In a movie, if I want someone to receive a caller ID on their phone of e.g. 555-1207 how would that be done? I mean, it is a non-existent phone number, so it could not be dialed and sent to the phone that I want it to appear on. How do they do pull this trick off in movies?
I imagine an electrician/phone expert can plop any numbers into the phone and have them display as a way to test the unit. Might take a gizmo though.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
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my advice is if you have a way of like giving names to the numbers in there, like example "mom, dad, work" whatever. have the actual name be that 555 number. then when they call the display name, if yours is designed that way, will display the name of the person calling. that way you can call from a real phone but change the name
You could just dial that number so that it comes up on the screen, but don't hit send... so when you show the cell phone screen, the audience heard it ring, they see him pick it up and 'hit' a button, but they'll see the 555 number that you've punched in.
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my advice is if you have a way of like giving names to the numbers in there, like example "mom, dad, work" whatever. have the actual name be that 555 number. then when they call the display name, if yours is designed that way, will display the name of the person calling. that way you can call from a real phone but change the name
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my advice is if you have a way of like giving names to the numbers in there, like example "mom, dad, work" whatever. have the actual name be that 555 number. then when they call the display name, if yours is designed that way, will display the name of the person calling. that way you can call from a real phone but change the name
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my advice is if you have a way of like giving names to the numbers in there, like example "mom, dad, work" whatever. have the actual name be that 555 number. then when they call the display name, if yours is designed that way, will display the name of the person calling. that way you can call from a real phone but change the namesomeone buy this man a drink! Nice one ?:)?
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Originally posted by papercut
my advice is if you have a way of like giving names to the numbers in there, like example "mom, dad, work" whatever. have the actual name be that 555 number. then when they call the display name, if yours is designed that way, will display the name of the person calling. that way you can call from a real phone but change the name
Bummer. I did that and had the person call me. Instead of their name I see the 555-xxxx number, but their real number also shows just below that. If I could get my phone to not show the real actual number below the 555-xxxx I would be in business; I will see if there is some way to alter phone settings for that.
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If you have the power to, in your editing program, just superimpose an image of the 555-xxx-xxxx phone number, on the phone's caller ID. Just make sure nothing obrstructs the caller ID, or the supuperimposing will take a logner time to do.
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