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Verizon launches Mobile Recovery for smartphones

by Adam Zeis on 16 Sep 2010 10:26 AM
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Verizon Mobile Recovery for BlackBerry

As of today Verizon smartphone users can take advantage of the new Mobile Recovery service. The service is available for anyone with Total Equipment Coverage (TEC) on their plan. Mobile Recovery is really just a smartphone safeguard that lets you find a lost phone, sound an alarm to locate your device and remotely wipe your contacts. The service is a free feature for those with TEC and is available on the BlackBerry Storm and Storm2, Bold 9650, Curve 8530 and Tour 9630. To sign up for Mobile Recovery, head to mymobilerecovery.com (and make sure you have TEC activated on your Verizon plan).

Source: BGR

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: Mobile Recovery, Verizon
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22 Comments

Posted by ghostnyc Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

what's the status of berrys back up application? weren't they suppose to be releasing a beta soon?

 
 
Posted by lovejoy1 Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

Its up on their beta site already. I'm testing it and its very, very good.

 
 
Posted by elvin1983 Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

Download and setup were a breese, no issues at all, works like a charm, and the location is accurate within 6 meters, gives you the nearest address to where you are at, even tho the one it gave me is a couple digits off, but the bing maps that it uses pinpoints the exact building that I'm in at work, pretty sweet! This will do the trick until BlackBerry Protect goes public.

 
 
Posted by PaintDrinkingPete Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

Of course I'm currently getting a "404: Page not found" (Apache Tomcat) error... I'm guessing this post may have something to do with that, I'll just wait a bit and try again.

 
 
Posted by mrjackson Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

You need to remove the period from the end of the url.

 
 
Posted by Jai Manny Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

why pay extra for TEC service plan on your monthly plan when SafeGaurd is totally free?

 
 
Posted by mrjackson Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

TEC is insurance on your phone, a lot of people have it. This is an additional, free, feature provided to all TEC subscribers.

 
 
Posted by mrjackson Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

If you turn off the automatic location updating you can still request a new location via the website. This seems to be the best option to use if you're concerned about privacy.

 
 
Posted by onthedge157 Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 618 days ago

my phone was only on e911 gps. recovery said i had to enable it all. will it still work on e911? what privacy issues will i have if i enable it all. i only thought it drained my battery on gps enabled.....

 
 
Posted by Irish53 Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

The alarm is loud and kicked in quick.

 
 
Posted by tophand576 Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

I downloaded on my Storm 9530 but it is taking forever to "initialize". Anyone else have that problem or how long did it take? I have already delted it and DL'd again but same thing. Just sits there with "Initlaizing" in a text box.

 
 
Posted by Bob_B Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 619 days ago

Do a battery pull and let it restart. It says to do this, but I didn't see it till I tried to install it twice also. Worked great after that.

 
 
Posted by cstormberry Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 618 days ago

Is anyone else getting an "Uncaught exception: java.lang.ClassCastException error"? I've tried rebooting, reinstalling, etc.

 
 
Posted by Detective M Downs Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 618 days ago

I got the same error twice!

 
 
Posted by onthedge157 Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 618 days ago

I did the easy as heck download and set up. I tried the lock phone and alarm features and they worked great. nice and easy. but i tried the locate phone and both times it said gps fail....after download i enabled my gps (which it never was, it was only on e911) to do a refresh every hour....any ideas? is it a good idea to keep gps enabled on my phone?

 
 
Posted by tophand576 Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 618 days ago

Can't get it to stop "initializing" on my Storm 9530. Might it be becuse I have a hybrid OS loaded and not the official Verizon approved OS?

 
 
Posted by Brookelynne Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 618 days ago

Set up was quick and easy, but the alarm on my 9650 is not very loud.

 
 
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Posted by townsendiv Friday, Sep 17, 2010 618 days ago

I wonder if I should download Mobile Recovery. I am eligible for it, but already have Smrtguard. Any opinions?

 
 
Posted by tgalvan83 Monday, Sep 20, 2010 614 days ago

I just took advantage of this and it works wonderful. I lost one phone already and wish i had this to track that phone down. Now to test it the next couple of weeks. So far so good. The map as shown on the demo worked and pinpointed where the location of my phone was.

 
 
Posted by Jzic2 Tuesday, Sep 28, 2010 607 days ago

I have tried manually and automatically, I have reset my phone a billion times, took the battery out and this is the error message I get Uncaught exception: java.lang.classCastException. Can someone help me.