For all of you who are running wavesecure, don't make the same mistake I did!
Here's wat happened:
I lost my phone after a short walk around the block. I tried to call it to hear if I maybe left it in the pub where I was at the moment.
I called it three times, but the fourth time some ***hole turned my phone off so I succesfully tracked the location a few times and eventually locked it with a message to bring it back to the pub I was in.
This was a big mistake! he never turned it on again. He ended up with a fourhundred euro brick well **** 'm then
I couldn't live without a Hero, so the next day I bought a new one
But my advise to all of you is:
1: Run WaveSecure Preferably cooked into MoDaCo's Custom Rom
2: If your phone gets stolen or if you lose it DON'T LOCK IT, just track the location and the SIM. Until you have enough information to go to the police or something, or go pick it up yourself ofcourse
sorry to hear that buddy...
if someone stole it.. and you lock the phone..
I guess 99% of the time... the phone will go into a trash can
or
they will throw it at the wall to take out their frustration on it, and see how many pieces will hit the ground!!
well its better for it to be trashed than for the thief to sell it and make money.
DaanJordaan said:
For all of you who are running wavesecure...
1: Run WaveSecure Preferably cooked into MoDaCo's Custom Rom
2: If your phone gets stolen or if you lose it DON'T LOCK IT, just track the location and the SIM. Until you have enough information to go to the police or something, or go pick it up yourself ofcourse
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@1. Absolutely, there is virtually no point in using WS if it isn't in a ROM. You can actually do it to any ROM, since all the update.zip file does is copies the apk file into /system/app instead of /data/app. That way it cannot be uninstalled through the normal 'market' method.
@2. That's a valid point! I suggest people who need to should set a 15minute tracker on it (can be done from the website). I wouldn't suggest manually locking it out, but I might contact the dev and suggest a 'stealth' mode that would allow you to track the phone, and basically turn it into one huge piece of 'spyware' when enabled. Legal issues could be a problem there though, as in nanny state UK, the thief of your phone would have the same rights to privacy of his/her illegal use of you contract as you would have normally.
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A friend of mine had their PAYG phone stolen. So I called up for them (because 'I'm good with these sorts of things', apparently, and got the SIM cancelled. I checked the balance on the phone, and they told me there was about £1 off it since the theft. I had answered all the usual security questions like 'How much did you last top up by?' and 'How do you normally top up?' and 'What postcode do you tend to keep your phone in most of the time (ie. overnight)?' etc.
So, I asked them if they could give any details of the usage, and after a bit of polite chat and banter, they said there were quite a lot of SMS messages sent to various numbers, but they couldn't give any more details. I considered escalating this issue, as the account holder was my friend (who was sat beside me at the time listening on speaker phone, and who was happy for me to 'act on his behalf', yet they wouldn't tell us any of the details. They also claimed to not be able to track the Cell-ID of the phone, which I know is nonsense, as their own security question was to do with where the phone is normally kept overnight. If they had given a postcode, that could have been given to the police officer who had been 'assigned' the case.
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But the network wouldn't give the info to the 'account holder', so I would strongly recommend that everyone installs WS, at least before 31 Jan, so they get it free on their IMEI for life. That way, you can locate the phone every 15 mins, and also use 'backup' to see their call history/SMS history. Could help get it back, or at least 'intimidate' them if you live in a country where you actually have a right to your own property...
But let's not let this go off-topic, so sorry for the rant, but yes, I think WS is important to be installed to ROM (ie. Modaco)
I looke at this app, but there is a strange behaviour with sms sent with charges because of an international location, am i wrong ?
Ciao
Fred
I've not found any international SMS charges.
AFAIK, they use data for all communications back to the servers. The only times I've seen SMS are that if you forget your PIN, the app will send it via SMS to a buddy (who is usually in your country).
Also during activation, it sends an SMS to you, (but in the UK SMS is free to receive, and calls are free to receive). Also, locking the phone via internet or by SMS will result in an SMS sent from them or another phone, but again it is only receiving the SMS...
Do you pay to receive SMS where you are? Otherwise it seems to use data as its main communication medium.
My latest phonebill was exactly the same as the one before and on WS's site it says that it's completely free of charge for android I recall.
This guy still hasen't turned it on, lost hope a little bit, but I still check every day to be sure.
