So I bought Cerberus for android and installed it on all my devices for about 2 years, and its pretty great, not only does it provide you with the standard ‘find your device’ features that common apps do, but its also got ROOT permission stuff as well, the online console looks like this

The online console also shows when a command is both sent and recieved

Here is a list of features from the dropdown menu (As HTML)

Some features require root, which for me is no issue. Some things to note is the picture and video quality is very poor, I cant tell whether this is because they try to save bandwidth (as responses are given over email) or because of some funky implementation the app uses, but they are mostly watchable, though you’d get lucky to get your thief’s face.

You can start apps which is useful, you can also go into the app settings and set the app to open when you ring a phone number like ‘10000’ for example, you can also force it to be persistent by installing it with TWRP or  CWM so it survives a wipe of the entire system, as well as deleting the app, once the phone is restarted, it re-installs, with your settings.

You can also download the ‘System Framework’ version, which in the event that your phone is nicked, the app wont be deleted by the thieves.

The app also has some other features seen below

SIM checker allows the app to secretly send a message to a defined number if a new SIM is inserted, which I accidentally triggered when I replaced my SIM, so I can say that I’m confident it works so long as the SIM has credit. The AutoTask Configuration is useless at best, there aren’t much things you can do with it and whenever I try to save, it crashes the phone, which I can only assume is because it tries to write to some inaccessible memory.

The track feature is good, precise and fairly accurate, it updates regularly, Id say every minute or so (sat stationary on a desk for 3 minutes. {note that the inaccuracy may be due to GPS, rather than Cerberus itself})

Being able to switch on data with a text command was especially handy when I had to retrieve a phone, once the phone was on we were loaded with all there Cerberus and able to find it at Tesco’s lost and found, but without the tracking we would have had no clue where to look (does not require root).

One other good feature is the ability to disable turning off the phone without first unlocking the device, this is one of my favourite features and a unique selling point for Cerberus

All in all I’d defiantly say it’s worth the one time investment, I’ve lost a phone and found it again with Cerberus, It worked well.