I pulled up her account and it began to locate her phone.
This feature allows you to send a message and play a beeping sound on the phone.
This sound plays until you retrieve the phone and dismiss the notification.
I sent a message (with sound) that said something like “Lost Phone.
like call ###-#### to return it!”.
Hummm, that doesn’t sound good.
It seems like we may have annoyed the thief with all of the calls and messages/beeping.
Things were not looking good.
The phone had nearly 100% battery and would easily last a few days on standby.
It was at this point that we realized the phone was probably not lost, but stolen.
The restaurant staff was not terribly helpful, and Caitlin suspects somebody there may have taken the phone.
Feeling quite defeated, she gave up and made the drive home.
This is basically the “I give up” button.
Now I have both a Remote Lock and a Remote Wipe pending on the phone.
A few days passed and the pending status did not change.
The phone was gone.
So, what lessons can we learn from this story?
It should be a fairly agressive lock that locks after 1 minute (or less) of inactivity.
Any longer than this, and you might defeat the point.
Annoying the thief with loud sounds and phone calls will probably force him/her to turn off the phone quicker.
If the phone is off, you have no chance to track it.
