my battery was getting low and beeping at me and i wasnt in a position to charge it, and wouldnt have the charger for a couple days. so i figured i would need the phone the next day for a few minutes and would take out the battery to save the "juice". when i put battery back in the next day, all my data was gone. i do remember a screen coming up and for me to set time, ect and after i did that, i saw all my phone numbers and contacts, text and picture messages and saved folders were nowhere to be seen. i called vodaphone but they said it was gone forever...is this true?It doesnt seem possible that with such an expensive phone used for business, that all data would dissapear when the battery is taken out! please, anyone can you help me get this data????
lately my phone has been whacky.
it's been so bad that everytime i push the on button i wonder if i'll see anything.
for about a month now my phone has been 'broken". It keeps going back to it's initial mind state i.e . nothing in the memory whereby i must constantly sync it anew, which made a bit easier by the fact that i syn with both my pc's at home and work.
so one can imagine how frustrated it must me to wonder everytime one turn on the ppc if one's contacts are still there. or if the note i just scribbled down will still be there (in case i didn't save it to external memory) when i turn it back on.
is there a remedy for that?
thanks
By explaining what phone you have the more likely you will get an answer.
If it's windows mobile 2003 or earlier, could be a faulty battery,
Windows mobile 2005 or newer - time to send it for repair really
WM2k3 used ram as storage, which had a low powered backup battery, if the device had a totally flat battery for over 20 mins, it wasn't unusual to lose all user data. WM5 changed this and used 'persistant storage' which wasn't prone to losing any info, if your device is one of these later machines and has alzheimers, it's time to get it fixed
my phone is a sx66 running windows 2003
Greetings,
I recently had my phone stolen when someone smashed my car window and grabbed my phone and GPS unit. I was thinking about ways to either deter theives or perhaps even catch them after the fact.
My first thought was some sort of program on the phone that would send information about the phone back to a user specified email address. For example, let's say the person installs a new SIM card and powers up the phone. The program could auto-run and send you the new phone number now assigned to the phone. I am not sure how this would work for non-SIM phones as I don't understand how those phones get their "phone number". In addition to the phone number it could send any informaiton like Owner Info that also might help identify the person now in possession of the phone.
My second thought was why not tap into the GPS device that so many phones are now equipped with and send GPS coordinates as well. This might be difficult if the phone company locks access to the GPS functionality.
Last but not least I was wondering if there might not be a way to determine that a new SIM card was installed, even if a master reset was done on the phone. The big problem here is that you would need to have the code included as part of the firmware as a master reset might possible wipe out any internal memory on the phone. It might be interesting to flash a warning on the main screen of the phone indicating that "This Phone is Stolen" if someone tried to put their own SIM or reprogram the phone with their phone number.
Naturally I know you can "lock" the phone which will render it useless but that won't necessarily help you get it back. I figure most of these "smartphones" have enough intelligence to at least send out a text message or something.
Has anyone seen anything like this or have any ideas on what might be possible?
Thanks
TC
There are several different software packages that already do this. One is called W.I.M.P. - Where Is My Phone:
http://www.wimp-software.co.uk/
Doh! I should have used Google.
Thanks for the tip.
Anyone using WIMP? I have the demo version and am having issues getting the GPS to work. Windows Live and Google Maps work fine. Not sure why WIMP is having issues.
What???
cowboyshootist said:
I recently had my phone stolen when someone smashed my car window and grabbed my phone and GPS unit.
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Why would you leave this laying around in you car? My Tilt (or any phone for that matter), electronic device, and wife () always leave the car with me....
mchapman007 said:
Why would you leave this laying around in you car? My Tilt (or any phone for that matter), electronic device, and wife () always leave the car with me....
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Well, I was heading into the LA Fitness gym in Mill Creek WA. There are generally lots of people coming and going in and out of the gym and Mill Creek is not what you would call a high crime area. The phone was not in plain sight but in the cup holder between the front seats and you would have to look real hard to even know it was there.
It was actually the GPS unit that attracted the thief. Normally I put that in the glove box and take my phone with me but as I mentioned above I didn't think I was in an area where I had to worry about car break-ins.
