Hello, I really hope someone here can help me out. My girlfriend has a GS3, and when she sends text messages to certain people, it will give her location automatically via text message. I have never seen it from my end when I text her, but just now I got this after I sent her a text message: "Attention word received, Getting location. Please wait up to 5 minutes for a response." and then a few moments later I received, " GPS location failed, Network-based location: Accuracy 30 Meters..." and then gave her full location; Latitude, longitude, speed, and bearing and then gave a google maps link to her location and the address of where she is. She has asked me to help get her to turn it off before, and I've tried to research it but have not been able to find anything. Please help!
Tyler0903 said:
Hello, I really hope someone here can help me out. My girlfriend has a GS3, and when she sends text messages to certain people, it will give her location automatically via text message. I have never seen it from my end when I text her, but just now I got this after I sent her a text message: "Attention word received, Getting location. Please wait up to 5 minutes for a response." and then a few moments later I received, " GPS location failed, Network-based location: Accuracy 30 Meters..." and then gave her full location; Latitude, longitude, speed, and bearing and then gave a google maps link to her location and the address of where she is. She has asked me to help get her to turn it off before, and I've tried to research it but have not been able to find anything. Please help!
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That sounds disconcerting. Have you started with checking her installed apps to see if this is caused by an app? Is she the primary account holder for her S3? If not, is it possible a parent enabled this feature as part of the plan?
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That sounds disconcerting. Have you started with checking her installed apps to see if this is caused by an app? Is she the primary account holder for her S3? If not, is it possible a parent enabled this feature as part of the plan?
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I just went through her apps and I did not see anything that may be giving away her location. I told her to go through and uninstall any apps she's not using, because I know she has a lot, so maybe she'll get rid of it then. And yes, she is the primary account holder, I was with her when she got the phone.
Either of you using the Where's My Droid app? Sounds like your triggering an attention word. Google "attention word received" and see if that helps you.
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Are you using stock message or Hangouts or third party?
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Anyone know of a security app.. you know the type you can send a message to to lock the phone, delete data, or send back a msg with gps location.
The killer is ... i need one that can enable the gps ... last time i looked i couldnt find one.. I am rooted so that is not an issue.. but normally my gps is off so need one that can enable it.
thanks in advance/
Try Mobile Defense. As long as you install it as a root app it will allow it to enable gps
WaveSecure is the best one around. Can access your phone online. U can lock it, back it up, track it through the gps, and even do a full wipe to ur phone all through the web.
+1 for mobile defense
I just recently intalled mobile defense and so far I really like it. With it, you can enable GPS (if rooted) to track it, send a message to the phone, lock the phone, and view details about the phone like remaining battery and wifi/data status. When sending a message you have the added option of a loud siren going off to make sure they get the message and requiring a PIN to turn off the siren if you want. Also, if some one removes your sim card and inserts their own you still have control of the phone. It also will tell you the details of the new sim card like their phone number and carrier via email.
If you intall MD as a system app it makes it unable to be uninstalled via the phones uninstaller programs and will not show up in the programs list. This can be done very easily because just today hah2110 released a zip that can be flashed with your custom recovery. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=689350
Wave secure is the only other full feature option that I know of, with the added benifit of being able to backup, restore, and wipe your data remotely. But, this comes at a $20/year subscription. I haven't tried WS personally but I hear good things about it.
dont seem to like either.. why do i need to goto their website to track a phone.. if i pay i just want to be able to get a txt message that shows location on google maps.
using wheres my droid for now in conjuntion with smartprofile which lets me send a message to turn on a profile which has gps enabled.
lgkahn said:
why do i need to goto their website to track a phone.. if i pay i just want to be able to get a txt message that shows location on google maps.
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Please read the manual (ehrm, the FAQ )
https://www.wavesecure.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=41
Can I send an SMS to lock my phone?
Yes, you can control your phone remotely via text messages.
