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Hi all, i had a bad start to the new year...some teenager snatched & ran away with my Touch Dual this morning (dawn,it was dark).
Anyway, my Telco can only deactivate the SIM card. I called HTC to check if thr was a way to BLOCK the phone in anyway...but their office is closed as its new years day.
Any1 has any ideas wat i might be able to do? I dnt think i'll see it again but its really disappointing. some luck huh?
p.s. I intend to get another touch dual the soonest i can afford it..
daddypool
What do you expect from them to block? I think you want something that's not possible. However, I know that in Holland, the police somtimes sends a sms-bomb to the IMEI number of a stolen phone. I don't know where you're from. but maybe the police in your country can do that to. It seems very anoying to me to receive lot ant lots of sms messages about using a stolen phone
i thought it was up to your network to get the imei barred? if your network wont help i doubt if HTC will do much.
Go to Police with your IMEI!
the IMEI is also on the box the device came with
i was under the impression you can break a phone if you have its imei
I'm sorry...
daddypool said:
Hi all, i had a bad start to the new year...some teenager snatched & ran away with my Touch Dual this morning (dawn,it was dark).
Anyway, my Telco can only deactivate the SIM card. I called HTC to check if thr was a way to BLOCK the phone in anyway...but their office is closed as its new years day.
Any1 has any ideas wat i might be able to do? I dnt think i'll see it again but its really disappointing. some luck huh?
p.s. I intend to get another touch dual the soonest i can afford it..
daddypool
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I can't believe the nerve of that little jerk. Your bad experience just gave me an idea. I once put an app on my Magician that when a different Sim card was inserted into my phone, it would send me a text/email with the telephone number of that Sim. I never had to use it so I can't say for sure that it actually worked. I guess I should've tested it. But anyway, my point is; I'm going to find that app and post it for all.
Can't wait until you get your Dual back.
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I can't believe the nerve of that little jerk. Your bad experience just gave me an idea. I once put an app on my Magician that when a different Sim card was inserted into my phone, it would send me a text/email with the telephone number of that Sim. I never had to use it so I can't say for sure that it actually worked. I guess I should've tested it. But anyway, my point is; I'm going to find that app and post it for all.
Can't wait until you get your Dual back.
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lol thats an awesome idea
luckycris0 said:
I can't believe the nerve of that little jerk. Your bad experience just gave me an idea. I once put an app on my Magician that when a different Sim card was inserted into my phone, it would send me a text/email with the telephone number of that Sim. I never had to use it so I can't say for sure that it actually worked. I guess I should've tested it. But anyway, my point is; I'm going to find that app and post it for all.
Can't wait until you get your Dual back.
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yep, i came across that software before too..now i wish i had tried that. (well, another lesson in life!)..my only saving grace is i have everything i need backed up. with the IMEI number, which i already gave the police, the only way the thief will be caught if he tries to sell to a 2nd hand mobile phone shop.
by the way, im in Singapore, one of the lowest crime rates in the world. but hey, still, low crime doesnt mean no crime.
oh my, i miss my phone so much...haha..now i can just laugh about it. i just checked the retail price of the dual here...it will cost me about USD 700. sigh...
luckycris0,
if u find that app, pls post it here...thanks..
after this lesson, i will use that, if not for anything....just for karma.
Phone tracing app
Press coverage of same
Hope that helps.
Here's an app that's similar to what I was talking about in my post earlier. The trial version is available from handango.com and it's about 25usd to purchase. Give this a try. I'm certainly going to on both my Nike and Polaris. I'm still going to try and locate the app so you all don't have to pay for it but since that time, I've changed laptops countless times, but I always save everything to disc so we'll see.
thks
thks guys...i will definitel try these apps...once bitten twice shy!
ystrday, i jus bought myself another TOUCH DUAL!...got it at a better offer..had 2 sign a new 2year contract for another telco line...& gave the line to a loved one to use...
Uhm.
I read a few years back that your operator can block the whole phone, not just the SIM card. Never needed to use it, I have no idea if it really works.
