Last week on a business trip to Rome, my XDA got stolen..
Offcourse I had it blocked as soon as possible and have password protection on it, but resetting it would make it usable for anyone.
If anyone sees a secondhand XDA for sale from Italy (where they are not sold) please remember me....
IMEI: 350312010049224
S/N : HT220CC15367
P/N : 99HJ00007-00
So... when is this new model XDA comming on the market?!
We thought of a program to stick into ROM which would, after cold-boot, send one SMS to a pre-determined number. Could be a friend's number, or possibly even a web-service, where you can look up all the phone numbers of all SIMs ever in that phone at cold-boot. You could even wait a few days to see if the owner field was ever filled out...
Please go into that, as I will buy an XDA again but feel quite bad about this one stolen and would very much want something to have a little more protection/means of getting it back.
I saw an advertisement on www.thinkgeek.com about a software that would automatically send emails with IP adresses when a stolen laptop is connected to internet.
Something like that could possibly be an option in a theft-recovery program?
Thanks,
Lx
Great idea XDA developer Peter Poelman...you guys should definitly do that!!
XDA developer Peter Poelman, that is one of the best ideas I have heard of!! If there were a server you could register your XDA on, then install the 'tracking' software it would be very cool.
Would it even be possible to get a fix on the location by picking up the nodes that the XDA is near? Effectively your XDA would text you its location, name of the new owner and new number to server where you could pickup the info. Hay-presto, you can inform the provider and authorities and maybe even get it back. I bet you could even sell the software to the providers!!
Gil.
Hold on guys, if you developed such a ROM, it should be clearly stated that it is doing that. I can imagine, if people started offering ROMS, that made unsolicited calls to premium rate numbers, that would be a great, and illegal, business venture.
Anything, that works behind the scenes must be clearly highlighted if trust is to be maintained in a public community
Sounds good though. If i could find all the people that have stolen bits and pieces from me, revenge would be sweet!
I guess that watching out for ROMs that have spy-wearz or nasty apps in the background ARE possible, there could be something about now. Let’s face it the ROM tool is not that hard to understand. And if someone was really that nasty they could make a lot of money in a very short period. After all a premium rate text number has no price cap. But lets not get in to that right now.
The answer to this, like a lot of things in IT is A trust in the developer, B trust that is has not been hackled – as above and C you have noting to hide.
The provider can already see al the calls and text that the sent from your phone. So the only thing for them to see would be your ROM version.
If this was made a voluntary process and secure I can see it doing a lot more good than harm.
Also another though on the spy wear bit, it would be good to have an app that watches the activity on you device and allow you to see it.
Sorry for the rant, Gil.
Oh yeah, we've thought of nasty things one could do. Possibly more scary still: if you have this Action Engine framework, someone holding a private key somewhere can remotely update your ROM, without telling you.
perhaps thats how o2 intended to upgrade in the future?
is it easy to place the AE exe file back onto the xda? its just the one file right?
No, it's a whole bunch of files. They were installed from the operator section of the ROM, though AutoConfig.exe, into device RAM.
I'm not really into the programming stuff, but I was just thinking...
If such a thing was to be implemented, you would not want it to be active until your device actually got lost. So how do you tell your device (that probably has a different SIM card in it) that it should start to broadcast it's location and new SIM information? And where to?
I was thinking of a site where you should register, very securely and only upon activating the 'tracking' program from this secure site that a constantly updated log file of all nodes where the device is connected to a GSM/GPRS network would state the deveice's location.
With this list (and possibly the information of the new SIM card) it should definatly be possible to retrieve the device, with collaboration from the provider/authorities ofcourse.
Also I heard a provider can locate any GSM down to 5meters accuratly when the phone is being used, about 100 meters when the device is on stand-by. Don't know for shure if this is true though.
If things like these could be incorporated, this would be the best software/ROM update ever to be made in my opinion. If there is any way in wich I could be of any help I would gladly be of service!
Two complimentary options would be:
the XDA sends a message to a server whenever the SIM card is changed, unless you enter a particular password first.
Send a specifically crafted sms to the XDA that causes it to realize that it is stolen. This starts it sending location info to the server.
I think you could switch XDA in to stolen mode using a broadcast directly to the PIN on the phone. This is how P2P works in the US instead of SMS. This could be done from a web site and the user of the stolen phone would not know until it was too late.
But then again I may be wrong?
Gil.
this is all good and well, but there will be always someone out there that says this is a privacy thing and they do not want people knowing where they are using their XDA
What should be developed is a Rom that once the owner name has changed, the XDA will then send a message to a server(if the XDA is registered) informing of the new number of the inserted SIM, the IMEI number and all other numbers/contacts straight to your provider. they then contact the new provider for information on the new owner. send the bissies round and reclaim your XDA.
this would be big money to phone service providers as it would reduce the amount of insuance claims and hastle.
if it can be done, then I will be buying it (once i own the XDA !!)
cheets
Okay this seems very movie like but here it goes.
So every since this month of march when someone calls me somebody will completely hijack the call and block the person trying to reach me. Usually it is a guy who is just laughs or someone giving me a bogus name and then I hang up. They have been harassing me. I hate it. I want to just develop an app or find one and monitor my call traffic to see where it is being interrupted. Does anyone have any info on this issue or how to fix it. I am a computer nerd so I would be able to follow complex directions. Maybe I should just answer my phone with a Peter Griffin soundboard and mess with him. lol
Sounds to me like the guy has your WAN and cloned it on his phone. Is yours a refurbished by chance?
