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Re: Lost my N900

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Originally Posted by stefanmohl (Post 483176)

If you have access to a an SSH account, you can keep a reverse port-forwarding open at all times (I use a simple looping shell-script and ssh-agent to keep the port-forward open all the times). Then you should be able to log into the phone remotely.

In cases like this, such a port-forward would let you log in to your phone to format it, wherever it is (as long as it has data connection of some sort). You might even be able to start up the GPS and figure out where it is :-) Not sure how to access the GPS from command line, though. Anyone else know?

Could you write a step by step approach to doing this?

Re: Lost my N900

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Originally Posted by Naughty (Post 483155)

Lucky you to still have money to get new one.

I've never lost a phone either, just broken one. I use lock code on my N900 in case it gets into wrong hands.

Not that I had money lying around. I was about to order a Canon D50 and some lenses. had to put that on hold :(

Re: Lost my N900

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Originally Posted by greygoo (Post 483167)

Makes me wonder what the best way to track your phone would be. If the device is stolen and the thief connects to the internet, the N900 could be prepared to notify the original owner about its location and maybe send pictures of its surroundings, ideally triggered by entering the wrong unlock code (which of course requires it to be set by the user).

I personally have my phone configured to connect to my openvpn server at home by default and use sshfs to copy files to and from it, as this way i can access the phones memory wherever it gets connected to the internet as the ip adress of the tunnel device stays the same - amazingly one can even change from wlan to 3g while copying files using sshfs, just some short freeze while the tunnel reconnects. It's not as fast as usb but it's very very convenient.
I now realized that if my phone would get lost, I still could connect to it and would have shell access (i'm pretty sure there would be a way to retrieve gps coordinates from the shell), however setting up a openvpn server is not what everybody does in his spare time, so I wonder if there is another, more easy way to keep the phone accessible from remote, or at least let it connect home in periods.

A dyndns client for the n900 might do the trick, if there is also an ssh server running on the device. If there is interest and it's not yet existing, I'd try compiling some dynamic dns client. Not sure how the different interfaces get handled, but i think it should at least be possible to make the device remote accessible when it connects to wlan.

I have seen it suggested that one could have a daemon check a URL periodically and, should the URL return a flag that the device has been lost, start sending position updates by whatewver means appropriate (text, email, even uploading via ftp, pixelpipe or using the google latitude scripts that are beind discussed on other threads?)

I can't find the thread I'm thinking of, but a bit of google-fu turned up this, the principles of which should be fairly easy to adapt?

What I would I would like reported in this situation:
1) Best positon data available (from all means at the device's disposal), with time stamp.
2) Last solid GPS position.
3) Photos from fore and aft cameras (to ease locating it if it was simply dropped/mislaid somewhere).

Typing this it occurs to me that simply taking a geotagged photo and uploading it would give most of the gen I'd be after...

Re: Lost my N900

I have a lock code on mine after 15 mins.

I was thinking about putting a DynDNS service on my phone that pushed its public IP out and updated a sub domain record ... say n900.mydomain.com. I have sshd on the n900 so that way surely I could get to my phone no matter where it was. Provided it wasn't off or out of service that is ;)... might give it a try now actually.

Re: Lost my N900

i want to remotely access my n900 also, mainly to acces system files, anyone able to help me???? thanks

Re: Lost my N900

eyn that really sucks, I feel for you. Ordering a new one so quickly is probably one of the better examples of device loyalty out there. I wonder if Nokia marketing reads this forum .. ;-)

If I were you (knock on wood), I'd probably wait to order a new one until after Thursday's announcement of a new device (?), mostly out of curiocity.

Re: Lost my N900

please some one make antitheft software

Re: Lost my N900

Maybe something for the Brainstorm!??!?!

We can "add" a notification (Owner info?) on an empty space when you enter PIN/PHONE code when you turn the phone on... You might actually have a chance to get your phone back if it felt in good hands :)

This is an important value for the Phone I think! :)

Re: Lost my N900

Wouldn't the Google Latitude updater package help locate N900's that get lost?

I'm not sure if this part is working yet, but one of the project's goals was to have a Latitude update daemon that can run automatically in the background.

I mean, so long as the phone has got power and is not in off line mode, it should update it's position every few minutes to Google Maps.

Re: Lost my N900

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Originally Posted by yorg (Post 483144)

...goes to show that password protection (of the phone) is a good idea...

Currently all someone has to do to get access to the storage on the N900 is attach it to another PC as a mass storage device. The N900 "password" only protects the data when the device is turned on.

Try this:
1. Turn off device (thinking your data is secure)
2. Attach to PC as mass storage device
3. Peruse the data
4. Begin worrying

This is a massive security flaw (IMHO). Other phones that we laugh at (such as 3GS) even shred the data after too many attempt.

How do we get this fixed? Presumably it's a Nokia/Firmware thing rather than maemo...?

PS. Sorry, eyn, that you've lost your device. The only thing stopping me using the N900 for *everything* is just your situation with the above breach.