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remotely turn phone on

  • 08-04-2019 10:45pm
    #1
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭


    Does anyone know if a phone can be remotely turned on?


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  • #2
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    It’s possible, but you’d need to have previously installed some software. What are the circumstances?


  • #3
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Where do you last remember having it?


  • #4
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Last used in macys new york. Now turned off. It is my moms phone


  • #5
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    If you don’t have special tracking software on it you’re out of luck.

    You can try find my iPhone/Android for last location, but that’s about it. If there was no sim password you could program the phone to show a contact number and a message next time it’s powered on. It may have been found and handed in. Have you tried to ping it?


  • #6
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    If you don’t have special tracking software on it you’re out of luck.

    You can try find my iPhone/Android for last location, but that’s about it. If there was no sim password you could program the phone to show a contact number and a message next time it’s powered on. It may have been found and handed in. Have you tried to ping it?

    it just pings to macys


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  • #7
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,863 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Have you tried "Lost and Found" there?


  • #8
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Have you tried "Lost and Found" there?

    She has


  • #9
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Wait until it closes and the sweepers have done their job. Might be found under a shelf/rack.


  • #10
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Its 24 since the phone was pinged


  • #11
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    cena wrote: »
    Its 24 since the phone was pinged

    Can someone go in with her and keep ringing her phone. They might hear it ringing.

    Maybe post in the Apple/Android forums - they'd have far better ideas than us nutters in AH

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1176

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1343


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  • #12
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    cena wrote: »
    Does anyone know if a phone can be remotely turned on?

    No. It is impossible to turn a phone on remotely when it is turned off.

    It does not matter what software is installed on the phone designed to track it. Tracking only works when the phone is ON.

    The very definition of turning a phone ON means that it was turned OFF in the first place. Because the phone is OFF that means it's not connected to anything making it impossible to track it in any way whatsoever. If you had a tracking mechanism the only thing you can find out is where it was last when it was turned off.


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