Was down at the Trafford Centre, Manchester, today and noticed that when I walked into and out of stores that had those security scanners at the entrance they would go off

Felt a bit of a twit every time it happened. Only thing I could narrow it down to was my Blackberry. When I turned it off I was fine, until I came out of HMV when it happened again.

Turned phone on again, and this time turned off the WI-FI. Was fine then for the rest of the day.

Now, I've taken the same phone around with me at the local shopping mall, White Rose Centre, near Leeds but have had no problems at all , so I wondered if perhaps the Trafford Centre was perhaps on a different frequency.

Is this normal, and has anyone else experienced this?

Yep, I trigger about 60% of security scanners I walk through. That said, my phone is set to automatically turn Wi-Fi off when I'm not near my house so it's certainly not the Wi-Fi being on that triggers it.

I've never done a scientific experiment but I think it's definitely either my phone or my RFID fob I use at work that's always on my person. It's hard to be sure because it's so sporadic - sometimes the exact same security scanner behaves differently when I walk in and out through the same place - so even turning my phone off to walk through wouldn't confirm anything.

Omg!

This ALWAYS happens to me! Must be my Blackberry Torch!

Funny you should mention this.........twice last week the alarms in Asda went off as I was entering the store & leaving it. As there were other people entering/leaving at the same time as I was I just assumed it was one of them.

Happened to me again yesterday, at our local Asda.

Went to the in-store restaurant for some lunch, then went outside for a trolley, and then I set the alarms off.

Have visited this store many times over the time I've had the Blackberry, and this is the first time this has happened.

Turned my phone off and had no problems going out after shopping, but I did notice that it was trying to connect to the wireless internet that the in-store McDonalds use (The Cloud, and by the way does anyone know how to do that?).

I seem to remember it was trying to connect to The Cloud network while we were walking around Trafford Centre, when this first occured last week.

Again, weird

All very odd isn't it? I'm just back from Asda & mine didn't set off the alarm today.

I was reading a couple of American sites last night and they seemed to think that it wasn't actually the phones that were setting the alarms off, but were in fact security tags hidden inside shoes, wallets etc that customers have just not removed.

It did make me think as both in Trafford and on Sunday in Asda I was wearing a pair of shoes that I'd bought from a K-Mart store in Florida last year, but if that were the case why did the alarm not go off the second time I exited the Asda store, after I'd turned my phone off?

It did make me hesitate while exiting a Tesco store this morning, but there were no bells & whistles today, though I was wearing different shoes as well.

Could well be in some instances....however in my case I had nothing like that on or with me. It doesn't happen every time either......'tis all very odd.
If I remember correctly the couple of times it's happened to me I had my phone in my handbag.....yet when I carry the phone in my hand it doesn't seem to set the alarms off.

You need to eliminate all other possible causes. To do this, walk into the store naked whilst carrying the phone. This will help to determine if the phone is indeed the source of the problem. Of course, this kind of experiment might cause other problems...

But....but......where should I put my phone whilst carrying out your idea?

my 6230i used to set off security alarms too.