Guest Lew247 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 Is there any way to send a text message to an IMIE number instead of the phone number of a phone? If there was this would be very good for an application to track your phone if it was stolen and another sim card put into it. I did consider posting this elsewhere but it is related to the Blade as well as any other Android, and I only have a Blade at the moment.
Guest therealpongo Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 This sort of thing ? http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_global...mobile/overview
Guest Lew247 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 No unfortuntely I want to make (or get) an app that is able to send a text message to a phone by it's IMIE number, not the phone number This http://lifehacker.com/#!5611003/build-...one-for-android is what gave me the idea This article shows how to make an app that would do everything I wanted, but it sends an sms to the phones number not the imie which is no use if the phone is stolen and the sim is swapped If it is possible then an app like this could be made that would be brilliant, it wouldn't matter if the sim was swapped as you could always contact your phone and get it to send you its gps location as well as any other information you wanted.
Guest isambard Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 what good would sending a text to the phone do if it was stolen?
Guest feckineejit Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 what good would sending a text to the phone do if it was stolen? You could pester the S**T outta the person who stole it till they had enough and decided to return it :P
Guest Lew247 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 what good would sending a text to the phone do if it was stolen? If you'd looked at the article I linked to you'd have known Its so I could activate an app that send me the phones gps location as well as doing any number of other functions I had set it to do when it received the sms from me. IE tell me where my stolen phone was even if it had a different sim in it
Guest isambard Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 If you'd looked at the article I linked to you'd have known Its so I could activate an app that send me the phones gps location as well as doing any number of other functions I had set it to do when it received the sms from me. IE tell me where my stolen phone was even if it had a different sim in it for that purpose, just have the app send an SMS to you. then you know the number to send SMSs too. simples.
Guest Lew247 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 HOW would the app know the phone's been stolen and it needs to send the sms? hmm maybe not such a bad idea? IS it possible for an app to know the sim has been changed?
Guest Sebastian404 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 If your a teleco, and the device has been reused on your network,.. yes.. But in reality most stolen devices end up on a different network, and/or a different country
Guest Lew247 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 Which is exactly the reason I need to know if there is any way possible to send a text/communicate with a phone via it's IMIE number.
Guest ztedd Posted February 11, 2011 Report Posted February 11, 2011 (edited) technically, it would be possible but you would need the mobile service providers to cooperate which is unlikely. however there are 2 possibilities for your app: 1. it can check if the sim was changed - check if imsi is still the same. 2. it can connect to internet and check a website that you prepared. there is no 100% safe way.... as the rom can be changed and so on. even gps is not too accurate (especially in buildings) and needs to be active. I don't know if mobiles can be tracked by a special receiver if you are near enough? Edited February 11, 2011 by ztedd
Guest Lew247 Posted February 12, 2011 Report Posted February 12, 2011 It seems I'd need to somehow call this TelephonyManager getSubscriberId() which should give the imsi number Anyone got any ideas on how to do it?
Guest IronDoc Posted February 12, 2011 Report Posted February 12, 2011 Theftaware has a detect if sim changed option so it's definitely possible. In fact, theft aware is almost exactly what you're looking for. Hefty price though (I got it free thanks to the T-Mobile thing).
Guest isambard Posted February 12, 2011 Report Posted February 12, 2011 HOW would the app know the phone's been stolen and it needs to send the sms? hmm maybe not such a bad idea? IS it possible for an app to know the sim has been changed? you can't text an IMEI number only a phone number. so you need to find the phone number. yes it is possible. i'm writing such an app myself right now specifically for the purpose of recovering my phone if it is stolen. i store a database of known IMSIs and will text a stored/stored numbers when it detects a new IMSI not in the database.
Guest Lew247 Posted February 12, 2011 Report Posted February 12, 2011 That's exactly what I'm after, It will notice a new sim in the phone and then hopefully the app will "silently" turn the gps and wifi on and send a text about 30 seconds after the gps is turned on which includes the gps location at that moment in time. It would also be nice to be able to have the app "silently intercept" a text sent from a pre-stored phone number (mine) that will not ring the phone or store the sms in any way but instead simply re-turn both gps and bluetooth on and send the location each time it receives a sms from a preset number Hope that made sense.
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