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[Q] Sgs2 stolen

My sgs2 got stolen today. Sad day..
Is their any way to track that phone down? Localize it or something?
Rooted + cyanogenmod9
Still have the original ticket(invoice)
Reward?

This may not work since you have a non-official ROM on your phone...
http://www.samsungdive.com
If it doesn't work then I'd recommend reporting the phone as stolen so you can claim a new one on insurance.

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Use "Plan B" its a free app that installs remotely on your phone by signing in into your google play account. Good luck, let us know how everything works out

Yes. Plan b.
Install from your computerat play.google.com. Log in and push app to your phone. It sends you emails of where your phone is.
I want to see how this pans out.

i have used "plan b" b4 and it works like a charm if you still have some juice or if the thief hadn't reset it yet give it ago and track the bugger and be sure to smash the guys head in and nick your phone back and also take his
hope you find it

How about using Samsung push?
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I tried Plan B, just out of curiosity, and found that it installed but did not run. You can't make an app that automatically runs when it's installed. That would be a massive security violation. I don't even know if it can be installed as a service so that it runs when your phone reboots - I don't think it can.
paintball23456 above is the only person I've ever seen say it works. It certainly didn't for me.

Archer said:
I tried Plan B, just out of curiosity, and found that it installed but did not run. You can't make an app that automatically runs when it's installed. That would be a massive security violation. I don't even know if it can be installed as a service so that it runs when your phone reboots - I don't think it can.
paintball23456 above is the only person I've ever seen say it works. It certainly didn't for me.
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no lies my sgs got stolen and this was recommended from a friend and if you install any android apps from the web they take way to long to install
if you have insurance claim it

Archer said:
I tried Plan B, just out of curiosity, and found that it installed but did not run. You can't make an app that automatically runs when it's installed. That would be a massive security violation. I don't even know if it can be installed as a service so that it runs when your phone reboots - I don't think it can.
paintball23456 above is the only person I've ever seen say it works. It certainly didn't for me.
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It worked for me.
Somewhere is a thread about it. I was just testing it while it was in my living room. I went into my office and pushed it to the phone. It installed and ran. Then sent me emails to my gmail address with the location of the phone.

Goodbye Nexus S

I just lost my Nexus S, it fell somewhere when i put it in my short's pocket
I want to say goodbye to NS developers and community with awesome supports, NS is an old device but still the best single core phone IMO.
And i need to know that is there anyway to access to my phone if i had locked my phone with pattern password?

Well, if they know anything about a rooted phone they could go into recovery, wipe, and flash again. Then they would have access to your SD card and a new phone. You didn't have any kind of app to remote wipe it?

I'm sure there's A way to access your phone, but I doubt it's of much concern.
If you used 2 step verification, you can go into your security settings from your Google account and revoke the application password for your phone. How useful that is depends on how reliant you were on Google though.
There are also "Plan B" apps that can help with locking down your phone I think, although they generally just help locate it.

climhz said:
I just lost my Nexus S, it fell somewhere when i put it in my short's pocket
I want to say goodbye to NS developers and community with awesome supports, NS is an old device but still the best single core phone IMO.
And i need to know that is there anyway to access to my phone if i had locked my phone with pattern password?
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I am not sure about hacks to access your data, but they could wipe it and start fresh if they know how to get into the boot loader. They could possibly recover your SD contents after the wipe as well.
Would you not get another Nexus S 4G? They are very cheap and easy to find on Craigslist, at least in my city.

if they have to full wipe before access to my phone then it's ok, thank u all for replying

You should have had Cerberus, would look it up if I were you
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Try androidlost I believe you can install it from your computer and than do anything you want. I hope it works as I am not sure you have to set it as administrator
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Login to play.Google.com and search for Plan B made by Lookout. Install it then you just text your phone find from any other phone and it will email you the location. I've used the app a couple times and it worked great.
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I need tetheringmanager.apk please!

I bought my wife a Nexus 7 knowing it was a wifi only device. She wants to use her phone as a mobile hotspot. Come to find out I have to pay an extra $20 per month for the 5GB plan in order to get the mobile hotspot. BS! I saw that I could freeze tetheringmanager.apk and that would unlock the grayed out tethering option on the phone. TB unpaid version doesnt allow freeaing so I just decided to delete it. Only problem is.....now when I try to turn on the mobile hotspot on her phone the phone freezes and I have to reboot it. I know I can use foxfi, but that just keeps saying obtaining IP address and never really connects, even with pdanet tablet installed and running on the N7. Can someone please pull the tetheringmanager.apk from their phone and post it here so I can fix it the correct way, maybe, if it actually works. Doubt it will cause nothing comes easy! Please and thank you!

