Steal-prof phone ! - HTC One X

Dose anyone know an app that will steal-prof my HOX ? I was using HTCSense.com with Desire HD but now it's not available anymore . I was thinking about something like send a SMS with a specific password the will lock the phone , display my contact info , turn GPS and Mobile Network/WiFi ON and delete my important data like contacts , photos , SMS , Accounts and the rest !

Avast Mobile allows you to do most of those sort of things by SMS

I use the paid version of Kaspersky. Apart from the anti-stealing features, it has excellent call blocking features. Of course, anti-virus is present.
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Seekdroid or Preyproject

I'm currently using Cerberus, I'm sure it does all you want.
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The app "where is my droid" does it aswell, including notification of a simcard change on theft
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Avast free version do all things . Lock phone through sms , it will send sms and location on sim change.
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Cerburus does alot of things like take pictures using the front facing camera, when the person who may have stole the phone trys to unlock it! Has huge list of features
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Cerberus +1

One more vote for cerberus. I lost my hox in a cab and found it 40minutes after.
About call blocker, i think sense has this by default, or it is a feature of ARHD, because i see that option in mine.

Another vote for Cerberus, couldn't recommend it enough!
It's very well priced and it can work with multiple devices.

Assuming the phone is reset to factory defaults before changing sim etc...it can't be tracked?
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If someone what's to steal your phone they will. No app will make it steal proof. Why don't you just encrypt it if your worried about the data.
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dannysmith43 said:
Assuming the phone is reset to factory defaults before changing sim etc...it can't be tracked?
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Install Cerberus as a system app. Only way they can stop it being tracked is a full wipe and flashing a new rom. Are phone thieves that smart/knowledgeable?

technically you cant "steal proof" a phone, only track it down after its been stolen...

Just seen this thread and downloaded Cerberus straight away. What an amazing app. So many features all remotely accessed via your PC or SMS. Also love the fact that you can designate up to 3 trusted numbers (friends or family) to have messages sent to in the event of a SIM swap, and those numbers can also lock you device for you. £2.40 is nothing to pay for that amount of funcionality!

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calendar - help !!!

totally blown away by my desire, although, I still need to tick one more box.
I use my calendar a lot and utilise the busy/free option on windows mobile to mark entries as done. this functionality exists on google calendar but not on the android calendar.
can anyone offer any advice or suggest an alternative calendar that provides this ?
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Try pure calendar grid. I use that. Maybe email the developer first. He gets back in good time.
thanks, given that a go but its just a widget that links into the existing calendar.
any other ideas ?
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simondavo said:
thanks, given that a go but its just a widget that links into the existing calendar.
any other ideas ?
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But it links to google calander.
yep, not disputing that. just need this one bit of functionality.
thought it would be widely used in android as its a standard part of google calendar itself.
just can't find the ability to use it on any apps.
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You can try motocal once we're able to push to system.
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simondavo said:
yep, not disputing that. just need this one bit of functionality.
thought it would be widely used in android as its a standard part of google calendar itself.
just can't find the ability to use it on any apps.
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Give the guy an email, maybe he can help.
I too have the same issue. I sync with Exchange via Activesync and it doesn't honour the free/busy option.
I use Vibrate During Meetings (VDM) which sets your phone onto vibrate during meetings. This has an option to only do this for appointments marked as "busy", but since the Desire calendar doesn't honour this setting it's no good to me.
I am on call for a week at a time, so put an appointment in my calendar for on call which is marked in Exchange as free. Unfortunately since the free setting doesn't propagate to the phone (by either HTC Sync or Activesync) the phone puts itself on vibrate for a week at a time.
I'd be interested in a solution if anyone finds one.
agreed.
can't believe that this functionality hasn't been considered in the android calendars.
this is probably not an issue to a lot of people but its key to my phone usage, especially after coming from winmob where this had been standard for years.
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First thing after new ROM

