[Q] Nexus 4 security

[n3o1957]

Hello,

I didn´t find anything about my issue so i´m posting, i have a nexus 4 rooted with PA rom.
Now any rooted phone can be powered down and if stolen that person can try the keys combination to enter into recovery mode, from there its easy to have a brand new phone.

So my question is how to prevent this?


Regards

Rui

 

[NotDisliked]

There really is no way, at least to my knowledge, to keep people from factory resetting your phone after stealing it. Even if you managed to find a way to get a custom recovery to have a password, which currently doesn't exist, people can still boot your phone into the bootloader and factory reset your phone, even when the phone is encrypted.

Basically, if you choose to root your device, there is no way to secure it so people can't factory reset it to get a "brand new phone".