I’m running Graphene on a Pixel 6. I lost it and someone opened it somehow and called two of my contacts to give it back.

I’m a bit confused how this even happened. When I got the phone back, they were going through my contacts. I checked app usage stats and they went through a banking app (not missing money), maps, signal, etc.

Is there a way to figure out how they even unlocked my phone?

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Any chance the phone was stolen and not lost? Got anyone in the family working for the government or anything unusual like that. Just a thought.

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Is it possible that something else was installed to the phone? If they manage to hack it open, then potential reason to return it to you is to spy on you.

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theyd have to be important, unlikely. even if this is cia shit tjey wouldnt make it obvious someone got in

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Why not? Most people ITT clearly don’t seem security minded enough to even think of that as a possibility.

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Does your phone have a physical SIM and if so are there any contacts stored on it?

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Yeah, but the calls were from my phone, so I think they would have to open it

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They could’ve swapped the SIM to another phone though? Assuming you’re rocking a provider default PIN

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But again, the calls were placed from his device, and other apps were accessed.

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When you find out let me know

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Do those contacts happen to be your ICE? Some phones will allow those from the emergency dialer without unlocking. Don’t know about grapheme.

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Graphene has and emergency dialer, but you can’t call my contacts from it.

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