Turning a Nokia e90 into a doorstop.

[Hosehead]

My phone is stolen and hopefully blacklisted but the service provider is taking their time to provide the I.T.C number- so, assuming they will, is there any reason to hope for that warm fuzzy, tingling, compensatory feeling that whoever has it will not be able to unblock it at all? Would it be hard to sell?
Supposing it ended up in another African country would it still work?
My concern is the activated Garmin chip. I don't want to have to pay the once off R800 again to have it activated on a replacement handset, but at the same time I have sleepless nights knowing that some Mo****er is driving around with a free GPS, free music, free camera and video, and free office applications

 

[waynegohl]

just wondered is there any way to track your phone if someone is using the GPS.

 

[Hosehead]

just wondered is there any way to track your phone if someone is using the GPS.

No. Apparantly not. Said someone on the forum in another thread.

 

[waynegohl]

oh ok just wondering cause maybe it could be traced.

 

[Hosehead]

oh ok just wondering cause maybe it could be traced.

I'm sure it can be traced, but for peons and riff raff like us who don't get blue light escorts. Nobody cares about them

 

[waynegohl]

true. thats where a hacker comes in.

 

[Hosehead]

true. thats where a hacker comes in.

I think, but stand to be corrected, that the e90 cannot be hacked

 

[Peon]

I'm sure it can be traced, but for peons and riff raff like us who don't get blue light escorts. Nobody cares about them

I dont think I like the tone of your voice young man!

Seriously though. Whatever is on your phone can be taken off. Tracing on its own is impossible. I wonder if its possible to attach a tracking device to your cellphone. Like in Enemy of the state.

 

[waynegohl]

yeah what i was thinking was along the same line,if the person using the gps on the phone then maybe the phone is also giving off some sort of signal that can be traced. but now we talking money here.