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Find My iPhone Without MobileMe?

ThE.MeSsEnGeR

ThE.MeSsEnGeR

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Jan 26, 2009
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Santiago, Chile
Hey All!

Here's my case:
I'm not a MobileMe User... im not really that interested in paying $100/year for something i raaarely use...
BUT the 'Find My iPhone' Service is amazing!
and I would love to have it! but signing up for mobileme just for that is kinda expensive for me... (i know its like an insurance for my iphone if it gets stolen/lost )
is there anyway that i can use that service without MobileMe... or using something really similar... like: tracking my iPhone, remotely wipe it, sending messages to it, etc...

Thanks to all!!
 
Find My iPhone is basically useless. All it tells you is in which part of a city/town it is located. Oh wow! :rolleyes: How about telling me whether it's under my bed or in the fridge?
 
I know remote wipe is enabled in the enterprise. I am using a hosted exchange server for my data and they offer a remote wipe capability with the current iPhone OS.

As for Find My iPhone, I think it could be done by outside companies but it's probably one of the APIs Apple won't release to developers to prevent them from competing with MobileMe.
 
Pooshka said:
Find My iPhone is basically useless. All it tells you is in which part of a city/town it is located. Oh wow! :rolleyes: How about telling me whether it's under my bed or in the fridge?
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It's not for people who lose their iPhone in their bedroom (although it could be because it emits that pinging noise). It's for people who lose their iPhone miles away and don't realize they lost it until it's too late.
 
JBaker122586 said:
It's not for people who lose their iPhone in their bedroom (although it could be because it emits that pinging noise). It's for people who lose their iPhone miles away and don't realize they lost it until it's too late.
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Does this only work while the phone is on. What if it dies, will it still be able to track where the phone is?
 
There care already solutions avaliable via Cydia (needs Jailbreak) that do and will continue to offer similar functionality without the help of MobileMe.

//doobi18
 
They should be able to code it to work even if the phone is off. Here is my idea. When the phone senses it has around 10% battery life, it auto sends to mobileme servers the current location of the phone. That way, even if its off it will still tell you the last known location of the device.

I don't see why that wouldn't be possible?
 
cualexander said:
They should be able to code it to work even if the phone is off. Here is my idea. When the phone senses it has around 10% battery life, it auto sends to mobileme servers the current location of the phone. That way, even if its off it will still tell you the last known location of the device.

I don't see why that wouldn't be possible?
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Oh I'm fairly certain that it keeps the last known location when either the battery dies or it's turned off. What the other posters were saying is that if it gets moved after the battery dies, etc. the service obviously won't know about any further changes to it's location.
 
Peel said:
Oh I'm fairly certain that it keeps the last known location when either the battery dies or it's turned off. What the other posters were saying is that if it gets moved after the battery dies, etc. the service obviously won't know about any further changes to it's location.
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This is my understanding of it also.
 
I just found out that Lifelock has a service called LoJack for your pc or mac but as for the iphone, I am still searching around for that...
I am still using the free trial of mobileme and don't plan on paying for it just for the find my phone feature. I have a program called coconutidentitycard but it doesn't seem to work with iphones, just macs and ipods.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7D11 Safari/531.21.10)

Do u need to put in CC for trial of MobileMe?
 
I bought a full year subscription for iLocalis a few months ago. Its nice having so much peace of mind when i know im somewhere my phone could be an attempted thievery object.

Seriously, I NEVER purchase full subacriptions after trials but I couldnt live without the protection it gives.
 
iLocalis? Security question.

Sorry, but am I the only one concerned about privacy? So you guys sign up to a service (iLocalis) which is controlling your phone remotely? Including microphone access? There is even no statement on the iLocalis webserver on who is running this service (who is Antonio Calatrava?) from where, no privacy statement, etc?

Is there any alternative out there where you can collect the data and remotely control the iphone on a server which you own/control?

Sorry for the paranoia (maybe cuz I'm German). Hope to get some constructive feedback on this concern.

Dirk
 
find my iPhone is worthless

Find my iPhone is worthless because all the thieves are on to it and even if you have your phone locked with a pass code they have figured away around it. Besides even if it told you that your phone was in one of the apartments of a urban gang bang infested building which is most likely where it is are you gonna start pounding on doors ??
 
modfaith777 said:
Find my iPhone is worthless because all the thieves are on to it and even if you have your phone locked with a pass code they have figured away around it. Besides even if it told you that your phone was in one of the apartments of a urban gang bang infested building which is most likely where it is are you gonna start pounding on doors ??
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You can remote wipe it so the thieves can't get your info. Amazing Apple gives this for free now and people still complain
 
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