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Well done for getting it back!

I'm glad that the person didn't turn violent when you tried to take it back, or try and mug you for more things; sounds like an opportunity theft originally from someone not a hardcore criminal who then sold it on as soon as they could. You were lucky the new owner was as honest and also not out to scam you or make it worse for you.

I've also been very glad that I finally got round to installing and setting up smscon before my trip to the US late last year, though not as useful.

Even if you could have smscon stay in operation (not just on the phone in MyDocs or wherever) after a basic flash, that then leaves you the chance to have a completely bricked phone and not be able to recover it; flashing should wipe everything.

Hopefully many thieves/accidental-loss picker-uppers won't know that and they'll see the "return to factory" thing and just use that. There are too many different types of phones in the world for a regular joe to know how to clear all of them properly! Especially if they're just after selling it for cash rather than keeping it for themselves.

Glad to see you recover the phone.

After reading this, I'm leaving my laziness and installing SMSCON right now!

Thank you developers, and thank you OP.

Am i right that SMSCon is useless if you have a lock-code?

What do you mean exactly?

I have a lock code, so when i reboot i have to type it in for the phone to boot up. I read on the SMScon thread that having this negates the point of SMSCon because it will just stay at the lock screen and so the app won't be able to start

I would recommend you to active the following option:
smscon editor > general > unlock on new sim

Otherwise you're right. if the device is locked. It would find its way to the next garbage can very fast.

I didn't test if it works when the device is locked by default but if you have a second sim card, let us know...

greetings

What would have happened if you repeatedly made the phone call the emergengy police number (whatever equivalent of 911 you got over there)?

@TiagoTiago
I imagine the thieves would pretty quickly put the phone in as sack, throw the sack in a river, and hurl the river into space.

Last night I tried to analyzed the data on my phone and see if I could get something useful out of it such as gps coordinates or call list while it was out of my possession.

In the conversation log I've seen that the phone did receive my "Location" and "Trackon" commands, even though I never got replies to them.
They were also several times that the phone tried to send sms by itself but couldn't do that due to lack of credit on the (pre-paid) sim cards.
(You see a response message from the service provider) so I assume that those were messages triggered by smscon.
Unfortunately I couldn't see what was the original message.

I therefore checked the log in /tmp/smscon.log, but that file was extremely shot.

Could it be that the log file is erased with every phone or deamon restart?
If this is true I think it would be a good idea to keep all smscon logs and maybe even give the option to send it pair e-mail or upload it somewhere as a file etc.)

To this matter, does anybody know if the gps keeps a log somewhere.

lovely greetings