Just found a feature on my phone which I didn't know I had... remote phone locking.
Send your phone a text with a code of your choosing and it locks itself!
Pretty cool if it gets lost or stolen. I didn't even know it was there.
Is this new in V12?
Remote Phone Locking
It works if-and-only-if they don't remove your SIM card to use their own, so you'd have to do it immediately after they took your phone.
If they remove the sim the phone locks anyway so no problem.
andonevris wrote:If they remove the sim the phone locks anyway so no problem.
Not exactly...my Nokia 9300 PDA/Smartphone will not make calls without a SIM card, but all the PDA functions are still available.
Besides, all the thief has to do is insert their own SIM card and they have a bright shiny new N97 working on a different number.
To make the phone stop working (as a phone) with any SIM card, you need to call your operator and report the IMEI as being stolen.
The phone will still work as a PDA.
** back to your original question if this was a new v12 feature--NO..it is in many phones. Even my three-year-old Nokia 9300 had this feature.
Can't you use the 'lock if sim card changed' option to stop that?
I suppose you could.
Seft wrote:Can't you use the 'lock if sim card changed' option to stop that?
That's what I was talking about obviously.
Can't say I've seen remote locking before, maybe wasn't looking hard enough... but I like it.
once youve used this it will lock your memory card with the same password
if you use this and a lock code with lock on sim swap and a pin code then your phone will be pretty protected untill you get to report it