Bad luck!
Anyway, thx guys for the app! can really be handy!
will one of these appz survive after a flash or hard reset? guess not So, they are pretty useless in front of phone guardian for symbian in example
Device Management
Hi,
what you need is a device managent system which can do all these things for you.
take a look to amagu_sycn security i am using this tools since arround 4 month its works perfect.
Tonight at Golfland in Mesa AZ, my sons 10th birthday, set my phone down for a second to grab my 3 year old daughter. Less than a minute later I realized that my phone was gone, and immediately began scouring the area. There was a line of people waiting to ride the gocarts and because of the location I had my prime suspects. I asked everyone in line nicely once, looked around again, and then asked again not-so-nice. (I'm 6'8" and not skinny) No one fessed up, so I gave a report to the security guard and had a Golfland manager announce the lost phone across the PA. (yeah right, that was going to work...)
The manager found me 15 min later with my phone in her hand! It was found in the mens restroom (about 150 yards from where I knew I lost it). The cover was gone and it was stuck in the boot screen. I pulled the battery to reboot and noticed my sim and 16gb microSD were gone. I've got the a19 Desire rom. Is it normal that it won't boot without the the SD storage? I can still get into recovery, but without the storage I have nothing to recover. Also, I had an older ROM where I had registered with WaveSecure, but never logged in or activated with the current ROM. WaveSecure wouldn't have saved me this time would it?
I wonder if the thief realized that the phone could be tracked via GPS and that was the reason they dumped it. Kind of a crappy story with an alright ending, but I'm still out a SIM card and $50 for another microSD.
I don't think the desire rom has anything running on the sd card except appstosd which wouldn't effect how it boots up , try getting a 512 mb card or somthing and reflash the rom.
Thats kinda wierd too, usually people take the phone and leave the sim card not take the sim card and leave the phone. Call at&t or tmobile and tell them your sim was stolen and they can see if the guy makes any calls on it or inserts it into another phone.
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I don't think the desire rom has anything running on the sd card except appstosd which wouldn't effect how it boots up , try getting a 512 mb card or somthing and reflash the rom.
Thats kinda wierd too, usually people take the phone and leave the sim card not take the sim card and leave the phone.
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If he had been using App2SD it would boot loop if the SD card was removed.
OP:
Wavesecure probably wouldn't have done anything in that case since you hadn't signed back in. Wonder why they took your SIM and SD card, but left the phone? Maybe they saw the wavesecure app in the drawer, and got scared?
damn sorry to hear that if you install wave secure on it you could log on to the Wave secure site and disable your phone, and if you're like me you can leave them a message asking them to return it, this message would be displayed on the phone..
but only if you had wave secure installed...
Good luck man
If he stole that SIM you better cancel your sim or deactivate it.
The phone will not boot right now, but I'll get a new memory card in the morning and try reflashing. I'm not using app2sd so I was surprised the phone won't boot. I don't have t-mobile or ATT, but a local Carrier. I'll also report the SIM stolen in the morning.
The more I think about it, the more i'm convinced that I spoke with the guy who had my phone when it was missing. I think my angry demeanor and menacing size might have made him think twice (causing him to dump the SIM and the memory card) and then think thrice (just decided to dump the whole thing). Who knows...
aww man that would have been sooooo funny if you had wave secure. You're asking the guy if he has your phone, he says no, you activate the alarm and your phone starts screaming from his pockets, he pees his pants, you knock his lights out and get your phone back, justice is served
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aww man that would have been sooooo funny if you had wave secure. You're asking the guy if he has your phone, he says no, you activate the alarm and your phone starts screaming from his pockets, he pees his pants, you knock his lights out and get your phone back, justice is served
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Lmao I would pay money to see that.
Never leave a nice phone unattended! People suck. Put it in your pocket when you are done.
I unfortunately missed the deadline for free WaveSecure but I installed an alternative called Mobile Defense. It works well enough, I can log in and enable it to track with GPS and make it sound an alarm and or message. I even installed it as a system app so it has the authority to enable GPS if it is disabled.