Hello.
What is the first thing (or first few things) you do after flashing a new ROM?
Me: disable data =D; I get charged like crazy if I leave it on. I turn it back on only when needed.
The very first thing I do is hit reboot in recovery.
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Ummmm setting up a google account and sync my contacts...
Turn up the brightness
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Installing and setting up WhatsApp
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Download titanium backup and restore my apps
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Download titanium backup and restore my apps
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+1
I also restore settings with Titanium (these green "apps" in the list)
Waiting for about half an hour until my apps automatically be downloaded and installed (i guess it happens over my google acount) and the reboot
I'll make cookies for my kids.
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Start looking for another ROM..
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For me, its getting rid of apps I won't use with Titanium and getting the apps2sd all set up so I have all my space to play around with
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Tarun Chaudhary said:
Ummmm setting up a google account and sync my contacts...
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Same here, make sure I'm signed into my google account and get all my contacts back. Or else I get texts from people and don't know who they're from
Praying to god this would be my last flash. I managed to accomplish that.
Restore contacts and accounts
same here, then reboot.
I disable data..enable wifi and set up my google account, change my wallpaper and titanium restore.
The first thing I do is fill my Google Account in order to reinstall my free apps from the Market and my address book contacts to see if the memory below Ext is well behaved and if so restored with titanium backup.
disabling/freezing apps/services that i dont want, and make my data connection 2g for more batter : O)
Coffee and cigarette and thinking about next step/rom
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1 Giggle like a school girl
2 Reinstall apps
3 Begin looking for a new ROM
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Transfer contacts?

My friend broke his screen on his HTC trophy and he is unable to see anything on the screen. He cannot put in his password to unlock the phone. Does anyone have any ideas on how to transfer the contacts? Cellibrite will not work because the phone cannot be unlocked because the broken screen....
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Phone is not unlocked.
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He doesn't need to; they will all transfer automatically when he puts his sim card into a new windows phone and logs into his live account associated with his original phone. If he needs to see his contact have him visit his windowsphone.com account and view contacts.
If no sim card, no worries, just sign into new phone using the live id he used on the trophy.
I think that is part of the problem. He never did have a windows live account.
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He had to set one up at some point to use the market, built in services like Office & Skydrive, Find My Phone ect. He's either got a "live" or "hotmail" account, and that is where his contacts will be stored. He could have had them sync elsewhere in addition to that (like gmail ect)
He has his replacement phone which is a HTC trophy as well. He has the phone up and going but his contacts are not there. What should he log into to bring up his contacts? Window market, his email account,... sorry for the newb question. I am use to android.
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What for email did he use?
Windows live 1st... it is usually required.
Gmail?
Exchange?
Any of these he could have been saving contacts too. Just not pop3 like comcast for example.
Have him enter all of his email accounts that his previous phone used and see what happens after they sync.
Ok. Thanks
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oneders65 said:
My friend broke his screen on his HTC trophy
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oneders65 said:
I have a broken/dead screen....
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Is it you or "your friend"?
My friend.
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Annoying sms popup messages

Hi,
Ever since I started using one x I have been receiving popup like sms messages. My previous phone was not a smart phone and I was not.receiving these. Please refer this image http://db.tt/l3PuMAd3
Is there a way I can disable them from phone itself?
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ametarasu said:
Hi,
Ever since I started using one x I have been receiving popup like sms messages. My previous phone was not a smart phone and I was not.receiving these. Please refer this image http://db.tt/l3PuMAd3
Is there a way I can disable them from phone itself?
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Are you using the stock HTC messaging app? If not, that could be the source. Also, have you installed any apps that have ads? That could also cause your popups.
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I am using stock messaging app. I have a bunch of apps installed, but how can I know which one is the culprit.
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It's not something to do with your carrier is it? For example, with Vodafone you can get stuff text daily from them. In the app draw there's a Vodafone one that I can select news, weather, jokes, horoscopes etc.
Thats an alert message. I stumbled across how to make that happen on any phone a while ago.
When you send a text message put !! As the first two characters. It then by passes all app settings and pops up.
Never posted as it would be abused.......
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I am with airtel India. Have raised a complaint regarding this.
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Facebook notifications

