Christian T. napisał(a):
Here's the problem: Although it's a good idea that the thief has to use his own SIM (that's what he expects anyway) but it won't be easy to get a GPRS-connection for sending the coordinates. If he is using another provider, the settings will differ. Many providers even demand a password for opening a data-connection...
Truth.
The theft-problem _could_ be solved by the providers. They can locate any cellphone anyway and should be able to give information to the police, when a cellphone with an IMEI that's reported stolen connects to their network. But they don't want to!
The will to locate phone depends on GSM provider. Sometimes they have IMEI black list. It requires reflashing to change it. Phone locating depends on current "visible" GSM transmitters. I've used several times locating service in a big city where there's a lot of GSM transmitters in close range and it's not very accurate. System said that target phone was a few streets away from the place where it really was.
Regards, -- *Bartlomiej Zdanowski* Programmer Product Research Department AutoGuard & Insurance Ltd. Omulewska 27 street 04-128 Warsaw Poland phone +48 22 611 69 23 www.autoguard.pl <http://www.autoguard.pl>
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