reasoning: A thief might start the phone with no sim card and if that phone has not been yet locked
he can factory reset the phone and get rid of Anti Theft protection.
I would like to suggest an option for setting up an e-mail address to which Anti Theft can send Location Information if the phone has any access to the internet, in stealth mode without any avast icon or lock screen. so the thief will not know the phone has avast installed
and also if possible a password option for the System Recovery mode of the Phone or a remap of the keys needed for booting into Recovery mode.
Another idea would be to password protect the “FACTORY RESET” option from the “SETTINGS” menu
And another idea cause I just seem to find ever more creating ways of stealing my own phone :))
How about making avast Anti Theft persistent between “FACTORY RESETS” ?
It would be nice if all the above features could be implemented without root access.
How about making avast Anti Theft persistent between “FACTORY RESETS” ?
→ it is already if you install rooted, its not possible non-rooted unfortunately because Android does not support this
We are implementing internet remote control at the moment which will also work for non-sim-card devices and works similar to as you suggest!
Well, but if you enabled USB debugging manually, work, forgot to disable it again… the thieve will caught the computer in an enabled status. You need to first, manually (SMS) block USB debugging. Am I right?
That tool automatically turns on/off the USB debugging scenario and brings quite a peace of mind and security.
Automatic behavior is described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560779
This is an interesting topic. I’m a newbie so I’d like to ask if there any -Start Here- thread available in the forum so I can make my way appropriately.