked up by the cellphone mike and it maybe even reproduced by the speaker. However, I think that most remotes use infared (which is light). Please correct me if I am wrong.

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- Submitted On: November 8, 2006
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Glitter wrote: "... the car remote is a 315 MHz then a cell phone could repeat a signal at that frequency since cell phones are operating at 900 MHz or higher..."

My response: The fact that one device's frequency is higher than the other's does not mean one can carry the other's signal. How'd you learn this?

He goes on: "hold the cell phone near the lock, which is the receiver" My response: The door lock is NOT the receiver!

And this tells it all: "Although I haven't tried any of this ...

"just looking good on paper ... " No, no it doesn't.

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- Submitted On: November 5, 2006
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- Submitted On: October 25, 2006
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- Submitted On: October 19, 2006
I think you guys miss the point of Bob's comments, a cell phone does not pick up electro maganetic frequecy's through the microphone, if if did, the cell phone would be useless due to the enormous amount of EMF signals flying throuh the air at any point in time.

A microphone wants to take varying pressure waves in the air and convert them into varying electrical signals. They key fob does not vary air pressure, so, the microphone would not pick up anything to convert and trasmit

Name (required): Glitter
- Submitted On: October 10, 2006
Bob, you might not be as full as BS as you think ... if the car remote is a 315 MHz then a cell phone could repeat a signal at that frequency since cell phones are operating at 900 MHz or higher. The instructions are to hold the cell phone near the lock, which is the receiver - the cell phone simply functions as a repeater in the "wireless network". It doesn't need to know the sequence, just repeats the sequence from the key fob which is sequenced to the car lock.

If the above is true, then this should also work with a land line cordless phone (the older models are 900 Mhz so can likely transmit a 315 Mhz signal) ... which is great if you've locked the cell phone in the car along with your keys!

Although I haven't tried any of this ... just looking good on paper ...

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- Submitted On: October 7, 2006
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- Submitted On: October 2, 2006
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Well an algorithm is synced between the two devices so storing it would not work because the code being transmitted is based on the algorithm and changes everytime. Kinda like RSA secure ids I guess.

Jimmy Jones
- Submitted On: October 1, 2006
fortunately, my car came with a mechanism to prevent me from locking the keys inside. The driver side never locks until u actually take the keys out n lock it using either d remote or key. VW 2005. so from inside, if u press d lock on d door, all doors lock except driver side and if u use remote from inside, nothing happens until u get out and press it. The only caveat is if my dumbass purposely lock d keys in the trunk. Then I'll want to verify or testify rather to this hack of cellphone "proofs"

Jack Stapleton
- Submitted On: October 1, 2006
So does that mean you can tape record it as well? Then put it on your Ipod and youll never need your keys to open the door? Then how about store a million of these codes on your Ipod then just walk around parking lots looting?

Infiknight
- Submitted On: September 29, 2006
This does work. I've just tested it with the key being WELL out of range. If you cant do the math behind it before you talk crap about it then there's little point in making yourself look so clever.

Bob
- Submitted On: September 29, 2006
The reason it works is that the key FOB transmits a quadrate modulation scheme of digital code which can ride as a sub carrier on the cell phone signal which than re modulates the receiving phones signal and converts the signal into a harmonic of the ray Leigh method of signal conversion which than introduces an analog version of the digital signal back into the original UHF carrier with the proper digital code to open the car door

Name
- Submitted On: September 29, 2006
Can bloggers grow up in their ways of communicating?

Martyn McKinney
- Submitted On: September 28, 2006
Tell us what you think - post your comments here. There is not enough information given to properly evaluate this, but my guess is that the carrier of the cellphone is being rectified in the circuit and overriding the locking mechanism.

The keyfob modulation is likely a red herring.

czar
- Submitted On: September 28, 2006
Nonsense.

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

(More than a few people have inadvertently fooled themselves into believing the cell phone method of unlocking car doors actually works because they tried it and achieved the desired results — not realizing their cars were still within range of their keyless remote devices, and the signals that unlocked the doors were transmitted the usual way [i.e., through the air], not via cellular phone connections.)

glob
- Submitted On: September 28, 2006
It could be possible if the Cell phone system could reliably trasmit interference it receives. I know my cell phone can do a good job of creating interference, but I don't know about transmitting it.

Isaiah
- Submitted On: September 27, 2006
I kid you not this really works. It actually saved my ass once! I have no idea how it works or with which cars it works on, but it sure worked on my truck! I have a Python remote start and a Sidekick 3, and it worked!

Your site sucks.
- Submitted On: September 27, 2006
This story is so full of shit. Its amazing what stupid people will believe.

Name (is not required)
- Submitted On: September 27, 2006
This is how you really use your phone to get into a locked car: 1)Call a friend that has the key. 2)Tell him you'll buy him lunch if he comes and bails you out. 3)Wait patiently for him to get there. 4)Thank him.

Chris
- Submitted On: September 27, 2006
This may we work on a few select cars that use ultrasound to send the unlock signal, but most likley it's a hoax.

name
- Submitted On: September 27, 2006
o rly

mike w
- Submitted On: September 27, 2006
fake... I'm suprised your posting this. Eat crow lately

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