Hello i recently lost my Galaxy Player in my school May 17th, 2013 and i had no way to find its location. Until May 19, 2013 I installed the app by Lookout called "Plan B" it was installed on my Device threw a WIFI connection. Since the player is not a Phone i kinda use it like a Phone threw Google Voice and Groove IP lite. Since its installed, It didn't send me an Email on its location. I used a friends phone to send "Locate" SMS. Is it because its a MP3 player instead of a phone?
Is it possible to retrieve the device?
Unless someone turns on the device(somehow gets past security if you have it) connects to wifi then you are screwed. Of course I am sure if someone found it they have restored the device by now . Can you not ask if someone turned a lost mp3 player or something? Sorry to hear what happened man.
lazepr said:
Unless someone turns on the device(somehow gets past security if you have it) connects to wifi then you are screwed. Of course I am sure if someone found it they have restored the device by now . Can you not ask if someone turned a lost mp3 player or something? Sorry to hear what happened man.
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It didn't have a passcode and he/she didn't reset it to factory settings. How do i know i can install a app onto the device when the thief connects to a wifi network. should i give my Serial number to my local police and possibly the Pawnshop?
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It didn't have a passcode and he/she didn't reset it to factory settings. How do i know i can install a app onto the device when the thief connects to a wifi network. should i give my Serial number to my local police and possibly the Pawnshop?
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you have the serial # memorized?? or is it somewhere written down?
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It didn't have a passcode and he/she didn't reset it to factory settings. How do i know i can install a app onto the device when the thief connects to a wifi network. should i give my Serial number to my local police and possibly the Pawnshop?
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I'm not sure if this helps but you can login to Google play on your computer with the account on the device and when you install an app from the computer it automatically installs it on the device when it's connected to the internet.
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you have the serial # memorized?? or is it somewhere written down?
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I have the box it was in with. which has the serial number
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I'm not sure if this helps but you can login to Google play on your computer with the account on the device and when you install an app from the computer it automatically installs it on the device when it's connected to the internet.
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won't help unfortunately as you can schedule apps to be installed, but you can't tell if they have been installed
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daughter lost her Samsung Galaxy player 5.0 at school
Hi,
my daughter had her device possibly stolen at school today.
It was on and she does have a pin set up to use it. It was charged and she thinks it should last till tomorrow.
Her school does have wifi.
is there anything she can do to try to locate it?
We also have the box it came in with the serial code and receipt. Thinking about turning it in to police...
Thanks,
MamaStar
mamastar said:
Hi,
my daughter had her device possibly stolen at school today.
It was on and she does have a pin set up to use it. It was charged and she thinks it should last till tomorrow.
Her school does have wifi.
is there anything she can do to try to locate it?
We also have the box it came in with the serial code and receipt. Thinking about turning it in to police...
Thanks,
MamaStar
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sorry to say but if someone stole it, it is most likely not at the school anymore.
the only options that are most likely not going to lead to anything are
1. latitude is activated and it has updated her location recently
2. you have a lost phone app installed and set up. installing it via google play will do nothing at all.
if nothing like that is good. i would say the serial # to police is probably your best option at this point only because if the person who stole it knows what they are doing, they could have easily factory reset it already.
sorry and i hope you find it :fingers-crossed:
Wow. That is terrible to both that lost galaxy players. Theres not much that can be done. there's an avast security app that localizes lost phones. I am now thinking of installing it just in case after hearing of this.
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jmindset said:
Wow. That is terrible to both that lost galaxy players. Theres not much that can be done. there's an avast security app that localizes lost phones. I am now thinking of installing it just in case after hearing of this.
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could just use airdroid.
avast takes a lot of ram and slows my device down
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could just use airdroid.
avast takes a lot of ram and slows my device down
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Yeah just noticed that. I am now uninstalling. If this player had 500 mb more ram it wouldn't be a problem lol. I will check out airdroid. Thanks
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jmindset said:
Yeah just noticed that. I am now uninstalling. If this player had 500 mb more ram it wouldn't be a problem lol. I will check out airdroid. Thanks
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if it had 500mb of ram, people would be much happier with the device because it would be really smooth
It has 500 mb... I wish it had 500 more. One gig would be more then enough. Sucks. Do any of the galaxy players have 1 gig ram? A single core processor is alright. Imagine sgp with dual core
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It has 500 mb... I wish it had 500 more. One gig would be more then enough. Sucks. Do any of the galaxy players have 1 gig ram? A single core processor is alright. Imagine sgp with dual core
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thats what i meant
as far as i know, no none do.
dual-core =
goldflame09 said:
thats what i meant
as far as i know, no none do.
dual-core =
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Yeah I was not sure lol. But yeah, I hope Samsung releases another galaxy player with better specs. Its funny because the galaxy players havr better specs then "high end" phones that were released 4 years ago lol
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Anyone have this app or use it? Does the GPS location thing always need to be turned on? Does it waste battery?
