Geez, what a headache
Registering an FIR is a complex negotiation. More like a game of nerves. Having some reference takes the pain out of reporting. I tried reporting but it never worked. They start playing CID with you. The very first question being, "Where did you lose it ?" An innocent question, you might say. Only that their agenda is not to figure out the (current)geography of your phone but the (past)geography of the incident. Again, what's wrong ? Nothing, until they come up with their verdict, "Report to the nearest police station"
The cryptic talk here implies to, Border Disputes.
I tried arguing but it got worse. Then threats began to pour in. Industry best practices. Rather, true state of affairs. The conversation finally trailed off into some monkey talk about how I will never be able to get my phone back if kept shuttling between local police stations
In sharp contrast, I asked someone I knew to take care of the issue and viola, they put my IMEI number on trace immediately. Just because I had some friends in high places.
Sad, really. Not because I had to put up with a low life cop. But because the guy(thief) not only stole my phone, he also went so far as to mock me using my own phone. He used my FB and Twitter account(logged in by default) to post crap about me. The kind, you know, cheap local vocab otherwise highly admired in the working class community.
To avoid further embarrassment I quickly froze my account before changing the password and other account credentials. I mean, c'mon, wasn't stealing enough already ?
The only new year bash gift for him this December should be, an explosion of my phone using a cheap local charger (I had already backed up sensitive data and wiped clean my phone the day before)
Then I researched, researched and researched. And more. I did not know how this tracing thing worked. I have collected tons of resources on how to go about it but the first step is to report to the police. Impossible, then. Those guys who I approached couldn't trace it either. The low life had already removed the SIM. I knew the whole theory and practice of how user data is traced. Useless without the SIM
I dug the internet for a few months whenever I had the time. Thought I'd work up a way to trace it but, without the help of an ISP it is effing impossible. The last the thing on my mind was some app that could remote install itself and let me trace it(phone). I posted numerous questions on Google forums where this guy had created an app to do just that. I can even post the mail here. He very clearly mentioned that once your Google account gets disassociated there is nothing you can do.
Finally, my Google account too got yanked out of my phone. I gave up.
Sorry, for the long rant-y post but it has some useful bits of information that you can make use of. There is definitely some app out there that does all that remote install for you AND lets you trace via activating the phone's GPS WITHOUT notifying the user AND remaining hidden from the homescreen AS WELL AS the task manager so that the user CANNOT install just like that as it'd require an extra hoop to get around that BUT I don't know if there is any limitation to it
You(but not Rishi as his TeH GrumpY CaT always eats the bill) should probabaly look for it as I'm about to doze at this hour. I'll dig in my 1000+ bookmarks and mails to get through to it so you see I'm even doing ypos now
