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Make HTCSense work on all handsets, please?

So I lost my HTC HD7 last night at a restaurant. I’m a forgetful person and have lost a lot of gadgets thru the years but this one I didn’t want to just let go.

First, I know that the HD7 was just in my car or I (unknowingly) brought it to the dinner table in the restaurant. Since the phone wasn’t in the car when I got back, the restaurant was the only remaining suspect.

When I went back to ask the waiter, they said there was nothing left at my dinner table (which was among the outside tables). However, he mentioned hearing a ringing tone several times but could not figure out where it’s coming.

So we searched for it again while I rang up the phone. Indeed there was a faint ringing tone and since it was in the evening and the garden area was dark, it was hard to pinpoint where the sound was coming.

About 10 more minutes and I found the phone — it was conspicuously hidden in one of the cement ledges that surrounds a row of plants and was covered with a rubber mat. Wow, somebody picked it up and actually hid it several meters from where I left the handset. Had it been on silent mode or was low on battery, I don’t think I had any chance of finding it again.

Well, unless my HD7 is supported by HTCSense.com, I would have been able to use the remote GPS locator on the website. Tried it before with my HTC Desire HD (disclosure: HTC gave it to me). Last time I lost a phone was back in February last year with my one-month old Google Nexus One.

So here’s my plea to HTC — please make HTCSense work on all your handsets, whether its Android or Windows Phone 7 or even your very own HomeBrew OS. Would have made a huge different and a gadget savior if this happens to someone else.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

38 Responses

  1. Avatar for jamby jamby says:

    kung ibang tao ang nkapulot/kumuha, other than the waiter, di na itatago pa kung saan, diretso na sa bulsa,..

    i suspect the waiters since, di nya cguro pwede itago directly sa bulsa nya at bka makapkapan sila sa loob ng resto ng sarili nilang sekyu or manager…kaya inilagay anywhere outside the resto at babalikan na lang pag off nya….

  2. Avatar for karissa karissa says:

    Buti na lang you got your phone back.

    If you’re using HTC android phones, there’s this really cool apps called “Where’s my Droid”
    When you have this installed in your phone and it went missing and on silent mode.
    You just have to text your phone with the line, wheres my droid (all caps). and your phone would ring to its loudest.
    I just haven’t tried it if your phone is off.

    It’s quite helpful though.

  3. Avatar for Andre Andre says:

    u know GPS only works well outside, so you cant find it inside a building :)
    you have to wait till theyre outside

  4. Avatar for phone prices phlippines phone prices phlippines says:

    salamat naman sir nakita mo. napakamahal at ganda ng CP na yan. Sayang naman kung mawawala

  5. Avatar for pupuboy pupuboy says:

    sir abe good thing you were able to recover your precious phone otherwise you will be hunted by sleepless nights… whehehehe ;)

  6. Avatar for elmerlovesoreo elmerlovesoreo says:

    Good to hear that you found it. I really thought you lost such a wonderful phone :)

  7. Avatar for tipler tipler says:

    Might want to try wavesecure https://www.wavesecure.com/

    Picked it up free during beta and its uninstall and sim change protection is pretty good. IMO, better than gps location, although it has that too.

  8. Avatar for kuplet kuplet says:

    HTC Desire user here. It doesnt work on my phone as well. Sigh*

  9. Avatar for Jon Jon says:

    I would not count on HTCSense.com to reliably find my phone. At best, it is very inconsistent. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Right now, with GPS enabled and with an active data connection, and with HTCSense autosync, HTCSense says my phone is somewhere near some South African sea. It would take several refreshes (if you are lucky) to get the right location down to the city level at best.

    I also tried letting my phone ring, but it does not work all the time as well. Locking the phone does not work reliably too. I haven’t tried wiping my phone yet though.

    Right now, HTCSense is quite buggy. Until this one is fixed, I would not recommend it. I believe there are quite a number of alternatives. Not sure about WP7 though. Good thing you got your phone back.

  10. Avatar for Abiel Abiel says:

    Haha… I guess they realized that the customer was Abes of Yugatech, so they just “directly” returned the phone rather than getting a bad publicity!

  11. Avatar for Benchmark33 Benchmark33 says:

    Thank goodness you found your phone…

    Well I hope soon, a company (like an insurance company) can provide consumers this kind of technology to all gadgets where they will install a small GPS tracking device in your gadget, say a phone then you can track it anywhere even if it was stolen….not only in HTC phone :-)

    Hmmm probably there is already a company doing doing in other country….

  12. Avatar for Greg Greg says:

    Most likely one of the staff found it. If it were a customer, why hide it at all? He or she can leave with the phone immediately. It would also be helpful to eat in restaurants where there is CCTV.

  13. Avatar for jlapitan jlapitan says:

    i do agree.. sana mag-update sila tpos lahat ng HTC merong ganung feature,. i was looking for that feature before.. i have HTC Desire only…

  14. Avatar for tipler tipler says:

    stupid spam filter

  15. Avatar for tipler2099 tipler2099 says:

    Is GPS locator be accurate to less than several meters?

  16. Avatar for tipler tipler says:

    Is GPS locator be accurate to less than several meters??

  17. Avatar for tipler tipler says:

    Will HTCSense GPS locator be accurate to less than several meters?

  18. Avatar for Gerald Gerald says:

    This is the first thing I did when I got my Desire.

  19. Avatar for top electronics top electronics says:

    Third that!

  20. Avatar for Pusang Tulog Pusang Tulog says:

    I second the motion…

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