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Kya Kaise
Our phone is an integral part of our lives these days
All our Messages, photos, documents, contacts, music, videos, data and passwords are all stored on the phone
What if it gets stolen? Is it possible to find a lost phone?
In this video, we will find how to locate a stolen or lost mobile. Hello, my name is Aekta
There are many apps you can use such as - Contact Owner, Wheres My Droid, Plan B, Android Device Manager and Prey
I am going to tell you about 3 apps here - Contact Owner, Wheres My Droid and Android Device Manager
First - Contact Owner. Let's assume you lost your phone and someone found it but your phone is locked. In such a situation, how can the finder return your phone?
With the help of this App, you can put your details on the screen of the phone to enable the finder to know your details. Let's see how to use Contact Owner
Let's go to the Playstore and search for Contact Owner. Here's the app. Let's click on it and Install it
Let's click on Accept and this app has been installed. Let's click on Open
Click on Yes. The App is now open
It's a very basic App. You need to input 3 things here
First we need to add our Contact Information so lets click here
Now you can input the contact from the address book. I have put 'Kya Kaise' and let me search
This is Kya Kaise, let me click on it and click on Yes and here you can see my email address
Now let me go back
Now the 2 fields have been enabled
Let me click on Text Before ... it says If found, please contact. Let me click on OK
Now let me click on Text After
let me type ...or call 999999999 and let's click OK
This is just a fake number I have put
We have filled in the 3 fields, now lets go back and lock the phone
Now the phone is locked
So you can see here - this is the information you just filled. If someone finds your phone, they may not be able to enter the phone but they will know who to contact
The second App is Wheres My Droid. You can use this to locate an android phone
You can ring your lost phone, find its location, you can even take a picture with its camera and you can even lock your phone remotely. Let's see how
Let's open the Play Store and search for Wheres my Droid, click on it and Install it
Let's click on Accept... now the app is being installed
let's click on Open
Now this is the Welcome screen. I am going to Skip the intro
Let's Accept the Terms... now we are inside Wheres my Droid
This App has a Free and a Pro version. All the features are avialable in the Pro version but it costs about $4. I am going to show you how to use the Free Version
First, click on Commander... and if you are a first time user, you will need to create a new account ... click on Create Account
Choose a username and a Password.. retype the password
Now you can add your Email address.. i entered my email
Now you need to choose a Security question and put your answer. Then click Submit
Now your account is being created. Here you can see the email just came into your Inbox
But now you need to give your device a name. Let me call it Samsung s3 and click on Add Device
Now the Commander is linked and ready for use
Let's click on Done
You'll see a few ads in the Free version
If your phone is lost, you have 2 options
You either can send an SMS to your phone from a friend's mobile and get to know the location of your phone
Or you can go to the Wheres my Droid website and locate your phone
Let's see how you can find your phone by sending an SMS from a friend's phone
Send a message to your phone from the Friend's phone - the text of the message should say Wmd gps
and send it to your phone
As soon as you send this message, you get an SMS from Wheres my Droid telling you that your message has been received and you will get a response within 5 minutes
And in a short while, I received an SMS telling me the Exact Location of the phone ... the exact Latitude and Longitude
And it even gives you a link to Google Maps - if you click on the link, you can see the exact location of the phone
It also gives you the approximate address of the phone right now. Let's click on this link and open the URL then Open Maps
Let's see where the phone is ... you see here ... let's zoom in
Absolutely Right! This phone is at the Caribbean Residences in Singapore, which is my current location
So we were able to find the location of this phone via SMS
If you want this phone to ring , send an SMS with the message wmd ring to your phone
So you see here ... the phone has started to ring. If you are nearby, you can hear your own phone ringing and locate it
Once you find the phone, click on Found Phone to stop it from ringing
But how to locate the mobile from a PC? Let's see
It's worth mentioning here that you will have received an email from Wheres my Droid. You may want to complete this verification step
Click on the verification link in the email to verify your account
Let's open Wheres my Droid and then click on Commander
Let's enter our email and password - the same one we used to create an account just now
Let's click on the Login button and now here you see....
Now I am logged in ... you can see my device here Samsung s3
Let's click on Find
Here you have 2 options. You can either click Quick Location and find the approximate location of the phone or you can find the Accurate location
Let's click on Quick Location and here you see the command has been sent your phone
This says ...You will get a response within 5 minutes
Here, you can see the response has come is quickly
Here you can see the location of my phone - its Telok Blangah Road in Singapore and my phone is lying close to the pool
You can see a radius here - my phone should be within that radius
Anyways, most of these loacations are approximations
Now you can ring your phone by clicking Make Device Ring
Now you can hear the phone ringing
Now you can click on thr Found Phone button on your phone to make it stop ringing
So we found the phone
Now there are a few features in the Pro version such as Camera. You can take pictures from the front or rear camera
It can even lock your phone
You may want to lock your phone from here... but this is also a Pro feature (not free)
That's how you find your lost or stolen phone using a friend's laptop or your own computer
This is applicable if you already installed a few apps on your mobile as a precaution
But is there a way out if your phone is lost and you did not install all these apps on your mobile?
In such a situation, you can login to Android Device Manager and see where your phone is... let's see how
Let's go to Google and type Android Device Manager
Here you see Android Device Managaer. this is a Google Product that let's you track your Android phone
If you have logged in into your phone using your Gmail address then you can track your Android phone
Let's log in to Android Device Manager using our Google Account
Let me enter my password and click on Sign In
Now you can see ...we are in the Android Device Manager
It's saying that the Location data from your devices will be shared with Google
But this location is usually approximate
If you believe that your phone has been stolen, please contact the Police. Let's click on Accept
Now it's looking for our location
Its telling us that this phone was last seen at 3:47 pm in Singapore on the 5th of june... about a minute ago
You can zoom in and see the location of the phone. This is the approximate location of the phone and you can see that its accurate to 23 meters
You can Ring your phone now by clicking the Ring button ... lets click here
Your device will now ring for 5 minutes and you can shut it by pressing the Power button
Let's click on the Ring button
Here you can see that the phone has started ringing... let me turn it off
I just turned it off with the power button
You can Set up Lock and Erase here
It says to get started and use the lock and erase options, a set up notification needs to be sent. Let's click on send
The notification has been sent to your phone
Even though we had not installed Android Device Manager on our phone, we were able to locate the phone and were able to ring it
Now you can find your lost or stolen phone easily
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