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I've not found any international SMS charges.
AFAIK, they use data for all communications back to the servers. The only times I've seen SMS are that if you forget your PIN, the app will send it via SMS to a buddy (who is usually in your country).
Also during activation, it sends an SMS to you, (but in the UK SMS is free to receive, and calls are free to receive). Also, locking the phone via internet or by SMS will result in an SMS sent from them or another phone, but again it is only receiving the SMS...
Do you pay to receive SMS where you are? Otherwise it seems to use data as its main communication medium.
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No i don't pay, but i'm interested in this app - of course !!! - and i read comments on the androlib site about those international sms and charges ...
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Fred
This app is awesome. For me it nearly beats locale. I lost my phone on a drunken night and did a locator search for it. It pinpointed to the exact location where my phone was. I left my phone with a mate and forgot to get it back. But the sheer usefulness of the locator is a win for me. Yes i would even pay for this app as well!
If you don't have GPS turned on at the time, can you get it to turn on so it can be tracked?
choccy31 said:
If you don't have GPS turned on at the time, can you get it to turn on so it can be tracked?
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Sadly no, but it uses google's location service which works with wifi, network, or GPS, so if gps is turned on and you track the phone you get an exact location.
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Sadly no, but it uses google's location service which works with wifi, network, or GPS, so if gps is turned on and you track the phone you get an exact location.
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Good stuff.
Thanks
Hmmm. You should maybe send a wipe command to the phone too. If it is ever turned on, all your personal data will be gone from it.
Have you checked the last SIM number in it was yours (I think it's under Track on the WS site)?
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Hmmm. You should maybe send a wipe command to the phone too. If it is ever turned on, all your personal data will be gone from it.
Have you checked the last SIM number in it was yours (I think it's under Track on the WS site)?
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Already did, he never turned it on again. Eventually, just to be safe I blocked my SIM via my provider. So now it can't receive SMS's anymore, so I can't give any commands anymore. But if he puts in another SIM I can track it again plus I know his phonenumber so I can terrorise him, or the second better option is to go to the police with his number
Yeah. If they try to use it, WS servers will find out the number. Have you looked at IMEI barring it (presume you're on GSM) via. your network. But it might be more 'fun' not to. Maybe in a while they'll think the heat is off and turn the phone back on with a SIM...
That's when the 'fun' begins Do the police in Netherlands do anything about this sort of thing? Here in the UK they'll do naff all unless you can tell them who's got it or where it is. That's where WS comes in...
Either that, or you could sign them up to loads of premium-rate reverse-billed SMS subscriptions on their no. (presuming that is legal over there cough cough!) That could be quite amusing to sign them up to all these €3 per SMS ringtone and game services. xD
Disclaimer: This idea was your own. Nobody suggested it to you
double post. Sorry
So what if the thief uninstall WS?
maroth said:
So what if the thief uninstall WS?
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Hi
As I understand it
Modaco 2.0 has ws in cooked into the sys
So it can not be deleted
Even if you do a hardrest, it will still survive
Oh okey thats smart ^^
Related
before i start i guess i should say that i'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but since most of the HTC dream users are t-mo customers i wanna know if this has happened to anyone else or if there is a way to stop this from happening.
i got my phone and not a few days later i started to receive calls from verizon wireless asking to talk to a certain person and i repeatedly told them that i did not know this person and i wanted to be removed from their calling list. i called t-mobile about the issue as well as verizon and no one had any help and they all said that my number was not in their database as a valid number and that i was not receiving the calls. t-mo actually told me that the signals were getting crossed in the air and somehow ending up at my phone rather than the intended person's phone. after several calls to t-mo and verizon and altell(and wasting over 300 of my minutes) i was told that my number had been removed and i would not recieve the calls again, but if i did t-mo offered to change my number. i didn't want to change my number since i have had to change it before because of a crazy ex, so i decided to wait it out. nearly a month went by and i started recieving the calls again so i got my number changed two nights ago.
ten minutes after i got my number changed i started recieving blocked calls from someone asking to talk to someone completely different than before, this was a company and i know this because it was always a different person asking to talk to the same person. i was wondering if anyone else has had this issue, and if there is an app for android similar to callfirewall on WM that would allow me to blocked all unknown numbers. or even better i would like to get the number that is calling me and i would prefer to do it without the police(i don't get along well with them).
quite frankly i would like to be able to forward all calls from the unknown number right back to the same number since they are likely to have different lines and then i don't have to deal with the number calling me anymore. if anyone has any idea how to get the number please let me know, i asked t-mobile and they refused to release the number to me and said that they had no way of getting the number for me.
thanks in advance for your help.
