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How To Lock or Wipe Your Android Phone

September 23rd, 2010 Caden 0 Comments
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Norton Security for Android Devices released by Norton Symantec, allows you to lock and or wipe your Android phone remotely when someone stole your phone or you accidentally lost it. Norton security for Android devices available ini beta version, a free application, quick to install and easy to use.

Download the Norton Mobile Security from the Market Place. After the download is successfull, agree and launch Norton Mobile Security. You will see remote lock & wipe, anti malware, call & SMS blocking, live update and subscription On home screen. Choose‘remote lock & Wipe’, initialization will start and now we get into the basic setup.

After the setup for Remote Lock and Wipe started, on the first screen instructions regarding ‘Remote Lock’ and ‘Remote Wipe’ will appear. Lock will prevent authorization to the phone and wipe will delete all your data and information. Select Setup Remote Lock & Wipe button on the top. You will have to ‘Lock your passcode’ to lock your phone and ‘wipe your passcode’ to wipe it.

Enter a code. As an added security feature, in case if you forget your passcode, you can set up to five friends to reset the passcode of your device. After completing the setup, the basic commands to lock and wipe your phone will appear again with the passcode you selected. You can test by messaging ‘lock your passcode’ from another phone. Device will be instantly locked and will ask you to enter the passcode. The sender will get a notification that the phone has been successfully locked.

You can download the application here.

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