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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
nueGPSSecurity - basically an anti-theft thing I'm sure many of you have seen/used before. The difference of course is that nueGPSSecurity is much more lightweight (~17kb) and you'll probably forget that its installed...

12/17 - updated to version 1.1

12/17 - updated to version 1.11 critical update!!! please download (see http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2008/12/17/nueGPS-Critical-update.aspx)

12/25 - updated to 1.2

To talk to the service, send a text message:

!nuegps<pin> <action>

where pin is your pin number, and action is one of these action verbs:

version: display version number

status: get system status

getpos: text back next position fix (auto-start gps)

quickpos : gets your position and turns gps off after

getlink: gets a link to google maps with the position of the phone

quicklink: gets a link to google maps with the position of the phone, turns gps off after.

alarm: turns on an alarm and takes phone off silent/vibrate

alarmoff: turns the alarm off

track: tracks your phone’s current position and uploads the position online.

stoptrack: stops uploading your position online.

Track uses a google maps+street view interface to display a visual of your phone location. You’ll need to be a donator to take advantage of the feature (again, due to server cost issues) and generate a token for your phone using the donator control panel (If you have an old token, you’ll have to generate a new one because this feature requires the new phone field). Once you’ve done that – login here: http://www.nuerom.com/nuedonate/gpslocator.aspx and select your phone to view its location. Note that the application currently only records the last 5 minutes of your location and only records if you’ve donated at least 5$.

help: display this help message

start: start gps monitor

stop: stop gps monitor

update details: http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2008/12/25/nueGPSSecurity-v112.aspx

original post http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2008/12/14/nueGPSSecurity.aspx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aRnonymous:
that's pretty cool.

looks very simple and leightweight.

i will check it out.

one questiong though, if i send an sms and the phone is inside will it wait until it has a good gps fix and only then send a message?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aguas:
any thoughts about having it send a google maps .kml file via email to a predesignated email address?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] imfloflo:
Nice soft small but very usefull
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
yeah, that sounds like a good idea... shouldn't take too long to implement =)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
ok updated, no KML yet, but google maps link is there.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kunz:
Is it possible to add a feature where it will detect if a new/different sim card is put into the phone?

For example, we can have a set registry entry myphone="12345678" - upon startup, if the nuegps service finds out if the entry in the registry is not the same as the number of the simcard, it will automatically initiate a quickpos/getpos and send an SMS to myphone, = "12345678".

This can be useful if the phone is stolen and the thief puts in a new simcard.

An extension to the above idea would be to have another registry entry "emergencycontact" = "99999999" (basically your spouse/gf/friends number) where the SMS gets sent to instead of "phone".
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
yeah, im thinking of how to implement that; i come from the cdma world where it is not really a big deal (since we have no sim card) , here is the problem:

the code is only launched when there is an incoming message (this is why the memory footprint is so small) to detect when the sim is removed, the code needs to be running at all times (or maybe just at startup). I'm thinking the solution is to make a lightweight service for this purpose.

anyway, i have your suggestion now i'll see what i can do =)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
A slightly embarrassing error: Version 1.1 of nueGPSSecurity has a bug when you send “getlink” that causes it to send lots of text messages (basically whenever your position changes…)

This is fixed in version 1.11. Sorry for any problems it might have caused.

http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2008/12/17/nueGPS-Critical-update.aspx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
I've been waiting for a nice lightweight program like this for quite a while, all of the other ones eat up resources like that's part of their function...

Thanks no2chem, another great program ^_^
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] chalid:
Very nice. Will implement this into my ROM I think - so its there after a hardreset too ... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Rivendel:
Hello,

for me it is not working.

Installed CAB on my Touch HD (German Stock ROM). SMS is intercepted, but no sms is send back, no gps, no version.

I checked all Registry-Entries but everything look ok for me.

Any Help how to track that Problem ?

Regards

Rivendel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] elgreek84:
Some other cool possible functions:

1. Wiping out contacts (so that thief won't solicit them for pin numbers/codes/passwords etc..)

2. Wiping e-mail settings so they won't receive unwanted email from pop/imap etc.. (maybe by jsut deleting reg settings)

3. formatting storage card

any other ideas? definitely a lot of potential with this program.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AssassinsLament:
Doesn't work for me either. :(

Installed the cab. Soft reset. Text myself !nuegps000 getpos and the message goes right through. It doesn't seem to be intercepting it. I am on an ATT Fuze, with my own custom rom. I get text and MMS messages just fine, so I don't know what would be wrong :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 4s8kalz:
Something for calls log?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hoopsbwc34:
sound an alarm... in case it's not really stolen just lost??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
That'd be a great feature for it, a command to sound an alarm....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
actually thats a good idea, have it raise the volume to max and play a sound... feature in the next version =p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
ah more ideas to implement =p

be sure to set some kind of random pin number that is not 0000, don't want this being a security risk =p

you need to use four zeros, !nuegps0000 =)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
how do you set the pin no2chem? I can't find that anywhere...

