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Anyone use Seek Droid?
http://www.appbrain.com/app/seek-droid/org.gtmedia.seekdroid
How's it compare to lookout or prey?
Seems like it's pretty feature rich for $.99 and reviews are good, but it's always good to hear from real, live users directly.
Lifehacker liked it
http://lifehacker.com/5745207/seek-droid-is-the-simplest-way-to-find-your-lost-android-phone
I think its the best, but I'm one of the developers. PM me if you have any questions.
I'm sure you do, but I was going to get some real user reviews here.
Give it a shot, write a review. If you dont like it, email support and we'll make it right.
I'm not sure if we have many people that are on xda using the app (yet). We are a really small company, and unlike our competition, we dont a marketing department to get our name out. Just a few developers trying to put out a good lightweight product. We love to see reviews and suggestions, so let us know what you think.
I can gave you a brief snapshot [after finishing my write up I realized it wasn't so brief]. Note: I haven't lost my phone yet so I've only been able to test it. Also, I have not tested other Droid locator apps so I have no point of reference. I've tested this on a Droid X.
Setup is a breeze. The user is asked to enter a username and secret code. The app goes through a registration process. The main screen of the app (on the phone) is organized as follows: View Website; Your SeekDroid.com Login; View Help; Current Status [Registered]; Your Secret Code; Options for Enabling remote formmating of the phone and SD card; Option for retrieving call history settings; Terms of Service; and Contact Us.
At the Seek Droid website, you're asked to enter your username and secret code. A top line menu appears, as follows: Locate; Alarm; Calls; Hide; Lock; Wipe; Help; and Log Out. Locate does just what it suggests: the webpage sends out a search command and a Google map displays the location. The Alarm options prompts you to type a message to be sent to the phone. Once the message arrives, the message pops up on the phone's screen and it beeps and will continue to beep until the screen is touched. When the screen is touched, you're taken to the slide-to-unlock screen. If your phone is secured with a password, you'll be directed to the unlock screen (pattern or keypad). Calls displays a recent call list. Hide triggers your device to hide the Seek Droid app from you list of apps (in your app drawer). Reboot is required. With Lock, you're prompted to assign a new digit lock code (digits only, not a new pattern lock). Whether your device already has a lock code or pattern lock, the new code is applied. I, for example, have a pattern lock. I changed the lock code remotely with Seek Droid and it changed it to the new code I sent. With Wipe you are given a prompt to ensure that's what you want to do. I did not test this feature. I might backup my SD card and try the wipe feature for that...I'll report the results later if I do.
I've tested the app indoors and outside, with GPS on and off. It finds it every time, usually within 3 minutes. I keep Use Wireless Networks and Enable Assisted GPS activated in the Settings screen on my device. Also, I have an app protector app that locks apps on my phone (along the lines of App Protector). I have Settings locked (requires a password to access). Seek Droid is able to change the unlock code remotely with Settings protected and unprotected.
Naturally, Seek Droid does not find my phone when it's turned off or in flight mode. Seek Droid does not provide advanced user controls like deleting individual apps, turning off/on GPS, remotely turning on your phone, etc.
Locating my phone worked with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. Javascript must be enabled.
One final comment: I encountered an issue with one of my computers locating my phone. I contacted Seek Droid support and received a response within 1 hour. Very helpful and responsive...kudos to them. After some troubleshooting, I discovered the problem rested with my computer. Seek Droid worked well from every other computers I have access to (rather than troubleshoot the problem with the one computer, I simply won't use that one to log in to Seek Droid in an emergency). So, my advice is to test the app from various computers so you know which one to use if and when you actually lose your phone.
I recommend the app based on my limited testing. I also recommend that you use this in conjunction with a device password or pattern lock (or an app protector app to prevent removal of Seek Droid). You simply want to set up controls so another person can't easily uninstall the app or deregister the device.
Price has now gone up to $1.99 and a bit peeved as I left it until today to get it, losing out 62p in the process
Anyway, after taking an aggggggge (months on and off) trying to configure Tasker to do this unsuccessfully I've now binned that idea and got this instead; setting it up alongside Tasker to receive a specific SMS to switch all the location finding stuff on (I have mobile and wifi switched off by default).
Just liked to echo the above comment in that it is really easy to use and the location is nailed down much better than all my previous attempts with Tasker.
Well worth it.
Wow, didn't notice that. I still hadn't purchased yet either and was going to. I really don't need it, I just wanted to play around with it. I'll just pass @ $1.99 and use the free version of lookout without wipe functionality and spend the $1.99 on a game I wanted or something.
