what to do if you lose your samsung galaxy/ android phone

How do I locate my lost android phone? 

Firstly... !! DO NOT use this service: localize.mobi - based in Latvia

1. If you have a samsung account, go to findmymobile.samsung.com

You can track your phone's location, set the phone to ring even if it was on silent/ mute, lock your phone, back up your data, extend your battery life and worst case scenario, erase data. 

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00080182/

2. If you do not have a samsung account, go to https://android.com/find

Find your phone, go to the location, play sound. Last resort, set up secure & erase. Also provides your IMEI number. 

3. Check with your phone service providers to determine level of support available - they should be able to block your phone and suspend the service. If you are making a police report, ensure you IMEI number is included. Obtain replacement for SIM card.

For maxis - https://www.maxis.com.my/en/faq/manage-account/my-account/lost-or-stolen-phone-or-sim/

To get a new activated sim card from Maxis - you will have to go to a Maxis centre to get a new SIM card (not an authorized distributors - so find out which centre) and it will take at least 48 hours (6 days and counting - I suppose if it is not new business, then Maxis is not interested.... customer retention? What is that?!) And of course, if you are a business account, you would be required to call a separate business account number. No, there are no physical service centers for business lines. 

Bottom line is if you are considering opening a business mobile line, I would not recommend Maxis!

Finally on Day 6 after the day on which new SIM card is purchased, Maxis managed to re-connect the line. Not within 2 hours as their customer service promised. 

4. Change your google password (and any other email)

5. Inform banks/ credit cards and to reconfigure phone number for OTP/ verification.

6. Inform family

7. EWallets - Shopee, Boost, TnG, Fave - most of these would require pin/ biometrics verification to transact. But over time, it would be advisable to change all pins.

8. Inform colleagues & close friends

9. Restore whatsapp from backup - to obtain most contact numbers (if you do not have contacts back up) 

https://faq.whatsapp.com/601558080647471/?locale=en_US

for your next phone...

1. Ensure that your find my phone feature is well configured. Enable remote lock and erase. 

https://faq.whatsapp.com/744445782709185/?helpref=uf_share

2. Set up for contacts to be backed up in google account

https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/9423168?hl=en

3. Set up whatsapp for back up to google drive

https://faq.whatsapp.com/744445782709185/?helpref=uf_share

4. Set up samsung account if it is a samsung phone

Anybody out there?

boo! anybody out there? 

would be nice to get some comments!

My current fav

 2011

2012

2022

Do we?

Do we appreciate good music? Or do we want to appear like we can appreciate good music? Perhaps good music to one is not good music to another? Would the experiment result be different if he was placed somewhere else more affluent? Would it be different if he played at a kindergarten? Would it be different if he played at kindergartens in different locations? It would be really interesting to find out.

 

Herd mentality

 

Why we are not suppose to discuss compensation

 

Democracy - but is it?

The Century of Self is truly a mind *@#!. 

First, it tells of a man whose understanding of human nature is so deep, when applied by a kin has resulted in democracy as it is today. He who believed that the mass mind is driven by unconscious irrational instinctive forces.

Democracy is but an illusion of freedom as we need to believe we are free. But yet chained, by our own subconscious minds. In reality, imprisoned by our own desires created by those who sold the idea of democracy. The subconscious desire to belong.

Then another man broke the people free of this conformist society and encouraged the expression of self. But this new individualistic society somehow became imprisoned again... this time, by the desire to be different!

As man evolve, so does the mechanism to commercialize the evolution. And this was necessary to maintain this illusion of freedom. By stimulating people's inner desires or fears and then satiating them with consumer products, a new way to manage the irrational force of the masses is born. To enable the maintenance of democracy - to enable the maintenance of the relations of power that govern the world - by stimulating the irrational self so leadership can go on doing what it wants to do. 

Thus the continual imprisonment by man's own desire. 

Man must be discontent to survive. That is the only way to keep man within limits.