When a phone is being stolen, the first thing a thief will try to do is to turn on flying mode or shutdown. Google play has an app called "Cerberus" that disables powering off and control panel on your phone when locked, but it asks for too many permissions for a proprietary app IMO. Does anyone know any F-Droid alternatives?

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just a note: it can still be forced off/rebooted by pressing power button even longer. Likely the thief will just do that.

So there's not much point for this.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plus isn't your phone's encryption at its strongest state after its been rebooted, before it's been unlocked? Guess it'll be useless unless OP has an outdated security patch, a weak passcode or if it was snatched while unlocked

[–] VeganicTankie@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I'm just looking for the strongest security methodology. Yeah, I didn't think about this

[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Need some kind of fake power-down mode baked into the OS, which locks encrypted storage and switches on an unresponsive black screen tracking mode.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why do you want to prevent it? thieves could simply put it into a faraday cage.

[–] Dalde@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My Android 14 device don't allow shutdown or enabling flying mode when is locked.