First off, you should really have the TB Property version. Just buy it, it's not very expensive. Next, whether or not freezing the APK will work depends on your version of Android. If you're on 2.3.5, it'll work. If you're on 4.0+ then it won't. For ICS/JB there is a slightly more complicated procedure (which you can find by searching the threads) or you can just flash a ROM with Secure Tethering already enabled (this is what I recommend).
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I bought my wife a Nexus 7 knowing it was a wifi only device. She wants to use her phone as a mobile hotspot. Come to find out I have to pay an extra $20 per month for the 5GB plan in order to get the mobile hotspot. BS! I saw that I could freeze tetheringmanager.apk and that would unlock the grayed out tethering option on the phone. TB unpaid version doesnt allow freeaing so I just decided to delete it. Only problem is.....now when I try to turn on the mobile hotspot on her phone the phone freezes and I have to reboot it. I know I can use foxfi, but that just keeps saying obtaining IP address and never really connects, even with pdanet tablet installed and running on the N7. Can someone please pull the tetheringmanager.apk from their phone and post it here so I can fix it the correct way, maybe, if it actually works. Doubt it will cause nothing comes easy! Please and thank you!
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TetheringManager.apk is attached.

aycockonxion said:
First off, you should really have the TB Property version. Just buy it, it's not very expensive. Next, whether or not freezing the APK will work depends on your version of Android. If you're on 2.3.5, it'll work. If you're on 4.0+ then it won't. For ICS/JB there is a slightly more complicated procedure (which you can find by searching the threads) or you can just flash a ROM with Secure Tethering already enabled (this is what I recommend).
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Thanks for the info, I have searched the web for endless hours looking for ways to do this. The method I am trying to use is the most common and most recommended. My wife wont let me ROM her phone, took me forever to get her to let me root it. My phone has the tethering ability and I love it!

Lost Phone

OK so my husband lost his phone and doesn't have findmydroid installed - any way to ping it's location to see perhaps if it is even a pipe dream to recover it?

Report the serial # to Verizon.... They should be able to at least find it if someone else tries to use it.

Hindsight is a B, but next time download "AndroidLost".
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1ManWolfePack said:
Hindsight is a B, but next time download "AndroidLost".
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Quoted from the Android Lost website
No pre installation required
You didn't install AndroidLost on your phone? No problem! You can push the AndroidLost app to your phone from google market and initiate the connection to googles servers by sending an SMS with the message "androidlost register" to your phone.
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I tried that with my gf's phone. The "new user" had already disconnected service so it was a no go.
Might as well try it, OP. I would do it asap.
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Try Plan B from the marketplace. Using the web install option and hoping the phone is still on, you may be able to ping your phone and see where it is. It'll report the phone's location (if it can) to your Gmail after being installed remotely from the Play Store. The app is from the same people who make Lookout, a great app to install on your phone before you loose it so you can find it.
And if you find the phone you can call Verizon back and ask to have the phone marked as found and reactivate the IMEI. You can also ask them to reactivate the IMEI (if you've had it deactivated already) so you can install Plan B and try to locate the phone. I went through this exact issue with my dad loosing his Droid X. We didn't find it but we were able to reactivate its disabled IMEI for the purpose of trying one last time to find it, before marking as lost for good. Since the Galaxy S III uses a sim I'm not sure if IMEI deactivation is possible, but either way, good luck!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb

I know this is a bit off topic of the thread, I just installed Locate my Droid on my SIII but I have a Tab 2 wifi model that is of course equipped with GPS. Anyone know a solution for the Tab 2 that would have similar functions - Locate my Droid says it is incompatible with the Tab 2. I know it is wifi only so it would have to actually be online, but something is better than nothing.

Stolen Nexus 5

Just got my Phone jacked I have full protection on it from T-Mobile which comes with Lookout Premium, but for some reason even tho I had it installed, I can't access it on Google Maps, from the Lookout website. It's not showing the location, not allowing me to issue commands, anything. So I think I am basically screwed. I didn't have a password on it. Tho some of my files are Encrypted. And I had just cleaned out my Call log and SMS log, so that's a plus.
So does Anyone know of anyway to get this Lookout "Find My Droid" feature working? Or am I just gonna have to suck it up and go pay the deductible to get myself my nexus back before i go through SNWS (sudden Nexus Withdrawal Symptoms)

Silicon Knight said:
Just got my Phone jacked I have full protection on it from T-Mobile which comes with Lookout Premium, but for some reason even tho I had it installed, I can't access it on Google Maps, from the Lookout website. It's not showing the location, not allowing me to issue commands, anything. So I think I am basically screwed. I didn't have a password on it. Tho some of my files are Encrypted. And I had just cleaned out my Call log and SMS log, so that's a plus.
So does Anyone know of anyway to get this Lookout "Find My Droid" feature working? Or am I just gonna have to suck it up and go pay the deductible to get myself my nexus back before i go through SNWS (sudden Nexus Withdrawal Symptoms)
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Whats the point of security software without the first line of defense a password!

Look up the android device manager app on Google play.
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Dragn4rce said:
Look up the android device manager app on Google play.
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Visit https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager?u=0 while logged into your Google Account, if you see the location, don't go try retrieve yourself, contact the police for help.
Good luck!

