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Does a microwave work?
From my tests, not fully. And neither did just aluminum foil. Wrapping the phone in aluminum foil + putting it into microwave oven (off, of course) did the trick.
I was doing this a lot to force automatic band switching into what I liked, until I got a phone where that can be done manually.
Why the numbers 224
Maybe 223 was taken
Is that true @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ?
No. Originally it was a testing username for UNIX shell. I just hit the keys randomly for numbers. Well, somebody verified my account, giving it higher value and making it not temporary.
Then SDF also made a Lemmy instance, and not understanding that being a separate product, I re-used the same username.
So you're an accident?