Search for an app called lookout on the android marketplace, your welcome
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I just installed Android Lost. It's free and it's great. It lets you do a lot of stuff, like make your phone sound a police siren in case you lost it somewhere in your house, lock the phone, give you the GPS coordinates, and take pictures and send it to your email, all from the web interface. It doesn't use any battery life either.
sounds good
Thanks. I may have to try one of these because the Total Protection app apparently cannot find my phones location worth a damn. Which location/security app uses the least battery?
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Thanks. I may have to try one of these because the Total Protection app apparently cannot find my phones location worth a damn. Which location/security app uses the least battery?
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Lookout
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I don't find the total equipment protection app to impact my battery at all, but I'll definitely give lookout a shot
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I just installed Android Lost. It's free and it's great. It lets you do a lot of stuff, like make your phone sound a police siren in case you lost it somewhere in your house, lock the phone, give you the GPS coordinates, and take pictures and send it to your email, all from the web interface. It doesn't use any battery life either.
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Wow, this is one badass app. I would have to say it is by far one of the best apps I have seen.
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Thanks. I may have to try one of these because the Total Protection app apparently cannot find my phones location worth a damn. Which location/security app uses the least battery?
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My battery meter shows AndroidLost as using no battery, just as they claim.
Android lost is neat. Thanks for that.
I just wonder how secure the android lost site is
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Yeah, that's my only concern. Lookout is for sure reputable (been around longer, been recommended more, been on the news for Pete's sake lol) and the free version has all the features you really need, while the paid version adds remote lock and remote wipe capabilities
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you can do all of this with htcsense.com.....
everyday17 said:
you can do all of this with htcsense.com.....
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HTCSense.com is currently down for maintenance. We'll be back soon!
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I will have to check it out when it is back online... this sounds VERY intriguing.
i suggest prey but i have multiple apps installed in case they remove 1 i still have 2 more to track my phone with
http://preyproject.com/ works with all OSes use it on my laptops and dekstop as well
everyday17 said:
you can do all of this with htcsense.com.....
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everytime i try to locate phone or make phone sound an alarm off htcsense it does not work whats the deal w/ this? anyone have success using it?
aronslusa said:
I will have to check it out when it is back online... this sounds VERY intriguing.
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Ok, usually you can do all these things
italy7 said:
everytime i try to locate phone or make phone sound an alarm off htcsense it does not work whats the deal w/ this? anyone have success using it?
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I was having a problem with it, but i removed the account from my phone and deleted my account off htcsense.com, made my account again from my phone and it works now.
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I just wonder how secure the android lost site is
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I'm pretty sure the site should be OK since it authenticates with Google before you can use it.
Has anyone got their hands on this?
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/goflex-satellite
I'm wondering how well it plays with our Evos. There is also an android app released for it.
Yep we sell em at best buy all the time and I was able to snag one with accomedations through my job. Its amazing how easy it works and you can stream right off your hard drive to your phone. Just turn it on, creates its own hotspot and you connect to it. Its great.
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Yep we sell em at best buy all the time and I was able to snag one with accomedations through my job. Its amazing how easy it works and you can stream right off your hard drive to your phone. Just turn it on, creates its own hotspot and you connect to it. Its great.
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that's great, the comments I've been reading on Amazon are generally negative, they all complain how the iOS app is nothing but a giant alphabetical list of all the music and other media, not divided into albums or artists etc.
How good is the Android app? I'm mainly interested in stock music and video apps on Evo, can they connect to this drive seamlessly and fluently? Does it appear like a network server to them?
well download the app and get a work around it. The interface isn't as clean as I'd like, but it gets the job done. You actually turn it on and then connect to it through your networks settings like your connecting to a network. With most things it'll download for a second to stream but then play right off the hard drive.
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Saw it the other day and realized that with real use, the battery is probably going to be toast in under 3 hours....
i just got one of these. the battery lasts pretty well so far. the best thing about it by miles though is that it's built from a tiny linux server running on an omap3 cpu.
you know what that means right?
i'll give you a clue.
user: root
pass: goflex
I had one of these for exactly one day. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not. At the time I was using an Acer tablet that had a USB port, so I didnt really need it anyway.
