Cell phone too?!
OK, I don't know what it is with phones and me now. I'm still waiting for my phone company to call back and fix my landline, but now my cell phone is acting weird.
I'm watching TV, and then my cell starts vibrating, so I think "Yay, finally an SMS from my phone company, the phone is fixed!" But no, it's just vibrating for no reason. No message on the screen or anything. I press the buttons, nothing happens. I press the power button. Nothing. I hold the power button. Nothing. At this point I'm scared that it's malfunctioning and won't ever work again, but I take the battery out and put it back in, and I'm relieved that it starts just like it should. Then it tells me I do have a new SMS. I read it, and according to the date and time, I got it when the phone started vibrating. Hm? Did an SMS crash my phone? Is that even possible?
Also, it doesn't make any sense, it's just ones and zeroes. A binary number maybe. I took a photo of it so you can have a look if you want to. The "From" field seems screwy, there's no way I could've gotten an SMS from a number that short. Doesn't make sense. Most cell phone services have 5-digit numbers.
Read the SMS
If my cell is going to die on me too, I'll have no way of calling people. Shit, what if there's a fire or something?
I'm watching TV, and then my cell starts vibrating, so I think "Yay, finally an SMS from my phone company, the phone is fixed!" But no, it's just vibrating for no reason. No message on the screen or anything. I press the buttons, nothing happens. I press the power button. Nothing. I hold the power button. Nothing. At this point I'm scared that it's malfunctioning and won't ever work again, but I take the battery out and put it back in, and I'm relieved that it starts just like it should. Then it tells me I do have a new SMS. I read it, and according to the date and time, I got it when the phone started vibrating. Hm? Did an SMS crash my phone? Is that even possible?
Also, it doesn't make any sense, it's just ones and zeroes. A binary number maybe. I took a photo of it so you can have a look if you want to. The "From" field seems screwy, there's no way I could've gotten an SMS from a number that short. Doesn't make sense. Most cell phone services have 5-digit numbers.
Read the SMS
If my cell is going to die on me too, I'll have no way of calling people. Shit, what if there's a fire or something?
9 Comments:
Yes it has happened occasionally that some SMS crash mobile phones due to firmware mistakes. Your phone doesn't look too new, so it could be possible.
Looks not like a fuckup of the phone or the company tho... I don't think there would be only ones and zeros then.
fun trivia: 110 is the nationally-available german number for calling the police.
1011001101001100110100 (bin) =
2097152 + 524288 + 262144 + 32768 + 16384 + 4096 + 512 + 256 + 32 + 16 + 4 = 2937652
that's a pretty big number, so if it means something it has to be a rather small unit
it's too short for an icq number but it could be a phone number which would make sense from a phone-related point of view... maybe that the number wasn't transmitted in the right field so it got switched up. that would also explain the 110
Oh yes I wanted to give you toxi's email adress (the friend with the phone problem) ...go to his blog at http://toxibox.blogspot.com/ hehe but those are by far not the only problems he has... :)
Hmmm... Maybe the 110 is part of the binary number? Just an idea
Argh sorry, I made a mistake while transcribing the binary number, it's of course 1011001101001110110100 which equals 2937780
sorry
ahahah it started vibrating just for you... this must be true love! <3
Lasty, hi again. Thanks for the URL, I took a quick look now, but I'll read it after breakfast. And thanks for looking at the number in the SMS. 2937780 sure doesn't look like a Swedish phone number, but I tried adding a zero (02937780) and searching for it on hitta.se anyway. Didn't get any hits. I don't think there is a 029 area code. I'll check.
I tried adding the 110 to the front of the binary number which turns the number to 28103604 ...does that make more sense?
For a second (no pun intended) I thought about the Unix time format (seconds since 1970) but 28103604 seconds are just a bit over 325 days... doesn't make too much sense. And 2937780 sec are a bit more than 34 days... even less useful.
If it were minutes instead of seconds those dates would be half through the year 2023 or somewhere in 1975. Better but still not very useful.
Guess it's just a random number of bits ...of course it could always be something encrypted, but we'd probably never find out. Maybe you can think of any other unencrypted thing that might make sense?
Oh.. oh.. I just had an idea. maybe you have to add the seconds to something else. maybe to the 110 or to the date... I'm not much of a number juggler
how do I convert seconds from 1970 into a date in an easy way? Or can you do it? Maybe substracting it from the reception time will match with another incident and I wanna calculate that... but I can't do it without a lot of effort, dividing and summing up seconds and minutes and as I said I'm really not much of a number juggler
Lasty: I thought it might be ASCII codes, but that doesn't work at all.
ToxiBox: Good idea, but then you'd have to convert the "2005-05-03 18:57" into seconds since 1970, and I'm not sure there's an easy way to do that. I'm a programmer, and I'm sure I could do it, but it would involve all sorts of exceptions for leap years and stuff. I'd probably just get it wrong. Wait, I'll google for it, maybe someone already wrote a function that (hopefully) does it right.
I found this page http://www.perlservices.net/en/programs/epoch_converter/epoch_converter.html
1115146620 is May 3rd, 2005 06:57 PM.
1115146620-2937780 = 1112208840, which translates to March 30th, 2005 06:54:00 PM.
1115146620-28103604 = 1087043016, which translates to June 12th, 2004 12:23:36 PM.
Since it could be two different numbers (with or without the 110), I did two converstions. The results lead me to believe that the first date is more significant, since it's around the same time as when I received the SMS. It's only off by a few minutes. Of course, that might be a coincidence, and this doesn't have anything to do with dates. Because none of the dates mean anything to me, at least that I can remember.
By the way, what time is 12:23 PM? 23 minutes past noon or midnight? Stupid AM/PM crap. We use 24-hour watches in Sweden. 12:00 is noon, 00:00 is midnight, no confusion.
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