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Haven't yet had a chance to try it, but have sent a few emails back and forth with them, where they answered some technical questions.
Anyone else experiencing their text threads being out of order? For instance, i can send a text that shows that it was sent at the right time, however if someone texts me, the time is a couple of minutes off. Thus, throwing the chronological order off.
If im reading and thinking of ur problem rite it may be the same as mine was. When i first send text sometimes it would fail and wouldnt resend till i reopen text. So it would have wrong time at least i thought it did.
chvybeatsford said:
If im reading and thinking of ur problem rite it may be the same as mine was. When i first send text sometimes it would fail and wouldnt resend till i reopen text. So it would have wrong time at least i thought it did.
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No, my texts don't fail. When I send them, they show the same time as my clock. However, if someone sends me a text, it shows they sent it about a minute or two ahead of my actual time.
I'll try to give an example: 6:45PM- actual times that these text are sent.
Me (6:45PM)- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Me (6:45PM)- ccccccccccccccccccc
Someone Else (6:46PM)- bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
See, how it places the incoming texts at 6:46, even though it is really 6:45 still, throws the order off on my reply. It makes it seems like both of my texts were sent before I even received a response.
Very frustrating......
Are you having this problem in the stock messaging app? I noticed it every once in a while, but haven't had the problem yet with Handcent.
If you're using the stock app, try downloading Handcent or ChompSMS or something, and see if it goes away
i have this same issue, its made me switch to handcent because the problem hasnt occured using that. Plus it lets me have vibrate functionality ONLY in the vibrate setting and retain only audio notification in a sound profile
60HertzJig said:
Are you having this problem in the stock messaging app? I noticed it every once in a while, but haven't had the problem yet with Handcent.
If you're using the stock app, try downloading Handcent or ChompSMS or something, and see if it goes away
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Yeah, I'm using the stock messaging app. I'll try Handcent, apparently a lot of people like it. I'll update ASAP
i'm still using my fuze and i have the same problem. i wonder if it has something to do with the time on att , the other persons phone and/or other carriers servers
Handcent all the way! It corrects the out-of-order issue and is way more customizable, including assigning ringtones for each contact. Just remember to turn off the notifications on the stock messaging app, otherwise you'll receive double notifications on each message received.
Im having the same problem on my Captivate...But my N1 gets it right. Im getting replys before I even send a text...according to the time stamps.
Sorry to report that, although ive only experienced it once, i have seen the same problem with Handcent SMS
All these little issues on this thing are starting to pile up :/
Intervenient said:
All these little issues on this thing are starting to pile up :/
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But this is true, at least for me, for every device.
soul4rent said:
i'm still using my fuze and i have the same problem. i wonder if it has something to do with the time on att , the other persons phone and/or other carriers servers
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No cuz my iPhone worked just fine...
This problem happens to me if I reply back really quickly... It'll put my text above the one I replied to.
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All these little issues on this thing are starting to pile up :/
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Beauty is there's ways around it (other apps) and we don't have to rely on anyone to fix it.
My wife and I both have Captivates. Her phone has the text messages out of order, while mine does not. Something we noticed is that when we do an auto sync of the date/time, her phone is consistently 4 minutes behind mine. For example, my time will be 6:06, and her phone says 6:02. I believe this is what is causing the text app to "re-arrange" the messages. The text app just looks at the time stamp of the message, and not the actual order of the send/receive process.
I am not sure how to correct this other than manually setting her phone forward by 4 minutes.
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The text app just looks at the time stamp of the message, and not the actual order of the send/receive process.
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This is exactly the problem.
If I get a text at 9:01... And I reply at 9:01... It puts mine as having been sent before the one I received.
just use handcent people.
Yeah, but like I said, Ive reproduced the problem once, even with Handcent. On a side note, does anyone know how or where to get more skins for Handcent?
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just use handcent people.