Oh well.
is there a secret code default because i donwloaded the app to my phone online but never set it up
Kicknik: After installing the app and opening for the first time, you will be prompted to enter a username and a secret code of your choosing. Then, it will go through a process of registering your device (I guess it syncs up with Seek Droid). The username and secret code are then used to login to the Seek Droid website in order to locate and lock your device remotely.
My impressions:
Bought and installed a couple days ago on my Lg Optimus One. I am very satisfied.
The program installs very easily, once installed it asks you to choose a login name and a password and to set a few options: there's a few boxes to check, like the possibility to enable or disable the remote wipe of your smartphone.
Once you are done setting up you can access the seek droid website from your phone or from any device with internet access and once you are logged in you can monitor your device position (you can remotely enable gps if gps is disabled), check the last calls that were made from your device, lock your phone or wipe it to factory settings formatting internal memory and sd (of course it asks you for confirmation on the website if you click on the wipe button).
Another useful feature that can be accessed from seek droid website is the "hide" button. Once you press it the seek droid app on your phone becomes invisible (requires reboot) thus becoming even harder to uninstall (anyway even wehn visible the program requires your password to uninstall).
I tried every feature except for the wipe one and i can say it does what it says. Position through gps is accurate and is shown on a mini google map on the seek droid site. I monitored battery consumption and it seems almost unexistent.
In conclusion i think every smart needs a security program like this, and seek droid does better than other similar apps that i had tried before.
First I was using Lookout, but I rly didn't liked that story with the chinese developer that got misunderstood with his wallpaper app because of what Lookout said. Every website was telling ppl to uninstall his app. Lookout got a lot of attention, everyone installed their app and uninstalled the poor chinese app. That wasn't nice :T
Then I went to WaveSecure, from McAfee. I think it's $20 per year.
Never worked on my phone. Tryed the support, even installed a "debug version", but couldn't make it work properly on my HTC Desire. Gave up.
I was looking for another app to replace it and then I met Seek Droid. Was very cheap, no monthly fees and such, decided to give it a try.
Dude, I'm VERY satisfied. It's easy to install, got it WORKING on 5 minutes. McAfee WaveSecure didn't worked for me, but I had no issue with Seek Droid. If I had met it before, could save the $20 I paid to get WaveSecure (I should have tested it first, but saw "McAfee" on it, guessed it works.)
Didn't noticed any abnormal battery drain, I could retrieve the latest phone calls made and received, I could lock and unlock from the website, located very fast (I was using wifi when I tested).
I think that it could report the number of the SIM card and keep the alarm message on the screen, I mean, If I just lose it, I would like to keep on screen instructions to contact me :S
Currently If you "click" on the message, it will go away.
Anyway, I'm another happy customer.
It's very cheap, everyone should give it a try!
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Anyway, I'm another happy customer.
It's very cheap, everyone should give it a try!
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Glad to hear you like it. Dont forget to review us in the Android Market.
I bought it for me (EVO) and my wife (LG Optimus S). Very reasonable price. Easy install and configuration and website control.
We also were using the new Sprint/Assurian TEP app. That has additional features--which I don't want or need (i.e., contacts backup). And, even though my wife's phone also has TEP, their app now says that the subscription has expired--which it hasn't.
I was about to cancel the TEP for her phone anyhow, and this is a nice reminder of why it's a waste for her cheap phone anyhow.
We're happy with Seekdroid and the $.99 price.
sycko,
I have Seek Droid on my Droid and my wife's Droid 2. Love the application. I was wondering if there was a way to get to get Seek Droid to work on my rooted Nook Color? There can be a general location using the WiFi instead of GPS I believe.
Thank you for your time.
How does one set this up? I bought it a while back and never got around to setting it up until today. I launch it on my EVO and it pops up a screen asking for a name and password, and anything I put in it says it's username or secret code is incorrect (obviously, since I've never set up a seekdroid account). I go to the website and it does the same thing. HOW DO I SET UP AN ACCOUNT IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Thanks.
Nevermind. Got it. (Uninstalled and reinstalled and the create account screen popped up.)
Does this work with Google Voice? I don't have text messaging, so thats the issue I have with location/alarm apps
I want to know, what if my phone got stolen and the guy instantly decides to wipe my device clean of any trackers .. will this device still be able to track after such an activity ?
Also, what if the robber doesn't wipe the device clean, but modifies/disables the internet connection on the device ? Or switches to another SIM which does NOT have internet on it ? Will this program still be helpful in any sense ?