I have never lost a phone before and I hope to keep it that way, but this gives some peace of mind.
Wouldn't be cool if Google added a tab to Gmail that allowed you to input your Android phones and track them via GPS etc?
Man, that would be awesome. Get on it Google!
about stolen nexous one
I know that WaveSecure does not let you have 3g our will not let you connect data without a password. Even if you don't sign up for it when someone else puts there sim in your phone it tells you on boot up that this phone is not your and its this persons number (our something like that lol lol )
I now because i bought my friends nexous one because he has att and could not get 3g and i had tmobile and wanted to sell my mytouch and buy his nexous
and he bought the new att nexous
Everything worked great when i bought the phone off him but i went from cyanogens rom to modaco r19 and it said that the sim card is not the owner of this phone. so i had to call him and he did not set up a code with wavesecure so we had to email them and do a reset and they email me back the code to reset it..
that is what saved your phone the punk put his sim in your phone and it would not work our told him its your phone.You should have kick someones A***
i hope you get it all fixed
sorry to hear about what happened... Golfland always has sketchy people floating around there at night so I cannot say I am surprised...
if u catch the thief wot would u do? kill him init lol?
let him eat your cooked rom lol
Bummer...to bad WaveSecure wasn't there to shut it down.
Hmm, Reasons why the phone wouldn't boot may be because he/she probably tried to flash any rom you had without wiping or tried wiping the phone and did something wrong. So its safe to say the person tried to do some type of wipe.
That means he/she must have had some previous knowledge on how to do so. Now go find the person you think has that knowledge....
Finally got home with a new microSD card and did a wipe and reflashed. It took a couple minutes but it finally came up. I'll be getting a new SIM tomorrow. I booted with no SIM, and there was a message waiting from WaveSecure: "This phone may be lost or stolen." in bold type. I'm guessing the thief booted the phone with no SIM and saw the same message and dumped it.
Yeah, I think who ever snagged it had half a clue what they had, otherwise they might have kept it.
For someone who loves gadgets, as corny as it sounds, I feel like I've got a second chance of sorts. I probably wouldn't have bought another Nexus, at least not for a few months. I guess I just appreciate it more now that I nearly lost it. I want to hack it some more to do more cool crap.
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Hmm, Reasons why the phone wouldn't boot may be because he/she probably tried to flash any rom you had without wiping or tried wiping the phone and did something wrong. So its safe to say the person tried to do some type of wipe.
That means he/she must have had some previous knowledge on how to do so. Now go find the person you think has that knowledge....
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There were litterally dozens of people I didn't know at a place 140 miles from home. The guy I suspected the most did look slightly computer dorky in a white trash sort of way. (probably how people would describe me as well, lol) Anyhow, I'll just taking the experience as a lesson learned...
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Also, I had an older ROM where I had registered with WaveSecure, but never logged in or activated with the current ROM. WaveSecure wouldn't have saved me this time would it?
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altarity said:
For someone who loves gadgets, as corny as it sounds, I feel like I've got a second chance of sorts. I probably wouldn't have bought another Nexus, at least not for a few months. I guess I just appreciate it more now that I nearly lost it. I want to hack it some more to do more cool crap.
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This is your sign (and everyone reading) to install and activate both WaveSecure AND Mobile Defense.
Both of them! Do it now! Yes, right now!
Do it!
yea... that's why I don't hang out in Mesa at night ;-)
Stick to Scottsdale ;-)
I am glad you got your phone back though. I am suprised someone in the line didn't finger the person for you.
We fired an employee yesterday, and when he returned his phone we discovered that it is pattern-locked. I need to get around the lock to see if he has any important company data stored on his phone...
Is there any way to do this on the Shift?
Factory wipe would get rid of anything on his phone, try sliding the keyboard open to wake the phone, I know sometimes that got around the pattern lock back on my moment, never used the pattern lock on this phone, sorry.
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ovalprocess said:
We fired an employee yesterday, and when he returned his phone we discovered that it is pattern-locked. I need to get around the lock to see if he has any important company data stored on his phone...
