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LoJack coming to Samsung GALAXY S4

Leveraging the same Absolute persistence technology used in LoJack® for Laptops, owners of Samsung GALAXY S4 will soon have an Android security software to recover their stolen smartphone. If stolen, only the Absolute Theft Recovery Team can help locate and return your smartphone. In addition, if the smartphone is lost, you can remotely delete files or lock the smartphone so nobody can access your stuff.
http://www3.absolute.com/lojackforlaptops/android
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Definitely something worth checking into.

According to this article the functionality and apparently the app are part of the recent MF9 OTA update.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...now-available-for-purchase-at-29-99-per-year/

What's stopping a factory reset/re-flash from rendering these services useless?
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mrzood said:
What's stopping a factory reset/re-flash from rendering these services useless?
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I read in another article that, that is actually the limitation you need to be running stock to take advantage of the LoJack feature.
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I believe the Knox app that was added with the MF9 update made this LoJack app able to work.
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I will have to look into this

Phone theft is out of control,
especially when it leads to murder.
Lol haha I had to paste that...
This looks like what cerberus can do but cerberus is completely free. Why should I pay for this... well if I'm not rooted maybe just maybe I would buy this.
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Just another enticement to run tracking software with the guise of locating your lost or stolen phone. F you nsa and your affiliates!

mikejones13 said:
Phone theft is out of control,
especially when it leads to murder.
Lol haha I had to paste that...
This looks like what cerberus can do but cerberus is completely free. Why should I pay for this... well if I'm not rooted maybe just maybe I would buy this.
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They will find your phone for you if its lost or stolen and I believe replace it if they can't.
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mikejones13 said:
Phone theft is out of control,
especially when it leads to murder.
Lol haha I had to paste that...
This looks like what cerberus can do but cerberus is completely free. Why should I pay for this... well if I'm not rooted maybe just maybe I would buy this.
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I could have really used this in June...I was on a cruise and my phone got stolen in a matter of minutes
Was watching a comedy show in the auditorium, left phone on chair to go get some napkins and boom...gone!!! i had lookout, but it doesn't do any good if there is no data in the open seas
At least with this, if they can't track it down, they will replace it
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Also, would this work if we are rooted stock/rooted custom?
or do we have to be unrooted Stock?

Its probably for enterprise phones like businesses and corps. They are the ones who would pay for security. Apple has a new feature that to use the phone you must sign into your apple cloud account and it stores your phone data and such there. If someone pops out your sim and tries to use it they have to sign in and if would fail because that device registers with your account only. A FREE feature btw. Samsung google and apple had a meeting in nyc about theft and possibly a kill switch on phones.
The only downside is the kill switch will be controled by the carrier so they can shut you down if they wanted to. #NSA
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robogoflow said:
Its probably for enterprise phones like businesses and corps. They are the ones who would pay for security. Apple has a new feature that to use the phone you must sign into your apple cloud account and it stores your phone data and such there. If someone pops out your sim and tries to use it they have to sign in and if would fail because that device registers with your account only. A FREE feature btw. Samsung google and apple had a meeting in nyc about theft and possibly a kill switch on phones.
The only downside is the kill switch will be controled by the carrier so they can shut you down if they wanted to. #NSA
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it's also for personal users
I called them today and they said it won't work if you are rooted and they said they have some "persistant" thing that makes it install OTA. but if someone roots your phone and installs a custom rom it won't work....but i guess the benefit of this is that if it does get stolen, they will give you 90% of the value, which at this point is $600

samsung note 3 hacked please help

I am having a really big problem. For two years and about 7 devices later I can't seem to fix my problem of my phone either recording my calls and tracking my location. I have tried almost everything. Even took my phone to a data dr. Which they said my phone was cloned and my phone company said my number was being spoofed. I've changed phones, numbers, and even phone company's, but still no luck. Can somebody help me please. Here are my logs

I have seen this in every device forum I have supported... Only once was it legit. The rest were just paranoid.
If you have been through 7 devices and multiple different companies, chances are that you are just paranoid. But... There is a small chance that an app that you have on your phone is Rouge...
Is it possible that you have a psycho boyfriend/husband that is installing tracking software on your phone?
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Also... It looks like you are on the AT&T note 3 using service through T-Mobile... Am I correct?
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Also, you make no mention of changing numbers.
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Does anyone have any idea why this occurred? AT&T couldn't answer my question.

I bought an S5 from Craig's list. Before buying the phone, I asked the AT&T rep. How I could tell if the phone has good IMEI. She told me as long as I put the sim in and can make calls, I should be good.
So when it came to buying the phone, I put the sim and made few calls. I even had data. To double check, I checked the IMEI online and it was clean.
I even called AT&T to verify the IMEI and they said it was clean. I even registered it under my account.
Fast forward to 2 days later, my phone gets blocked from the network and AT&T tells me that the imei is bad.
The question is: what happened?