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That does not solve the root problem... Some phones are getting the wrong time from the network when set to auto-config.
tikicult said:
My wife and I both have Captivates. Her phone has the text messages out of order, while mine does not. Something we noticed is that when we do an auto sync of the date/time, her phone is consistently 4 minutes behind mine. For example, my time will be 6:06, and her phone says 6:02. I believe this is what is causing the text app to "re-arrange" the messages. The text app just looks at the time stamp of the message, and not the actual order of the send/receive process.
I am not sure how to correct this other than manually setting her phone forward by 4 minutes.
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tikicult, somone else reported that their phone was off by 4 minutes. Solved it by getting a new SIM Card.
Guess I'm a new user so I can't post a link to the forum thread, but here is the url:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7280990#post7280990
TexUs said:
This is exactly the problem.
If I get a text at 9:01... And I reply at 9:01... It puts mine as having been sent before the one I received.
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I've been having this problem as well.
I went to the AT&T store today to try and get a new SIM, as per one of the suggestions in this thread. Problem still occurred. Tried it on a fresh straight out of the box Captivate. Problem still occurred. Sales guy threw his SIM from his iPhone in a demo Captivate. Problem still occurred on both Captivates.
Later I tried adjusting the time manually up by a minute or 2. Problem still occurred after a text with a response approx. 20-30 seconds later. Still showed the text coming in at 1:23, and my response which was 30 seconds later as being sent at 1:22.
Seems like a Samsung software issue.
[Q] I received a text message from a single digit number "1"... What the heck?
The message is still in my Samsung Galaxy S2 inbox and contains this:
message size:32kb
expires: 9:04PM, Oct 25
Download
where "Download" is a clickable button and when I click it it changes to "Downloading", then after a few moments it changes back to "Download".
Any idea what it might be?
So you downloaded unknown software from a suspicious number onto your phone because it told you to?
Ummm... Quickly You need to pm me your bank account details and any applicable passwords plus personal identification information. If someone is going to scam you and get all your stuff it should be me, at least im honest about it, plus you have to now cause I asked you to.
Yeah, but nothing happened after, android didn't prompt me to install anything. Is it possible that it installed by itself? And how can such a message arrive to me anyway? Do you think its from an installed app??
My phone is 100% stock and not rooted. What in the heck is this? If its THAT easy to get a security hole, then that makes the market a scary place!
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Yeah, but nothing happened after, android didn't prompt me to install anything. Is it possible that it installed by itself? And how can such a message arrive to me anyway? Do you think its from an installed app??
My phone is 100% stock and not rooted. What in the heck is this? If its THAT easy to get a security hole, then that makes the market a scary place!
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Whats the file name? go to where your phone stores downloads and find out. if nothing is there check running applications. Is anything running that shouldn't have been. can you provide a screenshot of the text message?
I'm shocked that you presses download, not knowing where the message came from. Were you THAT curious?
I hope nothing is going to happen to your device, but in the future, you might want to ask first before pressing anything.
Sorry I couldn't really contribute anything helpful to this thread, but I couldn't resist.
Oops.
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I just received a txt from the number '1' also.
Subject: its time
Message size: 12Kb
I use handcent and it is set to auto retrieve mms. It said downloading for quite some time then I deleted it and blocked the number.
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You're Fine
I think you're fine. I just recieved a similar message from 1. I think it was someone 'replying all' to a mass text because a second later that message from 1 disappeared and was replaced by an actual text. PS, I'm not an expert.
marvinpud said:
I think you're fine. I just recieved a similar message from 1. I think it was someone 'replying all' to a mass text because a second later that message from 1 disappeared and was replaced by an actual text. PS, I'm not an expert.
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You might be right. Turns out my girlfriend sent a mass text and I was on the list. I ended up getting several more that day. None of which would auto download.
