Killing your phone's GSM buzz with ferrite beads
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted August 2nd 2008 7:20PM
posted August 2nd 2008 7:20PM
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sweet. No more surround sound static ever time someone comes over with a nextel.
Isn't Nextel CDMA?.. hense the Sprint/Nextel merger yesteryear..
Nextel is iDEN, hence the reason Nextel phones didn't work on Sprint's network.
Negative Ghost Rider, Nextel use's iDEN
Friends don't let friends use Nextel.
"nigga technology"
that episode of The Boondocks was totally about Boost Mobile
all hail the low-pass filter !
ummm... chocolate doughnuts...
eat them and see if they taste the same
They are also good for removing loose teeth without going to the dentist. Just place them over that wiggling tooth and bite it hard!
ah, well i stand corrected then ^-^
thx fur da klarificashun
pretty sweet deal, though, you know, it would be nice if this kind of thing would just be fixed in the factory room floor. simple fixes = major screw up on the manufacturer's part, at least as far as I'm concerned.
incidentally, "wan" should probably be want right there...
I wan a spell checker!
Get Mozilla Firefox. :P
(But if you are referring to the article, Firefox can miss it. WAN is an acronym.)
wan also means lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light ...
isn't that wane?
no, wane means a gradual decrease in something over time, ex; the moon is on the wane, i.e. it is decreasing in visibility.
I only wish Firefox's spell check knew about other geeky things like, well anything. CDMA GPS etc
I thought everybody already new this.
I thought everybody spelt it like 'knew'.
luke, you must be knew here
@phanbouy
He he...I love it when someone uses incorrect grammar when correcting someone else's grammar. "Spelt" is a type of wheat and not part of the conjugation of the verb "spell," my friend.
@adam:
it might be a kind of wheat but "spelt" is also a past tense of "spell" and was rightly used in this context. also, it was used by "luke" and not by "phanbouy"
@adam
"Spelt" is the British past tense of "spell".
The word you are looking for is "spelled".
um....everyone I know spells the past tense of spell as "spelt," yet when i typed that, the auto spell-checker marked it as incorrect. However that's how I've been forming it since early childhood, and i live in MA--just saying that maybe different regions of the US spell it differently.
Now that I would want to see dale. Do you have different dictionaries too?
West-coast US-English.
this is all very relevant to the topic XD
You guys think you have it bad? My phone's earpiece has GSM buzz.
Damn, dude. Get a new phone.
SLVR L7 ain't exactly old, man.
he's not your man, guy
He's not your guy, buddy.
He's not your buddy, partner.
He's not your partner, chief.
He's not your chief, dude.
He's not your dude, gaylord.
I read that on lifehacker not to long ago.
You might also just try a piece of aluminum foil.
Take a piece of aluminum foil. Fold it over so its a bit bigger than your phone. Lay it down on the desk. Put the phone on top of it. See if the speaker buzz from your phone is gone. Works for me and several people I've suggested it to...
I've also tried this in my car, placing a piece of aluminum foil under a rubber mat where I place my phone, and it works pretty well there too...
Originally saw this tip on an iPhone site, where somebody even tried it by taping a small piece of aluminum foil to the back of the iPhone. Worked there too. And yes, the phone still works...
I've heard that--if you take a piece of tinfoil, about 30" by 30", center it on top of your head, fold the corners down under your chin, then fold over the remaining flaps taking care not to create any gaps, and smooth it out to lay as flat as possible over your skin and hair--you can get rid of the GSM buzzing in your head.
Anyone know if this fix would work with speakers in a car? Theoretically it would, but the example only uses computer speakers.
If you care enough about the insignificant GSM buzz on your car speakers compared to the road noise and interference from your engine, you can pull the speakers out and throw these around the plugs, but honestly, I wouldn't say it's worth it.
Yeah, I think I read it on Lifehacker also...
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/06/26/magnets_kill_the_cell_phone_speaker_buzz-2.html
So you only *think* so? You didn't read it?
Sorry, grammar police abuse.
You don't even want to know what I have laying around in my spaghetti drawer.
Um.... Spaghetti?
Jim, you're right.
a flying monster?
So why bring it up at all?
I mean, the fact that you had brought up the topic would only lead to further enthusiasm towards knowing the contents your said spaghetti drawer. If you hadn't made the comment in the first place, you'd probably be saving some lazy chum about 2-5 seconds of their ever-so-interesting lives, but instead you found the need to make an necessary and self-contradicting remark and now some other lazy chum has spent 10+ seconds reading my rebuttal. GOOD GOING, GAWD.