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Background: Every ones in a while and for some reason or the other, I find myself rummage around (often in the dark) after my phone. Nine times out of ten, I find it with the display facing down. This really starts to irritate me, especially when I put the phone in my pillowcase since I use the lovely Sleepanalyser or just put it really "away-away". Sometimes even that do any good, without any booze involved.

tl;dr. This raises some questions.
· Hardware hacks?
· Software hacks?

Hardware hacks : Well, this bit seem an easy one. However, how well executed.. oh time will tell. I ordered a some Ultra Green v10 Glow in the Dark Powder that I will mix with epoxy and err.. smear that glue err.. "around a bit". At first I thought about fill the Nokia letters, but since I always hated logos generally and as you all know, all to well about "certain recent events" have not made me less reluctant so to speak...

Software hacks : I guess one could ssh in the phone/call with skype/call it with another cell. But besides that I know next to nothing.

Is it even possible to monitor the mic, without draining the battery "in mere seconds" ?
It would be really nice to have some "Here boy *whistle*"-application.

I would like this one

What about bluetooth? There There should be a way to code something that you could launch at the when you go to sleep and that yould make the phone vibrate or ring when you press a button for example using a ps3 pad.

LOL
My wife and I both use a N900, would be nice if we can let one or the other ring at the push of a button: via wifi?

question (probably answered a 100 times at this forum): isn't Bluetooth very power hungry?
It used to be on my SE G900.

(btw don't own any game consoles…, I know, I know, I am ashamed)

Bluetooth is quite hungry for power, yes.

To answer your initial question though, use skype. I guess you are connected to a wifi-AP, otherwise I suppose you could install mumble or the like on a local server. There is also something that tickles the back of my brain, lets see later on if it pops out or not.

How about just a small glow-in-the-dark sticker? I bet a small one will be enough...

"There's an app for that!"

Not really. I leave it on all the time because I often use bluetooth headphones and it is a pain turning it off and on all the time. When on but not connected it doesn't use much power at all. When my N900 is left idle overnight with Bluetooth on it typically loses about 1% battery every 2 hours.

If you're always finding it laying around face down; perhaps tie a piece of buttered toast to the back of it?

hmm.. but maybe when you can't find your phone in the dark, you might try turning on the light..lol