Is there any way to do this on the Shift?
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Well first off, any important data would be stored on the SD card.
Doing a factory wipe would wipe what is on the phone, not the SD card. Nothing would really be on the phone though unless you want to dig around in his text messages.
Actually, I DO want to dig around in his text messages. I work for an IT consulting firm, and I need to know if he was communicating to clients via text.
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Actually, I DO want to dig around in his text messages. I work for an IT consulting firm, and I need to know if he was communicating to clients via text.
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You might have to contact Sprint for a record of those. I don't know of any way to get around the pattern lock.
If he enabled USB debugging, you will be able to get at a lot of stuff with adb... including the text message database.
ovalprocess said:
We fired an employee yesterday, and when he returned his phone we discovered that it is pattern-locked. I need to get around the lock to see if he has any important company data stored on his phone...
Is there any way to do this on the Shift?
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Actually, I DO want to dig around in his text messages. I work for an IT consulting firm, and I need to know if he was communicating to clients via text.
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Just call the guy you fired and ask him for the password. Sounds to me like the simple and adult solution. Who cares if his feeling are hurt or it will be awkward, its like turning in the office keys when you leave.
+1 Could've been a simple oversight on his part.
ovalprocess said:
Actually, I DO want to dig around in his text messages. I work for an IT consulting firm, and I need to know if he was communicating to clients via text.
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Kind of seems ironic that he can't break the code since he works for an IT firm.
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Kind of seems ironic that he can't break the code since he works for an IT firm.
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Totally ironic. Try ADB?
lvpre said:
Kind of seems ironic that he can't break the code since he works for an IT firm.
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Not really, information technology != software security
That's like saying it's ironic that a mechanical engineer can't make his own electronic circuit board
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Not really, information technology != software security
That's like saying it's ironic that a mechanical engineer can't make his own electronic circuit board
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No, it actually is ironic and also hilarious.
It's more like a mechanic that doesn't know how to rebuild a transmission.
--Sysadmin/IT professional/Tech Support professional of 10+ years.
edit: Then again, it's not a bad question, but you have to admit it's a bit ironic.
riggsandroid said:
Just call the guy you fired and ask him for the password. Sounds to me like the simple and adult solution. Who cares if his feeling are hurt or it will be awkward, its like turning in the office keys when you leave.
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This times a million.
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No, it actually is ironic and also hilarious.
It's more like a mechanic that doesn't know how to rebuild a transmission.
--Sysadmin/IT professional/Tech Support professional of 10+ years.
edit: Then again, it's not a bad question, but you have to admit it's a bit ironic.
This times a million.
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Actually, judging how many combinations you can do with the pattern lock, it would take a quite while to figure out the right combination since there's literally thousands of doable combinations that have to be done manually (afaik) not automated by a script. It isn't ironic at all. Why waste the time? I wouldn't want to bang my head against a wall when the solution is a simple phone call away. And I've been doing IT as long as you have.
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Actually, judging how many combinations you can do with the pattern lock, it would take a quite while to figure out the right combination since there's literally thousands of doable combinations that have to be done manually (afaik) not automated by a script. It isn't ironic at all. Why waste the time? I wouldn't want to bang my head against a wall when the solution is a simple phone call away. And I've been doing IT as long as you have.
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I wasn't talking about the validity of the question at all. It's a great question.. since nobody seems to know the answer I would just suggest taking out the battery and seeing if you can boot into recovery and mounting it via USB if USB debugging is enabled and/or messing with ADB on the phone..
Also, why is this company giving their employees Android phones and not Blackberries? Blackberries can be controlled via BES. Maybe it's just a husband trying to hack his wife's phone?
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I wasn't talking about the validity of the question at all. It's a great question.. since nobody seems to know the answer I would just suggest taking out the battery and seeing if you can boot into recovery and mounting it via USB if USB debugging is enabled and/or messing with ADB on the phone..
