Hi everybody, after that my first N5 have been stolen I want to protect my new one. I have paid for Where's my droid pro, and tried theftie but the problem is that I don't keep localisation services on for battery reason. I know I can activate data,gps,wifi with theftie but to what I know I cant activate localisation services remotly with these app and it have to be on to use gps right?
So please help me to find a solution to this problem! Is it possible?
Thank you!
try googles device manager app. itll still show location, but not exact location with your gps off. plus you can ring your phone anywhere, wipe your phone from anywhere, and put a message to have the person who finds it call you.
simms22 said:
try googles device manager app. itll still show location, but not exact location with your gps off. plus you can ring your phone anywhere, wipe your phone from anywhere, and put a message to have the person who finds it call you.
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I know but I would like to be able to turn on localisations services remotly.
I can do it for data,gps,wifi with sms but not for localisastion services.
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Greetings -Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but here it goes anyway...
I installed the AndroidLost APPS onmy Samsung Fascinate...All went well and I'm able to signon to their website...
However not getting any results when clicking the GPS tab to get the phone's location sent to my e-mail account...
I don't have GPS active on my device(have not yet downloaded the apps for that with the vendor)...
Do I need to have GPS active in order to get the location?...I know it sounds like a silly question, but I was under the
impression that I would be able to get the location via the network & GPS would not be required...Any assitance would
be greatly appreciated...Thank you...
From the original website:
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Find the location of your phone on a map. With AndroidLost you can find your phone with GPS precision. Even if the phone is indoor you will get a nearby location by network accuracy.
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It does not talk about other network, I suggest you to try other apps like avast (you install it and it ask about the anti theft, after that you can uninstall the antivirus keeping the antitheft, it's free and if you're rooted it can resist to hard reset) or prey (free, open source). Avast can send you an hidden sms with the position of your phone and so do prey. I've also heard about wavesecure and cerberus a lot..
BTW you can determine the position of your phone with 3 things:
-WIFI (must be on an connected to a net, it can be turned on by some application)
-GPS (must be on manually, I think this one can't be turned on by apps)
-you phone network (avast can turn on data connection)
I suggest you to try these different solution to find the best working one for you
hi guys please help me I have nexus 5 and android 4.4.2 official I'm from Iraq and I can't access google now this is a picture from my device.
It says you have no location services. Did you freeze location services? Do location services work?
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It says you have no location services. Did you freeze location services? Do location services work?
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no i didn't freezed any thing this picture from my phone after installing new rom
Maybe location is broken on this rom? Which rom is it ? Try to use google maps or something like that to check location ?
Just turn on Location Services, as it's needed for Google Now (as it says on screen)
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Just turn on Location Services, as it's needed for Google Now (as it says on screen)
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Nope. Google now does not need location services running. It doesn't know your location tho, so asking the time or weather....you sometimes need to specify where, like, what's the weather tomorrow in new york city. Or what time is it in wherever. And saying navigate to wherever wont work, since the phone wont know where you are. I just toggle location on to do that. Then off after again.
Otherwise location can be totally off and Google now should still work.
So it may be a rom issue he has....or a corruption with Google now.
Try clearing data and cache for Google now, location services, and Google framework. Only idea I have.
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but i have two devices having this problem the rom is clean and works good
Ok, so my phone was recently stolen. It's a Redmi 1S. Location settings are off but has internet connection. Whatsapp is still active on the phone as well as the google account.
I'm able to access some features like remote lock through Android Device Manager.
I find it strange that the phone has not been resetted and the account removed yet, but I was able to lock the phone.
I was able to remotely lock the phone using ADM and I also had the idea of using the browser play store to install an app whenever it connects to the internet.
But, the location settings are off so I am unable to locate it.. is there any way to enable the setting remotely? If I am able to remote lock should there not be a way to turn on GPS remotely?
Is there any app that would turn on GPS as soon as it is installed? That might help...
Looking forward to a few quick and helpful answers..
I have a rooted android device and have tried some fake location apps (non-root and root required). They work for Google Maps, it shows the location i choose. But for the other apps like connected2me and Tinder they don't work.
I tried to make the location setting as "device only" etc. but still don't work.
I started to think why it doesn't work and maybe it s because of this:
imgur.com/a/o66Jk
It says "Your device will need to use Wi-Fi and cell networks". As I understand, even though I choose a fake location, these kind of apps get the information from wifi provider, and that's the reason why it doesn't work.
Am I right?
Is there a way to solve this problem?
Edit: I just noticed something else. Unlike Tinder, connected2me doesn't want to use wifi and cell networks to find location. But it also doesn't show up in the location settings under "recent location requests" unlike the other apps. How does this app know my location without accessing my location lol
+1 i would like to find a trick. Normally when you are rooted you can do whatever you like with your phone even spoofing data to every app. So i'm sure there is a trick to do it. Anyway your post gives some nice clues to find the trick. I hope someone will share it here.
Hi,
We have a family member that is "demntia", he starts to forget and has started to find his way home. He always brings his phone(Galaxy S3). Is there an app that we can install and see his(phones) location if he is not home at a usual time?
The app only need to display his location, when we activate it. Preferably a web service we can log into.
I've found some apps, but the will let you lock the phone, take pictures, bring out an alarm etc, we don't need that.
We also prefer that the app is somehow hided when we activate the tracking, so it wount annoy him. It doesn't need to be superhided, just so that an eldery man who only use the phone to call/sms woun't notice the app.
Any suggestions?