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Help Can anyone "Locate" using htcsense.com yet?

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sarstube

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becuase I sure can't and haven't been able to yet.

I got it sunday morning. Although the "ring" button took literally .01 ms to ring my phone.

I realize it's still beta so i'm not gripping just wondering if it's up for some.


Also, i remember seeing a youtube from htc when deire z and hd came out, where sense would "cloud" all your settings so if you lost your phone you could search contacts. I also thought there was a "restore" function and "backup", but maybe that's on htc sync (which i can't get because I use mac :P) Is that the future of htcsense.com?
 
ive tried it when my phone was in different areas

its takes about 20 sec to locate...which in 2011 feel likes 20 min
 
I got it down to like 50ft. Need a gps connection otherwise it kings ISO.g cell towers and it is much less accurate. If you are indoors gps may not get to the phone.
 
The "Locate" function seems to be a bit finicky for me. When I hit refresh location, I see the icon that looks like a satellite dish or something beaming green rays. However, it doesn't always seem to then update the location on the account page.

However, when I click "Ring" it starts right away. If the screen is off, it just rings and then it shuts off when I slide to unlock it. If the screen is unlocked, it rings and also displays a message to the effect that the phone is ringing because the owner is trying to locate it.
 
hmmmm i've tried it every day but monday. still says it has to sync. maybe it's because I haven't had my gps on yet.
 
sarstube said:
hmmmm i've tried it every day but monday. still says it has to sync. maybe it's because I haven't had my gps on yet.
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I don't have my GPS on. It pretty much puts the phone directly over my house, but also has a blue circle radiating out from the phone presumably showing the area in which the phone could potentially be since it couldn't use GPS to actually do the locating.
 
htcsense.com has been pretty worthless for me. The feature to make the phone ring works but nothing else does. I can't locate the phone it says it's still syncing and it says the phone it locked but it's not.
 
Mine says "refresh location as of Monay at 10:13...... I was in augusta monday and that is where it shows the phone exactly.

However, i am in atlanta now with my phone and it will not refresh again....????

Whats up with that?

Edit: i also just entered in the lock information and locked it (as a test) but nothing has happened to the phone....

It say "phone is locked" on the profile page but the screen did not lock and my warning message did not appear.

Enabling satellite/gps on phone made no difference.
 
Go to Settings-Location and turn off Phone Finder. Then turn it on again. Then log into HTCSense.com. That worked for me.
 
Update. About 3 hours after requesting a lock, the phone DID LOCK and the message i posted appeard on the home screen with two buttons. "Call owner" and "Emergency".

My unlock code worked perfectly.
 
Make sure you sync htcsense on your phone. Once you do this, you should be able locate (that's what worked for me.
 
I was able to log into HTCsense Tuesday evening, and it took a while but did locate my phone and made it ring. Wednesday evening I couldn't get into the site at all.

I've also had problems getting the phone to connect to HTCHub. It keeps saying "connection failed."Sometimes I seem to get in for a while, and see some ofthe apps, etc. listed, but then the connection drops.
 
This has worked for me the last three days. I have finally played with it and tried all the features except the erase phone function(that would suck right now).

But my location, phone lock and ringer all have worked. Love the lock feature!
 
I got the ring to work, but when I tried it later it was unable to connect to the phone. I have to uncheck and recheck Location, then resync HTCSense to get it to ring. I will try it again tomorrow to see if a good night sleep helps.
 
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