If you try to take your phone abroad and you have Prey installed*, it will get very excited.
First you need to unlock your phone to any network, which involves taking a leap of faith and leaving your expensive handset in a dodgy looking shop on Finchley Rd, AND giving them the PIN to use it! While it's there you get an email from Prey: "Sorry to hear your phone is stolen!" What? Turns out unlocking the handset from your network triggers Prey. Ok, set it to "not stolen" online. At least you can see from the console that your phone is still ion the shop where you left it!
Next you arrive in NZ and put a new sim card in. Same email; Prey thinks your phone is stolen. Well at least Prey is on the ball. As before, I set it to un-stolen in the control panel, but hours later it was "stolen" again. This kept on happening and I was getting an update from Prey every few hours, until I realised the solution is to lock your phone to the new sim (or if you swap sims a lot, unlock it from any sim). So now you know.
First you need to unlock your phone to any network, which involves taking a leap of faith and leaving your expensive handset in a dodgy looking shop on Finchley Rd, AND giving them the PIN to use it! While it's there you get an email from Prey: "Sorry to hear your phone is stolen!" What? Turns out unlocking the handset from your network triggers Prey. Ok, set it to "not stolen" online. At least you can see from the console that your phone is still ion the shop where you left it!
Next you arrive in NZ and put a new sim card in. Same email; Prey thinks your phone is stolen. Well at least Prey is on the ball. As before, I set it to un-stolen in the control panel, but hours later it was "stolen" again. This kept on happening and I was getting an update from Prey every few hours, until I realised the solution is to lock your phone to the new sim (or if you swap sims a lot, unlock it from any sim). So now you know.
* If you don't, install it now!