Free today on Amazon. Don't know if this is current version, but thought I would pass that along. Clean interface, but I haven't put it through its paces yet.
Great app
I love the app. Very easy to use. I've used it to locate my phone twice.
I just installed mohan's latest ROM for the skyrocket and I am getting a message that seekdroid is not working. Any tips on how to debug. Is there a log of the failure?
I like the ROM, but consider this a must have app.
need a bit of help
sycko said:
I think its the best, but I'm one of the developers. PM me if you have any questions.
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If seekdroid or something like that was installed on my phone. By my psycho gf. How would I totally remove it????
Hi,
Yesterday I set a fingerprint lock on my S7. It prompted me to enter a backup password and some other password, both with different requirements (one only had to be 4 letters, one was longer and had a number) and the longer one had to be confirmed whereas the shorter one did not. I set this up and tested it a few times, everything seemed to work great. Later I let my phone idle and it turned the screen off on its own for the first time, ever since then the phone has not been able to recognize my fingerprint. It doesn't even say "No match", it just acts like I'm not even putting a finger on it at all.
Tried over and over and eventually tried the backup password, which for some reason is the shorter one without a number. I put in what I am absolutely sure I put in, and it wouldn't take it. Tried a couple more times, even got so desperate as to emulate potential typing errors I might have made (since no confirmation for that password) and nothing worked.
Eventually I hit the timed lockout and I had to stop trying things then. So I went online and searched and discovered Google's Android Device Manager. I heard that if you lock the phone with it you can unlock it through the same manager and the phone will be unlocked. First thing that was odd was that ADM didn't give me an option to enter a password, just a contact message and phone number. I still put in a message and hit lock, and... nothing changed on ADM at all.
Now my phone shows the stupid message every time I wake it up and every few seconds on the lock screen (I can still attempt to unlock the phone with the password and use phone/camera though), but ADM doesn't even give an option to unlock, just change the locked message. I can't even get rid of the damn lock by changing it to blank. I heard Samsung offers a similar service but I never made a Samsung account and apparently one is required to use it.
Beyond that the only solution I've found is wiping the phone (which I can easily do, because there's an option in ADM for it which presumably works), which I really don't want to do since I have a lot of pictures and data on the phone that aren't backed up that I would absolutely hate to lose.
To make things worse it appears that this issue is specific to my phone/the S7/Samsung phones/something, as I have my old Nexus 4 listed in ADM as well and going through the options for it I see it has the ability to define a password, but no such thing for the S7. I really have no clue where to go from here, tons of googling hasn't found me any method I haven't already tried or can't do.
I'd be so grateful if someone here would at the very least find a way for me to recover data before wiping it to get rid of the lock.
FRP Samsung Reactivation Lock
I'm doing this on a Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920V Android 7.0
Hard Reset Phone.
Boot into Android.
Goto emergency dialer and dial 112.
As soon as it starts dialing click bluetooth and pair a headset.
After this go and enable wifi.
Next push the button on your headset and select the bottom left G icon for google.
Now you can access the web / apps etc.
Goto settings by saying "settings" and if it doesn't show then scroll over right to "in apps" (bar below the URL on the browser) and select settings..
Then Settings> Backup and Reset> click Factory Reset and follow through with it. You should end up on a Samsung account entry screen. Put a Samsung account in and then go to Accounts and make sure it is there. Reboot your phone.
When the phone has rebooted go through setup to the end then to Settings> Accounts and remove the Samsung account. You'll notice you get an error saying invalid id or password.
Go to the browser and type in https://www.4shared.com/s/fG7xZS8Rfgm download and install and run. Search for Samsung Account, click and expand it, scroll down to you see the string ending in .EmailUpdatesView and click on it. Click Try it.
Okay now were almost done. It should bring up a screen titled Change Email ID. Look at the bottom of this screen and you will notice a delete account link. Click this, enter your password and remove your account.
Done. Successfully removed.
I haven't yet figured out a way to totally remove it so this is just a temporary bypass. If you reset your phone you will have to do the whole process over again. I will post additional info to completely remove it or new steps once i figure it out.
I don't have a bluetooth headset but, do you think this method would work for my situation? I would buy one if so.
G920A Reactivation Lock
Thanks in advance.
Lennvy said:
I don't have a bluetooth headset but, do you think this method would work for my situation? I would buy one if so.
G920A Reactivation Lock
Thanks in advance.