Even so, phones get stolen all the time. My daughter had hers stolen right out of her purse at her High School. It can happen even when you don't think it can. Applications like WIMP or PhoneBak are the only defense you have against something like this. Given the technology that exists in smartphones there's no reason they can't report themselves stolen and if they have gps (like the Moto Q9) even give you their location.
The funny thing is the thief was stupid enough to put his contacts onto the phone without having done a hard reset. The next day all his contacts were synch'd to my new phone and I now know who stole the phone.
Sprite Terminator is another one that does all of the things you want, remote lock / wipe / gps , etc
Thanks Dave.
KMS
Dave G said:
Sprite Terminator is another one that does all of the things you want, remote lock / wipe / gps , etc
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There's also Kaspersky Mobile Security for XDAs - you can block sms acces, wipe PIM data and it has a nice little feature that will send out SMSs to two numbers of your choice if the SIM is swapped, then block the unit until you enter a code - thus giving you the new mobile number to take to the police! only takes them about 20 mins to find the name and address of the thief!
http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kaspersky_mobile_security
And it's got a firewall and antivirus thrown in, too!
Bird
Bird_FAT said:
There's also Kaspersky Mobile Security for XDAs - you can block sms acces, wipe PIM data and it has a nice little feature that will send out SMSs to two numbers of your choice if the SIM is swapped, then block the unit until you enter a code - thus giving you the new mobile number to take to the police! only takes them about 20 mins to find the name and address of the thief!
http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kaspersky_mobile_security
And it's got a firewall and antivirus thrown in, too!
Bird
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Thanks. I was aware of this product. I am not too keen on annual subscriptions but it certainly seems to have all the features you might want for cellular phone security.
Mobile justice, it's freeware.
Bye
Hi if you installed kaspersky mobile security latest version, and you forgot the code? how can you reset code or change code to newone?
Thanks
Pantech 8010 died while on car charger.
Will not power up. Tried all available suggestions without success.
Cannot be seen by PC if unable to power up.
Need Contacts and SMS messages from phone.
"Can't be done" not acceptable "answer".
Took to shops and manufacturer who were not willing or able to recover data.
Need DIY or super cheap method due to budget constraints.
Please, Working answers only! Idle banter wastes everybody's time.
i bought a microsoft lumina 650 (2nd hand) watched her remove her microsoft account. everything was working great until my mobile provider said i needed a new sim card........well then my phone would drop calls not send text msgs turn off ect....Im not a phone tech by any means. Everywhere i researched my issue with the phone said to do a factory reset. ok i thought i will lose what ever i have on the phone since my pc (hp 21 decided while left all alone to never turn on again......back up )laptop has windows 7 not very compatible with phone. So factory reset we go........reset complete and im locked out by reset protection recovery key. Key is not being accepted by the phone, cant even get to a microsoft mobile tech redirected every time to b2x who cant help me they say contact microsoft. felt a little(lot) passed off by both companies and just gave up. contacted previous owner and her account doesnt work either. So now im hoping threw this forum that there is someone out there that knows how to get me back my phone.
PS never done a forum before so if i have something wrong or ......
dec 3 2017 update to my hair pulling frustration........ google has a feature find my phone and in there it says that if you give or sell your device that you should remove it and they will display the reset recovery code and send me an email as well with this info.. Ok so picture a woman in her pj's one fuzzy slipper on ( dog has chewed the other to a unrecognizable lump of something) looking at this google page and asking can it be that simple....smile and say to herself outloud #$$#% why didnt i find this earlier like 2 flippen mths ago......but then frown and look at her crappy back up computer with dredd.....thinking about her techinical luck lately which is not good minus minus on 1-10 scale. stare at the screen for 10 mins ( pros and cons debate going on) final debate statment said google wouldnt have that option if it didnt do as it says....strong statment that side wins and i push the delete my device tab.......... device successfully deleted.......looking ........looking........ nothing else pops up. panick says what ? temper steps in and says WHAT THE======. yup thats correct not only did i not recieve the code didnt get and email and no response from google. Ok so i hope you found that a little funny cause i have outlook that also has my device still linked to that account and it also says that i can access the recovery code but i have no idea how to get that display when i hit the ? tab the help topics are only on forgot sign in password. so if anyone know how to get device info from an outlook device account i would appreciate the help thanks for reading...cheers