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My goonmate got the 16GB Nexus 7 less than a month ago, and despite that amazing thread on overclockers.co.uk (wherein the OP got his Galaxy SIII back with the help of Cerberus) she had not installed or configured Cerberus at the time it went missing. We remote installed the software, but it's useless until you configure it, confirmed by their support. We have the serial info from the box, but we didn't make note of the MAC address, nor the Android ID, and that's the sticking point that's really messing with efforts to find it. The MAC isn't on the box, and while my firewall logs a fair amount of info, for some reason it stopped logging around the 27th of January, so no entries exist with her Android ID or MAC, only the one for my phone. I've been to the area where she lost it, which might require more explanation, but basically these two bars are the ground floor, the owner lives upstairs, and he lets people crash there from Couchsurfer.com. Sometimes he also parties upstairs, and that's likely where the tablet went missing. Using Fing on my phone I located an Android device, manufactured by Asus, yet I can't conclusively say whether it's hers or not, since the Android ID is an unknown. So I've got this Android ID, the MAC address, and it's from the right manufacturer. I know the Android ID is used by the Google Play store to semi-uniquely identify a device, I say semi-unique as it can change over the life of a phone or tablet, it just seems like something I could verify somewhere. All my searches, though, take me to the developers wanting to pull the ID string for their app. I can't look up the ID from the Play store, or Gmail, is there some way I can positively identify whether this is her tablet or not? Could I figure out what the ID should be based on the info on the box? Edit: The questions still stand, because I still might not get it back, but the tablet was used to upload a pic of someone we know Saturday night to my roomie's Google+ account. Oddhair fucked around with this message at Feb 18, 2013 around 15:11 |
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Have you tried http://www.androidlost.com/ with https://play.google.com/store/apps/...jumpstart&hl=en (for tablets)?quote:No pre installation required
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Thanks a lot for the reply, that's great. Sadly, we had changed her Gmail password, so I don't expect it will work, but I'll keep trying. I know where they live and likely there's not internet, plus the guy has no phone, and the girl in question doesn't seem to like me. The boyfriend is supposed to be a good friend of mine, so we'll see how this goes, likely I can get both of them fired if I really need to press the issue. Edit: And now I feel like a dick, we finally got in communication with them and simply asked where it was and they told us, plus it hadn't left the bar at all. Best possible result I could have hoped for, really. For anyone with a new Android device, make note of the MAC address, the Android ID, and all relevant serial/IMEI/ESN info if at all possible. Also, install Lookout or Cerberus, especially if you have root. Cerberus can survive a full wipe if installed as a system app, and with root you can re-enable the GPS when it's off. I was mistaken about Fing, it doesn't find devices near you, but devices on the same network as you. If I had the MAC address I could have positively verified that it was the right item, same thing if I had a record of the ID. Oddhair fucked around with this message at Feb 19, 2013 around 14:00 |
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