HELP! Lost Phone

[Connoisseur]

Hey guys. So stupid me left my Samsung Galaxy s3 at a restaurant and when I came back 5 minutes later to find it it was gone. I'm assuming it was stolen because any attempt to call it resulted in straight to VM.

I'm trying to remotely push android lost to get access but obviously it won't work unless the phone is on. In the meantime, i'm concerned that they'll have access to my emails. The other stupid thing is that I didn't have a password setup because I had just finished wiping the phone and installing the basic apps.

Is there a way I can restrict the phone from getting access to my gmail accounts? If I change the password in gmail, will this do the trick? Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm so mad right now. Both at my own stupidity and the jerk that stole the phone.

 

[ImDonly1]

Change passwords for email, google play, etc.

 

[Silenus]

Push Plan B, but probably too late for that. Change google account password ASAP..enable 2 factor auth as an extra measure perhaps. That should cover all your google services. If you were running the most recent Chrome mobile that can save login info, and you have any other critical accounts (banking ect) with passwords saved in Chrome, change those passwords too.

It's been along time but same has happened to me at a movie theater. Left phone in cup holder and started to walk away. I remember less than a minute later...I wasn't even out of the theater yet and ran back to my seat...phone gone already. :-/ Anyway...future suggestion = Cerberus. Awesome tool. Can locate, remote wipe, take photos, and tons of other stuff. If rooted it can be set to even persist after someone does a factory reset AND even if someone changes SIM card/phone number it can still alert you. Awesome bit of software.

 

[corkyg]

When I lost my phone (another stupid story!) I immediately called my service provider and they killed the phone! BTW - I eventually got the phone back!

 

[Connoisseur]

When I lost my phone (another stupid story!) I immediately called my service provider and they killed the phone! BTW - I eventually got the phone back!

I was able to push Android Lost on the phone and was able to lock it and wipe the SIM. I even GPS located the phone and tried to track it down with a friend with the alarms and whatnot but this was in the Charlotte bus station/epicenter area so there was no way to hear it or locate the perp. The guy shut it off again. Regardless, I reported it with AT&T and sent a Wipe command via android lost so the next time they turn it, it should erase everything.

How did you get the phone back? Did the service provider confiscate it or something?

 

[RedRooster]

When I lost my phone (another stupid story!) I immediately called my service provider and they killed the phone! BTW - I eventually got the phone back!

What if the crooks put in their own sim from another network, can your service provider kill the IMEI even when its not on their network?

 

[MotionMan]

I was able to push Android Lost on the phone and was able to lock it and wipe the SIM. I even GPS located the phone and tried to track it down with a friend with the alarms and whatnot but this was in the Charlotte bus station/epicenter area so there was no way to hear it or locate the perp. The guy shut it off again. Regardless, I reported it with AT&T and sent a Wipe command via android lost so the next time they turn it, it should erase everything.

There is a movie script in there. My first question would be is it an innocent person losing their phone and a really bad guy finding it, or the other way around.

MotionMan

 

[Connoisseur]

There is a movie script in there. My first question would be is it an innocent person losing their phone and a really bad guy finding it, or the other way around.

MotionMan

That's a bit of an existential question. I don't THINK i'm a bad guy. Regardless, it was my phone that I bought with my own legally earned cash so it's a moot point.

If I had found it, my co-worker and I decided it would have been an epic story to tell... at least as far as every day stories go. Unfortunately, for every epic story there's about a hundred flops so I guess it wasn't my day.

I'm not so mad now. I was just really worried they'd have access to my photos and mail accounts. Assuming Android Lost works like it should, I had it lock the phone, wipe the photos, and-as a passing F**K YOU-had it wipe the phone altogether. It's blacklisted with AT&T now so I don't know what options they have. I guess they could perhaps switch it to another network like T-mobile?

Now comes the bigger question... Do I get an HTC One now, wait for a Galaxy S4 or other...?

 

[lothar]

Let this be a lesson for you:
1.) Enable Google 2-step authentication
2.) Buy Cerberus from the Play Store.

 

[s44]

Cerberus *is* a basic app.

S4 ships in two weeks, so you might as well wait... You can return it if Moto shows something really big at I/O.

 

[Connoisseur]

Let this be a lesson for you:
1.) Enable Google 2-step authentication
2.) Buy Cerberus from the Play Store.

I do have two step authentication. Doesn't help much if it's linked to the phone that's stolen. I changed the phone number temporarily to my fiancee's until I get a new one.

I'll have to look into cerberus.