T-Mobile do re-issue numbers fairly quickly, atleast they do in the UK... I changed my number a little while back, less than a fortnight later someone spoke to me saying they'd tried to contact me but got someone else...
I don't think it is possible to do any form of subscriber lookup with software as the number is not available at point of contact with the handset. In the UK reverse lookup and subscriber lookup isn't possible at all for the average Joe, but not sure on the laws within the States...
Re aborting "unknown caller" calls, there must be a developer out there that can knock something up, as the capabilities are on the handset for known numbers by editing the contact and ticking the send to answerphone...
If you do get something, please post the details on here, as I would like to have the option to refuse with-held and unknown callers also.
Cheers!
tubaking182 said:
if anyone has any idea how to get the number please let me know, i asked t-mobile and they refused to release the number to me and said that they had no way of getting the number for me.
thanks in advance for your help.
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TMobile will not help you with this. I'm sorry but that's the case. The only thing they can do for you is, as you already mentioned, change your number.
Today is your lucky day:
Google "TrapCall" There is a free trial for their premium services which will not only tell you what blocked number is calling, but also release all the billing information/address for that blocked number. You will never be harassed again! I use it all the time! Let us know what you find out!
TrapCall looks impressive, if only it were possible and legal to use in the UK! lol
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TrapCall looks impressive, if only it were possible and legal to use in the UK! lol
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Ah, I'm not too sure about that... I live in the US so it works fine here.
As I said, I highly recommend it for people living in the US, try it out on your friends, and see how it works.
when i attempted trapcall, i did the programming my phone step and it gave me an error, something about an unexpected response from the network, or something about not being able to set up call forwarding. i assumed it was something i did wrong and didn't work too much on it last night, but i'm gonna give it a second look today to see
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when i attempted trapcall, i did the programming my phone step and it gave me an error, something about an unexpected response from the network, or something about not being able to set up call forwarding. i assumed it was something i did wrong and didn't work too much on it last night, but i'm gonna give it a second look today to see
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Yeah, it can definately be a little difficult to set up at first.. just have it forward to the number they give you. I actually did it on my ATT phone I had. When I bought an ADP1 and put the SIM card in there. It still kept the data. This is probably something stored on the SIM card.
i did finally get it set up, hopefully they call soon so i can forward them to another person that's harassing me, harrass them both by making them call eachother. fun for me
Just wanted to say thanks to all the devs and to the great forum.. I had a great time.
My SGS2 was stolen in the US and I will be getting the Galaxy Nexus.
Bye
You never thought of setting up the locate service by Samsung or even got anti-theft/locate software like TheftAware to protect your phone.
I have TheftAware on my phone and my daughter's android phone. She leaves it on 'silent' and occasionally can't find it in the house. Calling it would be no use, but I simply send a SMS with the password and SIREN ON and then her phone starts screaming. I have to send another SMS to turn the Siren off.
She was coming back from a long bus trip. I send SMS's to her phone that switched on her GPS and sent back her location to me by SMS - and she had no idea the phone was doing this. The reason I did this was to get a better estimate of when she would arrive and I wouldn't have to wake her to find out where she was.
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You never thought of setting up the locate service by Samsung or even got anti-theft/locate software like TheftAware to protect your phone.
I have TheftAware on my phone and my daughter's android phone. She leaves it on 'silent' and occasionally can't find it in the house. Calling it would be no use, but I simply send a SMS with the password and SIREN ON and then her phone starts screaming. I have to send another SMS to turn the Siren off.
She was coming back from a long bus trip. I send SMS's to her phone that switched on her GPS and sent back her location to me by SMS - and she had no idea the phone was doing this. The reason I did this was to get a better estimate of when she would arrive and I wouldn't have to wake her to find out where she was.
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I tot gingerbread onwards they dun allow 3rd party apps to switch on gps?
The only requirement for TheftAware is that the phone is rooted. Once it is, then the app can switch on GPS.
I also have Gingerbread 2.3.5.
