Apps to track down a missing/lost iPhone

[m021478]

Was wondering if anyone would be willing to offer recommendations on App Store Apps, or Cydia (jailbroken) Apps, that could be used to help find an iPhone that you've misplaced or lost??

I've just now found my iPhone (about 5 minutes ago) that I've been looking for ever since last night, and I was on the verge of believing that the phone had absolutely fallen off the face of the earth, because I'd searched everywhere imaginable for it without a shred of success. (and yes, I of course tried calling the phone, but I was pretty sure it was on vibrate...and now that I've found it, I can confirm that it was!)

I'd read a review of a Cydia (commercial) app offered by iFoneTec called Cylay, which in all honesty, I found to be an absolute joke of an attempt to make what would otherwise be an indispensable application (it never once worked for me, wound up being un-installable, and inevitably wound up forcing me to restore my phone and start from scratch).

There must be at the very least several other apps (App Store & Cydia) that would have saved me a lot of hassle over the last 24 hours as I searched relentlessly for my iPhone without success...

Ideally, and app that could provide GPS mapping that can be somehow checked from an alternate location (or iPhone) would have done the trick...I've thought about Loopt as a possibility, and then using my Wife's iPhone as a means of finding my iPhone should it ever get lost again in the future (to at the very least let me know if it's in my apartment, or in my Car which is located in the parking garage around the corner, or at my Mom's place, of my wife's Mom's place, etc...)

Anyone else care to offer any thoughts or suggestions that might be worth trying?

Thanks!

[steliossm]

check gadgettrak at appstore it's free and good

[boxxa]

there is one on Cydia that constantly updates your position at a set interval.you can have it signal every 5 min/30 min/hour/ etc which could be used for tracking where the phone is. To actually track the phone, you want to check the jail break for something that runs in the background. AppStore apps will only send out their location when they are running.

[m021478]

It's called iLocalis and is available on Cydia...So far, it's been working perfectly! Would have been nice to have had this installed on my phone the other day when I lost it!

It does everything I was hoping for...every 15 minutes, it sends out GPS coordinates of your phone (as a background process) which you can check online to see where your phone is on a Google Map Mashup...

[MaxRabbit]

Any options for an original iPhone?

[_ducky]

Original iPhone doesn't have a GPS chip, so I'm not sure what you'd do...

[MaxRabbit]

Haha, I hoped for a miracle

[mallenass]

i lost my iphone too and i wanted to die, i thought i had lost it in a bar, as it turns out fortunatelly i had just missplaced it over at my girlfriends house, but im also looking for a localization software, i live in Dominican Republic so i dont know if GPS is available here but iphones are hot amongst the thiefes these days so id like something to secure my iphone in case it gets stolen, is there any software to remotely block your iphone from restore or syncing in another pc in case its stolen?}


THANX!

[wgm214]

does ilocalis work on 3.0? and how is it on a 2g iphone