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I did this on the Verizon variant. Shouldn't be much different. What i would do is buy a bluetooth headset and give it a try and if it doesn't work you can always take it back. =]
I can remove it completely for a small fee if interested. Different method than above and for sure completely gone when i'm done. Just pm me.
phonecapone said:
I did this on the Verizon variant. Shouldn't be much different. What i would do is buy a bluetooth headset and give it a try and if it doesn't work you can always take it back. =]
I can remove it completely for a small fee if interested. Different method than above and for sure completely gone when i'm done. Just pm me.
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I updated my post. I bought these, and it doesn't work. Does it have to be a bluetooth headset? Or will bluetooth headphones with a mic work? I am on 7.0 now.
Also, I would be willing to pay. How much and what's the process? Do I have to send the phone or is it something you can do over teamviewer or something? Thanks man.
Lennvy said:
I updated my post. I bought these, and it doesn't work. Does it have to be a bluetooth headset? Or will bluetooth headphones with a mic work? I am on 7.0 now.
Also, I would be willing to pay. How much and what's the process? Do I have to send the phone or is it something you can do over teamviewer or something? Thanks man.
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Those would work but I am not sure about 7.0 the manual way. Things are different a bit i believe. You'd just have to give it a try. As for me doing it for you I will PM you.
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phonecapone said:
FRP Samsung Reactivation Lock
I'm doing this on a Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920V Android 7.0
Hard Reset Phone.
Boot into Android.
Goto emergency dialer and dial 112.
As soon as it starts dialing click bluetooth and pair a headset.
After this go and enable wifi.
Next push the button on your headset and select the bottom left G icon for google.
Now you can access the web / apps etc.
Goto settings by saying "settings" and if it doesn't show then scroll over right to "in apps" (bar below the URL on the browser) and select settings..
Then Settings> Backup and Reset> click Factory Reset and follow through with it. You should end up on a Samsung account entry screen. Put a Samsung account in and then go to Accounts and make sure it is there. Reboot your phone.
When the phone has rebooted go through setup to the end then to Settings> Accounts and remove the Samsung account. You'll notice you get an error saying invalid id or password.
Go to the browser and type in https://www.4shared.com/s/fG7xZS8Rfgm download and install and run. Search for Samsung Account, click and expand it, scroll down to you see the string ending in .EmailUpdatesView and click on it. Click Try it.
Okay now were almost done. It should bring up a screen titled Change Email ID. Look at the bottom of this screen and you will notice a delete account link. Click this, enter your password and remove your account.
Done. Successfully removed.
I haven't yet figured out a way to totally remove it so this is just a temporary bypass. If you reset your phone you will have to do the whole process over again. I will post additional info to completely remove it or new steps once i figure it out.
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My friend found a Galaxy S6 edge phone somewhere at town hall, he wait about 3 days and nobody call the phone. Phone is locked by fingerprint and password. He did factory reset and locked to Samsung Account Log in. He gave the phone to me about a month ago. Long time I did not play with phone and after reading pages of android forums and articles, i just know about FRP. I have tried nomorous method and nothing success. I can register with google account on set up. Landed on this page and 4 shared link above is not work. Tried to flash what named combination rom to get boot into factory binary. Can not get thru due to blocked by R/L (Reactivation Lock).
I own and used daily S7 flat, happy knowing that not easy to bypass this samsung anti-theft feature. But this also trapped many people who bought used samsung phone and the previous owner did not reset properly and uncontactable LOL
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My friend found a Galaxy S6 edge phone somewhere at town hall, he wait about 3 days and nobody call the phone. Phone is locked by fingerprint and password. He did factory reset and locked to Samsung Account Log in. He gave the phone to me about a month ago. Long time I did not play with phone and after reading pages of android forums and articles, i just know about FRP. I have tried nomorous method and nothing success. I can register with google account on set up. Landed on this page and 4 shared link above is not work. Tried to flash what named combination rom to get boot into factory binary. Can not get thru due to blocked by R/L (Reactivation Lock).
I own and used daily S7 flat, happy knowing that not easy to bypass this samsung anti-theft feature. But this also trapped many people who bought used samsung phone and the previous owner did not reset properly and uncontactable LOL
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The 4shared link I believe was for "quick shortcut maker" you can google this and find it. This was also not a 100% method of bypassing. I think I did another tutorial somewhere on here explaining the full method. You might try searching my posts for it. I'd link you but I am working and don't have the time to search.
My girlfriend wanted to sell her mother's old S7 and I was tasked with wiping/resetting it. When the phone asked me for the password to the Google account, I thought "Don't try to trick a trickster, puny phone!" went straight into recovery mode and factory reset. Worked like a charm, I could create a new account, use playstore, phone ready to sell. So I went into recovery again, factory reset again and - fast forward a few days - the phone was sold and sent back, because after the 2nd reset FRP triggered and the buyer could not use it.