I think this was happening to T-Mobile users too. The Original owner just stop paying the Jump, Next, Flex, Fruit Salad, or whatever the hell AT&Ts upgrade program is called. Users phones were being blacklisted days later.
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Att will only blacklist a phone that is reported lost or stolen. So what likely happened is after the person sold you the phone they reported it lost or stolen and filed an insurance claim. Did you happen to grab their license plate or any info that could identify them. Either way they either sold you a stolen phone or committed insurance fraud.
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Will AT&T black list a phone if the person cancels the contract?

MUFC17JW said:
Will AT&T black list a phone if the person cancels the contract?
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Most likely yes they will blacklist it if the contract is canceled if the phone has not been fully paid off.
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Check the IEMI again and see what it says now.
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I asked att that question in the past. The corporate customer care rep told me only phones reported stolen or lost were blacklisted by them.
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You can fix it by mailing phone to Joe the android rooter. I just got a nexus 4 that was blacklisted. For $50 and 1 week turnaround got it fixed. I think he can even do yours remotely for $80

JBrian420 said:
You can fix it by mailing phone to Joe the android rooter. I just got a nexus 4 that was blacklisted. For $50 and 1 week turnaround got it fixed. I think he can even do yours remotely for $80
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I think that's illegal
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Not if he swaps out the motherboard with a donor phone of same model. Guy sales service on ebay.

Oh that's true
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dirtydodge said:
Most likely yes they will blacklist it if the contract is canceled if the phone has not been fully paid off.
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Check the IEMI again and see what it says now.
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Then how are you supposed to buy used phones?
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This guy solves that dilemma. I don't condone buying stolen phones but if someone unknowingly buys a bad phone he can fix it in about 1 week turnaround and around $50.

For 50$ he must be doing IMEI changes cause no way in hell a motherboard from the s5 is 50$lol but hey do what you got to do. Some losers in this world like to do that bull****.
When I bought mine from Craigslist I had the guy remove it from his att account so he could not do what just happened to you.

yeah you can't get an s5 mobo for even what he charges. he is def flashing new IMEIs prob from old junk phones. sucks that every company blacklists for no bill pay now even when the phone has been active on someone elses line. next time call the company and see if the imei is currently tied to an account. pain in the booty but only way to be sure.

I have purchased many phones off eBay to repair and resell and have run into this many times. They report the phone lost or stolen after they ship it to you. At least on eBay you can open a case against them and get your money back. And sometimes you don't even have to ship the phone back! And now that the carriers are sharing blacklists the problem is compounded. I would be VERY wary about buying any phone less than two years old from Craigslist. I would make them show you a receipt for the phone paid in full or not buy it.

S6 active att locked on samsung account login screen***

hi my names nina and i am a innocent woman that bought a phone off this guy on craigslist for 100 dollars .he said it would work on T mobile and he said it was unlocked and he lied, its locked!!:crying::crying::crying: i gave it to my brother to try and bypass the samsung account screen, he spent days on you tube trying to root or do whatever you guys call it, i don know. I'm really stressed out because its supposed to be for my new job that takes this rabbit software for android .i can't use my iPhone for this app. XDA is my last resort to make use of this s6 active or I'm screwed because i don't have more money to buy another phone:crying: .its in mint condition and is water resistant and its doing nothing but sitting on the table!! Some one please save me ,my job starts in 5 days !
ps . theres no way to enable OEM unlock or usb debugging .whatever the hell that means ,my brother told me to put this on here, hope it helps.

What exactly is it telling you? Does it seem the phone was stolen? Have you checked the imei to make sure it is not blacklisted? I believe swappa.com has a free imei check to see if it's tied into another person's account. $100 seems a little too cheap for this device.
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hotbyz168 said:
What exactly is it telling you? Does it seem the phone was stolen? Have you checked the imei to make sure it is not blacklisted? I believe swappa.com has a free imei check to see if it's tied into another person's account. $100 seems a little too cheap for this device.
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this is what it tells me when im on the samsung screen after i log into google it takes me to samsung account login which you cant back out of once you are there. it says:
Samsung Account
This device is locked because of an abnormal factory reset.
Sign in to the Samsung Account that you have
already signed into on this device to confirm that it belongs to you.
Enter email ID____________
Enter password ___________
show password
EMERGENCY CALL
OH YEAH ,IME IS CLEAN

neinna2016 said:
this is what it tells me when im on the samsung screen after i log into google it takes me to samsung account login which you cant back out of once you are there. it says:
Samsung Account
This device is locked because of an abnormal factory reset.
Sign in to the Samsung Account that you have
already signed into on this device to confirm that it belongs to you.
Enter email ID____________
Enter password ___________
show password
EMERGENCY CALL
OH YEAH ,IME IS CLEAN
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Did you go into recovery and perform a factory reset? You do that and should be good to go.
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hotbyz168 said:
Did you go into recovery and perform a factory reset? You do that and should be good to go.
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yep that didnt work still stuck on samsung screen

neinna2016 said:
yep that didnt work still stuck on samsung screen
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What about firmware recovery through your desktop?
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I don't know anything about desktop firmware recovery, show mehow

