{"id":359,"date":"2014-09-18T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2014-09-19T18:08:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:08:46","slug":"phone-security-and-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/phone-security-and-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone security and tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the good old UK we have a web service for registering our &#8216;goods&#8217;, so in the event they are lost\/stolen and subsequently retreived by Law Enfocrement then they have a means of returning them to you. The website is pretty cool as you can register a large number of items, it is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immobilise.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.immobilise.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also known as the &#8216;<strong>UK National Property Register<\/strong>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, how can I track my new expensive Galaxy S5 in the event is goes wandering? Well, first off go to <strong>Settings &gt; Security &gt; Device administrators<\/strong> and activate &#8216;<strong>Android Device Manager<\/strong>&#8216;. Once you have done that <strong>AND<\/strong> enable Location services on your phone (yeah, yeah, i know!) then you can track it thanks to the magic of Google using this link (assuming you are signed into the same Google account as on the phone):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/android\/devicemanager\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/android\/devicemanager<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Android_Device_Mgr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Android_Device_Mgr-300x246.png\" alt=\"Android Device Manager\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Android_Device_Mgr-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Android_Device_Mgr.png 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Android Device Manager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What can you do? Simple really, TRACK it or if you want RING, LOCK or ERASE aka Remote Wipe (careful of the last one, deletes ALL data).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be looking for 3rd party Android apps that provide some better functionality that do not rely upon Location Services. If you know of any please do leave a comment with suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the good old UK we have a web service for registering our &#8216;goods&#8217;, so in the event they are lost\/stolen and subsequently retreived by Law Enfocrement then they have a means of returning them to you. The website is pretty cool as you can register a large number of items, it is: https:\/\/www.immobilise.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p502c8-5N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}