Turning on a cell phone with a text message

I lost my phone somewhere in my school, and i was wondering if there
was anyway to turn my phone on with a text message so i could call it
and find my phone.

I have a verizon lg vx8300

Chances are the new owner has it turned on during his calls to Mexico, and
the 900 numbers, of course.

Have you called Verizon about the phone being lost?

If the phone is actually turned off, IMHO, it will be unable to receive text
messages.

<flapjack23@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1176406665.379012.223100@d57g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
>I lost my phone somewhere in my school, and i was wondering if there
> was anyway to turn my phone on with a text message so i could call it
> and find my phone.
>
> I have a verizon lg vx8300
>

flapjack23@gmail.com wrote in news:1176406665.379012.223100
@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

> I lost my phone somewhere in my school, and i was wondering if there
> was anyway to turn my phone on with a text message so i could call it
> and find my phone.
>
> I have a verizon lg vx8300
>

Cellphones have an OFF?!!

Geez, I learn something new every day on here!

Larry
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flapjack23@gmail.com wrote:
> I lost my phone somewhere in my school, and i was wondering if there
> was anyway to turn my phone on with a text message so i could call it
> and find my phone.
>
> I have a verizon lg vx8300

I found out recently that the calendar will turn on the LG VX8300 to
remind you of an appointment. I don't know of any phone that will
receive data when turned off. If you had any appointments scheduled, I
suppose you could call the phone at the times the reminders were set to
go off.

Your phone should be disabled by VZW, rather than hoping someone honest
has found it. Anyone that honest would make an effort to find out whose
phone it is.

--
SlobbyDon

>If you had any appointments scheduled, I suppose you could call the phone
>at the times the reminders were set to go off.

If it turns on at a scheduled appointment (which I still find hard to
believe) then you imply it turns itself off again after the reminder.

Walter

"SlobbyDon" <slobby_NIXSPAMdon@mail.ru> wrote in message
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> flapjack23@gmail.com wrote:
>> I lost my phone somewhere in my school, and i was wondering if there
>> was anyway to turn my phone on with a text message so i could call it
>> and find my phone.
>>
>> I have a verizon lg vx8300
>
> I found out recently that the calendar will turn on the LG VX8300 to
> remind you of an appointment. I don't know of any phone that will receive
> data when turned off. If you had any appointments scheduled, I suppose
> you could call the phone at the times the reminders were set to go off.
>
> Your phone should be disabled by VZW, rather than hoping someone honest
> has found it. Anyone that honest would make an effort to find out whose
> phone it is.
>
> --
> SlobbyDon
>

Walter Cohen wrote:
>> If you had any appointments scheduled, I suppose you could call the
>> phone at the times the reminders were set to go off.
>
> If it turns on at a scheduled appointment (which I still find hard to
> believe) then you imply it turns itself off again after the reminder.
>

I checked again and only thought the phone had been turned off.

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SlobbyDon

<flapjack23@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1176406665.379012.223100@d57g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
>I lost my phone somewhere in my school, and i was wondering if there
> was anyway to turn my phone on with a text message so i could call it
> and find my phone.
>
> I have a verizon lg vx8300
>
>
Here is proof that "Common Sense" is not so common........

Phones (most phones at least) will in fact turn themselves on when a
calendar or alarm event happens; these are controlled by the RTC's
which retain self-power even when the phone is off. However, when the
phone is off, so is the radio and radio stack (software), so there
would be no way to receive the message to turn itself on.

On Apr 12, 3:37 pm, flapjac...@gmail.com wrote:
> I lost my phone somewhere in my school, and i was wondering if there
> was anyway to turn my phone on with a text message so i could call it
> and find my phone.
>
> I have a verizon lg vx8300