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Originally Posted by cpbopanna Soumyajit Why did you not just wipe/block the phone through your Samsung account? Had you not activated your Samsung account? With this, the phone would get bricked and would be of no use to the thief! |
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Originally Posted by amitk26 Good point .. Not necessaily in this case but many times people are so much absorbed by the "bloatware" jibes on tech propaganda sites that they don't activate and use the useful features for which they have paid the money. |
Ouch, I never thought of that ! I think I had activated a Samsung account. I was using Chat On Messenger for a try and it felt bad. So I stopped using it. But that must have used a Samsung account, right ? I am right now trying to login to my Samsung account. Thanks a ton guys for reminding me of this !!
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Originally Posted by ampere I think you should always keep the contacts on the cloud and ikeep it in sync with the phone. That way changing phones is quite easy.
And if you are running office mail on your phone, then even better. Because many office mail apps enforce encryption of your phone and on top have a PIN requirement too.
Apart from all this you should also use the Google remote wipe. |
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Originally Posted by bj96 Google also provide "Android Device Administrator" facility to remotely reset/wipe your phone from your Google Accounts. It has to be activated on your phone. First thing I did on my Grand . Optionally, it also syncs your phone book, calendar, app settings, photos etc. You can restore these data back when you sign in to Google accounts from new android phone.-BJ |
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Originally Posted by pareshraheja You can easily export all your android phone contacts to your gmail account. It is very useful in a scenario like yours. I suggest henceforth please export your phone contacts regularly to your gmail account. If in case you need to know the steps, pls PM. Cheers |
See, how bad can I be.
- I had configured office email on my device. But too much of spam emails from office resulted me in removing the account, 2 months back. So I had a numeric lock, but was pushed back to simple swipe once I removed the exchange server mailbox.
- I didn't know about this Android Device Administrator, till the point when my phone was stolen and friends on Facebook asked me to wipe data remotely and I was like, How ??
- I had Google, by default set up Sync. But I had manually disabled it so that when I click on contacts, it doesn't show me everyone in my Google contacts, people without a phone number even.
Lots of learnings from the first theft in my life.
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Originally Posted by Dry Ice Why not consider the MotoG? Great specs in all of 14k. Plus given the current rush, you would obviously not get it immediately. |
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Originally Posted by phamilyman Agree fully.MotoG chomps all the Mediatek chipset based phones in benchmarks as well as fairly decent real life usage.Its awesomeunles you like holding a phone you cannot hold on to (<5" is my golden rule where it becomes uncomfortable!) |
Eeeeeeek phamilyman. Infact I am so much used to loving that 5" phone that my wife's Galaxy Ace of 4.3'' looks like a micro phone to me.
Jokes apart, I loved the Grand. Perfectly fits the basic checks of a mid-range phone. No fancy processors or sensors or anything of that sort. Decent performance with large screen and a good battery backup. Yes, I am now a fan of large screen mobiles. You see, the last 20 movies or so that I have watched, is on my Grand. Even my 9 month old kid loved the mobile so much that I used to play a video for him and my wifey used to feed him non-stop. He wouldn't even blink while watching video (cartoons) on the mobile. It was like a 42" LCD for him !!
So yes, coming to Moto G, I see that its an awesome device. But buying a Moto, I am not very confident. Not that I owned a Moto and had bad experience, but somehow that brand doesn't sound inspiring. I had thought of Nexus, but it shoots my budget, plus its a LG Device, which is again a big no no. May be I can go for Sony Xperia C. I had a K710i which served superb for 6 years, with 2 users (me and mom). So I am basically a fan of Sony, after Samsung.
But what's the point in talking so much, when I don't have an approved budget now to buy a nother phone :(
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If the thief throws away the SIM as soon as he gets the phone and puts in a one without an active data connection, will these programs still work? Also I guess to be really effective (tracing etc) these would need the location services to be always ON?
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Some may work.
- Facebook, GMail and TeamBHP - I have changed my password. So the thief can't use it because the moment he wants to refresh the page, it would ask for the new passord. But for GMail specifically, the thief can see the old emails, I guess.
- WhatsApp - Its one big confusing app. I guess it wouldn't work without my number (SIM) in it, but the existing chat logs and contacts can be viewed.
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Originally Posted by arsudarsan Soumyajit, my BIL went through a similar situation with his Galaxy Y duos, he had locked the phone using Samsung. The phone was sold by a drunkard to another for 500 at a wineshop and when he started using it, the phone froze and we got a message with from his number. We contacted the guy and got the phone back without any damage. It did take about 3 weeks between the phone being lost and us getting it back.In the meanwhile he got a Lenovo A850 and is very satisfied. |
I was wondering, may be I shouldn't have blocked the number, and had tried calling it continuously. May be, the thief would have picked up and struck a deal to return it to me. May be I panicked too much and blocked the SIM.