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highly avoid
I would highly advise to stay away from and advise you to not download any type of text message that comes to you from an unknown phisher or source.
same issue sorta
see i have been getting texts like this myself it started just yesterday when a friend said he would send me a video of something (mms video) and so i never got it but instead a number listed as 1 had sent a message with no subject it was a download. i asked my friend to send again and it went through to his number instead just fine (hes using an iphone) so i just deleted the conversation with the number 1 and moved on but then my girlfriend sent a video to me and the same thing happened. im curious if its an error having to do wth the sending of video or if its something more concerning. (my girlfriend is on android) the whole thing here is taht they where sending me a video and that i got a message that i could download supposedly a video using the number 1 instead of from the person who said they where sending something(its concerning
Well that was rude. Way to be a ****
I've gotten that text message twice on two different phones and my phone auto magically started downloading? My phone is fine after every time but it's just so weird to me my recent message sent to me and then dissapeared
A few days ago i stopped getting email notifications for my subscribed threads along with new ones I add. I am sure it is set to instant notification and I have not changed any settings, it just stopped. Anyone else have this problem recently? any ideas on how to fix it?
My dad had a similar problem to this one.
Best I can say is double check your settings in your mail app, and then (if you're using android) go into your system settings >> accounts and sync >> mail app of choice (if it's there, I know Gmail is for certain) and be sure that it's checked and then sync your phone again.
In the rare event that the hosting server went down, obviously that would prevent you from getting your messages. There could be network problems somewhere along the way as well, though that's also a rare occurrence.
I am not getting emails from xda at all, on my phone or computer, both to my Gmail. It just seems weird that it stopped all of a sudden.
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i'm having the same issue with xda, i'm not getting notified for any subcribed thread or any private message, though thats what i've set in my settings.. anyone please get back as i really need that to work for so many things everyday..
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i'm having the same issue with xda, i'm not getting notified for any subcribed thread or any private message, though thats what i've set in my settings.. anyone please get back as i really need that to work for so many things everyday..
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for me it turned out that it got marked as spam. I think it was because I got so many in one day.
You woudnt believe it but right after complaining here it started working.
I am facing a similar problem...
Although I did receive email notifs today, for almost all my subscribed threads (its set to weekly)...
However, I am not getting auto-subscribed to new threads that I'm replying to...
This wasn't the case earlier...all my subscribed threads appear in one place in the xda app...but now I need to separately subscribe to each of them...
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Anyone resolve this ? It's just started happening to me
I rooted my phone and my wife's. She's been hiding things and deleting messages and sending off pics of herflself and deleting them. I tried using a recovery app. But is there something that I can install on her phone that's will stay hidden so I can monitor what it is she is up to? Something that will save the text logs and pictures. Or activate her front facing camera. GPS... I want to make sure I have all the evidence I would need to confront her. This happened in the past as well and I didn't have enough proof. She played it off like I was the crazy one.
I've searched but figured some experts would point me in the right direction. Hoping to save my marrage before its too late.
Thanks.
Well for finding old picrures, theres diskdigger app. Uhm... Besides that, idk
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I used dr phone and it took so long and it kept showing all the current pics and not just the deleted ones . wasn't until I used discdigger that I found what I was looking for. but being the free version it didn't search for much. and hard to view everything ion the little screen, and it requires me to have her phone for long periods of time.
I know there has to be something out there I can install once and get the info sent to my phone or pc.
since I only have small windows of time to have her phone(when shes sleeping) I practice on my phone. install what apps I wanty to use and try them so I know what it is im doing when I get the chance.
a keylogger would be a start but I want to know what texts are coming in as well.
I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but recently when my phone broke and I still had to text people; I went to the Verizon wireless website, under 'My Verizon' is a tab called 'Send a message', enter your wife's phone number followed by her account password, and then it should be empty if this is the first time opening this. From here you can send and receive messages. After your initial login, all messages will be stored. It shows deleted as well. Finally, if you do happen to send a text from this online, sent messages will not show on her phone. Beware as she will still receive the incoming texts.
-Hope this helped! Good luck with your searching
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