Silicon Knight said:
Just got my Phone jacked I have full protection on it from T-Mobile which comes with Lookout Premium, but for some reason even tho I had it installed, I can't access it on Google Maps, from the Lookout website. It's not showing the location, not allowing me to issue commands, anything. So I think I am basically screwed. I didn't have a password on it. Tho some of my files are Encrypted. And I had just cleaned out my Call log and SMS log, so that's a plus.
So does Anyone know of anyway to get this Lookout "Find My Droid" feature working? Or am I just gonna have to suck it up and go pay the deductible to get myself my nexus back before i go through SNWS (sudden Nexus Withdrawal Symptoms)
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I just tried to Find My Device from LookOut's webpage. Surprisingly, even though my phone was right next to me, connected to WIFI and LTE, it kept saying locating. I then opened the LookOut app and BAM, my phone was found right then and there. For some reason, it seems that LookOut, even with the "Better Missing Device" option checked in under Device Administrators, closes itself and cannot work properly. I just have the regular free version though.
A suggestion for you though @Silicon Knight would be to log into the LookOut website, then to check previous locations. That should leave a pretty good trail up till the last point. I am also assuming that since you don't have a lock, you won't be able to benefit from receiving a picture when the password is entered wrong a few times.
As @Dragn4rce mentioned, login to Android Device Manager and try to locate your phone that way hoping that your phone hasn't already been wiped. Here are two links I'd suggest you try to report your stolen device at :
https://www.fcc.gov/guides/stolen-and-lost-wireless-devices
http://imeidetective.com/

Use android device manager.
https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager

i always install avast anti-theft it's one of the best anti-theft apps it has format protection you can sms command and it locates with gps it doesnt need wifi or 3g to work all other apps needs internet to work.

If you didn't have a password they probably have powered it off already and you are out of luck. They will probably wipe the device and your data and it will get shipped across seas for sale.

u wiped mssges and call log just before the theft? and few files were encrypted. Sounds too fishy to me!

jags_the1 said:
u wiped mssges and call log just before the theft? and few files were encrypted. Sounds too fishy to me!
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Why would that be fishy?

adio01 said:
If you didn't have a password they probably have powered it off already and you are out of luck. They will probably wipe the device and your data and it will get shipped across seas for sale.
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or eBay,

I use cerberus on my nexus, I think you need root but I may be wrong, it has loads of options on it such as:
Remote wipe via text, text your phone to enable 3g, take pictures of failed unlocks and it even hides the app so someone can't delete it.
Its similar to lookout but I like it better and it works well.
If you manage to get your phone back it may be worth looking into it, fingers crossed you do get it back :fingers-crossed:

how did they steal it??

The OP hasn't said a single thing since the 26th wth?
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Tango down - NSA
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i'm sorry about that
it happened to me too
we re not alone in this world
keep cool

I haven't said anything cause, A.) I usually post on here via my Smartphone. B.) It's the holidays and am staying at my parents until the 2nd, so I keep getting roped into lil family outings lol And I lost the phone at the bank the other day, I had my cousins dog with me, was trying to keep him in check (he's a pitbull pup and very rambunctious, i don't know why i thought that would be a good idea to bring him to the bank) and I set the phone down to fill out a deposit slip and left it there like a fool. I've never lost or had a phone stolen in my life. But I guess it happens to everyone at least once...or at least most people.
I am going down to get a new Nexus 5 tomorrow. Filed a Police Report, did all that I could. In the end someone got a mint condition nexus 5, for the 5 finger discount price of FREE !
and yea, why would it be fishy that I wipe my SMS and Call Logs lol I flash lots of custom roms and I don't ever back SMS/Call Logs, never had a need to, so they get wiped every time i switch to something new, or if I restore a nandroid, then I have old messages and call logs so I wipe them myself.
Anyways, thanks for the advice peeps. Cerberus sounds like the way to go. Lookout is pretty similar but the ability to hide the app itself so it cannot be removed except by the owner, is pretty damn cool, and wins my vote.

Please ignore this post. Replied from phone and didn't emerge last part of thread.
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Don't feel bad. I've done FAR worse. I lost my phone at a strip club before. It was in my pocket and I'm guessing the stripper popped it out when she was grinding on my pants. I tracked it, and it showed that it was still in the strip club, so I went back to look inside for it, but I couldn't find it. I'm guessing someone "found" it.
I leave my phone in the car now.

nerv8765 said:
Don't feel bad. I've done FAR worse. I lost my phone at a strip club before. It was in my pocket and I'm guessing the stripper popped it out when she was grinding on my pants. I tracked it, and it showed that it was still in the strip club, so I went back to look inside for it, but I couldn't find it. I'm guessing someone "found" it.
I leave my phone in the car now.
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haha, that's funny, that sucks of course, but yea, you know what i mean lol
This is the first Time I've ever lost a phone or had one stolen. I lost my pager once when i was like 14 my mom got me one. I wanted a cellphone but they were hella expensive back then. That's back when my mom was on Voicestream lol The prices they charged for cell service in the 90's made Verizon look like its cheaper then foodstamps haha So she got me a pager from a company (think they may still be around) called "Cook Paging" I had it for like 2 weeks, and somehow on the way home from my GF's house (who was like the only one who ever paged me, besides my mom lol) I lost it.