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  Re: "Find-My-Droid" type apps -- remote install and setup? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-06-27 19:01 +0000
    Re: "Find-My-Droid" type apps -- remote install and setup? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-06-27 19:04 +0000
    Re: "Find-My-Droid" type apps -- remote install and setup? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-06-27 21:49 +0200
      Re: "Find-My-Droid" type apps -- remote install and setup? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-06-28 12:33 +0000
        Re: "Find-My-Droid" type apps -- remote install and setup? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-06-28 15:07 +0200
          Re: "Find-My-Droid" type apps -- remote install and setup? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-06-29 21:18 +0200

#20536 — Re: "Find-My-Droid" type apps -- remote install and setup?

TomR <TomR@tomrljp5.lhd> wrote:
[...]
> Although this is really for someone else who lost her phone and wants to 
> locate it,

  *Why* does she want to locate her phone? To recover (get back) the
phone or to make sure that her data is erased?

  If the former, then - as others have said - she might want to rethink
things, unless law enforcement will be doing the recovering.

  If the latter, then that's possible on many phones, see Google's
'Android Device Manager' in the settings of her Google account.

[...]

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#20537

A little earlier I wrote:
> TomR <TomR@tomrljp5.lhd> wrote:
> [...]
> > Although this is really for someone else who lost her phone and wants to 
> > locate it,
> 
>   *Why* does she want to locate her phone? To recover (get back) the
> phone or to make sure that her data is erased?
> 
>   If the former, then - as others have said - she might want to rethink
> things, unless law enforcement will be doing the recovering.

  Sorry, I assumed stolen, not lost, but in practice that's probably a
very fine line.

>   If the latter, then that's possible on many phones, see Google's
> 'Android Device Manager' in the settings of her Google account.
> 
> [...]

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#20540

On 27 Jun 2015 19:01:47 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

>   If the latter, then that's possible on many phones, see Google's
> 'Android Device Manager' in the settings of her Google account.

I did not know that, so I just checked and this is what I got:

| Online
| 
| Your device's location access is turned off.
| 
| 
| Last online June 27, 2015

Tried 'Ring', but that didn't work either. :-?

Although location access is turned off it will still work under Prey,
because I gave it the necessary permissions when I installed it.

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s|b

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#20550

s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2015 19:01:47 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> 
> >   If the latter, then that's possible on many phones, see Google's
> > 'Android Device Manager' in the settings of her Google account.
> 
> I did not know that, so I just checked and this is what I got:
> 
> | Online
> | 
> | Your device's location access is turned off.
> | 
> | 
> | Last online June 27, 2015
> 
> Tried 'Ring', but that didn't work either. :-?

  Did the device have an active *data* network connection when you tried
'Ring'?

  It says 'Ring', which mmight be interpreted as a *phone* (i.e. talk)
ring, but it uses a *data* connection and uses the ring *tone*. It works
this way, because 1) the device might have no phone capability and 2)
they don't/shouldn't know which number to ring.

> Although location access is turned off it will still work under Prey,
> because I gave it the necessary permissions when I installed it.

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#20553

On 28 Jun 2015 12:33:24 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

> > Tried 'Ring', but that didn't work either. :-?
 
>   Did the device have an active *data* network connection when you tried
> 'Ring'?

It was connected through WiFi.

(By data network you mean "mobiele gegevens" or "mobiel netwerk", don't
you?)

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s|b

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#20566

On 29 Jun 2015 17:44:39 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

> > >   Did the device have an active *data* network connection when you tried
> > > 'Ring'?

> > It was connected through WiFi.
> > 
> > (By data network you mean "mobiele gegevens" or "mobiel netwerk", don't
> > you?)

>   No, I mean a data - not voice - network connection, i.e. WiFi or/and
> 'mobile data' ('mobiele gegevens').

Phone was connected through WiFi and no response when I tried 'Ring'.
Doesn't really matter since I have Prey and Find My Mobile. They both
work as advertised.

-- 
s|b

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