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Living With Windows Mobile Survival Guide- A Power User's Perspective

A power user's perspective on this influential and powerful mobile O/S.
I have been using Windows Mobile on PDA phones since I decided to cost effectively integrate my PDA with my phone.
(all statements and suggestions are made based on my experiences)
I plan to discuss the following Items:
Backing up Your Data
Migrating To another device
Surviving the loss or serious damage to your device
Restoring data to the same device after a hard reset
1 -Backing up Your Data
Always setup active sync at the first possible opportunity. It will backup the majority of your critical information.
However beware of the following:
It does not backup call logs or SMS.
It is not much use if your phone requires a hard reset and you have no access to the PC that has that synchronised data on it.
Exchange active synch will only do the main data contained within outlook (no files or Notes).
I take the belt and braces approach to this. I try to make sure that I can do the following:
Restore all of my data to my device without a pc
Restore All my data to another device
Access most of my Outlook data without the device
Without going into detail I in addition to active sync use a piece of software called Jeyo Mobile Companion. It allows separate backing up of my :
Contacts
SMS
Call Logs
I also use Sprite Backup to do a full backup of the device to the removable memory card. This allows for hard resets "in the field". Backups are done each night. These backups are stored as self extracting so you dont need the software installed to restore the data.
I have found that some tools allow automatic migration to new devices. I have not had this work very well yet. So if I try such a method, if it fails I have the option to manually restore all the bits that I need.

[Q] Autostart Phone7 app after power on

I am thinking of using a phone 7.5 (htc mozart) as a (kind of very stylish ) video door bell / code lock at my home-door. Yust want to fix it behind some alu-cover and mount it on the door. Connection to my Home-Server and a a tablet for video by wlan, the door-lock is opened by a relays powered by a arduino microcontroller.
Can anyone think of a way to start the app on power-on (without lock screen or having to tap the app)? I dont want to manually restart the app after every Power-Outage... Do i need some kind of unlock (which one)?

It would definitley be possible with full-unlock (custom ROM). Root-unlock may be sufficient as well, as that gives the ability to access the filesystem and add Startup entries.

[SOURCE] RootTracker

Root Tracker is source code for a super-simple Android 2.2+ device tracking system that responds to SMS messages with embedded control passwords.
Root Tracker is designed to be installed on a rooted device in /system/app, so it can survive a hard reset. Root Tracker has no user interface, all the better for hiding it from a thief. The code must be customized for the particular user and device, as passwords and other configuration items are hard coded, and each user should change the package name and other details to make it sound like a system package, in order to even better hide the package from a thief. Don't use the current values in the source, as a smart thief (there aren't many, I expect, but there may be some). Plus, I expect that different users will have different requirements.
After customizing and installing, go to your system Settings and set Root Tracker's device admin class as a Device Administrator.
Actions available:
gps
wipe
lock (locks screen [if set as Device Administrator; otherwise, sets screen timeout to a very short value to make device very hard to use], turns off adb, disables NoLock)
unlock
root shell command (output returned via SMS).
I wrote Root Tracker because I was uncomfortable about having my phone tracked and potentially wiped by a closed source app, like the various anti-theft trackers currently available. A crucial design principle was to make RT simple enough that one can easily verify from the source code what exactly it is doing.
The passwords are plain text in the apk. You can replace this with hashing if you like, but I didn't bother.
Also, instead of invoking the Android system's data wiping, which is known to be of problematic quality on some devices, it uses dd to overwrite the data partition, which may be more reliable (but of course, you have to ensure RT is installed in /system/app). Moreover, this means that the wipe works even if the thief is clever enough to go to the device settings and revoke Root Tracker's device administrator status. I don't know how well this works. This is a feature I did not test since I don't want to deal with restoring a backup. I worry that wiping the data partition will cause a reboot at some point. (Still, I have deleted the contents of /data before, and restored them via tar, and the device did not reboot while deleting.)
The gps command responds instantly with last cached GPS and Network location, then turns on GPS (even if disabled) and Network location (this one may show a dialog, so I recommend keeping Network location on in your Settings, or else disabling the Network location code). Then it waits for a GPS fix. If while waiting for a GPS fix, it gets a new Network location value, it sends that, but keeps on waiting for a GPS fix. If it gets a GPS fix before getting a Network fix, it quits looking for the Network fix (you can change that in the source code).
Note: Installing this on a device that isn't yours (unless you're law enforcement with an appropriate warrant) is likely illegal and is certainly not nice. This is designed for one's own use.