Hi folks,
Got the problem above, used to work fine but the notifications don't show anymore... Already logged out, uninstalled and installed updates, cleared cache and also tried the Blackberry workaround... Still no luck...
Any suggestions or ideas I can get the notifications work?
My girlfriend has got the same phone and hers is working fine..
Please advise
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mine stopped too around juli 29th, my guess it's a server side issue, it happened before in the past.
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mine stopped too around juli 29th, my guess it's a server side issue, it happened before in the past.
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Initially, I thought this was the case too but my girlfriends phone has the same phone and same version of FB and hers is fine..
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Hi I had this but I went into settings turned them all off come out of app so it saves and then terminated the app in app manager than went back and enabled them all again and it started working again
This may help you with your issue
make sure it's not been restricted in usage for background data download too hope this helps
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dryan433 said:
Hi I had this but I went into settings turned them all off come out of app so it saves and then terminated the app in app manager than went back and enabled them all again and it started working again
This may help you with your issue
make sure it's not been restricted in usage for background data download too hope this helps
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Thanks mate, tried your trick too... Still no luck
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Have you tried to to clear the cache and data for the app then uninstall and reinstall
Edit: sorry can see you tried that only other I could say is reset factory of rom
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Check that Google Talk connects to the Google Servers - you don't need to use it - but all push notifications will stop if Google Talk cannot connect to the Google Servers.
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Check that Google Talk connects to the Google Servers - you don't need to use it - but all push notifications will stop if Google Talk cannot connect to the Google Servers.
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Hmmm... Now that could be a possibility, how do I check that?
I did notice google talk with contacts showing offline when they are actually online
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I removed the permissions on facebook (the website) for sense and deleted all data for all 3 friendstream apps, after a while I got one message, unfortunately it was the last messege I had already recieved. I really believe it's a serverside issue. I have seen this before, also with other 3rd party FB widget....
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Hmmm... Now that could be a possibility, how do I check that?
I did notice google talk with contacts showing offline when they are actually online
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To rule out a push notification (C2DM) issue - you need another app that uses Push Notifications - like Twitter or something.
Got Twitter and that doesn't give any notifications either...
Do you think factory reset will help? Don't want to go through that do formatting, installing apps etc for nothing..
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wait I think I did find a bug :
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/180401628759261?browse=search_501f9e3f39fee6897569668
and another one here: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/423355481040505?browse=search_501f9efbaad120b40743360
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Got Twitter and that doesn't give any notifications either...
Do you think factory reset will help? Don't want to go through that do formatting, installing apps etc for nothing..
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OK - so try the following:
Open Google Talk - Sign Out. Sign back in.
Check Android Settings > Accounts & Sync to see if there is a problem with the Sync service.
Check Auto Sync is switched on - and try toggling it off and back on.
Reboot the phone.
For info - I am getting Tweets and Facebook notifications fine here - so there is nothing wrong with either service.
Check the links above, you might receive some types of notifications but all, it's a confirmed server side error
Ah well guess I'm gonna need to wait till the next update is out...
What I don't understand how my girlfriends phone (which s exactly the same as mine) is working fine with all notifications
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Ah well guess I'm gonna need to wait till the next update is out...
What I don't understand how my girlfriends phone (which s exactly the same as mine) is working fine with all notifications
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I don't know, really....if you check their bug tacker it could be all sorts of issue where messages made from certain apps don't trigger notifications, there are many different types of notifications, some migh work, some might not. I got using facebook via mobile apps (htc, samsung other 3rd party apps)since 2010 and it just happened a few times before and then after a while it will start working again.
If you want it working use the official facebook app, it usually keeps working until the problems are fixed. If you have cleared the data for friendstream and facebook, removed the right of the friendstream app and started over there is nothing more you can do
I am using the official facebook app (came with the phone) and never used friend stream or tweetdeck..
I have done a factory reset and also disabled friendstream but still no notification... Rage !!
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This is crazy because my phone I receive notifications from Facebook app and the twitter app it didn't when I got the phone but I disabled all notifications in app and then enabled them
I started to get them I get message notifications and post notifications not had issue since
So this can't be just down to servers its like the phone is refusing them nothing much else I can suggest lol
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dryan433 said:
This is crazy because my phone I receive notifications from Facebook app and the twitter app it didn't when I got the phone but I disabled all notifications in app and then enabled them
I started to get them I get message notifications and post notifications not had issue since
So this can't be just down to servers its like the phone is refusing them nothing much else I can suggest lol
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Yeah you are right mate... I'm puzzled... Don't know what else I could do to fix
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I have started receiving some notifications again but not all, trust me it's the server.

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