PDA tracking

rockmanrock · Post by **rockmanrock** » 30 Jan 2020, 17:29

Hi ,
does anyone know if our PDA's still track our movement/location if the battery is removed ?
Asking for a friend ;-)

terry2972 · Post by **terry2972** » 30 Jan 2020, 17:44

Obviously not but they might want to know why it went off line for however long

cardboard13 · Post by **cardboard13** » 30 Jan 2020, 18:02

if you put on low battery mode the pda will only do basic actions. not much different to phone on low battery mode ,

Hitcher · Post by **Hitcher** » 30 Jan 2020, 18:15

No but they're going to want to know why it was removed, plus they'll know where and when it was removed & where and when it was out back in.

Risky move imo and there's no reason why you need to do this.

rockmanrock · Post by **rockmanrock** » 30 Jan 2020, 18:28

Hitcher wrote:No but they're going to want to know why it was removed, plus they'll know where and when it was removed & where and when it was out back in.

Risky move imo and there's no reason why you need to do this.

Well "maybe" my battery just failed. No way to prove this could not happen. Also PDA's often crash/freeze up , and battery removal is the only way to re-boot.

Just sayin

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 30 Jan 2020, 19:16

rockmanrock wrote:
Hitcher wrote:No but they're going to want to know why it was removed, plus they'll know where and when it was removed & where and when it was out back in.

Risky move imo and there's no reason why you need to do this.
Well "maybe" my battery just failed. No way to prove this could not happen. Also PDA's often crash/freeze up , and battery removal is the only way to re-boot.

Just sayin

They probably have an on-board error logger

Post by **hothothot** » 30 Jan 2020, 19:22

If your just rebooting the PDA that's ok , but if it's switched off for any length of time your Dom will want to know why. Your obviously hiding something !

rockmanrock · Post by **rockmanrock** » 30 Jan 2020, 19:36

hothothot wrote:If your just rebooting the PDA that's ok , but if it's switched off for any length of time your Dom will want to know why. Your obviously hiding something !

well maybe my battery failed and couldn't reboot . Again - no way to prove that wasnn't the case.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 30 Jan 2020, 19:50

rockmanrock wrote:
hothothot wrote:If your just rebooting the PDA that's ok , but if it's switched off for any length of time your Dom will want to know why. Your obviously hiding something !
well maybe my battery failed and couldn't reboot . Again - no way to prove that wasnn't the case.

There's probably still enough residual power to be able to write to an error log. They can probably also access the battery state as well

mailroyaly · Post by **mailroyaly** » 30 Jan 2020, 19:58

But if it happens everyday at a similar time, their noses might start twitching

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 30 Jan 2020, 20:15

rockmanrock wrote:Hi ,
does anyone know if our PDA's still track our movement/location if the battery is removed ?
Asking for a friend ;-)

The mind boggles at what dodgy practices 'your friend' may be getting up to if he feels the need to ask a question like this. What next? Hacking the PDA?

paulsmd · Post by **paulsmd** » 30 Jan 2020, 20:27

rockmanrock wrote:Hi ,
does anyone know if our PDA's still track our movement/location if the battery is removed ?
Asking for a friend ;-)

Put it in bacon foil.

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 30 Jan 2020, 20:36

paulsmd wrote:
rockmanrock wrote:Hi ,
does anyone know if our PDA's still track our movement/location if the battery is removed ?
Asking for a friend ;-)
Put it in bacon foil.

Good idea! You can use the extra to make a foil hat to stop the new 5g penetrating your skull.

Grumpyoldmailman · Post by **Grumpyoldmailman** » 30 Jan 2020, 23:12

Mine has no signal all day then uploads when I get back to the yard. Not even sure what that all means, how does it know where I have scanned?

Post by **fb1969** » 31 Jan 2020, 07:09

GPS doesn't need a mobile signal. The office has WiFi so it uploads on that when you get back in range of it.