Also, why is this company giving their employees Android phones and not Blackberries? Blackberries can be controlled via BES. Maybe it's just a husband trying to hack his wife's phone?
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My last job was using Droid Incredibles. Android phones can be controlled via Exchange ActiveSync security policies. I personally did it at my last job to **** with this guy that was an annoying asshole. Made it so he had to enter his AD password whenever he wanted to unlock his phone and I'd data wipe his phone weekly. He'd ask me about it and I'd tell him it's security policy. I had him convinced that everyone was having the same thing done when they weren't.
Honestly: If I knew the answer I wouldn't tell you. Bypassing someone's security is not the kind of information you should be able to get from XDA.
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Sounds more like a jealous boyfriend wants to look at his girls texts.
You gotta admit, it sounds plausible....
I know how to accomplish this, and it is actually quite simple, but I would never share this with some a***ole employer that wants to spy on their employees.
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I know how to accomplish this, and it is actually quite simple, but I would never share this with some a***ole employer that wants to spy on their employees.
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Then why waste the time to post here and talk **** to some guy who might be actually telling the truth and needs to get work info off that phone?
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e240 said:
Then why waste the time to post here and talk **** to some guy who might be actually telling the truth and needs to get work info off that phone?
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You don't think the whole story is fishy? The way I see it, he has two obvious options:
1. Call the employee. Ask for the pattern.
2. If he refuses, call the cops.
The fact that he is not doing either of these indicates that he does not have a legitimate reason for wanting the info.
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It their anyway to force the phone to require a password in order to shut down the phone? This is a HUGE flaw that nobody seems to be focusing on. What's the point of having a security app on your smartphone if they can just shut it off and your done? Anybody feel the same way? It's like having a security system in your house and allowing anybody to simply shut it off without breaking a sweat. Are you okay with that? I messaged Lookout Mobile Security and Sent a Request which you can do so here once signing in https://www.lookout.com/help. Just click on Send a Request. Hopefully they can implement this vital feature in their security app. If theirs any smart people out their who can make this feature on their own I applaud you. Your phone will let you know where its at even if its off using Lookout online, but without out the phone screaming (a feature within Lookout that makes your phone emit a really loud sound) it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack. Click on the link and let them know you want this feature. It just makes security apps on ANY phone totally useless without this feature.
What is a thief going to do with a phone they can never turn on? Sure you can't use the security features with it off but they have to turn it back on eventually.
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What kind of logic is that? You swear a person will wait years for the thieve to turn it back on? REALLY?
joshnichols189 said:
What is a thief going to do with a phone they can never turn on? Sure you can't use the security features with it off but they have to turn it back on eventually.
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What kind of logic is that? You swear somebody will wait for years for the thieve to turn their phone back on? Really?
its written in its hardware to shutdown after holding the power button for 10 seconds, you protect your information with encryption, locks so the thief won't bother, that's all, not much you can do once they install clockworkmod, no offense
if the mobile provider does block the imei, you can just use it in another country.
google needs a database to centralize all licensed androids/imei with gmail account to lock it of its stolen or un-authorized and report it.
Well it could be used for other purposes too.
For me for instance. I drove home yesterday from work while suddenly I felt a small vibration from my pocket. Looked and it was from the phone turning off... I must have sat wrong. I'd love a "lock" to not have this happen again.
HOWEVER... there are apps known for freezing your screen (i.e. TouchControl atm).
If you get a freeze you're .... ****ed! so not sure if I'd like that, but it would be a nice feature if you feel safe that you won't get freezes.
Password to turn off phone? It's useless lol.
Take out battery?
ADB reboot?
Anyways, no matter what they're gonna have to turn the phone back on. If not, why would they steal the phone?
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What kind of logic is that? You swear a person will wait years for the thieve to turn it back on? REALLY?
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I understand your issue but all you have to do to turn a phone off is long press power for around 10 seconds and it automatically shuts down. By that logic removable batteries and SD cards are incredibly dangerous as well. If a thief gets your phone and knows what they're doing, there's not much you can do to get your phone back. The reason most people have passwords on their phones is really just to stop friends messing around with things, since it's fairly unlikely someone will steal your phone if you look after it properly.