Lost your phone? Find/protect it...

heya guys.. I'm gonna tell you that I was a bit worried about losing my phone.. now about the data, about the handset.. infact everyone must be.
What I got out is :
-- There are many apps in play store that provide you info when your phone is lost... but those are BULL****
-- If the thief is a genius like us, he would just turn off the phone, throw sim card and memry card and then just boot into recovery/adb shell to factory reset your phone. In that case, all these apps are useless..
-- So, the BEST way to protect your phone is :: install avast! It is the MOST EFFICIENT APP IF YOUR PHONE IS ROOTED .:fingers-crossed:
It has a feature that The app would install into the ROOT folder as a SYSTEM APP !!!! which couldnt be deleted even if your phone is resetted/new rom is installed.
THE APP ALSO HAS A FEATURE THAT IT WOULDNT ALLOW THE THIEF TO BOOT INTO ROOT/ADB WHEN THE PHONE IS MARKED LOST !!!! :angel::good::good:
It could play a siren, wipe your phone, hard Lock it and more!!!
so keep it !~!
Steps to Track your Android Device using Avast
Now as mentioned above, you should fulfill the above two condition to go with this tutorial. If you don’t have Avast, please first install it.
1. After installing Avast antivirus for your Android device, just go to its dashboard and click on Anti-Theft, to enable your anti-theft in your phone. Avast will now ask you to install its Avast anti-theft module from Google play or through advance installation mode as shown below.
Avast Anti-theft
For this tutorial we have chosen to install Avast update from Google play store. Please do not install this directly in your Android phone or tablet.
Note: Avast will also ask to create an account to give you control from web-interface.
2. Now after installation of Avast anti-theft module i.e Avast update, Avast will setup your anti-theft feature, here you just have to give your name and alternate mobile number and also password.
Avast Anti-theft setup
So now you have installed Avast anti-virus and setup your anti-theft feature in it and now its time for testing. To test the remote control feature of this application, we tried controlling our Android phone from a remote location with the help of web-interface.
Now go to My Avast and go to devices, where your all active devices will be shown.
Avast Devices
Now in device detail you will see lots of option and tabs. Here go to choose command, and you will see lots of commands like command to locate your device, lock, siren on-off, call, launch, messaging etc. Lets test with knowing the position of your lost or stolen phone.
Avast Device commands
Test 1 : Locate
Select command Locate and click on send. Now Avast anti-virus will search for the best option to determine your Android phone location silently. In my case, it switched on my Wi-Fi automatically and then send co-ordinates to the server in a very little time. To get up-to-date location, you can also instruct to get phone location every 5 minutes, 15 min, an hour etc.
Avast locate command
Now to see if your command has been successfully received by phone or not, just browse to command tab and check status, it should be a green check mark as shown above.
To track your Android phone location, click on Locator Map after executing the locate command successfully and there you will see the current location of your Android phone or tablet.
Avast GPS Map
To see your GPS co-ordinates and source of tracking you can go to GPS Coordinates tab.
Test 2 : Set Siren
Now suppose your Android device is stolen and you want to run a siren, so that thieves can get afraid for a while, then go to command and send SIREN ON command. As soon as you give this command, your phone will start ringing with tone “Phone is lost or stolen, Phone is lost or stolen“.
I must tell you that this is very effective command and once executed, it is very difficult to stop the siren even if you have disabled your GPRS, 3G, Wi-Fi etc. Even if stealer will switch off the phone and again switch On, the siren will still ring.
Avast SMS Commands to Control your Android Phones
The method we discuss above were from web-interface and require internet connection, what if you are commuting in bus, metro train or any other public transport and some one stole your expensive Android phone. Then SMS commands come into action and immediately you can lock your phone, Wipe the data, locate, etc. etc. with the help of these handy SMS commands.
These commands work with your password, which you setup during anti-theft configuration above. The syntax of all the commands is very simple. Just type your password and command. Below are some of the very important commands you should know.
In below SMS commands, let say your password is 1122.
I. LOCK Command: This will lock your mobile phone.
Example: 1122 LOCK
II. LOST Command: This marks the phone as LOST.
Example: 1122 LOST
III. SIREN ON : Switch On the Siren on the phone.
Example: 1122 SIREN ON
IV. LOCATE : Will locate your phone and send you the Co-ordinates.
Example: 1122 LOCATE
1122 LOCATE 5 : Will locate the phone continuously.
V. CALL [phone number] : Phone will call the given number automatically
Example: 1122 CALL 9801234XXX
VI. WIPE : Will wipe all your data from phone.
Example: 1122 WIPE
VII. REBOOT : Will reboot your phone.
Example: 1122 REBOOT
Above were some of the very important SMS commands, to get the whole list please see Avast website.
Hope this article will help you in saving your Android phone from loosing and if lost, then it will help you in tracking it.
NOTE:: Guys i was a senior member,, but ive made a new account ,, so plz hit THANKS THANKS THANKS !! PLZZ PLZZ :good::good::good::good:

protection
Google has started service like android device manager and it is live in India now.
you have to go to setting ------>security------->device admin and tick on android device manager and click activate
and go to this site login and u can track ur device
https://accounts.google.com/Service...=https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
you can try this tooo
please press thanks if i helped you

Bro but if sum1 connects it to adb nd wipes it off by addng a new rom,, u r just fckd!! So google is jst useless in that case...
Sent from my Micromax A110 (Canvas 2) using xda app-developers app

I think dat d post could be modified and trimmed...say vat u want to convey to the point.
It will reduce the length..
Well overall nice thread.:thumbup:

Nice post! But what if the thief boots into cwm(if one has installed) and wipes the system partition and again flashes a new ROM and also what if he flashes stock ROM using tools such as SP flash tools, ODIN flasher etc...
Sent from my Micromax A110 using xda app-developers app

