Re: emergency call - fallback to call without SIM Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2007-01-01 Thread Ben Fleming-Williams
Koen Kooi wrote: Uhm around here I get emergency calls only on my phone, even with inserted SIM when I get to some area without coverage from my operator? Not 'standard', but 'mandatory'. Dialing the alarm number even overrides keylock, try it on your current phone. ...which I've always

Re: emergency call - fallback to call without SIM Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-18 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Ben! Ben schrieb am Montag, den 18. Dezember 2006 um 11:47h: On 12/16/06, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without SIM card is the keyword. There are people got into trouble, especialy in the mountains and they didn't made an emergency call because their GSM network was not

Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-18 Thread Richard Franks
On 12/15/06, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I alread mentioned the idea to have a capacitor parallel to the battery? So the Neo1973 cold call the police even without battery and the simcard and transmitt the coordinates of the phone. ***g*** (of course with black screen...) Well..

emergency call - fallback to call without SIM Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-15 Thread Robert Michel
Salve! Robert Michel schrieb am Freitag, den 15. Dezember 2006 um 19:45h: Did I alread mentioned the idea to have a capacitor parallel to the battery? So the Neo1973 cold call the police even without battery and the simcard and transmitt the coordinates of the phone. Without SIM card is the

Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-15 Thread Tomasz Zielinski
2006/12/15, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. You could use a phone of a friend to send a SMS with a onetime code. The very first thing thief do is remove and throw away your SIM card. So you can forget about contacting your phone, if you not set crontab task with sending silent SMS with

Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-15 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Zielinski schreef: 2006/12/15, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. You could use a phone of a friend to send a SMS with a onetime code. The very first thing thief do is remove and throw away your SIM card. So you can forget about

Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-15 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Tomasz! On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2006/12/15, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. You could use a phone of a friend to send a SMS with a onetime code. The very first thing thief do is remove and throw away your SIM card. This thread is also about lost phones - so

Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-15 Thread Richard Franks
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:00 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: A phone that sends an sms to itself every week, how is that going to stop a thief that has my phone + simcard? Hmm. You are absolutely correct - security through obscurity + sneaky tricks aren't going to work medium-long term. Imagine you

Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-15 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia piątek, 15 grudnia 2006 21:00, Koen Kooi napisał: A phone that sends an sms to itself every week, how is that going to stop a thief that has my phone + simcard? You have only one cellphone? :D -- JID: hrw-jabber.org OpenEmbedded developer/consultant If you're going down in

Re: emergency call - fallback to call without SIM Re: capacitor to call the police without battery and SIM card *g* Re: Fun with Stolen/Lost Phones..

2006-12-15 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 15 December 2006 20:23, Robert Michel wrote: Without SIM card is the keyword. There are people got into trouble, especialy in the mountains and they didn't made an emergency call because their GSM network was not strong enough. Only a few GSM user does know that then it help to