I liked it because it is very hard for the thief to find the app and disable it.
There are other anti-theft apps out there, but I can only comment on the one I have used.
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The only requirement for TheftAware is that the phone is rooted. Once it is, then the app can switch on GPS.
I also have Gingerbread 2.3.5.
I liked it because it is very hard for the thief to find the app and disable it.
There are other anti-theft apps out there, but I can only comment on the one I have used.
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Unless you are on a 3rd party ROM like cyanogenmod, otherwise it is not possible even if you are rooted.
Plan B
If not too late, you could try Plan B from Lookout.
"Plan B is the 'find my phone' app that you download AFTER you lose your phone."
Cannot post link, search for it on the market.
Yeah, I would agree. Go to the web android market and install plan b. You might be lucky.
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Lol plans b! Love the name! I'm a firm believer in " what goes around comes around". sry to hear dude.
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Unless you are on a 3rd party ROM like cyanogenmod, otherwise it is not possible even if you are rooted.
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you can with secure settings and tasker. probably other ways too i'd imagine
Our phones come with a free alternative Samsung Dive. Takes a few seconds to configure and good to go even works whilst gps is off and using locate via the website would turn it on.
I personally use PhoneLocatorPro, and installing that as a system app also can activate gps whilst off.
Sorry to hear of your lost but next time you get a smartphone ensure your protected.
Samsung Dive only works in certain countries. But if you are on stock firmware leaving gps on won't harm your phone, battery drain is very minimal.
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you can with secure settings and tasker. probably other ways too i'd imagine
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Hey thanks for that info! Now I can use tasker to turn on the GPS again.
+1 for Samsung Dive.
It is free and does not require root.
Do you guys know if Samsung Dive will text me the number of the new SIM phone number if the SIM change alert option is enabled? Or is it just a warning?
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Do you guys know if Samsung Dive will text me the number of the new SIM phone number if the SIM change alert option is enabled? Or is it just a warning?
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Yes it does, you configure this part on the phone.
Location and security > Find my mobile > SIM Change Alert
AaronUK said:
Yes it does, you configure this part on the phone.
Location and security > Find my mobile > SIM Change Alert
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Already tested this.
SamsungDive it's easy, it's efective, free, and builtin your phone.
You can even lock your phone, and put a callback number on the screen. The user will only be able to dial that number.
If you try to reset phone to factory defaults, it will ask you for the SamsungDive Account Password.
bye!
(10char)
fred_up said:
You never thought of setting up the locate service by Samsung or even got anti-theft/locate software like TheftAware to protect your phone.
I have TheftAware on my phone and my daughter's android phone. She leaves it on 'silent' and occasionally can't find it in the house. Calling it would be no use, but I simply send a SMS with the password and SIREN ON and then her phone starts screaming. I have to send another SMS to turn the Siren off.
She was coming back from a long bus trip. I send SMS's to her phone that switched on her GPS and sent back her location to me by SMS - and she had no idea the phone was doing this. The reason I did this was to get a better estimate of when she would arrive and I wouldn't have to wake her to find out where she was.
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And what if the thief turned the phone off, will this still work?
Surely if someone used 3 button combination and wiped the phone and installed a fresh rom onto it... it would render all of this useless?
Sent from inside a black hole.
Would you be able to control the phone via SMS if the thief pulled out the SIM?
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Oh these limitations... :O
EDIT: Phone was definitely stolen.
What (if anything) can I do to try to track it? Didn't have any apps installed for something like this
also, is there a way to access my SMS's that are coming in? Contacts are all stored in Gmail, so that's not an issue at least.
From your PC download "Plan B" by going to your account. As soon as the phone gets a signal it will install. You can track it remotely with another phone.
Sent From Rob's ATRIX.
I did do that...hopefully it will get on there but haven't received any email yet with a location. I am very interested how i can quickly send and view my SMS's
VERY IMPORTANT for work reasons.
There is also Cerberus which works excellently, but I don't know if it can be installed and activated remotely.
Sent From Rob's ATRIX.
You can set up AT&T "family track" on your phone and it will go into effect immediately so you can get an exact location of your phone (if it is on). Even if you don't have AT&T I'm sure that rogers and other phone companies offer something similar if not the same thing.
