Possible To Remotely Turn Services On A Cell Phone?

Recent software update?

Recent install of software?

Some tell you that they require data services to be turned on and they would not work/install if it wasn't.

Usually you let it install and then turn off the service.

Not by me, and I'm sure if my wife had installed the update she would have remembered it. The fact that data was on was a surprise to her, too.

Is that the only possiblity?

It could have been software that was installed quite some time ago, even something that came bundled with the phone.

Software like Google maps is common these days, and when you use that function (i.e. to find someplace), it turns on the associated services it needs.

These days, you just have to keep an eye on your phone settings like it was a horny teenager.

Gut idee!

Latest bulletin - could have been a software update.

Many thanks!

two things, yes it can get turned on by some of the system automatic updates. additionally, I had this problem as I had inadvertently turned my WIFI OFF which then ran my data up.

Most likely, when you switched it over from her to you the phone rebooted back to its defaults as would all installed software.

Would have to be more recent. If it had been on since she passed it to me, I would have to take out a mortgage.

one of the penalties for owning a "phart smone"

I'm actually starting to miss my first (analog!) cell phone.

I use "net 10" services, my needs are simple, short, and as I may travel across states, a system that does not charge extra for use of other nets...I have been using the same LG model for appx. 10 years, all the numbers have long since worn off so I'm not sure which it is, but it looks similar to a 'blackberry' and will link to internet if necessary, but I seldom push the multimedia mode button unless I need to check email on the road. I detest 'touch screen' phones, tried, don't like. Of all the services I've used over the last 30+ years, Net10 has been the most economical, and given me service from California to Florida and Maine and I very seldom find myself in a dead zone.

I notice that the "latest and greatest" phone that my wife has received as part of her provider subscription has a separate keyboard again. Problem is: it's modeled after the touch-tone keypad, so you have to select one of three possibilities when entering text.They need to do better than that!

Based on the reports about WikiLeaks newest dump of CIA intel gathering secrets, it seems that phones are not the only things being turned on. Some CIA creep somewhere is watching some old lady stretch exercise in her panties in her living room in front of her TV.

According to the latest Wiki Leaks, and whomever committed the heinous felonies to get this information out of the CIA, the CIA (and NSA, FBI, the rest of alphabet soup) has had the ability to listen in on your cell phone (whomever you are talking to, etc.) without it apparently being turned on (by you). Maybe they updated it for you, so it would "work" better for them. Although it is supposed to be a felony for them to listen in on you without a FISA warrant here in the USA. In Canada, good luck. In Mexico, it is the cartel that is listening to you.

By the way, any smart device that can connect to internet at all is susceptible to these techniques. Don't ask me if they can listen to an older digital HDTV, although if there is even a telephone line on your cable or satellite box, be forewarned. The cable company is not the only one listening to you with your PPV or movie on demand.