[timeboy33]

Hi I’m looking for way to remote control my Android smartphone. The reason I would like to be able to do this, encase I lose it or it get stolen and is off I would like to be able turn on my mobile and turn on my mobile dater I need all these three to be on. So I can use my AVG account to track/find my mobile

So I wonder if it’s possible to do this using an Android Tablet. Any advice on this matter would be appreciated (Thank You)

[npah3]

As far as i'm aware if a phone is physically turned off there is no way to remotely turn it on, it's a physical operation. You'd have to wait until someone carries out this task.....though if it is possible I'd love to know how.

[Step666]

Also, even if the handset itself was turned on, if your mobile data were turned off how could the tablet connect to it to switch it on?
It would be impossible to try and remotely control a handset if there was no data connection.

If it's that important for you to be able to use AVG to remotely track your handset, then you'd need to leave both it and your mobile data connection switched on.

[flagpole]

I'm sure a conspiracy theory exists that the NSA can remotely switch on your phone. but otherwise. no.

[m4tt24]

Just get cerberus and bake it into your rom.

[Step666]

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Originally Posted by m4tt24

Just get cerberus and bake it into your rom.

Still requires the handset and data connection to be switched on.

[paulbrock]

there are some solutions which, if you install the right app on your phone, will turn on data and/or wifi for you upon receiving a particular SMS (which won't show up in the SMS inbox).

It won't turn on the phone itself though!

AndroidLost does this:
http://www.androidlost.com/#guide

(see usecase 6)

Of course to do all these nifty things requires you giving the AndroidLost app a lot of permissions on your phone, but I've been using it for a while without any problems.

[timeboy33]

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Originally Posted by paulbrock

there are some solutions which, if you install the right app on your phone, will turn on data and/or wifi for you upon receiving a particular SMS (which won't show up in the SMS inbox).

It won't turn on the phone itself though!

AndroidLost does this:
http://www.androidlost.com/#guide

(see usecase 6)

Of course to do all these nifty things requires you giving the AndroidLost app a lot of permissions on your phone, but I've been using it for a while without any problems.

I just try this but wasn’t for me but thanks for suggesting it to me

[timeboy33]

I would like thank them posters who said it’s not possible to remote control my Android Phone using an Android Tablet

Off topic: isn’t it funny that you can use your smartphone as a remote control to control your PC, you lights and your TV and many other thing to but it’s not the same the other way around and when I say you can use your smartphone to control your lights, you do need to have Smart Lights install in your house, flat or whatever you are living in and not the normal lights that I guess we all are probably using Course I only can speak for them people in South Wales (UK) and plus I never come cross anybody using smart lights in my life atoll I think it’s the same for the TV but I can’t be sure. But I’m sure that someone will come along and put me right

Back on topic: I did come cross a Youtube video (and I will post the link underneath) that show that maybe possible remote control Android Phone using a Window PC (not sure that this will work on a Mac PC)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=774erY8a2y8

Now after you have watched the Youtube video do you think you would use this for yourself I’m little bit worry :/ about rooting my Android Phone again. When I did it last time I wanted to speed up my 3G network. Anyway I really didn’t need to do this as I had the wrong network setting on my mobile I only had GSM or WCDMA on but not both. As I did notice that was possible for me to have both on

Only other problem had with Rooting that when try install a bank app but when I try to run the app itself the app wouldn’t run as the app itself really didn’t like my mobile being rooted I’m not sure there was something I needed to do to let my banking app have access to my mobile and I guess them people who knows about rooting would have known how do this but course I didn’t and I am afraid to do the same thing again encase the same thing will happen again

Off topic again: isn’t it funny to use most of the Apps in the Google play store that your Android Phone needs to be rooted but isn’t it also funny that some people tells you rooting your Android Phone may cause big risks to your Android Phone and then you are thinking to yourself well if rooting my Android Phone is bad why do most apps on the Google play store need Root access and also why do Google let App Developers put apps on the Google play store that need Root access if root isn’t meant to be safe it’s all funny isn’t it

