I always find a good app that helps to track the phone via GPS. Luckily, I found “Find my Phone” apps that helps you to locate your missing Android phone in no time.If you don’t want to lose your Android phone in the future, I recommend you to check these “Find my phone” apps too so that you don’t panic at the time you lost your phone. Installing these apps will help you to track down your Android phone when you forget it somewhere, lost it or someone stoled it.
So, have a look on 4 free apps to locate your stolen or lost Android Phone in no time.
1. Lookout Mobile Security : A whole lot more than “Find My Phone” app for Android that allows you to not only locate your device when it is stolen or lost but also helps you to take backup of phone data t regular intervals. This app is also no.1 security apps that will protect you from various malwares or viruses from being attacked your Android Phone. Let’s see what its Find my phone feature does :
■Find your lost or stolen phone by locating it on a Google map
■Activate a loud alarm to find your phone nearby, even if it is on silent
■Locate your phone by remotely enabling GPS, so you can find your phone even if GPS is turned off
■Log in to myLookout.com from any web browser to locate your phone
2. Plan B : Another great app provided by the developers of Lookout Mobile Security App. This is the first app of its kind that you can download after you have lost your phone. This app is really helpful when you lost your phone and didn’t have any “Find my Phone” app installed in your Android phone. Let’s see how it works :
■Install Plan B to the phone that you are trying to find from the Android Market website: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb.
■Plan B will start automatically and send your phone’s location to your Gmail address.
■If it doesn’t start, borrow a friend’s phone and text the word “locate” to your lost phone.
3. Wheres My Droid : Another “Find my Phone” app, another set of features. If you phone is lost anytime and it’s in silent mode, you can text your phone with the custom set attention word and this app will turn silent mode off and start ringing. There is one other option to set a attention word to get the GPS location of your phone. Some of the features of this app are :
■Find phone by making it ring/vibrate
■Find phone using GPS location
■Passcode protection to prevent unauthorized app changes
■Use computer to email ether attention word.
4. Lost Phone : One of the most important feature that any user want from the “Find my Phone” app is lock the phone when a new sim card is detected and it does the same. It will lock the lost phone and sends SMS to your friends from the new number. Some of the other features of this app are :
■Send a SMS and lock the lost phone.
■Send a SMS and locate phone.
■Send a SMS and set ringer volume to max so you can call and find phone.
■If a new SIM-card is detected, it locks the lost phone and sends SMS to your friends from the new number.
If you use any other app for the same reason, please be kind and share with our readers.
