Re: application idea -- anti theft system

2007-10-14 Thread Steve
Stroller wrote: On 13 Oct 2007, at 00:09, Derek Pressnall wrote: I have an idea for a simple alarm application. The idea is that if you leave your phone sitting at your desk plugged in charging, then you can activate an app that will play an alrarm sound as soon as the devices is

Re: application idea -- anti theft system

2007-10-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Oct 2007, at 19:52, Steve wrote: Stroller wrote: ... IMO if I'm too far away from the phone to notice someone nicking it then I'm unlikely to hear it making an alarm sound. I would have it instead check http://mywebsite.com/theft.txt and if it doesn't get a 404 (i.e. you only put

Re: application idea -- anti theft system

2007-10-14 Thread Ian Darwin
Steve wrote: You may want to do the opposite. Your phone may think it's being stolen if you happen to get on something like a wireless connection with NoCatSplash. (Which hijacks the first attempt to grab a web page in order to show you a welcome page.) I'd be tempted to have PGP signed

Re: application idea -- anti theft system

2007-10-14 Thread Kyle Bassett
you prolly want to lock down the uboot screen, etc. to prevent the phone from just being re-imaged. It would prolly require the debug board if you forgot the password. -Kyle On 10/14/07, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve wrote: You may want to do the opposite. Your phone may think

Re: application idea -- anti theft system

2007-10-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Oct 2007, at 00:09, Derek Pressnall wrote: I have an idea for a simple alarm application. The idea is that if you leave your phone sitting at your desk plugged in charging, then you can activate an app that will play an alrarm sound as soon as the devices is unplugged (with a popup

Re: application idea -- anti theft system

2007-10-12 Thread Giles Jones
On 13 Oct 2007, at 00:09, Derek Pressnall wrote: I have an idea for a simple alarm application. The idea is that if you leave your phone sitting at your desk plugged in charging, then you can activate an app that will play an alrarm sound as soon as the devices is unplugged (with a popup

application idea -- anti theft system

2007-10-12 Thread Derek Pressnall
I have an idea for a simple alarm application. The idea is that if you leave your phone sitting at your desk plugged in charging, then you can activate an app that will play an alrarm sound as soon as the devices is unplugged (with a popup keypad to enter a disarm code). A variant would use the