Will it actually prevent the automatic updates if you put your phone (off) in the microwave, as someone mentioned?
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I think a microwave works as a 'faraday cage' ( look that up). This is why people joke about tin foil/tin foil hats. You can place your phone in a tin foil covering and it WILL stop messages. OR a cookie tin will work, assuming its made of aluminum and has a tightly closing lid.
Yes, even if not on the same frequency spectrum, depends on the microwave and how is made, but still, it may allow signal to go in (your phone could ring), but it should block reverse emissions
Better thing if you have time and materials, wrap the phone in plastic foil or a bag or something, take the aluminium paper roll or something that does isolate, and wrap it over the plastic, repeat as much as you want, 3-4 layers should be safe, leave the last wrap as plastic so that insulates, and put it in the microwave (or if you have a metal trash can, you can put a plastic bag inside with the content (ex wrapped phones, pc, etc), and close it, should add as an additional layer of insulation ( but be sure the metal never touches things inside and plastic is always the last layer you use)
I tried the foil.
Wrapped the thing and tried to see if I still had signal, and I did.
Aluminum won't suffice, it has to be something thicker.
I haven't tried foil + microwave, but that seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
lol if you're dumb enough to turn it on, yes
I think what everyone really wants to use here is lead, sort of like what they use for x-ray vests.
You can probably get lead weights from a fishing store and hammer it out pretty thin to the point where you can get something workable... Cover up any gaps with aluminum or just more lead if it works out
You can probably also just use the same pouches they use for computer parts, I believe that's a plastic infused with lead...