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I had a PM from the user aelsharawi recently, who asked me to update the ‘locate my phone’ profile on the Tasker wiki. Never one to step away from a challenge, I started pondering and then pondered a little further and decided that this is something I really need community input on to plan and construct.

Losing your device feels like losing a limb or a close family member and instead of sitting by the home phone (if anyone still uses one!) waiting for the police to call to say they have recovered it, wouldn’t it be better to know that you can still control it remotely and in the mean time it’s working hard to return itself to you, like a little, lost, soft, cuddly puppy… Ok then…

Even if you don’t yet use Tasker, please do contribute and tell me what you would like your device to do! Grab your free trial from here

Continue to read for my initial ideas and the up-to-date community input!

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Whilst pondering, I realised that should you be separated from your device, you may not always want to take the same action.

For example, if you know you’ve just left it on your seat on the train that is chugging out of the station, requesting Tasker to wipe all of your data and massively overclock the CPU so much that it sets on fire, probably isn’t what you’re after. Alerting a nearby passenger that it’s been left and a small reward is on offer for its safe return, would perhaps increase your chances of seeing it again.

Alternatively, if you’re pretty sure your device has just been swiped, a polite message of pretty please return me, hoping to play on the conscience of a thief, may not do the trick. A sleuth mode would be more appropriate here, where the device starts to mimic being asleep/off whilst all the time updating you of its location amongst other things.

Different eventualities such as the above made me realise I would need more than one profile for this, perhaps even a precautionary profile, so if I knew I was going out to get completely wasted, I could set the device to check it was still in my possession at regular intervals!

Anyway, you get the general idea… on to my list of what Tasker could theoretically do to help:

1)	Play very loud music

2)	Display a message of death threats

3)	Display a nice message

4)	Display a reward message

5)	Display a current location message

6)	Speak instructed text

7)	Email/text location

8)	Lock

9)	Wipe

10)	Encrypt

11)	Mimic being off/dead

12)	Partially disable

13)	Disable all buttons

14)	Brick

15)	Change splash Screen (I think?)

16)	Change Boot animation

17)	Shine torch

18)	Take a picture

19)	Text/email that picture

20)	Display that picture (!)

21)	Bluetooth the picture to nearby devices

22)	Bluetooth a file/message to nearby devices

23)	Send call logs

24)	Block calls

25)	Send text logs

26)	Make it call the local police station and then speak!

27)	Turn on a nearby TV

28)	Show pornography

So, the above are a load of possible things that popped into my head (and you can see I was running out of ideas near the end). I’m sure you can help me think of plenty more…?

Sadly, the one thing that isn’t possible is to make the device boot if it is off… Yes I know everyone’s Nokia could do this back in 1982, but sadly not our dear Androids… :confused:

Over to you folks, let me know your thoughts!

Please respect the forum rules and belittle other people’s ideas and opinions as much as possible. It’s so much more fun that way…

Just kidding!

Your ideas

29) Send voice recording

30) Video Call

31) Activate Mic (sleuth make/answer call)

32) Disable USB/recovery/fastboot (unlikely) - Anyone know if these can be disabled by deleting certain system files?

33) Request thief's personal info! (see #39)

34) React to movement

35) Set to speaker phone and make call

36) Request to insert charger!

37) Auto-dial a fake contact of very HOT girl and then activate forward facing camera!

38) Notify of new number is SIM is changed!

39) Fake 'initial Set-up' mini program, that Tasker will send out the input from <-- Volunteer to write this?!

40) Gestures active to tell when phone is tilted to take picture with rear camera (not a problem for front facing)

41) Mute camera sound and disable flash for sleuth mode

42) Everyone start posting pictures of HOT girls that we can use as the fake contact! (don't pretend you have real ones)

Example profile added to post #3 for ideas!