I would say that Ujanja more of discourages phone theft (and might prevent it in the long term) than preventing phone theft in the short term. Basically it hinges on phone thieves not seeing it worth flashing a phone's ROM (which is illegal in the ICT act/bill), where I believe the Ujanja app is stored. If someone tries to use the stolen phone, the true owner will get a text message and the true owner will also know the new number that has been put on the phone and thus can contact the 'new' buyer. Since one needs ID to buy a SIM card, the original owner is more confident of reporting the new number to the police and records can trace the ID of the 'new' buyer. Now, the 'new' buyer is likely guilty of possessing stolen property and it's in his/her best interest to return the phone to the original owner before the issue goes to the authorities. The issue here is with the efficiency of the police, sadly. I think Ujanja needs to be more intergrated with the police than a product of a private company's efforts to phone theft solution. EADH ofcourse need to make their money. O_O --- On Tue, 9/8/09, Theus Owicho <owichot@gmail.com> wrote: From: Theus Owicho <owichot@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Ujanja - Phone tracing software... To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 12:51 PM Chances of getting your phone back is almost nil. The phone thieves defeated Michael Joseph and Phillipe Vandebrouk before Rene Meza and even Sprint PCs and AT$T cannot tame them. Its hard recoverting a stolen phone because first most users have no sleuth knowledge and again the phone companies are very much hindered since it cost as less as 100 bob to change an IMEI of a phone and so the tracking doesnt work On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, kennedy kariuki <kkairu@gmail.com> wrote: So basically ni ujanja ya biashara....I dnt see any guarantee to getting my phone back! On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Theus Owicho <owichot@gmail.com> wrote: Everything you do you do at your own risk. Even buying the phone. Kwani you buy at whose risk On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu@gmail.com> wrote: I usually advice people, flash your phones at your own risk! On 08/09/2009, kennedy kariuki <kkairu@gmail.com> wrote:
Does that mean their app cant be flashed...I thot on river rd guys can clean the phone of all the apps and as such cant be traced with their app????
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Last time i checked on their site, which is a while back, they mostly tracked phones which had in built tracking particular the symbian range. For most mid end phones, they werent supported, most probably due to their proprietary OS, which limits apps that can be developed for them.
On 08/09/2009, kennedy kariuki <kkairu@gmail.com> wrote:
Someone explain.....just lost a phone and I can't afford to lose another...
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>wrote:
Hallo people,
I am interested to know exactly how this works - has anybody tried it ?
Or do the owners of "Ujanja" have the master program GUI for locating end users lost phones on request ?
w/r Stephen N.
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