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> would eat phone battery quickly to keep radio listening for these things your phone already listens for incoming call signal, this would be just another type
by RaleyField 12y ago
> would eat phone battery quickly to keep radio listening for these things
your phone already listens for incoming call signal, this would be just another type of signal.
- fulafel 12y agoHe was talking about turning the phone on remotely.
- MichaelCrawford 12y agoPerhaps I should have been more clear: I wasn't claiming that this maintenance mode turns on the power to a phone, rather that if the phone is already powered on, the maintenance mode silently and invisibly turns on the phone's microphone, then transmits audio back to the cell tower. So if you leave your cell powered on, anyone who knows how to activate that maintenance mode can listen to what you are saying, without your knowledge.