I know that verizon, sprint and at&t have a locator feature that you can sign up for, but I am with t-mobile. I am buying a phone for my son who is 11, and would love to be able to have a locator service for him/ his phone. I dont care if i need to access the internet to do so.
Someone told me that there is some kind of sd card that i can put in his phone and I would be able to locate it, but after doing a search on the internet I couldnt find anything.
Please help me if you can
Nathan
try searching on google for mobile phone tracking, you dont need an sd card, but if he had a tytn ii or other gps enabled device ,i know you can get software (where is my phone) that will txt you the gps co ordinates. i know we have a few sites here in the uk such as http://www.traceamobile.com/ but not too sure about america
i tried searching like you said, but cant find anything. PLEASE HELP
Couldn't you just ring him and ask him where he is?
Or ask him to ring you to keep you updated.
The simplest method is often the best. Having just received a phone from his Grandparents, my 9 year old Son is learning about rights and responsibilities.
google flexispy
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Help,I'm stuffed![After loading WM5 my phone won't work.I get a message saying that it can't connect to network.I've not had it long and have not used the phone before apart from a test with a friends sim card (and it worked then)I've tried 3 sim cards in it that are all current but tu no avail,it refuses to connect.No messages saying it's blocked or anything so I don't think I've bought a stolen phone (how do I find out?).one message I've found says file "sim_mg"cannot be opened'either is notsigned wit a trusted certificate or one of it's components cannot be found,could this be it?I'm OLD and my brain doesn't work too well with phone setups (carrier pidgions in my day) can anyone help? Rocketsize=18][/size]
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You might has bought a stolen phone, ring up your network provider and ask them to check th imei. Alos hav you tried reflashing the handset back to its original rom?
thanks for that,I'll ask them (didn't really think of that as it has worked on my friends sim) how do I reflash the handset to it's original rom?I slipped up by loading wm5 and I don't have win2003 (why don't they provide a disc?anyone know where I can get a copy?I've tried Ebay but nothing there at all)I'd like to go back to wm2003 ,5 doesn't do anything for me ,just a lot of progs don't work with it (TomTom for one).Thanks ,Rocket
Right if you do a serach on the sit you will find out how to
Then on to your next point abou getting the actual rom, if you are a registered use and go to the ftp, you will find your self many differnt roms for your phone.
Refernce flashing there is aa slight elemeant of risk, so I for one would say read around in the forum and read the guide well before hand.
Had an idea but I have yet to try it. Would it be possibly to remotedly activate your Kaiser and run a GPS program to give the unit location so that you could find where you left it?
Can say Pocket Controller Pro do this when the phone is in standby mode? Then if you ever lose it all you have to do is get somewhere with internet connectivity.
if it is then i'd suspect that thiefs would remove the sim card anyway as it would be blocked when the phone was reported stolen and if they wanted to sell it or even use it themselvs they would most likely hardreset it first removing the tell tale program
yeah ultimate theft alert and where is my phone (WIMP) both do this
u send a specially formatted sms with your pin number to the device
something like <lost> 1387 and it sends you back the gps co-ordinates
but you need gps signal and for the phone to be on
good thing is (definitely with UTA) hat if they change the sim it texts you, so you can just send the special sms to the new number
and no, the sms do not show up in the inbox
Rudegar:
are theives intelligent enough to know what a hard reset is, and would they even bother, most think removing the sim makes it untraceable
Rory
Another vote for WIMP, but i think someone on this forum has developed something else to do the same thing.
This isn't about theft
This is about me leaving my kaiser somewhere safe, say at work and not being able to remember where I left it.
That's why I ask. I know about ultimate theft alert but if the thing is not found and the SIM isn't changed then that won't work. The WIMP program sounds like what I want.
Yesterday i lost my 1 month old HTC HD2 (with MIUI on it) and i really want to have it back. To bad i didn't install a locater app yet, so is there a possibility to locate my phone without a pre-installed app (a google service or something like that)?
Thanks
Wow, I feel your pain.
Have you try out Plan B? https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb&hl=en
It can still install itself onto your phone from the Android Market website, provided it is on, have data connection and the phone is still tied to your Gmail account.
It will be able to give you GPS location.
Here is an exaggerated account on how someone got his phone back, but I suspect the credibility of this story.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/08/how-plan-b-found-the-droid-i-was-looking-for.ars
Nonetheless, it works and still gives a little bit of hope.
PS: Press "thanks" if you think I helped you. It will be my first "thank". =)
i've pushed install B to my htc already, but i don't know if it installed. didn't get any mails yet, so i don't know where my phone is
Hmm.... unfortunately, I cant provide any further help...
When technology fails, we can always fall back to basic human kindness.
I lost my phone once before, but the finder was very kind to call my home and tell my mother about it. Thus I was able to retrieve it.
