Setting off alarms!

[mzanette]

Solved! When I got the phone, I also got a new billfold (with hidden tag)! I owe everybody a beer...

See, my naked trick would have ruled out the phone.

 

[chase2hoop]

I have never had this happen to me before when I had a Samsung Stratosphere, and I thought it was my clothes, since the problem first started walking in and out of Kohls, and the alarm going off. When I got home, I checked my clothes and wallet, but I didn't see any visible inventory control tags in them. I went back to customer service with the wallet, and they deactivated the wallet (again). I walked out the door and the alarm went off again. I knew it wasn't my clothes when I walked into Barnes and Noble and the alarms went off. When I walked in, one of the sales representatives said that it is "Probably your cell phone, it's been happening to a lot of people for a while now." The only thing that comes to mind is NFC that wasn't on the stratosphere, but is on this cell phone. Is it possible that an internal chip like the processor could be setting off the alarm?

 

[jzilka]

Ummmm... IT IS THE PHONE! I noticed it happening ever since I got my new phone. To test the theory I put my phone in my hand and stuck my hand through the anti-theft gates at the store and the alarm went off. Very frustrating as the alarms go off in every store both entering and exiting!

 

[Red Cherry Tree]

i've got a Galaxy S3 and it sets off store alarms all the time. and yes it is the phone as I experimented in a store, first by walking thru just me, no bags, no phone, nothing happened. Then I tried with my bags but no phone. Nothing happened. Then I tried just me and my phone. Alarm went off. Then tried just putting my arm with my phone in my hand thru, alarm went off.

 

[jusmebabe]

Next time at the store:

• Walk up to the "gate" that gets the loss prevention signal.
• Put your phone in your right hand.
• Stick your right arm through the gate.

If this sets off the alarm, it's your phone. If it doesn't set off the alarm:

• Pull right arm back.
• Turn around
• Extend right arm again.
• Walk backwards through gate, stopping before phone reaches the sensing point.

If this sets off the alarm, it's not your phone. Look inside your wallet, under the insoles of your shoes, or any other place where a tag could be that you haven't noticed.

In either case, please report back. I am too curious to not know what happens here

True story:
A few years ago my kids somehow got a security tag between the outer shell and inner lining of my jacket. I set off alarms constantly at stores, and never found out what happened until I tossed the jacket and bought a new one -- when my son told me what they did.

+1 for sneakyass kids

You won't like like a fool doing that

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Android Central Forums

 

[zk4n]

I also own a Samsung S3
My phone sets off all shop alarm systems.
I went with my daughter shopping and every store I was stopped and searched - I am 62 and a business man. Embarrassing!
Next shop handed my phone to my daughter, I went in no problem. She entered, alarms went off.
I now either leave phone in car or turn it off.
Went to phone provider - not our problem. Don't want to know.
Phoned Samsung.
Only use the phone is "Safe Mode" Uninstall every app and try again.
Hmmmm. Guess I'll buy a new phone.
Can't be bothered to sort this out

 

[meyerweb#CB]

This has never happened to me, whether NFC is on, BT is on, or WiFi. Given the millions of GS3s sold, this is obviously not a common issue or there'd be thousands of posts about it.

 

[sfrrr]

Fwiw--those anti - theft portals in clothing stores will set off the super - powered radar detectors in cars. So do automatic doors in supermarkets. Just driving past a supermarket will get radar detectors a- whirling. (but only in states where radar detectors are legal, of course.)

Well, it seemed like a sequitur to me...

Sent from my unrooted 32 GB Polish Samsung Galaxy GT I9300 running 4.1.2.

 

[ranee55]

My phone (Galaxy S3) sets off the alarm in Walmart. The store employees said it happens all the time with this type of phone. And, no, it isn't funny. Hopefully, they'll create a solution.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Odd. I shop at Walmart from time to time and this has never happened to me there, or anywhere else. Are you GSM or CDMA? I know GSM phones can cause interference with regular phones, TVs, etc.

 

[JHBThree]

My clothes/shoes never set off any alarms until I started carrying my new phone with me. So much for your theory.

It is not possible. Nothing on your phone can set off an EAS pedastel.

Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk 2

 

[JHBThree]

My phone (Galaxy S3) sets off the alarm in Walmart. The store employees said it happens all the time with this type of phone. And, no, it isn't funny. Hopefully, they'll create a solution.

It isn't the gs3. I had one. I work in retail. It never happened. They had to replace one of the pedastels at my store last year. Since I'm one of the managers they had to talk to me, so I asked them about phones setting them off. Both of the guys there said that it is not possible for a phone to set them off. The only way for that to happen is if there's an eas tag somewhere on the device.

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[Bubba319]

And I thought I was losing it! My new LG E980 sets off these alarms in a lot of the stores I go in!
And quite frankly, I don't give a darn. Its their problem.

 

[Badphone1]

My Samsung S3 . always sets off alarms at the stores. I have tried all of solutions mentioned above (turning off NFC,Blutooth,wify ) but nothing works. Would be great of someone could find the cause and any solution , rather than wasting time on here ,with stupid answers, like removing clothes..

thanks

 

[anonymousdroid]

For 3 days my Droid Razr set off alarms at Walgreens, Walmart and Burlington Coat Factory, both entering and exiting, but it stopped when I changed the WiFi setting to OFF (It had accidentally been set on, as I always leave it off). Nothing else changed, not my clothing, nor my handbag or contents.

 

[chris082681]

I set off the security sensors at my school library.... maybe 50% of the time, maybe a little bit more. It seems to happen less when I enter the library and more when I'm leaving. I have a lenovo x230T (tablet laptop)(almost always set to sleep mode) with a Logitech Anywhere MX (RF) mouse, and currently using an LG nexus 5 (but this happened also while I was using a samsung S4).

I'm constantly stopped and harassed by the librarians, who are mostly volunteers, so I only appear as a "regular" to only a few people, so I'm nearly always searched.

Out of frustration, I have tried emptying my school bag completely and walking through the sensors with each individual item (including the bag itself), and they don't go off... Once everything else is back together in my bag, they go off. Really annoying. I think today I will ask them to put my picture up with a notice saying "please ignore this guy".

 

[AxlMyk]

I think I'll put a tag on my phone just for the fun of it.

 

[galvtsiGreycloud]

Phones are not the only thing that set them off! I have a GLM 80 laser range finder. For weeks I have been setting off the alarms when entering and leaving stores. Today, I removed all the electronic items from my possession and one at a time went through the scanner. When I had the laser ranger in my hand, every time it set off the alarm. The employees thought it would have been my phone and were surprised to see it was the laser ranger. Research this evening found another person on the net reporting that their laser ranger sets off the alarms. Bottom line, I KNOW FOR A FACT that this laser ranger, Bausch GLM 80, DOES set off the alarms. I am sure these are not the only items that do this. ...Frank P.S. There are no tags in or on the ranger. The unit is completely sealed. Search Amazon.com to see a picture of it.