MOTOBLUR's "track my phone" might work? And if you can't get it back at least you can initiate a remote wipe as you seemed to hint that there is a security issue or something there.
https://portal-moto.svcmot.com/moto-web-portal/
what about getting to see the SMS's on the phone? gonna call ATT now.
So annoying
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VERY IMPORTANT for work reasons.
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it's not the iPhone 5, is it...?
Honestly?..........Sorry to tell you but it's long gone if someone took it. Best bet you have is someone found it and is honest, but that doesn't happen often. Ignore the posts about installing apps..............you don't have your phone, not gonna happen!
Did you have it locked? If not you can't have been too worried about the security.
Call your carrier, have the phone logged as stolen, they will track it if it is turned on and active. They don't deactivate phones right away for this exact reason. If someone uses it they will try to track it through the numbers called on it.
If it has a stock ROM and you had a screen lock, your messages should be safe.
Your settings are tied to your Motoblur account.
Log into the Motoblur website and issue a remote wipe.
it was Neutrino Rom, pretty new install so not much private info on there...no screen lock or anything setup
I'm pretty sure you can install Lookout Security remotely to try and track it.
About checking the text messages, I think you're outta luck there. I've never heard of remotely checking texts, but hopefully I'm wrong for your sake.
So, I wasn't able to get any response from Plan B, but i installed ATT's Family map program and it is seeing the phone, which means at least I know it is still on.
What should i do?
I was about to give up and have it deactivated and turn on an old handset, but now that i have a general location on it i'm not sure what my next move should be
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I was about to give up and have it deactivated and turn on an old handset, but now that i have a general location on it i'm not sure what my next move should be
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go get it?
If sound was on, start calling it in the vicinity with another phone.
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If sound was on, start calling it in the vicinity with another phone.
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sound was not on.....
The location looks like it's all commercial, i don't see houses or anything. So i am guessing the thief brought it to work with them?
also, it says it's only accurate to about 30 yards give or take. So if it was in a development or apartment building, kinda hard to key in on where exactly it is.
If, however the person with it lives in a bit more remote area, i MAY have a chance to narrow it down...but still hard to be certain and all
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If sound was on, start calling it in the vicinity with another phone.
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Then destroy target.
isn't there an app that can remotely turn sound up on the phone?
call the cops. you have the serial number and all that right? file a stolen property report and then tell them you've narrowed down the location of your phone using an app.
Been a member for a few years, but generally just read and give thanks. However, over the weekend I ran into some issues with my wife's phone and was hoping someone might be able to help me out.
My wife has a nexus one running CM7.2
The problem started on Friday night and has persisted through last night. Random people are receiving phone calls and texts with their caller ID showing my wife's phone number on their caller ID. At first we thought it might be crossed signals and did not pay attention. Until last night when the calls were escalating in a manner that we finally contacted the police. Unfortunately they said there is nothing they could do as no criminal act has actually been committed and to contact our service provider.
We contacted T-mobile and all they said was to change numbers, which we are going to do when she gets home from work. My concern is if they somehow cloned her phone or I dont even know what is possible with technology would they not have all of her IMEI information to just repeat the process?
I wanted to know if anyone has heard of something like this before. If so any suggestions or what to do besides just changing numbers.
Thank you in advance!
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Been a member for a few years, but generally just read and give thanks. However, over the weekend I ran into some issues with my wife's phone and was hoping someone might be able to help me out.
My wife has a nexus one running CM7.2
The problem started on Friday night and has persisted through last night. Random people are receiving phone calls and texts with their caller ID showing my wife's phone number on their caller ID. At first we thought it might be crossed signals and did not pay attention. Until last night when the calls were escalating in a manner that we finally contacted the police. Unfortunately they said there is nothing they could do as no criminal act has actually been committed and to contact our service provider.
We contacted T-mobile and all they said was to change numbers, which we are going to do when she gets home from work. My concern is if they somehow cloned her phone or I dont even know what is possible with technology would they not have all of her IMEI information to just repeat the process?
I wanted to know if anyone has heard of something like this before. If so any suggestions or what to do besides just changing numbers.
Thank you in advance!
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Did your wife download any app that could use your wife's phone number to appear for outgoing call? What you can do is do a factory reset and then flash the ROM clean (i.e., no downloaded app) to see if the problems still persist. If you have strange calls and wanted to block them, then download an app called Mr. Number to block unwanted calls.
