Force data connection... what for?

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Simple question:
What is the benefit on “Force data connection” ?

In case of lost or stolen, there is no communication via data connection at all which may be used by anti-theft… or am i missing something?

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Hi,

the Anti-Theft needs dataconnection to:

  • use wifi (check for surrounding wifi hotspots) to determine the current location of the phone
  • send querys to a cell location database which is needed to triangulation
  • the web interface can communicate with the phone via internet and sms. internet is faster and doesn’t cost sms :slight_smile:

Werner

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Ok, forgot that. Thanks for info.

  • wifi (home-connection) and network did give me accuracy of 2, 4, or even 140 km. And when network was used, the position and the radius did even not hit the reality. Instead of 2 or 4 km it was 10 km away.
  • the web-interface is something i would like to use, but it is not online yet, right?
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Oh… and by the way another question:
Using “lost” sms-command does trigger always 3 sms-answers:

  1. The device was marked as lost
  2. GPS-location
  3. GPS-location

Is this the desired behaviour? I was surprised, did not see that in the manual…

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We’ll check that.

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Hi!

I tried to reproduce your problem on several devices with different Android versions (2.x, 3.x and 4.x). It works flawless.

Any chance you are using a non-stock SMS application?

Werner

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I do not have any third-party SMS app.
I do have rooted and have Revolution HD 6.3.1 installed, Android 2.3.5.

But this one is not a very big problem for me. It is simply the behaviour that i get 3 response-SMS after setting the phone to lost.
Maybe that depends on the settings…

So… maybe just take this as info, no need for big effort on this one if i am the only one.
If you need more info, please let me know.

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@NoPlayBack, you’re not the only one, just tested and I received two GPS Location SMS too, but it’s not a big problem for me neither.

I just want to thank Avast team for that amazing free app.

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Hm thats strange i want to fix that problem because other users might see problem in it. Can you please check if the SMS are exactly the same or if they differ in some parts.

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First test got three SMS, with 4, then 9 minutes difference.
In SMS 1 and 2 there was only the difference in “Sendezelle” and “Gebietscode”, i assume the device did switch the connection to a different station.
SMS 2 and 3 are exactly the same.
All 3 SMS were Locations based on network.

Second test i did receive only 2 SMS, 6 minutes difference. Location based on GPS, text were exactly the same. Even coordinates and accuracy was the same.

Third test i did receive only one SMS. Location based on GPS.