TIP - Popular Myths: Radar

[Dusti_man]

The Nokia3310

Radar Tool or big bag of s***e?

Apparently by setting your closed user group to 0000, (in settings/Security settings), a 3310 handset will play your message alert when you pass cops with Radar detectors...

But it won't.

And apparently if you set your user group to 500, it can be used to set off EM security tag systems at shop doorways.

But again that dosn't happen either.

In fact the only phreak I ever heard of which worked with the closed user group was that if you had set it to 666 in Germany during the early ninties you would have been able to send free SMS messages but athough it's been well documented I couldnt say for sure that its true.



Then theres Sim Clocking

If you type in the code *#746025625# which spells out SIM0CLOCK it's meant to increase the batteries standby time presumably by suspending the location/paging system. Believed by many to be a source of free calls and messages.

But thats just another wild goose.

The *#_____# code is for status reports only. It won't turn anything on or off. It tells you wether stop mode is possable but as all 3v Sims and most of the older 5v ones can be stopped anyway theres not a lot of reason to do it.

These 'secrets' seem to be just myths repeated endlessly across internet. Look up 100 pages of 'secret codes' and 99% of them are copied off eachother word for word.

I think GSM security is very tight and getting tighter. Mobile networks get very shirty about phreakable loopholes becoming public knowlage and as they connect seemlessly in to the domestic lines and exchanges they have every reason to be.

So if it looks like you're getting a free ride. I'd look again.

[Sunners]

Aww how cool would it be if they worked :(

[screwedlilbunny]

VERY! kewl!... is what it'd be if it worked sunners!

[Sunners]

Still tempted to try em ;)

[Dusti_man]

On the SIM clock stopping front;

If you've enabled the field tests on your Nokia the two pages which give you relevent details are;

Test 51: Tells you if clocking is possable and it's current state.
Test 10: Gives your paging repetition period, (how often your fone gives your location)

These tests aren't executable and I've tried entering the *#SIM0CLOCK# code and checking the results.

No change at all.

Clock stopping is possably a development hangover intended to expand the headroom for paging chanels in high usage areas if necessary. But it's clearly not implimented.

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There is another myth I'd like to urinate upon while I'm here tho.

If you enter the field test number 497 you're meant to get a free 90 second call/SMS.

But I checked my balance before and after. There was no free call. It just disabled the net monitor menu...

Tests 241 and 753 do the same thing.