Thanks for the response. She only uses this phone for text and business calls now, so I am going to factory reset, wipe everything and resinstall all apps fresh and only apps she needs.
same issue with my friends phone
my friend is having same issue since an hour
but she is using some samsung android phone..
would like to no the solution to it..
Hey guys, I lost my phone 30 minutes ago and unfourtnately since I have never lost a phone in my life I didin't think I would loose one now. I don't have any "find my phone" installed on the phone so I went to the website http://www.androidlost.com and I pushed the app to my stolen phone and I also pushed the Jumpstart app. I also tried to send a message "androidlost register" to the phone, but nothing sems to work.
Android Lost doesn't register the phone. The first thing I did when I came home was to change my Google account password. If I'm correct, isn't that a misstake? Because now when the thief turns on the internet, the password is changed so he can't login to the account? Is this correct?
Does the phone have to have WiFi or mobile data enabled?
Since you changed the password I don't think pushing apps from the playstore will work anymore. Even if you change it back, the login link is broken and you'd need the device to log back in.
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Hey guys, I lost my phone 30 minutes ago and unfourtnately since I have never lost a phone in my life I didin't think I would loose one now. I don't have any "find my phone" installed on the phone so I went to the website http://www.androidlost.com and I pushed the app to my stolen phone and I also pushed the Jumpstart app. I also tried to send a message "androidlost register" to the phone, but nothing sems to work.
Android Lost doesn't register the phone. The first thing I did when I came home was to change my Google account password. If I'm correct, isn't that a misstake? Because now when the thief turns on the internet, the password is changed so he can't login to the account? Is this correct?
Does the phone have to have WiFi or mobile data enabled?
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Lost or stolen? Lost, there's still hope. Someone might turn it in somewhere, there are still good people left in this world.
Stolen, probably goodbye. First thing he'd do would be to remove sim or turn off.
As far as i know androidlost will work if everything is turned on; if there's a data connection, if gps is activated, etc. I'll surely get corrected if not.
Changing the Google password will prompt to log in again, yes.
Sucks though mate.. :-\
The funny thing is, when I call it, it calls for the full duration, and also they haven't taken out the SIM card. I tried it with my moms Galaxy Nexus the exact way I did on my Nexus 4, but the only difference was she had internet connection on and it worked... What I fear the most is I changed my Google account password, Maybe it's not possible to retrieve the phone via androidlost because of this?
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The funny thing is, when I call it, it calls for the full duration, and also they haven't taken out the SIM card. I tried it with my moms Galaxy Nexus the exact way I did on my Nexus 4, but the only difference was she had internet connection on and it worked... What I fear the most is I changed my Google account password, Maybe it's not possible to retrieve the phone via androidlost because of this?
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Im afraid el daddy's post is confirming exactly that..
Well if the phone is stolen the first thing they might do is take it to the nearest cell phone shop to get it wiped .. Or maybe you left it somewhere ... Retrace your steps...
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Is there a way to like enable latitude on the web or something to remotely see the location of the device? or something like that? Because I'm pretty much screwed because I changed the password on my Google account, very very stupid of me, but I panicked
I know it's to late know, but next time you should try Cerberus app; best in line for tracking and remote controlling devices
Because of the WiFi bug it's affecting anti theft apps. The theft will need to switch the screen on before Google play will download the app you've pushed. But once that's done it is still hit and miss whether the web interface will be able to connect to the phone to track its location unless the screen is kept on. I know Cerberus and lookout can't.
More info about this WiFi issue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072930
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sb29rb3V0LmxhYnMucGxhbmIiXQ..
i think call your phone and speak with the one who find it to return it back ..if it not works make a price for your stolen phone and buy it from the thief
Use this.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alienmanfc6.wheresmyandroidcupcake
Install it and text "wmd gps" to your phone.
If you don't have another phone, use this: http://textinghome.com/smsemail.php
It'll send the reply to your email. (put "wmd gps" in the subject box, and three random letters in the message box)
(I tested this one on my phone)
EDIT: ****. I just read that you changed your password. Big mistake. Try changing it back to what it was before, even though I doubt that would work.
As a last resort (when you accept it's gone for ever), report the IMEI number to your GSM provider and hope they blacklist it.