Thread: have stolen nokia "call home" with its ip address
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2008-07-12 , 16:16
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Originally Posted by dannemil View Post
You're probably right. At least that way you could track it. I am working on one of the earlier suggestions to incorporate gps latitude/longitude data in the file that is sent home. I think it will work, but one problem is that the gps on the N810 takes a long time to get a fix on the satellites, so you would have to turn on the gps from the command line which can be done, but it would have to be on for a long time before you could get the data, and the thief might notice the icon that indicates that the gps is on.
That's why I suggested to send "last known" position, instead of trying to get a GPS fix. If somebody stole it they are almost certain to use the Map at some point of time... and would wait the GPS to have fix. Then the app can just read the coordinates data and possibly time stamp with it. Then it would not draw the thief attention he's being spied/watched.

If the "call home" applet reports every few minutes, you could even draw the router the thief was driving, assuming he had active internet connection.