Main problem: The new account I created. I remember only [email protected] and the password.
Since it asked for _a_ previous owners login, I already tried gf's mother's, but that won't work.
So, is there a way to find out the test account? Otherwise, I found this method by tpierce89 to bypass FRP, but I guess at least I'd need the correct firmware to reflash, it says G930FXXS8ETC6.
Any ideas?
TehPels said:
My girlfriend wanted to sell her mother's old S7 and I was tasked with wiping/resetting it. When the phone asked me for the password to the Google account, I thought "Don't try to trick a trickster, puny phone!" went straight into recovery mode and factory reset. Worked like a charm, I could create a new account, use playstore, phone ready to sell. So I went into recovery again, factory reset again and - fast forward a few days - the phone was sold and sent back, because after the 2nd reset FRP triggered and the buyer could not use it.
Main problem: The new account I created. I remember only [email protected] and the password.
Since it asked for _a_ previous owners login, I already tried gf's mother's, but that won't work.
So, is there a way to find out the test account? Otherwise, I found this method by tpierce89 to bypass FRP, but I guess at least I'd need the correct firmware to reflash, it says G930FXXS8ETC6.
Any ideas?
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It's the test account it's asking for, surely you can guess what it is? test account? test phone? test something?
Always sign out and remove the google account before any modification.
I'd be suprised if the method you've linked still works but you can try.
I tried all combinations I could think of. The thing is, I put in test and something as name and used the first gmail suggested.
Always sign out and remove the google account before any modification.
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Will do in the future, but since I don't do these things regularly anymore, I wonder what they think of until the next time.
What puzzles me is, why could I log in after the first reset, didn't put in the password then and FRP didn't trip.
Well, it looks like we have to pay for unlocking, hope it won't be more than the price we took for the phone.
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I tried all combinations I could think of. The thing is, I put in test and something as name and used the first gmail suggested.
Will do in the future, but since I don't do these things regularly anymore, I wonder what they think of until the next time.
What puzzles me is, why could I log in after the first reset, didn't put in the password then and FRP didn't trip.
Well, it looks like we have to pay for unlocking, hope it won't be more than the price we took for the phone.
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It depends on the firmware you had, some allow x amounts of factory resets before FRP kicks in. Its usually the network branded firmware which allows this.
AFAIK it was unbranded straight from amazon.de
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AFAIK it was unbranded straight from amazon.de
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Well my advice is to turn off FRP lock, it's a nuisance. It's not like a theif is going to bring you the phone back because they can't use it. They'll just throw it away or use for parts.
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Well my advice is to turn off FRP lock, it's a nuisance. It's not like a theif is going to bring you the phone back because they can't use it. They'll just throw it away or use for parts.
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Yeah, to me it feels like you own your device another bit less.
Anyway, is there a way to get around FRP on that phone now? Or do you mean turn it off on new phones?
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Yeah, to me it feels like you own your device another bit less.
Anyway, is there a way to get around FRP on that phone now? Or do you mean turn it off on new phones?
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Sign into Google online with the same email and password your using on the device. Then device activity and notifications, then review devices. Select the phone your want to disable, then the red "remove" button. Sign out online.
Make sure sync is turned on, so the Google account can sync with the phone and turn off FRP lock.
Then after that to check. Turn phone off, press volume down+home+power to boot into download mode, read what it says about FRP lock in top left.
Then just reboot phone by pressing volume down to cancel download mode.
Other way is just remove Google account from phone before modification.
I have a problem, I have a Samsung galaxy A32 with a broken screen, both the display and I believe the touch screen too. let me be clear that this is my phone, and I know the passcode to it. but I have no way of inputting the passcode to unlock it. I just want to get some photos off it. is there any way I can input the passcode without the use of the touch screen? 10.0.0.0.1 192.168.1.254 I have seen people use a mouse and a usb OTG, but I can't see the screen so that's no good for me, and I can't mirror the damn thing to my computer because I have to unlock it to enable the feature, it's driving me nuts. again I'm not looking to bypass the passcode, I want to somehow input the code while I can't use the screen. thanks for any help.
You can try using your Samsung account if you have created one which you can use to unlock your phone. You will need to go to the Samsung Find My Mobile website and log in with your account. Once you are logged in, you can follow the instructions to unlock your phone. This should mostly help you get inside your phone!