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I understand your issue but all you have to do to turn a phone off is long press power for around 10 seconds and it automatically shuts down. By that logic removable batteries and SD cards are incredibly dangerous as well. If a thief gets your phone and knows what they're doing, there's not much you can do to get your phone back. The reason most people have passwords on their phones is really just to stop friends messing around with things, since it's fairly unlikely someone will steal your phone if you look after it properly.
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Most thieves DON"T know how to do this. Either way this shouldn't stop the feature from being their. Just because somebody can means we shouldn't?
lol this is comical.
The only thing they would have to do is let the phone die within a day by the battery running out. Then they could charge it with the phone off, and proceed to thievery as normal.
If they were to implement this, I can just see the 1st thread after this 'feature' is enabled
"Help! My Phone froze and now I need an RMA"
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lol this is comical.
The only thing they would have to do is let the phone die within a day by the battery running out. Then they could charge it with the phone off, and proceed to thievery as normal.
If they were to implement this, I can just see the 1st thread after this 'feature' is enabled
"Help! My Phone froze and now I need an RMA"
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A day is more than enough to find your phone when stolen if it hasn't been "TURNED OFF" manually.
I'll tell you what's comical, the responses I hear lol
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Really? lol I could put it in a shoebox in my closet. Good luck getting a GPS read on it, and even if you did it's only accurate to 30 meters and I live in apt. complex.
So there goes that theory
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Really? lol I could put it in a shoebox in my closet. Good luck getting a GPS read on it, and even if you did it's only accurate to 30 meters and I live in apt. complex.
So there goes that theory
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What kind of shoe box we talking about? Most thieves aren't smart enough to know these things. The first thing they will do after taking it is turning it off. If it requires a password how will that be possible? I know this solution will not end world hunger or war, but what it will do is provide a bigger window in finding your phone and that's all we need. Is time not relevant to you?
#1 I treat my phone like my wallet (since it is w/ Google Wallet) which means I don't pull it out and set it on a table at a restaurant/bar, I don't hand it to people I don't know who say "hey bro can I use your phone real quick", I don't set it down at a party/friends house/anywhere. It's always in my pocket. You'd have to beat me down to get it, so slim chance of that (good luck..)
#2 Everything I do is password protected (i.e. lockscreen, Google Wallet, Play Store purchases) and I can disable Wallet remotely and change my PW to my Google account remotely.. all my pics/music are in the cloud so there's nothing to lose/steal from my phone
#3 *IF* someone was lucky enough to get their hands on my phone somehow, the last thing I would worry about is if they were able to flash/reset it quickly because chances are the amount of time you're talking about would be ~6-8 hours at best on average unless you were at 100% charge when they stole it
#4 It would cause more problems than it would solve as phones tend to freeze here and there, I guarantee *YOU* would be the only one suffering any consequence of the implementation not some theoretical thief.
123456789fg said:
It their anyway to force the phone to require a password in order to shut down the phone? This is a HUGE flaw that nobody seems to be focusing on. What's the point of having a security app on your smartphone if they can just shut it off and your done? Anybody feel the same way? It's like having a security system in your house and allowing anybody to simply shut it off without breaking a sweat. Are you okay with that? I messaged Lookout Mobile Security and Sent a Request which you can do so here once signing in https://www.lookout.com/help. Just click on Send a Request. Hopefully they can implement this vital feature in their security app. If theirs any smart people out their who can make this feature on their own I applaud you. Your phone will let you know where its at even if its off using Lookout online, but without out the phone screaming (a feature within Lookout that makes your phone emit a really loud sound) it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack. Click on the link and let them know you want this feature. It just makes security apps on ANY phone totally useless without this feature.
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Great username, explains a lot.
123456789fg said:
What kind of shoe box we talking about? Most thieves aren't smart enough to know these things. The first thing they will do after taking it is turning it off. If it requires a password how will that be possible? I know this solution will not end world hunger or war, but what it will do is provide a bigger window in finding your phone and that's all we need. Is time not relevant to you?
