Mechanical man doesn't accompany a "find my Android" feature, so there's no more official way to track your phone if you lose information technology. You should get up your telephone set for loss by scope up such a tracking app — but what if you didn't?

Update: Android Confiscate can no more be activated remotely. We recommend exploitation Google's Feel My Device feature, which is built into Android.

Your best instinct may glucinium to download Lookout's Plan B, which has been the die down-to app for this purpose. However, Plan B only runs on Humanoid 2.3 Gingerbread and lower, thusly modernistic Mechanical man phones will require a parvenu root. If you are still running 2.3 operating room lower, you should definitely check it out, but everybody other can keep reading.

How It Works

Most lost-phone-tracking Mechanical man apps must be set up forwards of time. However, there's a reason Design B works (if you have a Gingerbread device, at the least). That's because Mechanical man allows you to remotely install apps — click the Set up button on the Google Bring website and the app will be remotely downloaded to your gimmick, forward information technology's turned on, connected to the Internet, and designed to use the same Google account. If the app arse set itself up, you should atomic number 4 able to remotely locate your phone.

While Plan B doesn't work, Android Lost does. To install this app, you can interact with the app on your device — or you rump send a special SMS subject matter to your device. Assuming you have access to someone else's cell phone, you can push on the Android Lost app to your lost phone, send an SMS message, and then it will be joined to your Google account. You can then lumber in with your Google account on the Android Confiscate site and locate your phone.

Using Android Lost

Beginning, install the app. Open the AndroidLost foliate on Google Play. Click the Install button and remotely put in the app to your lost phone.

Succeeding, you'll need to trigger Humanoid Squandered. Since you don't throw your phone, you'll need to charg an SMS message to your phone for this to work. Practice another phone and send a textbook message with the following content to your squandered phone:

androidlost register

Your phone's Google account should now be qualified with Android Lost, forward it's powered happening and has a connection. You crapper now open the Android Lost internet site, click the Check in connectedness, and log in with the Google explanation you use on your Android phone.

Approach the Controls Page later on logging in with your Google account, and you'll be able to track and control your earpiece remotely. You Crataegus oxycantha undergo to hold a little while before your ring becomes listed. In plus to requesting the sound's localization, you bottom also activate a hearable alarm that volition make the earpiece's covert flash — peculiarly useful if you think you've misplaced the speech sound somewhere near and need to cross information technology down.

Later your speech sound sends its location back, you toilet view information technology and detent a data link to yawning information technology on an interactive Google Maps page.

You May have to hold a teensy while for the phone to become registered. If you have got pushed the app and sent the SMS message and the phone never becomes registered, IT's possible that information technology's powered hit, has no more signal, or — worse — that someone has wiped the phone and you won't be able to track it because it's atomic number 102 longer connected to your Google account.

If you've lost your phone and never pitch a trailing app ahead of time, Android Lost is the top-quality you rear do at the moment.

Otherwise apps tush place your phone's location in the background (so you can view it even if your sound has been off), remotely wipe out your phone, or establis themselves deep into your phone's storage so they can persist crosswise wipes (this requires root access). However, you'll have to install such apps ahead of time.

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