Corwin | # 31 | 2010-01-21, 08:28 | Report

Good to hear and very much appreciated

Northerner | # 32 | 2010-02-10, 13:24 | Report

Sorry to hear your news, that's bad.
But all this talk of writing daemons to support remote wipe makes me laugh.
If Nokia's MfE supported MS Exchange properly with Provisioning, as it does on other devices, there would be no issue with lost or stolen phones. Password enforcement, remote wipe, device encryption, it should all be there out of the box. It's no-one but Nokia's fault that it isn't.

hstende | # 33 | 2010-02-10, 13:31 | Report

@northerner That would of course be a good thing, but then you need to set up a exchangeserver to do this. It's nice with a function that will work for all users, not only exchange-users.

flydeep | # 34 | 2010-02-10, 14:23 | Report

Wow, sounds scary dude. Now I am trying to imagine what I would do in your shoes and I have had the phone for about 2 weeks now. Have a sinking feeling in my heart...

Northerner | # 35 | 2010-02-10, 14:37 | Report

It's a standard, industry accepted service which Nokia refuse to support. Many N900 owners have it high on their wish list because they already have accounts on corporate servers that they want to access (little point carrying around an "all in your pocket" mobile computer if it can't access your work email or calendar). Even if you don't have (or want) access to a corporate server, there are plenty of suppliers offering MSE services (including Nuevasync which the OP was using) which give similar protection and peace of mind (and push email - seeing as the N900's IMAP implementation is also half-baked).

Point is, if you advertise something as MS Exchange 2003/2007 compatible, then you shouldn't be surprised when customers see that to be a nod towards corporate use, and therefore expect it to work with commonly implemented policies which no security concious enterprise would be without.

And seeing as those services are widely available and adopted (and even supported by Nokia themselves in other versions of MfE), to me it seems ludicrous to expect users to invent something else from scratch when there would be no need if Nokia had done their job properly in the first place.

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SuperHumanly | # 36 | 2010-02-18, 01:41 | Report

also, the N900 uses a very generic charger, actually, it's the same charger that many LG phones use (Rumor2, Xenon). I bought a dollar store charger for my girlfriends Rumor2, and it works on my N900 also...

silvermountain | # 37 | 2010-02-18, 01:46 | Report

Would be nice to have something like Apple developed for their iPhones: http://www.apple.com/mobileme/whats-new/

cpm | # 38 | 2010-02-21, 20:20 | Report

Seeing as you can geo-locate from visible wifi access points, the output of "iwlist scanning" would be useful to get a location. Use "iwconfig" to find out which access point it's currently connected to.

iwlist and iwconfig are in wireless tools:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...wireless-tools

extent | # 39 | 2010-07-30, 22:00 | Report

lost my n900, doubt ill ever see its like again With the amount of space and number of applications etc phones are now offering, surely they will need to offer far better protection in some matter or another. one day your average phone will not be that different from the average pc (especially regarding the amount of documents that may be contained within it, that a thief may find rather useful, lol). you can stop your sim from working, but supposedly a thief can simply swap the sim and find a "crack" to stop the phones IMEI from being traceable, so it would seem theres no real solution at the moment

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