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Left my Note 2 in a taxi, bye bye $700

I don't normally screw up but a few days ago I did it big time. Long story short, I left my Note 2 in a taxi and I have no ability of getting a hold of the driver since I cannot recollect what company I used or what his licence plate was (you guessed it, I was intoxicated).
I did have Samsung Remote Controls installed on my phone but unfortunately I wasn't online when I left it. I had both wifi and data turned off. I also had a screen lock so the would-be thief would not be able to activate internet without first factory resetting everything.
I also tried calling the phone multiple times to no avail because it has been turned off. Is there any way for me to recover the phone or at least wipe it completely? I had an SD card on there with mildly sensitive information, I should have encrypted but did not.
Any ideas for how to wipe/find/recover/block/brick/self-detonate the phone would be greatly appreciated!

Im affraid its gone
as you say it would be factory reset so you cant even remotely install anything. its a real shame.
Google also dont track anything so best you can hope is IMEI to network and police. but chances are it will go abroad

I'm in Thailand and my carrier doesn't block IMEI's for some reason. I also had a 32 gig SD card in there from Sandisk, epic fail!!!! :crying:

The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is so great that you should pass the greatness of it forward.

did you set up your samsung account on it? the chances are bad but you should try locating it from here

Even though its too late now. Few things You Can learn from this . 1. Use the Cerbus APP its Much better than and theft APP as it Can survive A full Wipe . Also, always Keep your internet on
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^^ With Cerbrus you could actually turn on your data remotly via SMS.

MohJee said:
^^ With Cerbrus you could actually turn on your data remotly via SMS.
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Wow ! Didnt know that good to know
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Android Lost is the best app I have found for the purposes you need...

Sorry ....! For ur loss wish u got avast antivirus would had tracked last location...with antitheft ...I track my girls phone in india....if guy nt that smart for g note 2 ..after reset its imbeded
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What a bummer... maybe it might be returned to you ?

Not sure if that will help but on the GN2 under settings > security you have an option called find my mobile Web page. If you login with ur samsung acc, you would be able to locate ur phone and do few other stuff.
GL :thumbup:
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Sorry for the loss

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb
Have you tried plan b from lookout labs? If he hasn't wiped your phone you should be able to relocate the phone regardless if gps or wifi is off.
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App recommendations for tracking and remote wipe

I ran into a problem last week where my girlfriend got her phone stolen. We promptly called AT&T and had them shut it off but it got me thinking about security and recovery apps. The problem was, she didn't have any screen lock set and now whoever had the phone had full access to her private photos and text messages.
I had played around with some "track your phone" apps a few years ago but it was mostly for the fun factor. Now I'm looking for some recommendations from you guys. I know there are a million apps out there that do what I'm trying to do but I want to know what you guys use and trust.
I need the following features.
1. Phone tracking - I'd like to be able to get on either a website or another Android phone (my phone) and pinpoint where the phone currently is. This is important for lost phones and stolen phones.
2. Remote Wipe - If the phone is stolen or unrecoverable, I want the ability to remotely wipe the phone or factory reset it. I don't want anyone getting my personal stuff.
I've heard Lookout a good program but the price is a little high and I believe it's a yearly charge.
3CX has a device manager that looks promising and it's free for up to 5 phones.
Please respond and let me know what your personal experience has been with any of these programs. Hopefully I'll never have to use it but I'd like to have something just in case.

Ceberus is great. Check it out on Google pay. Free for 7 days then a one time fee of around 4 bucks. You can use it on any of your devices without paying again. Also if you have root you can prevent it from being uninstalled with a factory reset.
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another vote for Cerberus here.
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3thd recommendation here, Cerberus

Cerberus or AndroidLost. Both are great. Personally I prefer AL though.
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AndroidLost (Also free)

Cerberus all the way.
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Lookout Mobile Security.

Cerebrus ftw
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Seekdroid?

Cerberus app using since 2 year very use full easy to use.

i use avast and love it

cerebus had free sign ups. best app so far.

Cerberus is free for the next 30 hours....

