Lost Phone tracker app that works after wipe? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

There are wide set of lost phone recovery apps that track phone's location, send sms etc. But is there an app that works even after Wipe?
Is it even possible to have such kind of an app?
IMHO thiefs definitely wipe phone after stealing it making all recovery apps useless.

Cerberus works after anything. That's the boss of security apps.
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Deleted apps, now emails don't send

I was deleting bloatware from my phone using Titanium and now my emails don't send. They stay on "sending.." forever. What apps on the phone directly control the information being sent to Google? I think it has to be the "Talk" app but I'm not sure why that would control gmail. I also deleted "E-Mail" which is the standard email client that I never use.
Any ideas?
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Go to applications, manage applications, Filter All
Go to Google Mail - clear data / clear cache
Go to Google Storage - clear data / clear cache
Should fix you up
There is no cache, why exactly would I just delete all of my data? I don't think this will fix my problem.
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No, it does not delete your data. This is a very common problem when using most of these lag fixes. If there is a cache, clear it, otherwise just clear the data and it should start working. I had to do it every other day until I removed the last "stable" lag fix.
all gmail is kept on the google cloud not your local phone... clearing the settings/data will do just that and give you a clean slate to start with. Your data on the cloud will not be touched.
Arcadia310 said:
I was deleting bloatware from my phone using Titanium and now my emails don't send. They stay on "sending.." forever. What apps on the phone directly control the information being sent to Google? I think it has to be the "Talk" app but I'm not sure why that would control gmail. I also deleted "E-Mail" which is the standard email client that I never use.
Any ideas?
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first make sure GmailProvider.apk is in your system/app folder. Then check to make sure you didn't remove these two .apk when you removed Talk. gtalkservice.apk and TalkProvider.apk.
I had a simular problem when i removed Talk app along with gtalkservice and TalkProvider which caused my phone to not login to any google app.
mr2t32 said:
first make sure GmailProvider.apk is in your system/app folder. Then check to make sure you didn't remove these two .apk when you removed Talk. gtalkservice.apk and TalkProvider.apk.
I had a simular problem when i removed Talk app along with gtalkservice and TalkProvider which caused my phone to not login to any google app.
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Those apps are still intact. I actually just did a nandroid restore to before I removed any apps. The emails still aren't sending, I'll delete my data and see if that fixes it.
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Wow that actually fixed it, thanks a lot! I wonder what other apps are crippled on my phone due to those lagfixes.
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Sorry for the extra post but is there a way to clear the entire cache on the phone? It seems the lagfixes crippled a lot of programs like gmail, market, and the web browser.
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Think this has something to do with T-Mobiles data going out (possibly worldwide) last night? I also had an email not get sent this morning.
^ I am rooted and use one of the cache cleaning apps...
Can you recommend me one? Does it clear the cache of all programs?
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Arcadia310 said:
Sorry for the extra post but is there a way to clear the entire cache on the phone? It seems the lagfixes crippled a lot of programs like gmail, market, and the web browser.
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I'm using CachMate.
I'm using CacheCleaner, seems to clear all cache very well.. and it is free of course.
Two days after installing the apk based lag fix I started having gmail and GPS issues. Most of the current lag fixes create a virtual ext3 partition which corrupts very easily causing these types of issues. I removed the lag fix and my system became more stable again. I am only speaking based on my own personal experience.

Backup app

So i really got this flashing addict now and I already use titanium backup to restore my apps, but how can I restore my sms?
PS: last time I used myphoneexplorer but that was a bit too complicated. And after 1 day my sms are back without even using any app :O Does Google store 'em somewhere and how can I change this settings?
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Sms backup and restore from the market.
As for them showing up on their own, that's a htcsence feature.
Good to know. Any way to change the settings of this sync as it takes a couple hours? Also I hope I will not get any double sms when using sms backup and sense. But I'm gonna go ahead and try it now, that's the best method
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If you restore with the app, your sense account won't duplicate them. Is easier and faster with the app because it usually takes time for your sense account to sync them. I don't trust htcsence to work properly each time I flash either as their server seems to be down on a regular basis.
One other reason to use the application is when you are using a non sense rom you won't be able to use htcsense.

Controlling data of an app?

Is there any particular app which helps in monitoring data usage? I mean, I have loads of apps installed. But I just want Watsaap. I don't want other apps to use data. Is Thr any app which helps to enable just one app to use data? Do help me out!!!
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If you go in to Settings-Data Usage and then just scroll down through all the app you have got, pick the app you want to restrict background data for, click on that app, and scroll down to the bottom and you will see a section that says ' Restrict Background Data ' just click that box and problem solved. Do this to all the other app that you have downloaded ( apart from Whatsapp ) and you the apps will then only use data when you are actually using them.
Hope this helps
Actually that's a tiresome task. For a rooted phone I found a better task. Get app called LBE. It creates a firewall. And allows us to do what I wanted very easily. That's if I want only one app to take up my internet. And also lots basically an app which helps us to control the all kinds of permission. Anyways thanks for the reply!!
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[Q] Free app to monitor phone remotely?

I have searched everywhere and my wife and I have had no luck, we are looking for an app or software like mobile spy that is free. We use sms to email to backup each others calls and texts, but is there a way to have an app do all of this as well as backup any image taken to email and perhaps even remote access?
We love doing this, it is a wonderful trust building exercise that has made us stronger and I would like her to be able to monitor more.
We are both rooted with custom roms.
Thanks in advance
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ChristopherShort said:
I have searched everywhere and my wife and I have had no luck, we are looking for an app or software like mobile spy that is free. We use sms to email to backup each others calls and texts, but is there a way to have an app do all of this as well as backup any image taken to email and perhaps even remote access?
We love doing this, it is a wonderful trust building exercise that has made us stronger and I would like her to be able to monitor more.
We are both rooted with custom roms.
Thanks in advance
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You can use Titanium Backup and set it to backup to your Dropbox directly.
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App backup with/without root?

Guys I'm contemplating not having root on my tablet z anymore as unlike my mobile I don't have text messages to backup or apns etc and I want to be able to use apps like sky go.
But what I do want to have backed up is my app data ie login data for apps so after reloading apps I don't have to open each one and reenter the info and especially game app progression.
Is it possible to backup to this level of information without root? What about googles backup service?
Any help will be gratefully appreciated thx guys
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How about.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup&hl=en

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