Android stolen/track app?
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Take a look at Where's My Droid as well.
But they all require that the gps be left on to locate it properly
There's no harm in leaving GPS on though.
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I use prey on my San Fran, seems to work and tracked properly when I changed my sim (which it is set to do for me).
As mentioned, take a look at 'Where's my Droid'. Reason being that this is one of the only tracking apps that doesn't need the internet in order to function. It is all done by SMS, so is a bit more robust.
Prey would be the other good one, but the free version is a bit limited. Although a useful feature of Prey is the ability to text you if the SIM card gets changed.
If you want the On-Demand location notification that the free version of Prey lacks, take a look at Lookout.
I personally have all 3 of the above on my Desire atm. They're all tiny apps of a few KB in size, and don't use any CPU when not active.
But they all require that the gps be left on to locate it properly
Been looking at using tasker to do this following this guide but it appears google has disabled the ability for apps to start up gps on the phone
Well as long as you remember to leave the GPS switch on, you should be fine. The actual GPS receiver isn't on all the time, it's really just a permission setting.
What he said. The switch doesn't turn on GPS (like you think). What it does is leave GPS available for when it is needed.
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Apart from battery life.
This is without doubt, the best:
http://www.theftaware.com/web.srv?step=whats_new
It can turn on GPS if it's disabled and even hide the GPS icon.
It even hides itself in the system, so you have to launch it with a dial short cut.
http://www.theftaware.com/web.srv?step=whats_new
It can turn on GPS if it's disabled and even hide the GPS icon.
It even hides itself in the system, so you have to launch it with a dial short cut.
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HTC sense has that feature - although some people have problems getting the phone finder function to work (I've had none thankfully).
You can lock the phone and leave a message on screen incl a number to call to return it or you can erase everything on the phone if you know it's gone for good.
I don't have GPS enabled a lot of the time (rarely in fact) and the mapping gets my location down to a pretty accurate level presumably just based on nearby wifi / cell towers alone ...
You can lock the phone and leave a message on screen incl a number to call to return it or you can erase everything on the phone if you know it's gone for good.
I don't have GPS enabled a lot of the time (rarely in fact) and the mapping gets my location down to a pretty accurate level presumably just based on nearby wifi / cell towers alone ...
