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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / T-Mobile / October 2007Cell phone pinging
I just read in a paper that a car accident victim was found after 7 days by pinging her cell phone. This pinging is new to me. Can they ping a phone even when it's turned off? P. R. > I just read in a paper that a car accident victim was found after 7 days > by pinging her cell phone. This pinging is new to me. Can they ping a > phone even when it's turned off? P. R. I doubt it, but if it's not in use, it's possible that the battery lasted that long. Unlikely, but possible.  SignatureSteve Sobol, Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED "Drench yourself in words unspoken / Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins / The rest is still unwritten" - Natasha Beddingfield my Phone a sanyo katana the orginal one lasts up to 2 weeks on stand by with little or no use:) -- AL'S COMPUTERS > > I just read in a paper that a car accident victim was found after 7 days > > by pinging her cell phone. This pinging is new to me. Can they ping a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Today is where your book begins / The rest is still unwritten" > - Natasha Beddingfield >> I just read in a paper that a car accident victim was found after 7 days >> by pinging her cell phone. This pinging is new to me. Can they ping a >> phone even when it's turned off? P. R. > >I doubt it, but if it's not in use, it's possible that the battery lasted >that long. Unlikely, but possible. They can definitely tell what tower you're registerd on if your phone is still active on the network. They should be also able to tell the last tower your phone was registered on even after it goes dead, but whether they actually retain that info as a rule, I couldn't tell you. Technologically speaking, it's possible to do it. SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > I just read in a paper that a car accident victim was found after 7 days > > by pinging her cell phone. This pinging is new to me. Can they ping a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Today is where your book begins / The rest is still unwritten" > - Natasha Beddingfield It's possible that she had the car charger plugged in. No, not if it's off. But if it's on they can "ping" it by calling the number and seeing which tower found it. As you move about your phone, if on, is always scanning for the strongest signal so that it is, in essence, connected to a tower. ID the tower and you know the general area of the phone. If the area is sparsly populated with one main road running through then that's likely where you'll find the phone. I read the same article but the timing in the article itself seemed to be less than 7 days. > I just read in a paper that a car accident victim was found after 7 > days by pinging her cell phone. This pinging is new to me. Can they > ping a phone even when it's turned off? P. R. > No, not if it's off. But if it's on they can "ping" it by calling the > number and seeing which tower found it. As you move about your phone, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > read the same article but the timing in the article itself seemed to > be less than 7 days. According to the report in the following link, she was actually found more than a week after her accident. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003911730_rescue29m.html > According to the report in the following link, she was actually found >more than a week after her accident. >http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003911730_rescue29m.html My Sony Ericsson can easily handle a week of battery life of standby time without any airtime being used in the mean time. SignatureYou can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word. > My Sony Ericsson can easily handle a week of battery life of standby > time without any airtime being used in the mean time. She was probably lucky that her phone battery was pretty much fully charged when the accident happened. Otherwise it may have not had enough juice for a week even in a standby mode. >> My Sony Ericsson can easily handle a week of battery life of standby >> time without any airtime being used in the mean time. > > She was probably lucky that her phone battery was pretty much fully >charged when the accident happened. Otherwise it may have not had enough >juice for a week even in a standby mode. Yup, not many phones can go beyond a week of standby, although there are a few out there -- My parents had an older Nokia that could do 10-12 days. SignatureYou can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word. |
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