Did you try tracking it with Android Device manager or Cerberus (if installed)?
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Did you try tracking it with Android Device manager or Cerberus (if installed)?
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stock, rooted with franco kernel and app running Piereligio_TrueRGB_v4.1 colour profile
I don't see the need to try a unstable, buggy custom ROM tbh they are never 100% stable no matter what people say.
if you want certain features you can add them through apps, much easier and stable that way imo.
Mine has pattern unlock, Cerberus takes a picture using the front camera and emails it to me when an unsuccessful attempt is made. I got this email this evening lol
She said she knows nothing about the slobber and snot on the phone
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i thought the whole point in cerberus is that you leave your phone unlocked so if it's stolen you can track it and record stuff so you can get it back.
if they find a locked phone, they will wipe it if they are smart (and also cerberus) making cerberus completely pointless in that case.
my wife put a lock on her phone and i immediately told her to take it back off, so if someone does take it, i can still track it as they use it normally without wiping because to them it looks like it has zero security.
if they find a locked phone, they will wipe it if they are smart (and also cerberus) making cerberus completely pointless in that case.
my wife put a lock on her phone and i immediately told her to take it back off, so if someone does take it, i can still track it as they use it normally without wiping because to them it looks like it has zero security.
How likely will you get your phone back?
I'd rather keep my info safe then care about the physical phone.
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what info? contacts? what will they do with them?
email - you would change the passwords as soon as you lost the phone, etc, as for banking apps they all require a pin to login, etc.
imo very likely to get the phone back if you have cerberus on it and they don't wipe it, by putting a lock on it, wiping will be the first thing they try to do after they realise it's impossible to get past the lock.
unless you keep stuff like pin numbers and passwords stored somewhere in your phone then theres no issue with them having access to the phone, but imo you would be dumb to have such stuff like that stored there in the first place tbh.
you do know with cerberus you can track it's location? take pictures of the person using the phone? record call logs and view sent and received messages, etc?
it would be very easy to find the phone, so recovering it would surely be very likely once you pass all this on to the police.
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Yes I'm aware of the hero story on OcUK
I have Family/personal pics on my phone, and yes I care about my contact numbers as well as text messages etc. I wouldn't be too fussed if I never get my actual phone back tbh, it's just a generic piece of hardware.
Unless you don't store anything on your phone its a bit retarded to deliberately leave it without a lock under the assumption its more secure.
So what if a thief wipes your phone? All you have lost is an insured piece of tech worth a few hundred pounds. Leave it unlocked and everything you have stored and all accounts you have access to are compromised.
People put far to much emphasis on recovering physical items rather than securing the much more valuable information they contain.
Is your PIN number written on the back of your bank cards because its easier to track if its being used? And do you leave your car unlocked with the keys in it as its more likely to be spotted on CCTV being driven about rather than in a container being shipped accross the world.
So what if a thief wipes your phone? All you have lost is an insured piece of tech worth a few hundred pounds. Leave it unlocked and everything you have stored and all accounts you have access to are compromised.
People put far to much emphasis on recovering physical items rather than securing the much more valuable information they contain.
Is your PIN number written on the back of your bank cards because its easier to track if its being used? And do you leave your car unlocked with the keys in it as its more likely to be spotted on CCTV being driven about rather than in a container being shipped accross the world
.Also, I'm not even totally sure how, but Cerberus survives a wipe. I guess I was rooted and moved it to a system app, but I sold a phone to a friend, wiped it for them, but then realised a few days later it was still showing up on my cerberus control panel. I could see where they were.
By stock do you mean, ASOP or what? Where can I grab all of the stock stuff from? XDA?
This?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2562921
This?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2508284
and Piereligio_TrueRGB_v4.1?
Thanks
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I rooted my Nexus last night with a stock copy of android, becouse i whant to be able to use adapters for the external storage. But was how is Cyanogenmod on the Nexus, i used to have this on my old Sony Ark S and it was good, liked it. Is this the obvious choice of rooting to go or is there other good roms out there.
He means stock as in the original factory image from Google, not AOSP or AOKP.
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Yeah basically I rooted right from the start so any updates now you have to do manually and from threads over at XDA like the first one you linked to.
I then bought the franco kernel app off the play store.
I then used the app to flash the kernel and mess about with some settings such as:
undervolt by 25mv, decrease max temp before throttling by 10C (helps to stop it from getting hot), change the colour profile of the screen to the one i said above.
stock with franco kernel and a custom colour profile = rock solid phone in every aspect imo.
if you want a specific feature that only a custom ROM has, chances are someone has made an app that does the exact same thing, you just need to find it.
I then bought the franco kernel app off the play store.
I then used the app to flash the kernel and mess about with some settings such as:
undervolt by 25mv, decrease max temp before throttling by 10C (helps to stop it from getting hot), change the colour profile of the screen to the one i said above.
stock with franco kernel and a custom colour profile = rock solid phone in every aspect imo.
if you want a specific feature that only a custom ROM has, chances are someone has made an app that does the exact same thing, you just need to find it.