It's all you need.
Posted on 12/14/2013 5:53:34 PM PST by Innovative
Did you know that Android - version 2.2 and later - comes with a feature that lets you track and manage your mobile device?
Look for Google Settings among all the apps on your handset. It is denoted by a grey icon with a lower case 'g' and a gear symbol. Tap on the app, and choose the last option which reads 'Android Device Manager' .
From here, you can activate features that will locate your device in case it is lost or misplaced, and you can also remotely lock and factory reset your handset.
After you've checked these options on your phone, you can log on to the Android Device Manager website (www.google.com/android/ devicemanager) using your Google account to control your phone remotely.
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Thanks - it does look useful.
Erm....I guess this would be an NSA approved utility? :)
It's all you need.
Certainly doesn’t do anything to hinder the NSA. Best tool for that is to take a hammer to the Android.
And a useful advice — take your phone contact list and TYPE their names and phone numbers into your computer, then print it out and keep it in a safe place, just in case.
Many people only have their contact list in their mobile phone and if something happens to it, they lose it all.
It’s better to have it and not need it, than the other way around.
Don’t forget baling wire, I can’t count the many things, often to my embarrassment, my depression era father in law repaired with duct tape, baling wire and tin cans.
Now if only they had a spoof feature that would tell the system that you were one blast radius away from your actual location...
for later
Use google contacts and import them there - in case a backup is needed, you can just re-sync your device.
Bfl
ANDROID is an NSA approved utility.
So is Mac OS X - setting it up requires to let it snap your photgraph and send it in to Apple HQ, along with all of your ID and computer info.
All these companies are the same.
There are Android apps that will snap a pic with both the front and rear camera if someone tries to unlock your phone, or you can do it remotely, find it via GPS, have it sound an alarm, lock it remotely, turn it off so the battery doesn’t drain, etc...
But if a thief quickly removes the battery, then none of these apps/features are useful until the battery is put back into the phone.
bump
That’s interesting. Thanks!
(Reuters) - U.S. wireless operators on Wednesday fought back against an accusation from the New York State attorney general that they refused to install software that would act as a “kill switch” to discourage theft of smartphones.
The technology would give consumers the ability to remotely render their phone inoperable if it is stolen with an aim to eliminating incentives for theft. New York is part of a coalition of cities that are trying to reduce phone theft.
Some U.S. carriers deny accusation they refused to install ‘kill switch’ on cellphones
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