The finder guessed that it was my home number by searching through the contacts and saw the entry named "Home". But it was a few days later then she called my mum.
So let's hope for the best. =)
call the police first! maybe they can track the phone when someone use it
Hi everibody, a couple of weeks ago my windows phone has been stolen. Of course I went to the police and I did everything what was in my possibility..and I know that there's a localization service for windows phone. I tried to use it but this service searches phones trough the SIM number, not to the IMEI..considering that the thief has thrown away the Sim card I think it's not an useful service at all =_= Do you have any idea to suggest how to find my phone in any way, if it's possible?
Thank you for listening!
Well a couple of weeks may be too late, but its worth a try.
The localization feature uses your live id saved in the phone, and not the sim card (at least that's what I think). So just give it a try. Go to windowsphone.com and sign in using the same id that you have in your phone, and then go to my phone tab. Under that tab, there will be a smaller tab "Find my Phone" which locates your phone.
If your phone is turned on and not flashed, you could locate it without the thief knowing.
Best of luck.
p.s. In case you find it, don't lock and ring your phone immediately. If you do that, the thief will become aware and can switch off or flash your phone. Go to the shown location with Police, and then do it. The ring that the phone use when activated remotely is very weak, and you need to be really close to hear it. In case you have important information on your phone, then you can erase the phone's contents to be safe.
I tried your method but as expected This service finds my phone number and not my Windows live ID, in fact when I try to search my phone I can see it is in my house, because I made a new SIM card with the same phone number and now I am using that on another phone (with different os and imei!!!). I can say this is a very useless sevice =s
Well, if you'd used it within a few minutes or hours instead of within a few weeks, you'd have had a much better chance of it being useful... any anti-theft system can be easily disabled if you give the theif that long!
Tracking a phone by IMEI is possible, but requires the cooperation of the phone company and typically they'll require a warrant (depending on jurisdiction). It'll also only locate the phone to within a few blocks; for full accuracy you need to query the phone's GPS rather than attempt to determine it by tower signal strength.
You should have done this on the day you lost your phone and not a few weeks later.
Hi guys.
Please help, my phone was stolen earlier today and my SIM card is removed from the phone.
My gmail accoount is still in use and I have my IMEI number.
Is there a way to find out the phone number of that SIM card that uses my phone, so I can text this someone or try to call it?
have some data on the phone which is very important for my work, can't afford of losing it.
Please help me if there is a way, gmail daschbord also does't show that new number in use.
Please help.
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Hi guys.
Please help, my phone was stolen earlier today and my SIM card is removed from the phone.
My gmail accoount is still in use and I have my IMEI number.
Is there a way to find out the phone number of that SIM card that uses my phone, so I can text this someone or try to call it?
have some data on the phone which is very important for my work, can't afford of losing it.
Please help me if there is a way, gmail daschbord also does't show that new number in use.
Please help.
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here you go bro try this
Android Device Manager
Thank you lreyes so much for your reply.
Tried that right now, but it won't show up, not even a location.
don't know what to do, desperate I am.
do you have any idea more?
Have you tried samsung dive?
Samsung dive enables you to send a message for the person carrying the phone if you already signed in with it on your phone!
hey Stround. my phone is sony xperia mt11i. would that work on sony? thank you
if it's running gingerbread, you can try plan b
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb&hl=en
hi to all. kind of lost hope on finding it..
nothing works, but my phone is still in use. how come gmail doesn't show the number, don't know what to do anymore...
I'm Verry sorry to tell you
matte0 said:
hey Stround. my phone is sony xperia mt11i. would that work on sony? thank you
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This happened to me and many phones got stollen from me but samsung dive only works on samsung phones you can still contact your carrier and i think you can locate it using its unique serial number. Good luck finding your phone!
Talk to your carrier, and if they can't track phone through IMEI, have them blacklist the IMEI on that phone so it will be useless. That's about all that you can do..
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My gmail accoount is still in use and I have my IMEI number. Is there a way to find out the phone number of that SIM card that uses my phone, so I can text this someone or try to call it?
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As a matter of fact, not even your provider will help much if it's not to save someones life. File a case with the police, get a new phone and install AVAST first (it tells you the number of the new SIM once it's changed).
If your gmail account is still in use, try sending YOURSELF a message with friendly words to the thief of your phone and offer him money. In a perfect scenario, your phone will notify the guy of an incoming E-Mail and he is curious enough to read it. If you are clever, you include a read receipt within that mail, which might reveal the location of the thief. I'm sure there are also other services online, which offer traceable E-Mails. In a perfect world, this guy is at home and opens it there.
Once he agrees to hand over your phone (just offer enough money), call police and tell them when and where the f*cker will give you the phone to pwn him for even changing the SIM. Mentally prepare that all your data got deleted. Good luck mate, don't give up. Never!
have you any anti-virus on phone?
Do you get your phone back?
Best of luck with your phone
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