EDIT: Oops scratch that, found it on the original post.

EDIT2: I'd like to add that I just used my friend's phone and it works great so far!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hoopsbwc34:
By default are there no values in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wei Enterprises]? I just added DWORD "Pin" and set it to a decimal value

If I try to send a request from email (mynumber@myprovider.com), it intercepts the message, but the follow up bounces back from my text messaging sender saying "invalid short code, please use a 10 digit number." Maybe there can be a catch for this so that request via email work (which would be useful for links).

Lastly, the first time I requested a link I got one back. Since then I have tried getpos, getlink, quicklink from multiple phones and all return the first message, but not the follow ups. Using status I see I do have a fix (with PDOP under 3). Is there a flag that is not getting reset maybe for the "fix"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aguas:
as an extra idea, i remember a pay program or something that would play the alarm if you happened to misplace your phone while it was on silent. that'd sure be a nicee lil feature
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
did you update to version 1.11 ?

Also, how does a request from e-mail work? where would i get the e-mail (is it in the message body somewhere?)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AssassinsLament:
Sorry, I meant 4 zeros, I just had a typo.I also even put my own pin in the registry. Oh well.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
That idea was already posed and approved yesterday, thanks though ^_^
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aguas:
ohh haha :p, thankks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] talbotlives:
I'm getting an error on the download link on your site: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
It works for me, try this link, it should start the download...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hoopsbwc34:
I never had the original version, I started with 1.11 downloaded yesterday from your blog. Let me know if there is anyway I can get data to you to try and figure out what is going on. Or if there are some scenarios I can run to test. Also, in case it matters, I installed it first on my storage card, then changed my mind and removed it and decided to install it on my device. Maybe some problem there? Here's what happened:

Note that the same thing happens when my PDOP is less than 4. And, the GPS never shuts off (as it should if it was doing a quicklink). But you can see that it did turn on the GPS. For some reason, the fix isn't registering when it happens.

As for the email.... when I send an email to mynumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com, it shows up as a regular text message in my inbox, but the reply-to address is my email address instead of a phone number. A !nuegps email doesn't show up but appears to be processed by nuegps as I get a follow up message on my phone that the phone couldn't send the requested message because it was "sent using an invalid number of digits".

Maybe you can parse the return address for the "@" sign to make sure you aren't restricting the response to 10 digits?? I didn't get enough info back about what address nueGPSSecurity tried to send the message to...just that it failed and was mal-formatted.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
e-mail functionality doesn't work for me either, it actually popped up a message on my phone saying it was unable to send.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
Any updates no2chem? Perhaps word on the find my phone option?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] talbotlives:
Cancel that, finally got it to work on another computer. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lsteele:
Hey Nuerom . . . *excellent* program, works well, though I'm having a tough time getting info via email. Weird question though, how do I uninstall (or deactivate) this program if I ever want to -not- have it active/listening . . . ?

TIA . . .
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bkrodgers:
In regards to problems with email not working, here's what I see. When i send a message from my ########@messaging.sprintpcs.com address, it normally shows up fine, with the email address I sent from listed correctly. I can reply to it and I get the response at whatever address I sent from.

When I send !nuegps0000 status, the phone does wake up and appears to be receiving a text message, as the Ev icon switches to 1X briefly. nueGPS does appear to intercept it, as I don't see any alerts or see the message in POutlook. However, nothing ever shows up in my email.

Is there anything that can be done to make this work? I don't know if there are any differences carrier to carrier in terms of how they handle SMS-email bridging. It'd be quite useful to be able to use this from email, since with my cell phone lost/stolen, I'd need to borrow someone else's phone. Not a big deal though!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 1999TL:
This guy is amazing.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
working on a system where you won't need to text message at all, soon...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
o.O I'm intrigued yet oddly frightened...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
well, 1.2 is up with some new features you can read about/test out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
looks amazing, going to test it immediately... or atleast as soon as I'm off work and in an area with gps signal and a phone I can play with lol
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] freewind29:
good work, This is wanted!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mamupapers:
doesn't install in my WM5 device.