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No it is not. This is really freaking me out.
your best bet is contact your service provider as there is really no way for you to design an app that can "sniff" your phone calls and see if someone has intercepted your calls. your provider can however look into that and give you any information related to it, including if someone else is possibly using your ESN and cloning it on their phone, but i don't think that both phones can really be active at the same time anymore, i know it used to work, but not sure anymore. sounds like possibly your number or the route to your phone is somehow messed up at the cell tower or the datacenter handling the phone traffic. again, best bet is to call your provider and alert them of what's happening.
do you happen to have bluetooth enabled on your phone? perhaps someone nearby (i guess they have to be within 30 feet of your phone) has connected to it that way and could possibly be messing with you? that's about all i can really think of, hope it helps!
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What I want is a bit complicated. But I'm sure there might be an app which can do it. I've enabled call waiting in my Android. However, I don't wanna know the person on my other end to know I'm talking with someone else. What I want is, the other caller should get the normal ringing tone while I'm already talking to other person. I've seen it in some cheap Samsung phones (2/3/4 years back).
I want that none knows while I'm talking. If I turn off call waiting, the other call will not be able to call me. The call will not go to the ringing process. I want one hear the ringing tone as if I'm talking to nobody. ANy app?
I believe this has nothing to do with your phone or OS, but is rather handled by your operator. Therefore no app would help with this.
Not to mention this is quite a weird request... But to each their own.
ravilov said:
I believe this has nothing to do with your phone or OS, but is rather handled by your operator. Therefore no app would help with this.
Not to mention this is quite a weird request... But to each their own.
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My friend & I run the same carrier. He has this feature in his 6 years old Samsung but I don't have it!
OK, my bad then. In that case I don't know what to recommend. Wait for someone else to chime in.
Yeah! I really hope so!
Been using AntTek Blacklist to kill spam and unwanted calls, but it's total crap now. Instead of using the pick up / hang up it sends to voicemail and turns ringer to off. If I do not notice a call was blocked by blacklist my phone ringer will sit on mute and I miss real calls. The pick up / hang up on blocked calls is very important. I do not want the voice mail! So I am done with it and looking for a good alternative recommended that will pick up and kill unwanted calls effectively
AntTek is ZERO help and if I wasn't too lazy I would spend the day writing reviews all over the web on their crap service...
AntTek support is just awful. Actually, that is not accurate, it does not even exist. After I complained my ticket was not replied to after 6 weeks, they just closed it unanswered. I know 4 bucks is not huge money, but if I buy a premium app I want it to work, and I want support to reply, at least in a week
Any recommendation on a replacement would be cool. Thanks
Have you tried Whoscall?
snapper.fishes said:
Have you tried Whoscall?
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Thanks. How does it block the call? I read the description and I'm not clear. Does it pick up and immediately hang up?
I see this was moved to QandA. Not sure if this is because I slagged AntTek or the content, not really important.
AntTeks zero support needs to be addressed. What is the best way to address this on a board this large? Honest question. They need to be called out and XDA is a powerhouse so I want to make sure they have at least one negative review on here
This is not a case of someone with little tech knowledge being silly or misinformed, this is really a company that is dine and dash. My first android was the G1, I know what is good and bad service and I know how to use android
A company that is fine collecting a few bucks from 1000s of people and moving on needs to be called out
Lets make an app that charges spam and scam callers and robo callers when they interrupt your day working or sleeping whos with me. I have ideas but i want to hear everyone elses input on this topic. because im getting sick of these callers
Lol, how are you going to "charge" them?
I take a personal interest in every spam caller.
Say the right things. I get few return calls.
I broke a few... oops.
blackhawk said:
Lol, how are you going to "charge" them?
I take a personal interest in every spam caller.
Say the right things. I get few return calls.
I broke a few... oops.
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stay tuned my good sir this will get good trust me
jaymzway said:
Lets make an app that charges spam and scam callers and robo callers when they interrupt your day working or sleeping whos with me. I have ideas but i want to hear everyone elses input on this topic. because im getting sick of these callers
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Wishful thinking considering that most [if not all] scammers can use internet apps, but not limited to bot nets to “spoof” calls, manipulating phone networks to ring your phone from numbers they actually aren’t calling from — including numbers that belonging to honest people like you, your doctor or your pharmacist.
Spoof calls usually get past the filters even with the assistance of sampling of the apps including
-- RoboKiller
-- Verizon’s CallFilter
-- AT&T’s CallProtect
-- T-Mobile’s NameID
rodken said:
Wishful thinking considering that most [if not all] scammers can use internet apps, but not limited to bot nets to “spoof” calls, manipulating phone networks to ring your phone from numbers they actually aren’t calling from — including numbers that belonging to honest people like you, your doctor or your pharmacist.
Spoof calls usually get past the filters even with the assistance of sampling of the apps including
-- RoboKiller
-- Verizon’s CallFilter
-- AT&T’s CallProtect
-- T-Mobile’s NameID
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ok thats a very true and a very valid point which just means another obstacle to overcome is all. Means it takes computers to generate that than it will take a computer to detect this with some proper know hows we can get around this.