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I live in an apartment, good luck getting info on which unit I'm living in.
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exb0 said:
I live in an apartment, good luck getting info on which unit I'm living in.
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I think I'll just repost this again once the smart people come back from spring break. Addios.
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I think I'll just repost this again once the smart people come back from spring break. Addios.
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good luck :3
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good luck :3
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Don't need it.
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A day is more than enough to find your phone when stolen if it hasn't been "TURNED OFF" manually.
I'll tell you what's comical, the responses I hear lol
:laugh:
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How dumb are you? If the phone dies there is no finding it. You don't have to turn it off manually for it to die.
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I think I'll just repost this again once the smart people come back from spring break. Addios.
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Again, are you thirteen? Spring break was last month.
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Don't need it.
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You really do need a lot of luck at this rate.
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Useless help. Regreted the will badly to ask here about my problem.
bacKzZ said:
So I had problems with my charging port on my S8 phone of that "Moisture Detection" feature superiority that totally exploited the charging port and destroyed it completely despite it never ever touching the water substance on it's whole lifespan leading me with total broken adapter and not even having access to use the phone again despite having the guaranty of Sasmung that it will work for "2 years" without even a problem. So I took the phone and send it to the store I bought in my country which is Neptun in Kosovo basically in Prizren city. I told what's the problem and even asked them clearly; I couldn't really make an backup from the phone due to the charging port failure and precisely asked them.Will they remove every single thingI have in my phone? Since it only is hardware related problem and it doesn't even have any manipulation need in the software for only swaping the charging port with a new one. And they said, Not really, Don't even worry about it, They won't remove any single of thing your phone and I asked them again about it because I still wasn't sure about it, they once again told me that they will not. So I let them get my phone and send in their repairing center hopingly to fix it properly without any problem as I had even bad experience with them about my TV which had problems of getting turned on and they completely removed the WIFI dongle it had inside and disable the wifi connection, now I can't even use the wifi connection anymore. So normally from that I had doubts for my phone as well. And guess what? I was right. They kind of fixed the charging port but they did even worse, They completely removed every single important thing I had starting from my college lessons, all the photos , different important documents and evidences that I had about an legal case that it is still open and totally depends on those evidences and every single thing I had there got destructed in brutalest way possible due to people's ignorance and negligence on my phone, even after persuading them of actual situation. Now it's been 2 weeks since I got my phone and i'm struggling to even find any way of recovering those important documents and evidences that's life mattering. The storage of the phone is not yet used to it's fullest due to the chances of the old data being overwritted.
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Disk digger is your best bet
TheMadScientist said:
Disk digger is your best bet
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Do I have to root the phone? Is it worth destroying the warranty and at the end getting nothing?
bacKzZ said:
Do I have to root the phone? Is it worth destroying the warranty and at the end getting nothing?
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It will run non rooted
TheMadScientist said:
It will run non rooted
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Do you even realize that they completely deleted everything? Like format **** or whatever those dumbass creations did. The app doesn't even find anything other than my own photos that I recovered from Samsung Cloud and nothing else.
bacKzZ said:
Do you even realize that they completely deleted everything? Like format **** or whatever those dumbass creations did. The app doesn't even find anything other than my own photos that I recovered from Samsung Cloud and nothing else.
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Well that was your best bet. I guess you shoulda had it all backed up to the cloud. Like most of us do. Being rude like that isn't helping nothing but stopping others from joining in. Maybe you could have wireless charged the device. And then backed up. Or maybe you could've backed up on a PC and not relied on 1 device as a backup of very important information. But you didn't. Any time you send a device In for repair it gets formatted don't matter what they say. So tough luck mate that's how the world works. I understand your frustrations. But in the end it's your own fault
Again disk digger was your best bet. Only other option is an paid service for data recovery. I felt the way you posted was directed at me. So I did snap back. If not how it was meant I'm sorry. Just looked like it.
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