I haven't worked with it in a while. But, go onto Samsung’s website and bring up the support page.
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads
Select mobile and fill out the info it asks you.
After you installed the software, look for software recovery. I'm on mobile right now, I'd give you a direct link to the software otherwise.
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hotbyz168 said:
I haven't worked with it in a while. But, go onto Samsung’s website and bring up the support page.
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads
Select mobile and fill out the info it asks you.
After you installed the software, look for software recovery. I'm on mobile right now, I'd give you a direct link to the software otherwise.
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Ok appreciate your help a lot , I'm looking it up right now

hotbyz168 said:
I haven't worked with it in a while. But, go onto Samsung’s website and bring up the support page.
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads
Select mobile and fill out the info it asks you.
After you installed the software, look for software recovery. I'm on mobile right now, I'd give you a direct link to the software otherwise.
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ok their is no recovery software online

If you feel comfortable enough, download Odin onto a windows pc. Then check out this thread here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63089878
Be very careful and make sure you put each file in it's proper place. Good luck!
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This method does not work. It's the samsung account lock on the phone. You cannot get past the samsung login screen. I have been trying to find a way to fix this for 6 days now with no luck

How to tell if the BOOTLOADER is Unlocked?

I know there's a lot of speculation after the S7 and S7 Edge where locked on T-Mobile that they know 7 will also be locked on T-Mobile. I've made numerous calls to T-Mobile and to Samsung. In the end 8ts anybody's guess right now. I have had every Note since Note 2 and have ALL been Rooted. When my phone gets delivered in the next hour or two I was wondering if there's any way I can check myself to see if the bootloader is unlocked?
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Lol I was wondering the same thing. How do you really know if it's unlocked or not?
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According to Chainfire on cf-auto-root. They said on the site that they routed the international version to go ahead and try it on the T-Mobile. If it's locked it won't flash if it's unlocked it will Flash
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@Rx8Driver should know.

My phone is out for delivery right now so I'm still waiting a few people have their phones but I don't think anybody's try to read them yet they're busy setting them up
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Brava27 said:
If that was the case, every variant in the world would be locked. BTW Canadian variant isn't locked.
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That's true if they're so worried about security why do they unlock the international version?
jaxenroth said:
@Rx8Driver should know.
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I asked him and got no response yet
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For those of you that don't want to trip Knox, I'd be very careful messing around with stuff until someone who doesn't care about their Knox counter has done it
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Truth be told I've tripped Knox on every device I've ever had and including my wife's we went through for Note 4 is with her because of the camera issue Knox was tripped every time and Samsung fix it everytime my Note 10 had a bad battery connection.. I sent it to Samsung while it was still rooted and they fixed it with Knox tripped I'm not telling anybody that ripped nox but I'm just saying I've always got away with it
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jaxenroth said:
@Rx8Driver should know.
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Just boot into download mode and look for Qualcomm secure boot enabled and Knox kernel lock
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I don't care either way as soon as mine gets here I'm going to find out!
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Straight from t-mobile

That's reassuring! Let's hope so! I wanna see twrp! Lol
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Buuuuuuut....he says directly from samsung, he don't say from them?
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DLUX24 said:
Straight from t-mobile
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You should rephrase and ask if the T variant from Them is unlocked lol he's accurate in his answer, the exynos variants direct from damaging DO come unlocked "directly from samsung"....
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Rx8Driver said:
That's reassuring! Let's hope so! I wanna see twrp! Lol
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Buuuuuuut....he says directly from samsung, he don't say from them?
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You should rephrase and ask if the T variant from Them is unlocked lol he's accurate in his answer, the exynos variants direct from damaging DO come unlocked "directly from samsung"....
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Their response

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Uh huh...but they'd have let you buy one thinking it was unlocked huh? Smh....
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How about documentation that it IS locked? Smh
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So then that's a for sure no basically
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asking a T mobile rep any technical information is like asking your dog the same question; you'll probably get a more accurate answer from Rover...

Following this thread
let us know when you get the phone to see if its locked or unlocked
im in the same boat....just waiting for the brown truck to swing by lol

DionWhite33 said:
Truth be told I've tripped Knox on every device I've ever had and including my wife's we went through for Note 4 is with her because of the camera issue Knox was tripped every time and Samsung fix it everytime my Note 10 had a bad battery connection.. I sent it to Samsung while it was still rooted and they fixed it with Knox tripped I'm not telling anybody that ripped nox but I'm just saying I've always got away with it
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I would be more worried about Samsung pay then warranty work.

Sub'd

I'm no dev, but I don't think it's locked. I booted into recovery mode, and rebooted to bootloader, and it was ready to download. Like you would to flash odin.

If it's unlocked you'll be able to flash anything if it's locked you can always flash Samsung stuff with the signature
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