Soon you can delete and block a stolen Android forever

Track it, disable it, locate it, block it. If they rob us of the smartphone, there are several options that we can carry out. But Android works on one that presents itself as the most radical of all, the most direct and a declaration of principles: “do I steal the mobile to resell it? “As to the ‘brickeo’ remote and see what do you do with an unrecoverable brick in your hands”.
It was three years ago, in the summer of 2013 when Google activated servers of Android Device Manager, a web page that provides assistance to find phones lost or stolen Android. Coming here we can see things like locate the mobile, make it sound very high for 5 minutes until the volume button is pressed, block it no option that you can be involved, send a message to read it to whoever has it or wipe it away. A series of functions that has no doubt helped many regain or in the worst cases to protect data and sensitive information that had on their devices.

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Along with this there are plenty of applications from other companies dedicated to protecting the security of our terminals. But one, final, was still missing and that Google is taking place and promises that you will soon implement in the form of deletion end that can even be a ‘brickeo’ remote, i.e., leave the phone completely useless and not even an expert can make you a ‘reboot’ and extract things from him.

A line view this last Friday in the Android Open Source Project has raised the Hare, pointing to literally “Recovery: Add support to disable a device”, a command that once started you can delete any partition on a Mobile Android, including sectors such as the own Recovery, home, and the bootloader, and turning smartphone into a paperweight hardware JTAG least would need to recover it.

Seems that the ability to delete / inutilizad is something that will be in the hands of the manufacturers of mobile phones, deciding them which partitions will be included in the ‘Brick’ command, and if they include other things such as the option to recover all the capacity of the device once it is back in the hands of its owner. Currently there is no official announcement, no date planned or nothing when come to sites like Android Device Manager, but the question is to know if next to this powerful feature is Google working on other even more potent, as we say, retrieve all deleted from the terminal once is returned.