But I will say that it worked horribly for me.
I've been wanting the air stash, uses SD cards and is pocketable(size of a flash drive)
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hefonthefjords said:
i just got one of these. the battery lasts pretty well so far. the best thing about it by miles though is that it's built from a tiny linux server running on an omap3 cpu.
you know what that means right?
i'll give you a clue.
user: root
pass: goflex
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I'm dumb. What does that mean for us exactly? Can we mod it and creat custom operating systems for it?
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I'm dumb. What does that mean for us exactly? Can we mod it and creat custom operating systems for it?
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Pretty much if you get root access, you can modify it anyway you want
Hmmmm.......most excellent.
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zcink said:
Ok I'm clueless. what would you modify it to do beyond maybe a WiFi router?
What's with the guessing game?
Guess what we can do with this little baby?
I'm asking yeah what?
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This site can explain it better on why you want to do this
http://www.hackseagatesatellite.com/wordpress/welcome/
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I have between unable to log on to the Amazon app store since I got my Note. Out still works on my skyrocket, and my wife's inspire. Anyone else having this problem?
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nope, i check it for the free app every morning. Did you load it with a fresh download APK or from one that already had? I have had issues in the past where it was buggy or just woulding work right when I installed from a previously downloaded version on my SD card. Have amazon send you the link to your phone for a fresh DL if you havnt already yanked and reinstalled.
I have installed it fresh. Is there a limit to the number of devices that can be linked to one account?
ok, problem solved! I had never unregistered any of my previous devices, and every custom rom I ever installed on any device counted as a new device. Max devices appears to be around 20.
No i dont think there is a limit on the number of devices you can use.
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ok, problem solved! I had never unregistered any of my previous devices, and every custom rom I ever installed on any device counted as a new device. Max devices appears to be around 20.
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Thanks for the tip. I had 9 devices registered even though I only have 2. All of the others were the various ROMs I had installed on my previously sold Infuse.
Interesting, where did you find this feature? I'm sure I'm teetering on the edge with all my flashing.
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Is the font real small on yalls?
SayWhat10 said:
Is the font real small on yalls?
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It seems the only way to get around the small font in apps like this is to change the dpi meetings of your phone which will require rooting.
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Chief Geek said:
Interesting, where did you find this feature? I'm sure I'm teetering on the edge with all my flashing.
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Nevermind found it. Incase anyone else is interested, very easy to find.
www.amazon.com
appstore for android
apps and devices
devices
select and deregister. dont worry about deregistering the wrong one, if you do it'll just make you enter UN/PW on your device next time you open amazon app store.
I'm glad this post helped. It was driving me nuts!!!
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I'm trying to find a locking app similar to the lock on my iPad, when the phone is rebooted or sleep for more the 2 hours the iPad requires a code to unlock. But during normal use it's just normal unlocking. Anybody know of a Android app that would be similar?
Thought my note slipped out my pocket the.other afternoon while working on my truck and didn't realize I didn't have it till later that night, the last time I used it was outside my apartments with my truck and I automatically thought it fell and somebody found it and took it. Tried to call it but it just kept going straight to voicemail so that definitely made me think it was stolen since my.phone wasn't off before. But I.found it later under the seat in my truck haha. I want a.locking app so if it does get taken and the person turns it off and tried to turn it back on then it will ask for a code and lock them out
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I don't know if it supports 2 hours as an interval, but the stock rom does this. Home, menu, settings, security, I think. Somewhere in there is the option to set the time after which your PIN will be requested.
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I wish we have something like HTC sense provides. Locate phone and if stolen you can delete contents of the phone from the HTC sense website.
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hausman said:
I don't know if it supports 2 hours as an interval, but the stock rom does this. Home, menu, settings, security, I think. Somewhere in there is the option to set the time after which your PIN will be requested.
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The max only 30 mins.
Pretty sure kies offers that...there are also apps that do that
NR017 said:
I wish we have something like HTC sense provides. Locate phone and if stolen you can delete contents of the phone from the HTC sense website.
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sweetboy02125 said:
The max only 30 mins.
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Why is it so hard to have longer options?
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Why is it so hard to have longer options?
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Ask Samsung ..
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A while back I lost my streak and I'd call it and it ring and go to voice mail except once someone rejected the same call and I knew someone had it. Lookout has an app that's called plan b that you can install remotely and will activate your gps so you can find it. Long story short I retrieved my streak and the guy who took it and wouldn't return it ended up with a broken car window. I also believe there's an app out there that'll completely lock your phone down too. Check lookout's suite of software, they may have something for you
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NR017 said:
I wish we have something like HTC sense provides. Locate phone and if stolen you can delete contents of the phone from the HTC sense website.
