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Cell Phone Reception Hack
New Breeze writes "Has this ever happened to you? Just when you need to make a phone call, the bars of reception are scant to none. But Graeme, who writes a blog called 'Earth: Mostly Harmless,' gives us hope. Succeeding where most would quit, he chronicled his ingenuity in a post titled 'How I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal.'" Update: 08/01 14:31 GMT by T : Note: Credit for this story belongs to Mike Yamamoto, who wrote it for CNET's News.com.
How I read a webpage from a server that had been slashdotted into oblivion.
I can't wait for: "How I got pages served when my server was Slashdotted."
I can't believe the site's down already. This means that Slaashdotters are actually reading TFA. Who knew?
Plus, there's no cache in Google. Somewhere, in dim rack room, a server cries out in pain.
Nice solution I guess if you want a ghetto antenna next to your window, but it reminds me of my friends little brother. He was unhappy with his remote control cars range so he took a backpack and mounted a huge CB whip antenna to it and wired the antenna of the remote to the backpack. Dipole be damned, he claimed it made the car's range better. Of course he looked like a complete tard running around the street, but that wasnt unusual for him.
Obviously you're driving by the bars when you decide to dial. Your phone is trying to tell you to stop in and have a drink instead of just driving by. It won't make your phone work any better, but it'll help you realize the futility of caring about it. :-)
The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
Dude, you totally hacked the comments with that tirade!! awesome!
I managed to hack my electricity so it reached areas it never did before. I used this hacking device called an "extension cord".
Blessed are the 1337, for they shall pwn the earth.
When I've been in the sticks and had to use my phone, I always seem to find a useable analog signal. I may have to stand on the roof of my car, lift my left leg, and hold head at a certain angle but it will eventually work. Odd thing on that though. I've never had an analog signal greater then 1 bar. My question, where the hell are these analog transmitters that I always have a usable signal but never a good one. Freaky.
A trick I've used to get better range from my car alarm transmitters, hold the transmitter against your cheek and raise your other arm. You will get at least 25% more distance, really.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
So, I get to /. and I start to scan the articles. The usual stuff...12 dupes and a few new stories. I get to one called Linux Kernel Hack
Cool. I'll check that one out.
I pull up the list of comments and I click on the link to the article. I read the article from start to finish and having consumed the literary words on the page, let me be the first to post...
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Read my lips: Kernel != hack
This is in no way, shape, or form a hack. It is a guy building a kernel. An OS kernel has only been done by thousands of other ppl over the last 50 years. But yea, let's run the story anyway and call it a 'hack'.
Well, it's not.
It reminds me of undergrad research. Do something everyone has done before, but in a trivially different way and claim its ground breaking.
:)
I think u accidently added the extra word 'undergrad'
Hey buddy,
You don't need a fancy antenna. Just type in your SMS, press "send" and immediately throw the phone straight up as high as you can.
It'll get through.
-Thetan.
ps Make sure you catch it again!
I wanted to find a prepay plan with free incoming and run a BBS off that sucker, with a 300 baud modem on a C64, in the back of my car just for kicks
:)
You must be a devil with the ladies..
Hmm, your name isn't 'Adrian' by any chance?