This is a trick I used as a kid to call my parents from a "locked" phone during a study trip abroad: when you lift the receiver there are two pieces of plastic that move up when you lift the receiver and down when you put it down. They are designed to keep the phone free to receive calls (down) or ready to make calls (up).
Now if you do tap those plastic pieces, you are sending an impulse to the phone that corresponds to a number, so 10 taps for 0, 9 taps for 9 ... 2 taps for 2 and 1 tap for 1.
so if you want to call a US number, prefix 001 it's 10, 10, 1 for the prefix and then the number.
It's long an painful but it's free and makes you feel like hackerman
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u/pastapizzapomodoro 5d ago
You can still make calls!
This is a trick I used as a kid to call my parents from a "locked" phone during a study trip abroad: when you lift the receiver there are two pieces of plastic that move up when you lift the receiver and down when you put it down. They are designed to keep the phone free to receive calls (down) or ready to make calls (up).
Now if you do tap those plastic pieces, you are sending an impulse to the phone that corresponds to a number, so 10 taps for 0, 9 taps for 9 ... 2 taps for 2 and 1 tap for 1.
so if you want to call a US number, prefix 001 it's 10, 10, 1 for the prefix and then the number.
It's long an painful but it's free and makes you feel like hackerman