Locked out

[oldskewel]

I may get a chance to look into this again this weekend.

I am hoping to be proven wrong, but so far I have concluded that the "secret" method is the one widely published on this site, including a few posts above by Qsilver7. My wrong belief/hope that an alternative method existed made it harder.

Simple questions I still don't have definite answers to, so please help if you know:

1. In that method, do you press and release (one time) that central locking button, and then double-pull an inside door handle? Or do you press and hold that central button down while at the same time double-pulling the handle?

2. Should the alarm go off when I poke a rod through into the car? If no alarm goes off, does that indicate something is wrong, meaning the secret method may not work (it does not appear to be working)?

3. When I press and release (one time) that central locking button, should anything at all happen? Click? Clunk? Beep? Change in flashing alarm light? Continued silence?

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EDITED now with answers after I broke in and did the simple tests. This may not be how it is supposed to work, but it is what happened on my car, having been locked with the key in the door lock, not locked using the remote.
#1 - both options tried. neither one worked.
#2 - no alarm went off, even reaching in through the fully open window with my full open. Door had been locked via the door lock actuator (not remote), clown nose was flashing.
#3 - got no sound at all, nothing at all seemed to happen when pressing that button.

And in general that method failed completely for me. I read how it has worked for others, so I'm sure it's valid. Maybe there is some other state my car is in due to locking via the door vs. remote that makes it different vs. the successful reports.