Ever wanted to know who tried snooping into your phone while you were away. Your friends or family member might have tried to unlock your phone. Hidden Eye is a simple app with no frills that will photograph the person when they try to unlock your phone. You can set it to play your ringtone when a user tries to unlock your phone without your knowledge.
If you are suspecting that someone is trying to use your Android smartphone while you are away but you are
not quite sure who that can be, here is a suggestion on how to detect him. Thanks to a small app available on Google Play you can easily take a picture of a person who is typing a wrong password on your phone and in this tutorial I will show you how to set it up.
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HOW TO USE ?
Step 1: First download Hidden Eye app for your Android and install it.
Step 2: Once installation is finished, lunch the app.
Step 3: When you lunch the app for the first time you need to assign administrative rights over your device to Hidden Eye app. To do that tap on OFF and switch it to ON.
Step 4: Now tap on Activate located on bottom left.
Step 5: From now on, whenever someone enters a wrong password on your Android phone, the app will access your phone front camera and take a picture of person who is using your phone.
Step 6: Next time when you enter a correct password, the app will show you the picture of a person who was typing the wrong password along with the date and time.
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HOW TO UNINSTALL ?
Step 1: Set the Security Status to "OFF".
Step 2: Uninstall the app now .
Sync with Dropbox
All the images that are captured is
stored in "HiddenEye" folder within the DCIM folder on your phone. If
you have configured Dropbox to sync your Photos folder, then Hiddeneye
pictures will also be synced with your dropbox account.
Android detects failed attempts ONLY if passcode has atleast 4 letters or points, so as HiddenEye
This app may not work on all devices, you will need to just try it out and see if it works for your device. Email me if it doesn't work on your device. Does not take pictures on Nexus devices.
Worried that your phone does not have front camera. With HiddenEye, now you can know the someone has tried to snoop into your phone. You can also trigger sound if someone is trying to unlock your phone with wrong password thrice. You will see a place holder image instead of a real picture. If you have a front camera, then you will see the real picture of the intruder.
Once you unlock your phone, you will be shown the photographs of the people who tried unlocking your phone in your absence. Sounds interesting ! Try it and let us know if you have any suggestion to improve it further.
About Permissions
CAMERA = Uses the front camera to picture the intruder.
VIBRATE = Notification Alert generated when wrong password is entered.
INTERNET, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE = Needs to display Ads on the app.
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE:Store captured images on the phone, so that its available for you to sync to Dropbox.
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