Android is changing to make it even more useless device in the hand of a thief. Google implemented the open source Android, which is offered to any mobile phone manufacturer, a way to make the device becomes impossible to turn on when you give the signal that your device was subtracted.
code was introduced in the AOSP (Android Open Source Project, the software that is released to manufacturers) last Friday, with the new remote wipe format. Before you even had the option to clean the machine after stolen, but the new method goes much further, allowing the device to become a “brick” in the jargon of technology in the hands of the thief.
the method can completely erase any partition of Android device, including key parts of the system as the fastboot and the bootloader, responsible for initiating the process of connecting the cell, and the recovery partition, which too difficult to smartphone restoration.
However, there will be up to manufacturers choose to which partitions will be included in this command “tijolar” the phone with the ability to include such things as a partition to an external microSD card, such as note Android Police. Moreover, it is likely that those who apply the feature on their devices must also implement a function that allows the smartphone to be rehabilitated by the legitimate user of the device if he can get it.
For now, the only new lies in the AOSP, and is not applied, in fact, in any cell, and any version of the operating system. It is unknown whether Google plans to apply to completely disable the phone function in a service like Android Device Manager, which already allows you to remotely delete the contents of a stolen mobile phone, which is a measure far less drastic.
it is also necessary to note that such an extreme option as disable a cell requires Google care to create tools for the user with less technical knowledge do not do it by accident, and if you do, there is the possibility of reversing the damage .
Via Android Police
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