How to find your lost phone

[maevemct]

Now I just need to get the app... OH WAIT I CAN'T FIND MY PHONE.

[bxxxjjjz]

So. Like how am I gonna get the app. WHEN I DONT HAVE MY PHONE?

[doracalva]

if you want to find your phone dont you need your phone for this process????

[OreoPortz]

WELL this is useless :( I DIDNT HAVE HAVE THE APP INSTALLED

[Yppy]

@mshark Right, but why would you turn off a phone that you have stolen ? You would either use it or sell it. If you sell it, the buyer will turn it on.

[JosephChong]

@Numerius1

yes you are right if you have screen lock automatically on, then remote lock down is not necessary. The software design for variety of phone system, therefore a remote lock function still need to be there.

And it work on Android. = ) Support up to 2.2 at the moment.

[josephmartinez]

to bad i dont have it on the phone i lost

[headerk]

@SABLEmusic It needs Symbian, Windows Mobile, or Android - it won't work on the lg choclate touch!

[nykel]

@gtb5 nope stored on the phone only, but if u can put a lock code on your sd card like symbian phones could it ll be useless in any other phone besides yours which is also locked the only way to use your sd card after this is if they format it

[ArberJ]

@FSecureNews Thank you for the answer. My nokia e51 does not have gps, so do you think this is why i get this message: "location information is not available"?

[mshark]

@FSecureNews It would be much better if the app would run in the background (as a service, not as a running app), it would be invisible and less hog on the phone's resources.

By the way, how does it locate it? By GPS or network towers?

[nykel]

@felipe200794 if you set the f secure to automatically startup wen the phone turns on it would, i did cause i dont like apps running in the background an once you put it to lock when the sim card is changed it automatically activates and locks your phone but these options have to be manually set in the settings

[whitenoiseeffect]

and also, will it work when a phone is turned off or ran out of batteries?

[meettheturc]

I've got my phone back and had the thief caught. Thanks to F-secure.

[THFCCRAIG]

This would be proper useful for me right now. But whats to stop people from locking my phone when I have it?

[Manoj-hw]

@541productions first you need to lock your phone then locate your phone.

[JosephChong]

@mshark

You have some good ideas there ! As for erasing the sent sms which contain coordinates is not necessary, cause the recommended procedure ( as the video shows ) is to lock the phone first - if the phone is lock, there will be no access to any functionality in the phone - the sent sms is safe.

[mikeycbd]

This is okay if you still have battery life left, otherwise you're better putting a sticker on the back of it.

[mshark]

@feryxxx The price is the same as a regular SMS. It doesn't go to their servers. It works like this: when the phone with F-secure recieves an SMS with your code, the app starts looking for your location. When it's done, it just sends an SMS with coordinates to the phone you sent the command SMS from.

[Jigsawkiller]

It automaticly detects a sim card change and sends you the phone number of that sim card via sms to the trusted number you've previously selected.