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  • L Lost User

    SerenityNowDev wrote:

    o, you click a button on your phone to find out where it is? :confused:

    No, that's just being silly. You press the button before you loose it, so it knows you will be looking for it. :|

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    OriginalGriff
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    I prefer the battery saving version, where you press the button once you find it.

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    • C CodeWraith

      Ok, I begin. C 8?

      I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

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      David Crow
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      CodeWraith wrote:

      C 8?

      I'm not in need of perfluorooctanoic acid, but thanks just the same. :rolleyes:

      "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

      "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

      "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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        CodeWraith wrote:

        C 8?

        I'm not in need of perfluorooctanoic acid, but thanks just the same. :rolleyes:

        "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

        "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

        "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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        CodeWraith
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        I thought you know the rules. 'Locate my phone' is played as follows: There is a 10 x 10 field grid, with the coordinates encoded as follows: Horizontally the letters A-J, vertically the numbers 1-10. In this grid you hide the following items: - No Windows Phone - One IPod, 2 fields in a row or diagonally - One Android Phone, 3 fields in a row, not diagonally - One IPhone, 3 fields diagonally, not in a row - One IPad, 3x2 fields - One selfie stick, five fields in a row or diagonally. We then take turns searching in each others grid. If a player finds an occupied field, he immediately gets another try. The first player to find all of the opponent's items wins. Ok, I look in C8.

        I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

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        • C CodeWraith

          I thought you know the rules. 'Locate my phone' is played as follows: There is a 10 x 10 field grid, with the coordinates encoded as follows: Horizontally the letters A-J, vertically the numbers 1-10. In this grid you hide the following items: - No Windows Phone - One IPod, 2 fields in a row or diagonally - One Android Phone, 3 fields in a row, not diagonally - One IPhone, 3 fields diagonally, not in a row - One IPad, 3x2 fields - One selfie stick, five fields in a row or diagonally. We then take turns searching in each others grid. If a player finds an occupied field, he immediately gets another try. The first player to find all of the opponent's items wins. Ok, I look in C8.

          I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

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          OriginalGriff
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          I'm not playing. I don't want to find any iApple iProducts.

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            I thought you know the rules. 'Locate my phone' is played as follows: There is a 10 x 10 field grid, with the coordinates encoded as follows: Horizontally the letters A-J, vertically the numbers 1-10. In this grid you hide the following items: - No Windows Phone - One IPod, 2 fields in a row or diagonally - One Android Phone, 3 fields in a row, not diagonally - One IPhone, 3 fields diagonally, not in a row - One IPad, 3x2 fields - One selfie stick, five fields in a row or diagonally. We then take turns searching in each others grid. If a player finds an occupied field, he immediately gets another try. The first player to find all of the opponent's items wins. Ok, I look in C8.

            I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

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            OriginalGriff
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            Does the grid have rounded corners? Because if it does, you are iNfringing iApple iPatents and may be iSued by iLawyers.

            Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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            "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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            • D David Crow

              For those of you with an Android phone that use a "locate my device" app, what are your recommendations? I installed Lookout years ago for the purpose of scanning apps for viruses/malware, and to locate my phone should I ever misplace it. Thus far, I've never had the need to locate my phone, but I've tried the feature out a few times (over several versions of the app) just to see how it performs. It never works, in that the information it gives me is months old. Last known locations are places I have not been to in weeks. When I tried it this morning, it reported I had a low battery...back in March 2017! So, do any of you use a similar app that actually does what it is supposed to do?

              "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

              "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

              "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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              pt1401
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              I use Where's My Droid and it saved me once when I left my phone on the train. I tracked it live from my house via GPS as it made it's way to Ramsgate - I remotely triggered the camera and got several shots of a guy who had picked it up and was either trying to unlock it or just being curious. At Ramsgate station he walked to his house which I then got shots of on StreetView. Then I phoned him and let him know that a) I knew he had my phone b) I knew what he looked like and what he was wearing c) I knew wthat he lived directly opposite an off licence in XXX street. ...and politely asked if he'd mind dropping my phone off at the local police station the next morning. He obliged ;) Of course he *might* have been planning to hand it in anyway.

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                Does the grid have rounded corners? Because if it does, you are iNfringing iApple iPatents and may be iSued by iLawyers.

                Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                iTdoesn't.

                I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

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                • D David Crow

                  For those of you with an Android phone that use a "locate my device" app, what are your recommendations? I installed Lookout years ago for the purpose of scanning apps for viruses/malware, and to locate my phone should I ever misplace it. Thus far, I've never had the need to locate my phone, but I've tried the feature out a few times (over several versions of the app) just to see how it performs. It never works, in that the information it gives me is months old. Last known locations are places I have not been to in weeks. When I tried it this morning, it reported I had a low battery...back in March 2017! So, do any of you use a similar app that actually does what it is supposed to do?

