How to manage your Android via SMS

With Google Play, there is no shortage of applications for remote management of Android devices. Some require root, offering instead a well-very great opportunity, while others work without superuser rights, limited to a basic set of functions relevant to the user.

Today we will tell you about an interesting project from XDA-Developers - application called SMSTasks, allows remote control of Android through SMS.

The only serious limitation SMSTasks, which severely limits the availability of this development - the need to have root permissions. However, without such rights application implements a very useful function "replay ringtone alarm" (useful if your phone is lost in the house).

If there is Ruth, the application becomes a real monster, which allows to do with your smartphone is very steep and necessary in some cases things. The format of interaction with the application is simple:

1. Set the password in the application (in this SMS option will pass), which will be the identifier for validity received instruction (suddenly jocular one finds out that you are on an application and send you an SMS with the order vaypnut all data). As an additional security measure indicates the number from which the application will accept commands.
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2. Ship on a smartphone, (of course, it should be included) team. The list of available commands with a brief description of the actions below:

Sending terminal commands (a command is sent to the application "Terminal"):

cmd @ (pass) (terminal commands, seperate commands by new line)

Shutting off phone (smartphone off):

off @ (pass)

or

cmd @ (pass) poweroff

Rebooting phone (smartphone reboot):

reboot @ (pass)

or

cmd @ (pass) reboot

Reboot into recovery (reboot in rekaveri):

recovery @ (pass)

or

cmd @ (pass) reboot recovery

Uninstalling apps (removal of applications):

Uninstall @ (pass) (package name of app)

Here it is necessary to correctly understand the concept of «package name». This is not the name of the application that the user sees on the icon, and the name by which the application is identified in the system. For example, for the Angry Birds is «com.rovio.angrybirds». After each removal is necessary to reboot the device to make the appropriate command.

Echos (dispatch notifications on your smartphone, you can send multi-line message string section in the most SMS):

echo (what to put in toast, can be separated by new lines)

Bypassing android lockscreen security (bypassing the lock screen on your device, working with patterns, password, PIN-code):

unlock @ (pass)

SDcard Wiping (wipe data on a memory card in some models potrot and data on internal storage, but not the system):

sdcard @ (pass)

Wiping Data (wipe all of the data, in fact, it is reset to factory settings):

data @ (pass)

Toggles (inclusion of options / forms of communication):

toggle @ (pass) (option) (Value)

Options: wifi, gps, data, nfc, hostspot

Alarm (vocproizvesti melody alarm once):

alarm @ (pass)

Alarm (infinitely reproduce melody alarm):

loop-alarm @ (pass)

Download apk file SMSTasks application (Dropbox)

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