With an iPhone, you tie your phone to an iCloud account - it happens at the bootloader level. If your phone gets stolen, the thief can't do anything until the previous owner releases the phone from his/her iCloud account.
I have a co-worker who had his iPhone stolen. "Later" he got contacted by the new owner who wanted to use the phone. Obviously, co worker wouldn't do this - that's what you get for buying a stolen phone. The new owner can't do anything with the phone except send it back or break it (he took option two, unfortunately).
I see plenty of options that allow you to track, remote wipe, lock, activate alarm, etc... You can encrypt the device and/or sd...
But what is stopping the next person from flashing or factory resetting the phone, formatting the encrypted SD and using both of those anyways?
So my question is...Are there any standard options that will stop the phone from being reformatted or is that something that's up to the phone manufacturer? I don't want to remotely brick my phone if it gets stolen - I want to stop it from being used by anyone but me - full stop.