                  "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

                  "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

                  "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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                  GuyThiebaut
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                  I use Cerberus for my Galaxy S4 and it seems to work fairly well including extra stuff like taking a picture of my mug and emailing it to me whenever I get my login on the device wrong.

                  “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

                  ― Christopher Hitchens

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                  • D David Crow

                    For those of you with an Android phone that use a "locate my device" app, what are your recommendations? I installed Lookout years ago for the purpose of scanning apps for viruses/malware, and to locate my phone should I ever misplace it. Thus far, I've never had the need to locate my phone, but I've tried the feature out a few times (over several versions of the app) just to see how it performs. It never works, in that the information it gives me is months old. Last known locations are places I have not been to in weeks. When I tried it this morning, it reported I had a low battery...back in March 2017! So, do any of you use a similar app that actually does what it is supposed to do?

                    "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

                    "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

                    "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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                    Vikram A Punathambekar
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                    You don't need those apps anymore :) Sign into your Google account (same as your phone) from any other machine, open a browser, and search on Google for

                    find my phone

                    .

                    Cheers, विक्रम "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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                    • D David Crow

                      For those of you with an Android phone that use a "locate my device" app, what are your recommendations? I installed Lookout years ago for the purpose of scanning apps for viruses/malware, and to locate my phone should I ever misplace it. Thus far, I've never had the need to locate my phone, but I've tried the feature out a few times (over several versions of the app) just to see how it performs. It never works, in that the information it gives me is months old. Last known locations are places I have not been to in weeks. When I tried it this morning, it reported I had a low battery...back in March 2017! So, do any of you use a similar app that actually does what it is supposed to do?

                      "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

                      "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

                      "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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                      Tim Carmichael
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                      In the mid-80s, I worked with someone that used mechanical pencils. Since this was long before the 'Find My xxx' apps, he attached a string of rubber bands to his pencil with other end tied to his lab code pocket. Maybe you could so the same? 8)

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                      • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                        You don't need those apps anymore :) Sign into your Google account (same as your phone) from any other machine, open a browser, and search on Google for

                        find my phone

                        .

                        Cheers, विक्रम "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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                        PeejayAdams
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                        That's really rather cool. I don't ever have location stuff turned on (I'm too paranoid) but I'm forever losing it at home when it's on silent so the ring-out feature is mega-useful.

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                        • D David Crow

                          For those of you with an Android phone that use a "locate my device" app, what are your recommendations? I installed Lookout years ago for the purpose of scanning apps for viruses/malware, and to locate my phone should I ever misplace it. Thus far, I've never had the need to locate my phone, but I've tried the feature out a few times (over several versions of the app) just to see how it performs. It never works, in that the information it gives me is months old. Last known locations are places I have not been to in weeks. When I tried it this morning, it reported I had a low battery...back in March 2017! So, do any of you use a similar app that actually does what it is supposed to do?

                          "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

                          "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

                          "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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                          I would recommend nuts[^].

                          Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                            I would recommend nuts[^].

                            Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                            David Crow
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                            All of those devices require others with the same device to have walked within a certain distance of yours. I can't recall the name but it is group- or community- something or other. Not much of a help when your phone is rarely in a crowded area.

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                            • Z ZurdoDev

                              RJOberg wrote:

                              the built in "Find My Device" for locating my phone

                              So, you click a button on your phone to find out where it is? :confused: I'm sure I must have misread that somehow. :^)

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                              SerenityNowDev wrote:

                              So, you click a button on your phone to find out where it is?

                              The feature you turn off and on is called "Find My Device". Once turned on, which does require location tracking permissions to be turned on. Once activated, you can log into your Google Account on any PC and access additional functionality. Things like last known location of the phone, remote lock, remote wipe, and having the device ring so you can find it after it slides between the couch cushions. At least that is what was available when I looked about a year ago.

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                                SerenityNowDev wrote:

                                So, you click a button on your phone to find out where it is?

                                The feature you turn off and on is called "Find My Device". Once turned on, which does require location tracking permissions to be turned on. Once activated, you can log into your Google Account on any PC and access additional functionality. Things like last known location of the phone, remote lock, remote wipe, and having the device ring so you can find it after it slides between the couch cushions. At least that is what was available when I looked about a year ago.

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                                ZurdoDev
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                                Got it. Good to know.

                                There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                                  I would recommend nuts[^].

                                  Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                                  Jeremy Falcon
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                                  That's what she said.

                                  Jeremy Falcon

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