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doomed-jester · 5 years

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So, my phone was stolen...

Ugh, so here's something that happened. My phone was stolen at my graduation party on Thursday. I woke up yesterday morning with a monster hangover and no phone. Naturally my first instinct was to go the venue the party was at. No luck.

What do I do then? I Google how to find an Android phone and remember I set up Google Device Manager. My phone is constantly transmitting its location to Google, which sounds dystopian as fuck, but in this case it worked out in my favor.

I was able to track the phone's exact last location to a specific address (it had updated 12 hours before hand, which struck me as odd because it was ringing when we called it.) So I turn up at the house and it's a guy from my class. This is a motherfucker I've known since I was five years old.

He answers the door and I just go "so I lost my phone last night" and he has zero reaction. Then I add "and I tracked it to this address." This is when he gets visibly jumpy.

He goes "Oh yeah, uhhh, one second," and disappears deeper into his house. Soon he comes back out and hands me my phone. No case, cracked and wiped. Then the fucker has the balls to tell me he found it on the side of the road the night before.

Which makes very little sense considering the phone had been in his house before it was reset, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to track it back to him.

Basically, I have my phone back (yay!) but it's been completely factory reset (not so yay...). All my photos and any documents that weren't backed up just gone. So that's where I'm at right now, just over a hangover with all the stuff that was on my phone completely wiped

Moral of the story: I'm so glad I don't follow the trend of hiding location data from my phone. If I were into that movement I would be down a couple of hundred euro right now.

#doomy rants #i'm sincerely pissed that my phone was stolen #like #wtf #psa #use some kind of phone tracker #Google device manager is especially handy #if my phone hadn't been reset I could have made the phone start making noise or locked it completely #in an emergency you can even wipe the phone yourself to keep someone out of your accounts

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