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Lookout Mobile for Eris.. Saved me Twice!

briman4031

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Probably should be in the app thread but I wanted to reiterate for Eris owners. You NEED the lookout mobile app. It's saved me twice now. Google Sync went haywire and was eating up my battery. I turned it off and started sycning contacts with Lookout. When Google lost all my contacts, Lookout still had all of them. Then yesterday happened.

I went shopping and on my way home stopped to return a few things. As I pulled up at the shopping center it began to snow. I ran inside, made my returns and then drove home to get out of the weather. When I got home, I noticed my phone was missing. I searched the car. I called my phone. I called all the stores I had been to. No luck. I remembered lookout and logged into my account. I clicked the locate phone button and wallah, it told me correct shopping center where I had lost my phone. Knowing that a customer hadn't turned it in, that when I made it scream it wasn't found, and when the gentlemen at the register called it, it didn't ring, I assumed it must have fallen out of the car. The only problem is that the parking lot now had 4 inches of fresh snow. I went to approximately where I had parked and began kicking up snow. Within 5 minutes I kicked up my phone. Barely wet and working. I took the battery out, dried everything off and my phone is still working today. This one would never have been found and would have been plowed up into the snow banks until Spring. If you don't have lookout... Get It!!!
 
I don't get it - how does Google "lose your contacts"? It's saving them on the web, not on your phone. I've never heard of this before.
 
I am happily using Mobile Defense (it's in closed beta now), but I've never had to use it to find my lost phone. I don't get Google losing your contacts. Never heard of that happening before. I suppose you could forget your password and lose the ability to access gmail but that's about the only way I figure it can happen.
 
For people who sync them with a computer, it's possible to have inadvertent Google contact loss. However, Google recently added contacts backup. Go into gmail, click Contacts, click the button "More actions" and there is a restore contacts button.

I use Mobile Defense myself, though I haven't had to use it, I agree that it's comforting to know that at least it's possible to track your phone if you lose it.
 
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