Seems a little odd for you to be laying down ground rules that you yourself can't be bothered with. Why are the ones you listed the best of the best? Why do others like Lookout fall short?
And, who, by he way, are"we?"
Not much of a discussion.
Firstly, my comment is that all the free app named have no remote enabling of GPS. This means that the mapping will have big flaws. I saw AVG has this functionality but not much else.
But really i have a question: If I am a thief really...i don't waste time uninstalling app that are hidden (which anyway is easy using titanium something). neither i am interested in going through messages to access data... who cares! At most I can find naked bodies... I would just reset the phone on the manufacturer setting and automatically wipe off everything and sell it on gumtree! Is there any app that would survive that??
Firstly, my comment is that all the free app named have no remote enabling of GPS. This means that the mapping will have big flaws. I saw AVG has this functionality but not much else.
But really i have a question: If I am a thief really...i don't waste time uninstalling app that are hidden (which anyway is easy using titanium something). neither i am interested in going through messages to access data... who cares! At most I can find naked bodies... I would just reset the phone on the manufacturer setting and automatically wipe off everything and sell it on gumtree! Is there any app that would survive that??
I'm currently evaluating Cerberus. Overall it's a great app, but it does have one serious flaw which I describe here:
Evaluation of Cerberus anti-theft app
I would be interested to hear if this has become an issue for others.
Pete
Cerberus can be installed as a system app if you are rooted in which case it is claimed that it will survive a wipe or reset to factory defaults. I have it installed as a system app, but have not verified that feature. As mentioned, however, Cerberus has a major flaw IMHO as described here:Firstly, my comment is that all the free app named have no remote enabling of GPS. This means that the mapping will have big flaws. I saw AVG has this functionality but not much else.
But really i have a question: If I am a thief really...i don't waste time uninstalling app that are hidden (which anyway is easy using titanium something). neither i am interested in going through messages to access data... who cares! At most I can find naked bodies... I would just reset the phone on the manufacturer setting and automatically wipe off everything and sell it on gumtree! Is there any app that would survive that??
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