How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

On other expensive phones I've had (my Treos, in particular), there's been a very obvious way for people to find out whose phone it is, such as owner information on the lock screen, in case I lose it.

Is there anything at all like this for the N900?

Has anyone figured out how to hack information onto the lock screen?

-Robin

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

you can put a sticker with your name on it =)

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

You could have a contact on your home screen as 'you'...call it "My contact card" or even "Me" or something similar...an honest finder would surely see that and press it....
I've found a phone or two in the past and just looked up parents or mum/dad in contacts....did the trick :-)

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

or just your name and details as the wallpaper?

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

Cant you just edit the lock screens like they do for the themes and put whatever you want on it

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

The Contacts menu has a "My information" thing for that info. Not sure how discoverable that would be to someone who hasn't used Maemo, though.

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

Exactly! :D

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

Now there's an idea for an app. For the lock screen (the one where you type in a PIN to unlock the device), put a "reward if found" sign with some contact details.

It would then say "click to unlock" and proceed to the virtual number pad to allow you to enter the pin.

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

Brilliant....sounds like a brainstorm....:D

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

Currently it's even still in Bugzilla: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793 . I would have also expected it in Brainstorm, actually.

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

You can make a picture with your details in photoshop or some other program and put it as a backgroung for the lock screen.

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

Do we know how an app would lock the phone but present its own lock screen? If someone can point me to that, I might even try it myself.

-Robin

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

That's fantastic; how do you change the background for the locking screen? I can't find anything for that.

The other problem is that the slider on the right-hand side of the phone bypasses that entirely; it either opens the phone up or brings up the unlock password screen (which covers almost everything, so changing the background wouldn't help).

-Robin

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

/usr/share/themes/[themename]/lockslider.png (reference: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37013)

Re: How does a finder know it's my phone?
 

Does the app (optionally) phone home, notifying you of its whereabout while it's being run to show the finder your reward offer?