901532 - Find My Phone

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 797938

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

Description

[marta]

Attachment: The code generated by yeoman and angularjs

The prototype will work on a command plus a passkey, sent to the device via a SMS command from another phone. The idea being, if a user's phone has gone missing, they could borrow someone else's phone to send the missing device a text message to start tracking the phone. The missing device will reply to the SMS with it's geo-location and will continue to regularly send text messages until the device is recovered. The responding message will include a timestamp the geo-location was generated, the accuracy and a link to google map's with the lat and long included.

There will be a set of different commands that the user can trigger using SMS commands

- Track the phone, and receive a SMS back with the geo-location of the missing device
- Stop tracking the device
- Play an alarm on the loudest volume, even if the phone is on silent
- Display a custom notification on the device 
- Wipe all data on the device

With regards to wiping all data, for the prototype, no actual removal of data will occur, it will just be an alert message to confirm the command was received. 

The app will require a username and password, with only one user associated per device. All information will be stored locally for the device for this version.  A passkey will be set within the app, and be required to be submitted along with the SMS command to ensure user validation.

To listen to incoming SMSs, an Mobile Message Event Listening (this._mozMobileMessage.addEventListener('received', );) to listen to incoming SMSs. Also added SMS permission to manifest.webapp, as well as allowing apps to run in the background.

In future versions of the app, it will incorporate Silent SMS once the feature has been developed for Gaia. 

Will also allow SMS to be sent from within the app.