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[Q] Stolen Samsung Galaxy

Hey guys,
i have got a little problem:
my Galaxy S was stolen this weekend and because i'm kind of naive i didn't configurated any anti-theft software, neither nor uTrack. Well is there any possibility to track it by using the IMEI No? (it's already not accessible via my phone number)
I already complained to the police. But because i hope that here is some crack who has a idea what else i can do
I'm looking forward to read some hints !
Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure if this would work...
but if someone does take it online, the new number should get registered against your google account (provided it is saved and turned on by default)...
so you might be able to get their new phone number and ask the police to locate them with help of the network operator?

if it should be so easy, where can i fand that option? (i'm honestly not used to the google webinterface)

Try google dashboard: https://www.google.com/dashboard/?hl=en&pli=1
Also go on the market interface on web, in the settings you can see the last time your account was accessed and the carrier used

also you should be able to report the imei to your carrier which can put it on a blacklist to be blocked so it would be useless as aphone.

if u blacklist it however you wont ever be able to track it.
im not sure where u live, but if u discuss the situation with the police, carrier and google they should be able to triangulate and find the location of the phone.
also, if there was a remote wipe facility u could have saved your private data.

lgkahn said:
also you should be able to report the imei to your carrier which can put it on a blacklist to be blocked so it would be useless as aphone.
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and i'll highlight the importance of that again
if it's stolen, it is stolen, it's gone, you wont be able to recover it unless you had installed some of those protective apps in the past.
if you do get lucky enough to find your phone
your carrier will be more than happy to remove it from the black list
so do it now!

[Q] s3e.icf???????

i am running 2.3.5 on my motorola droid in an effort to be able to play call of duty black ops zombies on my phone. there is a problem though whenever i start the app i get "Error (marmalade v6.1.0) could not find s3e.icf, either embedded or as an external file. i figured someone could help me as i dont know what to do here, i feel like i might have to edit something in the code but as i said i really dont know and could just use some advice on what to do besides going out and buying a different phone.

Create own Secret Code

Is it any possible to create your own secret code to show up some text or picture on wp8 and if It is, how?
You know what I m talking about, like when you type *#06# your IMEI will show up.

No. Most GSM short codes aren't even controlled by the phone OS at all, as far as I know. The handful of codes that are phone-controlled, such as the ones to install/launch various diagnostics apps, require more permissions to create or edit than we currently have access to.

GoodDayToDie said:
No. Most GSM short codes aren't even controlled by the phone OS at all, as far as I know. The handful of codes that are phone-controlled, such as the ones to install/launch various diagnostics apps, require more permissions to create or edit than we currently have access to.
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Thank you.

Accessing features in Windows phone 8(.1) development

When developing an application for desktop windows, there's always a way to access functionality - sometimes through back doors like the registry, etc... I'm developing an application for Windows Phone 8.1, but there are certain pieces of functionality that aren't exposed in the PRT APIset that is available to me. For example, we want to ensure that the user has password protection on the lock screen when using the application. There doesn't seem to be any associated APIs to readily use. So my question is, are there back door ways to do such things? How? Is there a way to access ALL system settings - like a registry or something of the like?

proch said:
When developing an application for desktop windows, there's always a way to access functionality - sometimes through back doors like the registry, etc... I'm developing an application for Windows Phone 8.1, but there are certain pieces of functionality that aren't exposed in the PRT APIset that is available to me. For example, we want to ensure that the user has password protection on the lock screen when using the application. There doesn't seem to be any associated APIs to readily use. So my question is, are there back door ways to do such things? How? Is there a way to access ALL system settings - like a registry or something of the like?
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Another question would be - if something like intune can enforce lock screen password policies, shouldn't I be able to do it the same way that intune does it? If so, how? If not - why not?

It's not possible to check if user enabled lock screen password or not as far as I know
but if you want to made your app secure (because it may include important data)
you can create a password for your own application !
I did it in a little notepad app my password page allow user to set a password with all English and Persian Characters , numbers and special Chars like [email protected]#$ and etc.

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It's pretty easy to check, using the registry, but at least in 8.0 that's not allowed at all for store apps (your app would get rejected). I don't know if the rules changed for 8.1. There are ways to sneak past the store checks, but they could pull your app from the store if they ever found out. I know of at least three ways to access the registry APIs (4 in WP8.1) and two of them are pretty hard to detect unless somebody checks for them specifically... but they're the kind of technique that malware uses, so such checks may be in place.
I don't know what InTune is doing, specifically - I'd need to pull the app apart to see - but there are special application capabilities (not normally available to third-party developers) that can query and even set policies. Apps without those capabilities will get Access Denied if they try to use the same methods though, and normally you can't add those capabilities to your app.

GoodDayToDie said:
It's pretty easy to check, using the registry, but at least in 8.0 that's not allowed at all for store apps (your app would get rejected). I don't know if the rules changed for 8.1. There are ways to sneak past the store checks, but they could pull your app from the store if they ever found out. I know of at least three ways to access the registry APIs (4 in WP8.1) and two of them are pretty hard to detect unless somebody checks for them specifically... but they're the kind of technique that malware uses, so such checks may be in place.
I don't know what InTune is doing, specifically - I'd need to pull the app apart to see - but there are special application capabilities (not normally available to third-party developers) that can query and even set policies. Apps without those capabilities will get Access Denied if they try to use the same methods though, and normally you can't add those capabilities to your app.
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Thanks for this great and detailed information. See, that's exactly what I'd do if I were developing a desktop app - since i know that intune does it, I'd figure out how intune does it and voila. I'm finally getting over the idea that the same methodologies apply to windows phone development.
For my own educational purposes (since I want to understand this platform better), I would really like to know specifically how you go about accessing the registry APIs (for example). If there's any way for you to describe any number of these methods, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks again!

My NativeAccess libraries (check my signature, or search on the forum or on Codeplex) contain an example of one way to access the registry. The code is open-source; you may use the libraries as-is (don't expect to get them into the store, though I won't stop you from trying), use the source code as a reference, or modify/build them yourself; the license is very liberal (MS Permissive). The functions I use are generally documented on MSDN, in the desktop APIs section; the phone has the same functions, although the DLL names are changed and the header files hide them.

Make sure apps don't get rejected

Hi,
I have created an application using Phonegap for a platform similar to Wordpress. The app allows users to login into their accounts, view personal messages, files, etc. Now, I want to publish the source code so that developers can grab their own copy of it and submit it to the PlayStore/Appstore. What I am worried about: Apps sometimes get rejected due to the fact that they are similar to another one. Is there any way to prevent this? A few colors and the site name will be changed by the site owners, but the core will stay the same. I saw many companies selling apps like I am planning to do and it doesn't seem like there are any problems. How can they make sure there is no rejection because of the similarity (in this case in my JS files)? Should I change the source code for every copy of it? (this might be pretty hard but I could change the order of my JS functions or rename some objects, randomly include some useless scripts etc) Or am I just way too worried about this?
Thanks for your help