Is it WM6 only?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tatnai:
tested alarm feature, getlink. To stop the alarm you need to use command <stopalarm> not <alarmoff>, apparently. Getlink worked perfectly - will have to test some more on my phone, I think it had to wait for the GPS to be activated by another program before it was able to send the link. I've got a HTC vogue w/ wm 6.1 unlocked w/ custom ROM, it's a known issue that some programs need the GPS to be primed before they can access it. Will test some more and post back.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tatnai:
Ok, used quicklink, worked great without any priming. LOVE THIS PROGRAM, you RULE!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] phusio:
great program, thank you very much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
That's funny I didn't even notice the command was wrong, I assumed it was stopalarm in the first place...

no2chem I have one little recommendation, since the alarm function doesn't need to be hidden from the user how about a little pop up like nueLight2 did and have an alarm off button available so you don't need to wait on sending a text to the unit to end it. Aside from that great addition to the program.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tatnai:
I see the advantage to that, however if someone else has my phone and I want to find it and not have them turn off the alarm, the button might be counter productive.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
quite true, but if I had the phone, that alarm went off, and I wanted it to shut up so people wouldn't find out I had a 'misappropriated' phone, I would shut the damned thing off or pop out the battery lol
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mikeeey:
awesome software! thanks so much! I've always wanted an anit theft program where you can actually communicate with the software, rather than having to wait till the theif takes out the sim card.

It found my location.. well.. almost.. it said my phone was in the car in my backyard.. however we're having a blizzard today, it's really cloudy and snowy.

great work!:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
I compiled it against WM6 SDK, so it might be.

Be sure that your rom has the MS GPSID removed.

I'll take a look at the incorrect command, I might have two options, "hiddenalarm" and "alarm"... thanks for the suggestion.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tatnai:
I think that is a great idea; the command list gets longer . . . lol - I don't think currently all of the commands are returned with the "help" command, btw.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shohan:
I have a security related question regarding this. And this is in no way meant to be an insult to you No2Chem. I've had great experiences with your other stuff.

Basically, what is going on with the track command? Is this sending my phones coordinates to your server? Are these coordinates being deleted after so long? Is there any way for anyone else to view my location? I'm sure everyone may be starting to see my concerns now.

For example I followed the link to your website for Track, http://www.nuerom.com/nuedonate/gpslocator.aspx. Understand that I DO NOT have this program installed on my Touch Pro right now and am running the stock Sprint ROM. I logged in with my username and password and received the following webpage:

MOD EDIT: Removed Personal GPS data caused by a bug

Who's phone is this? There is no phone listed in the drop down menu. Why would I even see this if the app ins't installed on my phone, I haven't grabbed a new token, and nothing should be associated with my account. I would imagine that it should display nothing or an error.

Again, I'm not trying to instult anyone or insinuate any criminal intent here. Just pointing out issues that I feel are security risks. I hope they're not. This sounds like a great idea for theft and lost phones, but could this be a hole for someone to get tracking information? Think if you could track someone with this you could kidnap, stalk, *. Sorry for being overly negative on the effects this software could have, but it's not a perfect world and in reality all possibilities with this software/information should be explored and though through.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tiger02:
Ok just tested out the software and it intercepts the texts and notified me but did not send any gps results.. Also tried the alarm and it worked well but the stopalarm didnt work. Eventually it replied with alarm is off but it was still beeping ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dewild1:
I have been trying to get it to work, but no luck. Then I stupidly deleted the regkeys.. Reinstalled but they were not recreated.. The pin one and the 3AFFFFFF-673C-494c-98A2-CC2E91A481FF do not come back after uninstall then reinstall..

The pin one was never there and I noticed that when I uninstalled the reg key under HKLM\software was still there.. So, dererr dder da deerr, I deleted it..

When I did have it installed correctly, I sent texts and it did not intercept.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dewild1:
I put keys back in manually, it intercepted this time.. Will test and donate soon. Got a reply.. Testing GPS.. Now......... (Verizon HTC Touch pro GPS hack ver2.0)... still waiting.. (Live reporting here, LOL).....

Its been 10 min, I did status again, gps on, but no fix.. With the Verizon GPS HTC Touch Pro ver. 2 hack.. It may not work.. (unless you prime the GPS) :-(

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=49933

Is there any way to set up the GPS port and speed? That seemed to help Google maps..

