Android client for the Prey anti-theft software.

I have Impression I10 tablet, which doesn't have Google Play officially, so I cannot install Prey with it.

I have looked for the .apk, but neither preyproject.com or GitHub downloads section provides .apk file.

I install everything to that tablet with F-Droid and it would be nice to have Prey there. If I understood correctly, there are some issues which prevent Prey from getting there.

When trying to login from my device I get this error message:

We have a situation! [nice title BTW :laughing: ]

Prey couldn't connect to the web Control Panel. Check your settings and try again.

I have AFWall+ installed, but Prey is whitelisted.

There is a bug in the android app that prevents me from logging in using a long, complex password with a mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols (but no spaces). I don't know at which point exactly the validation fails, but setting the following password on your prey account will prevent you from logging into the android app: TV!dU9axE3f!Af28W3G$cADstWyQkfcv (don't worry, I've changed my password before posting).

Short, easy to remember (and thus crack) passwords work without issues.

Prey uses GCM, which means you need Google Play Store installed, that is, proprietary software. For this reason, it hasn't been included yet in the F-Droid repository (which only allows free software and is the default app repository on Replicant phones). Details here: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/prey/

What good is free software if it relies on proprietary software to work?

Hello, when i choose a contact and it ask for "send an msg to contact" i try sending message.. but i get reply "Does your device not support sms service ?" crap ???

how come.. can anyone tell me a fix for this ? i was using master package making bit upgrade to it.. ;)

waiting for some help.

When I try to select a hero in my contact list, the first number of this contact is automatically selected (I cannot change it), even if it's a local phone (not a mobile phone).

Also, that would be great to be able to select the email of a contact, to receive an email instead of an SMS notification.

--- Sony Xperia Ray on Android 4.0.4 ---

It would be nice if Prey for Android had the standalone mode too. I have the check pages of my other devices on GitHub pages and it would be easier to manage all devices if they all were at same place.

As i commented on twitter directly to Tomás https://twitter.com/TCattd/status/256018438403813376

Will be nice to have Prey send a last report, specifically with the current phone's location, when battery charge is low or about to die (maybe with % threshold being an user option).

This idea can be expanded to send a report every time the phone it's powered off by the normal way (hold power button -> power off) before the phone completly powers off... just in case thieve turn it off like normal people do it.

That. Please.

Hope can be implemented in some future ;)

I'm using a kraun tablet with android 2.2

If I send the activation sms prey seems to read it and logs

02-29 12:21:38.005: I/PREY(2028): SMS received: GO PREY 02-29 12:21:38.005: I/PREY(2028): EmuSms 02-29 12:21:38.015: I/PREY(2028): SMS Match!, waking up Prey right now!

EmuSms is the app I've used to simulate the SMS message (the tablet has any SIM installed at the moment)

Device is marked as missing in the control panel and I receive the confirmation email but no report are generated or sent even after waiting some hours

if I try to manually activate prey using the in-app menu option logcat receives this:

02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): Error while running job [1212142608] :Thread was intrrupted. Finishing Location NotifierAction 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): com.prey.PreyException: Thread was intrrupted. Finishing Location NotifierAction 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): at com.prey.actions.location.LocationNotifierAction.execute(LocationNotifierAction.java:90) 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): at com.prey.actions.observer.ActionJob.run(ActionJob.java:81) 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): Caused by: java.lang.InterruptedException 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): at java.lang.VMThread.sleep(Native Method) 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): at java.lang.Thread.sleep(Thread.java:1306) 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): at java.lang.Thread.sleep(Thread.java:1286) 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): at com.prey.actions.location.LocationNotifierAction.execute(LocationNotifierAction.java:88) 02-29 12:24:24.185: E/PREY(2028): ... 2 more

device is marked as missing in the control panel but again no reports are generated.

http://f-droid.org "The F-Droid Repository is an easily-installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The server contains the details of multiple versions of each application, and the Android client makes it easy to browse, install them onto your device, and keep track of updates."

it also has some discussion about prey and possible issues in making it available there: http://f-droid.org/forums/topic/prey/

Several build errors caused by missing FileConfigReader class:

[javac] /home/all/SourceCode/prey/android-client/src/com/prey/PreyConfig.java:344: cannot find symbol
[javac] symbol  : variable FileConfigReader
[javac] location: class com.prey.PreyConfig

I am unable to utilise your software, because solely Android is available to me, so I am unable to compile your software. Why not expose the result of what your CI provides to Google via GitHub? This would additionally allow F-Droid repositories that merely distribute APKs rather than compile software to utilise it as a temporary method of disytribution until you provide a repository for F-Droid.

Prior to Android 4.0, any application with READ_LOGS permission could obtain all the other applications' log output. After Android 4.1, the specification of READ_LOGS permission has been changed. Even applications with READ_LOGS permission cannot obtain log output from other applications.

However, by connecting an Android device to a PC, or when running a rooted device, log output from other applications can be obtained.

Therefore, it is important that applications do not send sensitive information to log output.

The following LGTM query results demonstrate user credentials being written to the system log: https://lgtm.com/query/934527809110829031/

Once the issue is fixed, please create a security advisory to a CVE is assigned to it by GitHub.

Thank you,

Previously posted this in the forum: https://community.preyproject.com/t/lineageos-16-0-prey-for-android-2-0-0-unable-to-reach-device/1845.

Let us help you. Please tell us about...

• Affected device (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone): phone (Xiaomi Mi 8 128GB Global)
• Operating system (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, Ubuntu, Fedora): LineageOS 16.0 (dipper) 2019-4-15
• Part of Prey not working (Prey account, mobile app, a specific action or module, reports): specific action

Could you please describe the problem?

When I try Prey on my phone I can't seem to locate it via the panel on the website. When I press the "UPDATE LOCATION" button, I'm presented with the "Unable to reach device" message.

I don't know what's wrong. I installed it properly. Gave it the permissions it asked for. I also followed this and this guide. In the app it says "PROTECTED" in green.

And finally, please attach a screenshot if available (you can drag and drop images)