lost desire is data secure?

[Guest ringsting]

Hi,

lost my desire at the weekend....very drunk........

what can be recovered by whoever found it? it had the swipe code lock on. have called to get it barred etc... to bypass this lock would they be able to do a factory reset on it? if so this will wipe everything but the data on mem card or does it wipe it too? it was origianlly on orange but rooted and was running the latest release of pauls custom rom.

reason i ask is since its rooted and custom rom what will happen in a factory reset will it be stuck in a boot loop or anything?

thanks

[Guest bpivk]

Hi,

lost my desire at the weekend....very drunk........

what can be recovered by whoever found it? it had the swipe code lock on. have called to get it barred etc... to bypass this lock would they be able to do a factory reset on it? if so this will wipe everything but the data on mem card or does it wipe it too? it was origianlly on orange but rooted and was running the latest release of pauls custom rom.

reason i ask is since its rooted and custom rom what will happen in a factory reset will it be stuck in a boot loop or anything?

thanks

They can:

Pull out the SD card and use the data there.

Wipe data and use your custom rom.

Install a new rom.

Brick the phone. Come here for help and fix the phone. Then use the phone.

Sorry but you're out of luck.

[Guest Lamhir]

They can:

Pull out the SD card and use the data there.

Wipe data and use your custom rom.

Also, if he rooted his phone, the "new owner" could also access all files via recovery. He could then simply boot in recovery, do fake flash or whatever else he desires, start Clockwork and then i.e. make a nand backup, delete certain files (i.e. screen lock), then put his SIM Card and access everything on your phone.

If you think you just lost it, you could always try to call your mobile carrier support and ask them to enable GPS/3G tracking (i.e. find out the approximate position of the phone by triangulation via cell towers). So if you just lost it, you would know an approximate position where you lost it and if its still there. Then (if it's there) go out there and call yourself from another phone and see if it rings somewhere near that place :). Triangulation should be able to point it down to 50-100 meters.

Edited November 4, 2010 by Lamhir

[Guest volatile_ink]

Call your operator, Get your sim and imei blocked. Will thwart Joe Average and give you some peace of mind.

A smart phone that can't phone... useless.

Edited November 4, 2010 by volatile_ink

[Guest trstn]

Take it you didn't install Wavesecure from the kitchen?

[Guest Paul]

On the whole, you're fairly safe from 99% of thieves... apart from data on the sdcard.

Really, this is a good reason for installing something like Wavesecure, which would have let you track it on a map (if it was on).

P

[Guest ringsting]

cheers guys, yeah it was off after i lost it sure the battery prob died making any wiping software etc useless anyway. had my lookout installed but its crap and didnt do much apart from save my contacts i never had the gps on as it ate the battery. not too worried about the sd card just photos on it no big deal nothing exciting was only the 4gb one anyway.

phoned the operator got it barred the next day. insurance covered the phone getting a cheque for it but have went and bought a san francisco thatll do me instead.

[Guest Lamhir]

cheers guys, yeah it was off after i lost it sure the battery prob died making any wiping software etc useless anyway. had my lookout installed but its crap and didnt do much apart from save my contacts i never had the gps on as it ate the battery. not too worried about the sd card just photos on it no big deal nothing exciting was only the 4gb one anyway.

GPS only eats battery if it's actually used, not if it's just on. And if you have apps which use the GPS all the time, even if you don't actively use a specific GPS-required app, than i'd recheck my apps as it's not normal that GPS should be used while you're phone is on sleeping or just on desktop w/o running stuff that really requires GPS