Maybe that will be enough to jump start it..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dewild1:
Confirmed, stopalarm, alarmoff, alarm stop, does not turn it off..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
it worked just fine for me the other day
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] avarilone:
Hypothetical situation: if someone stole your phone, and they received a text that said "!nuegps0000 start" or "!nuegps0000 track", wouldn't they be able to figure out that an external user is trying to acquire the phone's position and just shut it off? Given this is assuming a reasonably smart thief, but still. That leads to my next question: can the commands be placed anywhere in a text, i.e. "hey what's up, going to the bar tonight, the address is 13223 main, see you there !nuegps0000 getpos" That way, the commands could be masked at the end of a normal looking text so that when the thief first glances at the text and assumes it's from one of the person's friends, they just ignore it and don't think much of it. If this is not currently possible, is it something that could be implemented? Or is it possible to intercept the command before it is displayed on the screen and change the text to read something less conspicuous to the thief? (I realize that the former of these two ideas is most likely much more feasible and less time consuming than the latter, but I'm not a programmer so I don't want to assume what is and isn't possible.)

Maybe this issue has already been addressed and I missed it, but if not, I just wanted to throw this idea out there.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dewild1:
Your geeking out dude! LOL JK..

I think it hides any text with the code-key in it..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dewild1:
Hmm, my wife was trying to text someone while I was playing with it. My kid and my wife were *****ing at me to turn it off, LOL, so I told her to reset it.. Who knows..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
if the application is working properly the text should not appear on the screen, it should be intercepted by the application. I tested it on my phone, mine works properly, when I send it a command it doesn't show anything on my phone. Granted it does light up but that's about it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DEFAULTx:
I did the same thing using !nuegps0000 quicklink. I got the reply that I'd receive another text as soon as a gps fix was acquired but nothing happen after that. I thought it was because I was inside & I've seen google maps not able to get a GPS lock indoors but even outside it didn't work. Do I have to do a certain command first then quicklink or is it that GPS isn't working well?!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
thanks, i fixed the problem... there was a bug in the reporting script ... =/ yes, the program could be used to stalk people, etc. but this is a concern for any program of this nature... unfortunately it is really up to what people do with it...

yes, when you send the track command, it sends a http request to my server, which saves the location in a database... i guess the problem is the page wasn't respecting the phone filter its been fixed now. Of course, it only sends if you request with the track command, and it only saves 5 minutes of data to reduce the potential for malicious uses.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] no2chem:
try "status". perhaps you do not have a gps lock.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tiger02:
Works Great..

At first i had a couple problems with the alarm but i think thats cause i was sending from the same cell that i was testing the program with (sprint touch)

Only thing i could use some assistance with is the pin change from 0000 to another four digit (yes i created the dword Pin and inputed 4 numbers but it only responses to 0000 still? Also i wanted to know if there was any updates as far as the reply to email..

P.s just tested the alarm feature using email and it worked great both on and off functions
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
I'd like to hear about replying to e-mail as well...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tiger02:
Ok Scratch the pin thing i was inserting the dword under the wrong heading...

Only thing that i could think of to add iceing to this would be the email and a way to import the link data we get into moblie google maps incase i was searching on the move. Either way exellent program
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shohan:
Awesome. Sorry for putting you out there on this, but I'm glad that it got fixed. I was more worried about the server side information being accessed than the phone side.

Ok, so from this post and your blog you're saying that users will have access to 5 minutes worth of data? Or it will only poll every 5 minutes? And youe working on a way to purge this data automatically every 2 days from the server?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] z_rudy:
Alarm feature for use when you lose your phone?

Can't you just call yourself? Your ringtone should already be audible enough if you can hear it normally when you use the phone everyday.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
but if it is on silent or vibrate the alarm function switches it...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] infection0:
!nuegps0000 changepin 9999

> The PIN has been changed to 9999.

!nuegps0000 uninstall

> nueGPSSecurity 1.3 has been uninstalled.

Just a few suggestions... BTW can anyone tell me how to uninstall this? I think it is eating my battery power or something - I installed it yesterday and 4 hours later the battery went from 100 to 0%.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dewild1:
no2chem, I know you like the way you set it up to be hassle free.. But if you could put in an "auto" - "manual", then under manual, port #, speed, option in some reg setting, I think it would help me out greatly. I will donate $50 if it helps me.

If I become rich in the next 6 months, like I hope and plan, I will donate 1k within one year because I believe your program will save me that much over a 3 year period.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tiger02:
Check and see if your gps is still running after you run the program... odds are that the gps is still running
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gullzway:
Great program!! I couldn't get a GPS fix so there was no response with the location. I soft reset my phone(same location inside my house) then tried again and it sent a text back with the GPS coordinates! So it worked!

How hard would it be to add a command to soft reset the phone in case this happens to others or the phone has locked up??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gullzway:
Are the Gps radios in our phones not that accurate? it shows my location 2 houses down and across the street.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jhw549:
That all depends which phone you have, mine usually shows within about 15ft (≈5m) of me...