Back on topic: while it’s not possible to remote control my Android Phone with an Android Tablet I was wondering if it’s possible to run the same apps on my Android Phone to an Android Tablet (when I buy one) I don’t want to download the same apps again. If this is possible and if I lose it or it get stolen and course I will reported this to the police when this does happen but if I had the same apps on Android Tablet I would just wipe all my information off my Android Phone as I really don’t keep anything very important on it. All my contacts are in a my contacts book plus I don’t use it for email or don’t have any photo store in it as I really don’t use my Android Phone for taking pictures anyway you get the general idea. So is it possible to run the same apps on an Android Tablet

just for me to be clear here on the contacts bit I’m not saying that I don’t have any contacts in my phone course I do but what I am saying is if I need wipe all my information off my phone then won’t be really big deal for me as I would already have my contacts in my contacts book

Anyway like I said before any advice on this matter would be appreciated Thank you

[pi r squared]

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Originally Posted by timeboy33

isn’t it funny that you can use your smartphone as a remote control to control your PC, you lights and your TV and many other thing to but it’s not the same the other way around

Well, it is possible to remote control your phone, but just not for the things you want - ie. turning it on remotely. Turning on mobile data remotely is possible with the app paulbrock listed, but you have decided that it's not for you.

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isn’t it funny to use most of the Apps in the Google play store that your Android Phone needs to be rooted but isn’t it also funny that some people tells you rooting your Android Phone may cause big risks to your Android Phone and then you are thinking to yourself well if rooting my Android Phone is bad why do most apps on the Google play store need Root access

I'm not sure where you get the idea from that "most" of the apps in the Play store need root access. I don't have any figures to hand but I'd suggest the very opposite is true. The majority of phones aren't rooted, ergo the majority of apps don't need root access. Rooting isn't "unsafe" per se, you just need to be more careful if your phone is rooted since apps have access to a lot more than they ordinarily would and can therefore do more damage. It's reasonably hard for an app to do a serious amount of damage on an unrooted phone.

Think of it a little like the button that turns the ESP off on your car. The ESP is a safety feature that tries its best to keep your car stabilised and prevent accidents. Some people "root" (turn the ESP off) to enable them to do a little more with their car but with that come the associated dangers of not having ESP. Manufactures keep the button in, just like Google allows root-access apps in the Play store, but the "safe" option is obviously not root.

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I was wondering if it’s possible to run the same apps on my Android Phone to an Android Tablet (when I buy one) I don’t want to download the same apps again.

You'll still need to download the apps again onto your tablet (how else are you expecting to get them on there?), but you don't need to repay for any, and it's likely that when you set up the tablet for the first time it will begin downloading all of your apps without too much intervention. The only exception will be apps that don't run on tablets - like Whatsapp, for instance - but anything else should be fine.

[paulbrock]

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Originally Posted by timeboy33

if I had the same apps on Android Tablet I would just wipe all my information off my Android Phone as I really don’t keep anything very important on it. All my contacts are in a my contacts book plus I don’t use it for email or don’t have any photo store in it as I really don’t use my Android Phone for taking pictures anyway you get the general idea. So is it possible to run the same apps on an Android Tablet

Yes to having the same apps on both. You need to be a little careful about the data within apps though. For example, some notepad apps will let you add notes but they are not then synced between devices, so notes on your phone are entirely different to notes on your tablet. And if you lose your phone, there's no way of getting at the notes.

Most big services however store the data online, which means you don't lose data if you choose to wipe your phone remotely. Google heavily encourage this approach, so all their apps - Drive, Music, G+ Photos, Keep, Contacts will keep the same data on both devices. Services like Evernote and Remember the Milk work the same way. Just double-check if you're putting important data onto your phone.

[timeboy33]

My apologies for the late reply The reason why I haven’t manage to reply much sooner is because of my life stuff got in the away and I’m sure it’s the same for everyone else but I did feel very bad and I wouldn’t want anyone in this forum to think that I was taking anyone in this forum for granted I do not and I appreciate all the support/opinions on this matter so thank you

I may have sort of found the answer to my problem. Again I sort of may have found the answer, not I have found the answer and plus it’s too early for me say that this is the answer I’m sorry but I don’t want to go in details of what I have found encase I am wrong I would like make clear here what I found doesn’t let me remotely turn off my mobile phone as we all know that’s impossible for all us to do

so this matter maybe close to me

I would like take this opportunity to thank both of you plus the other forum members to

Now talking about opinions and how much I would like to address all of your opinions pi r squared I won’t and plus I haven’t got the time (sorry) so instead I will agree with everything that you have said/point out in my last post