Abstract

Abstract: Mobile phones have brought a newrevolution in today’s world and majority of people might have experiencedmisplacing or losing their mobile phones. Hence, it has become compelling todevelop an android application to protect the smart phones. This paperdescribes the application, which is embedded with lot of features such aslocation tracking, capturing images and videos and sending messages along withautomatic data backing up of data. The application starts running in backgroundas soon as the SIM card is changed. It will track the location of the stolenphone and send it to alternate mobile number and registered email address. Asthe phone moves from one place to another the value of latitude and longitudewill be sent to email address and registered mobile number. The applicationwill also capture images and videos using the front and rear camera withoutalarming the thief. Also as soon as the SIM is changed by the thief, automaticuser’s data backup will start on the server so that there is no data loss anduser can access his/her confidential data. This proposed application runs inthe background using “service” thus providing safety and distinguishing it fromother existing mobile tracking applications.

Keywords:- Smartphones,SIM, Google Maps, GPS, GCM, Data Backup.