Is it possible to use my old Nokia N82 as a tracking device?

[MikeHunt79]

Provided it's charged and has a GPS signal?

I've looked at phone recycling sites and they're offering around £20 for the phone, but I'd quite like to use it as a tracker if I can.

I'm not really sure what software I'd need and even if there is any available? Do Nokia have anything similar to Apple's 'find my phone' thing-a-me-bob?

 

[Myshra]

Favourite device of the last decade. I flippin loved mine, you have such excellent taste mr hunt. So, it's got onboard GPS and it's S60 so you'll be just needing a S60 GPS logger. Funny enough Nokia made a whole bunch of apps for GPS logging (more for runners i suspect) but it looks like if you google "symbian s60 gps logger" there are a few more but they need to be signed.

Signing for apps is a Symbian thing. The short version is you need to "sign" an app before your phone will allow it to run. The websites tell you how to do this in the documentation, if you need more help then reply back here but it's fairly simple. Looks like ttgpslogger is going to be fairly OK to sort and will do the trick.

 

[englishpremier]

I was thinking about this for an old android phone.

I wanted an app similar to PREY, but that would detect movement, then record data from the gps. Couldn't find anything.

 

[Myshra]

tasker would probably do it with something like connected mast != <home mast list> then run <gps logger> but I don't know the details of getting that done