Awesome anti theft app. Well worth the asking price, but it is free for the next 30 hours:
https://plus.google.com/+CerberusappAndroid/posts/WEZStoxX1nM

It's a must have app. Well worth the money when not on sale!

Thx
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Thanks nice app!
The Nexus 5 advocate (Team Inferno)

When I got my nexus they blacklisted my s4 so now my roommate can't even use it -.- crappy customer service as well. Its unfortunate
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The link is giving 404 Not Found Error
Edit: Never mind, got it from Play Store.
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The link works fine for me. Thx for the info, i will try this app.

What does this do that the Google built in device manager doesn't? I thought you could track, wipe, and sound an alert with what's built in to android. Why do I want this (sincerely asking)?
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compuw22c said:
What does this do that the Google built in device manager doesn't? I thought you could track, wipe, and sound an alert with what's built in to android. Why do I want this (sincerely asking)?
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Read up on the features it can do so much more like taking screenshots or activating back or front camera if someone has stolen ur phone you can even activate wifi or location through sms so IMHO far better than android device manager
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compuw22c said:
What does this do that the Google built in device manager doesn't? I thought you could track, wipe, and sound an alert with what's built in to android. Why do I want this (sincerely asking)?
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android manager only works when your account is in use. Consider your phone is stolen and you used a wipe. Now your account information is removed and Google device manager is now useless.
There are lot of differences. I use avast anti theft rooted. My phone was stolen and I was able to track it, control it and eventually got it back after 4 weeks.
What you can do with this app which adm can't
Use sms commands to control your phone
Block Uninstall manager and/or settings page remotely
Whenever a new sim card is inserted you will be notified. This is most useful feature.
Force data and gps connection remotely. The other user can't turn it off.
In my personal opinion, you can't prevent theft.. If you lock down your phone (what you can do in adm) after that, the thief knows there is something wrong, and he may flash new firmware. But these app allow to silently track the phone which gives more power to locate the phone.
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Definitely this is a very very useful app, hope the thief doesn't know the loop holes.

toxicpaulution said:
When I got my nexus they blacklisted my s4 so now my roommate can't even use it -.- crappy customer service as well. Its unfortunate
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Explain, man? This is huge.

N910C IR Blaster issue

Hi to all of you.
I have a Galaxy Note 4 N910C the octacore version. The phone is unlocked and unbranded from the box.
Recently I updated to ANK5 firmware. I updated with odin, using the firmware for the original phone product code(ROM).
I always like to make my updates clean so I performed a Wipe Cache and a factory reset after.
The firmware is ok but it seems that is not solving the IR Blaster issue, meaning that after a while the remote control is not working anymore. This can be fixed with a restart so I assume this is a software and not a hardware problem.
Please confirm, those with N910C version if you can reproduce this and eventually if you found a solution to fix this.
Thanks.

N910c my country code is ROM...baseband NK5 . I use it regularly on a sony and two samsung tv's as well for two air-conditioning units. Sounds a little strange as I am not having problems whatsoever...
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I'm having problems to. Sometimes I need to press a lot of times the command to make it work. It's clear that is a software issue. Hardware problems looks different than that.
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.IC3M4N. said:
N910c my country code is ROM...baseband NK5 . I use it regularly on a sony and two samsung tv's as well for two air-conditioning units. Sounds a little strange as I am not having problems whatsoever...
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Don't restart the device or clean your memory for 1-2 days and tell me after if it still works.

renanrolim said:
Hardware problems looks different than that.
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I also believe this. Still I will like to hear more opinions about this.

Sure thing...will keep you informed.
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Have you seen the thread in the Note 4 General forum on this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/ir-blaster-t2923008

Yes I've seen it.

S5 internal storage problems

I've just rooted my s5 and clean master keeps popping up saying I have very low storage that it might not be able to save photos, how to I overcome this? I never had this problem with my s3.
It says I have 1.8gb left
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Uninstall clean master?

Is that not a good app to have then?
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If it's giving you storage errors when you have none, then probably not
I had a look at it and noticed that Id had it installed previously, and the fact that it's not on my phone any more tells me I didn't like it