There used to be a time when, if you lost your phone, that was it – it was gone. You’d get in touch with your carrier and report it lost or stolen so any calls or texts wouldn’t be added to your bill, ...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the implementation of “kill switches” in mobile devices. With California and other jurisdictions mandating the inclusion of theft-deterring features in new ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

Following last week’s release of the Android 8.1 Developer Preview, new functionality is still being uncovered. Yesterday, one possible feature emerged, suggesting that Android was making a critical ...

Factory Reset Protection (FRP), a protection measure that’s supposed to prevent thieves from using stolen Android devices, is easy to bypass on some Nexus devices running on unpatched versions of ...

In addition to Private Space, Android at I/O 2024 is really working to boost the mobile operating system’s theft, security, and privacy protections. Android’s new protections are split into three ...

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If you thought that the Factory Reset Protection option on your stolen Samsung smartphone safeguarded your data, then think again. Thanks to a flaw in Samsung phones, the security feature can be ...

Randomly, the other day my fast charger stopped charging the device at its normal fast pace and has reverted back to an extremely slow normal charge rate (3 hours is stated to gain 49% charge where ...

One of the proven security features in Samsung devices is called Factory Reset Protection. It’s a simple yet effective way to discourage unauthorized access to a stolen phone. However, Factory Reset ...

[devicemodder] wrote in to let us know they managed to install Linux Mint on their FRP-locked Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A2. Android devices such as the FZ-A2 can be locked with Factory Reset Protection ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...