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Try out Cerberus it can remotely take pictures using the front or back camera and it emails the picture to you, bad guys face is there and also can use the back camera to figure out where they are. GPS locator remotely wipe SD and phone memory and also can set up other people's numbers (that you trust obviously) that you can send a wipe message to your phone from as well through text.
And its only $4 for a lifetime license.
Hi guys... just found out we've been burgled.
I had a fresh unconfigured install of LI3... Will I be able to track it?!! I am based in the UK and the phone would have been at least half charged.
Thanks,
crabby
crabby09 said:
Hi guys... just found out we've been burgled.
I had a fresh unconfigured install of LI3... Will I be able to track it?!! I am based in the UK and the phone would have been at least half charged.
Thanks,
crabby
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Yes you can, if you have enabled Samsung Dive or if you have installed any tracking software
venki5star said:
Yes you can, if you have enabled Samsung Dive or if you have installed any tracking software
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It's a fresh install... I have enabled samsung dive before (and it's currently trying to track my phone) but i don't know if i needed to reactivate it on the fresh ODIN factory formatted install?
crabby
All the best
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crabby09 said:
It's a fresh install... I have enabled samsung dive before (and it's currently trying to track my phone) but i don't know if i needed to reactivate it on the fresh ODIN factory formatted install?
crabby
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Is your Gmail configured in the phone? If yes, try pushing androidlost from the market to your phone. Good luck.
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Thanks, I'll try that now!
crabby
Try Plan B from the market.
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Plan b is another one similar. Good luck catching the scumbags
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Deusdies said:
Try Plan B from the market.
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+1 for this post
like this idea:good:
Installing apps from the market won't work, because I think you'd have to activate the app by starting it first. Apps dont start after install automatically as far as i know.
Take your IMEI number and receipt of purchase to the police. In theory, they can track it aswell (only by cell tower triangulation, not by gps). Depends on your country and local police if they would actually do that.
Plan b should work... it's designed to activate on installation so it starts tracking straight away.
If you don't get an email from it straight away... send an sms saying "locate" and it should reactivate the tracking
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Just keep trying. Eventually it'll work.
It makes sense to turn the phone off after you've stolen it so it can't be tracked. Eventually the thief will have to turn it on, whether he's selling it or checking it out.
Good luck :good:
Keep us updated. This is interesting
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[email protected] as a verb..
go to market.android.com remotely install androidlost, visit the androidlost website and remotely active and track your phone, you can even record and take pics of what the thief sees and says, and when they look at your phone it'll send you pics of them
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Keep us updated. This is interesting
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Getting robbed is interesting?
Do you remember your IMEI?
i'd recommend Plan B.
It will work ok.
Catch those ***.
Plus, keep us updated. I've more solutions if it doesn't work.
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Did you have packet data on?
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Getting robbed is interesting?
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Yes. It's the bad news that sell to the people, not the good ones... And it's also interesting to find out, if one can get he's smartphone back by using these tracking apps. Now we can find out if they're useless or not.
Hope Plan B works for you. Bring a baseball bat and a few friends when you track the thief down.
And when you do have your phone back, install Cerberus on it right away, it's a fantastic anti theft app with a great web control center and tons of features.
Plan B vs. Android Lost, which one is better?
soraxd said:
[email protected] as a verb..
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Why? "burgle" is a standard English verb that you'll find in any dictionary. Don't really get why it's worth loling at.
Anyway, I tried it (and by "it" I mean everything) when I lost my i9000. To no avail unfortunately.
The problem with all those apps is they need internet. If the thief doesn't connect it to wifi or the mobile data.... And most thieves will steal it only to immediately sell it so why would they. Odds are the person who buys it will wipe it, and then unfortunately, nothing can be done.
When it became apparent the thief hadn't sold my phone (yet), I left my account open for as long as possible, hoping they'd turn on mobile data. But when the calls to Romania started adding up I had to have it cancelled and lost all hope. Hope you have better luck.
Now that I'm thinking about it, it would be a good idea if Samsung Dive could turn data on by an alternative means like an SMS. Because as useful as any such services may be, they're all near-worthless if they have no data connection - indoors getting a lock with AGPS is difficult. Without data its next to impossible. At least with data you're guaranteed to get at least the approximate location based on cell towers and wifi.
Oh well