Well in dat case it will fail.
But still something is better dan.nothing..
Sent from my Micromax A110 using xda premium

Lost your phone? Find/protect it

heya guys.. I'm gonna tell you that I was a bit worried about losing my phone.. now about the data, about the handset.. infact everyone must be.
What I got out is :
-- There are many apps in play store that provide you info when your phone is lost... but those are BULL****
-- If the thief is a genius like us, he would just turn off the phone, throw sim card and memry card and then just boot into recovery/adb shell to factory reset your phone. In that case, all these apps are useless..
-- So, the BEST way to protect your phone is :: install avast! It is the MOST EFFICIENT APP IF YOUR PHONE IS ROOTED .
It has a feature that The app would install into the ROOT folder as a SYSTEM APP !!!! which couldnt be deleted even if your phone is resetted/new rom is installed. :angel::good::good:
THE APP ALSO HAS A FEATURE THAT IT WOULDNT ALLOW THE THIEF TO BOOT INTO ROOT/ADB WHEN THE PHONE IS MARKED LOST !!!!
:good::good:
It could play a siren, wipe your phone, hard Lock it and more!!!:good::good:
so keep it !~!
Steps to Track your Android Device using Avast
Now as mentioned above, you should fulfill the above two condition to go with this tutorial. If you don’t have Avast, please first install it.
1. After installing Avast antivirus for your Android device, just go to its dashboard and click on Anti-Theft, to enable your anti-theft in your phone. Avast will now ask you to install its Avast anti-theft module from Google play or through advance installation mode as shown below.
Avast Anti-theft
For this tutorial we have chosen to install Avast update from Google play store. Please do not install this directly in your Android phone or tablet.
Note: Avast will also ask to create an account to give you control from web-interface.
2. Now after installation of Avast anti-theft module i.e Avast update, Avast will setup your anti-theft feature, here you just have to give your name and alternate mobile number and also password.
Avast Anti-theft setup
So now you have installed Avast anti-virus and setup your anti-theft feature in it and now its time for testing. To test the remote control feature of this application, we tried controlling our Android phone from a remote location with the help of web-interface.
Now go to My Avast and go to devices, where your all active devices will be shown.
Avast Devices
Now in device detail you will see lots of option and tabs. Here go to choose command, and you will see lots of commands like command to locate your device, lock, siren on-off, call, launch, messaging etc. Lets test with knowing the position of your lost or stolen phone.
Avast Device commands
Test 1 : Locate
Select command Locate and click on send. Now Avast anti-virus will search for the best option to determine your Android phone location silently. In my case, it switched on my Wi-Fi automatically and then send co-ordinates to the server in a very little time. To get up-to-date location, you can also instruct to get phone location every 5 minutes, 15 min, an hour etc.
Avast locate command
Now to see if your command has been successfully received by phone or not, just browse to command tab and check status, it should be a green check mark as shown above.
To track your Android phone location, click on Locator Map after executing the locate command successfully and there you will see the current location of your Android phone or tablet.
Avast GPS Map
To see your GPS co-ordinates and source of tracking you can go to GPS Coordinates tab.
Test 2 : Set Siren
Now suppose your Android device is stolen and you want to run a siren, so that thieves can get afraid for a while, then go to command and send SIREN ON command. As soon as you give this command, your phone will start ringing with tone “Phone is lost or stolen, Phone is lost or stolen“.
I must tell you that this is very effective command and once executed, it is very difficult to stop the siren even if you have disabled your GPRS, 3G, Wi-Fi etc. Even if stealer will switch off the phone and again switch On, the siren will still ring.
Avast SMS Commands to Control your Android Phones
The method we discuss above were from web-interface and require internet connection, what if you are commuting in bus, metro train or any other public transport and some one stole your expensive Android phone. Then SMS commands come into action and immediately you can lock your phone, Wipe the data, locate, etc. etc. with the help of these handy SMS commands.
These commands work with your password, which you setup during anti-theft configuration above. The syntax of all the commands is very simple. Just type your password and command. Below are some of the very important commands you should know.
In below SMS commands, let say your password is 1122.
I. LOCK Command: This will lock your mobile phone.
Example: 1122 LOCK
II. LOST Command: This marks the phone as LOST.
Example: 1122 LOST
III. SIREN ON : Switch On the Siren on the phone.
Example: 1122 SIREN ON
IV. LOCATE : Will locate your phone and send you the Co-ordinates.
Example: 1122 LOCATE
1122 LOCATE 5 : Will locate the phone continuously.
V. CALL [phone number] : Phone will call the given number automatically
Example: 1122 CALL 9801234XXX
VI. WIPE : Will wipe all your data from phone.
Example: 1122 WIPE
VII. REBOOT : Will reboot your phone.
Example: 1122 REBOOT
Above were some of the very important SMS commands, to get the whole list please see Avast website.
Hope this article will help you in saving your Android phone from loosing and if lost, then it will help you in tracking it.
NOTE:: Guys i was a senior member,, but ive made a new account ,, so plz hit THANKS THANKS THANKS !! PLZZ PLZZ :good::good::good::good: