In these times, losing our mobile device with an operating system can be a tragedy, to which we can nevertheless put some remedy. In the event that instead of losing our device they have stolen our device, we can also have the possibility of finding the thief thanks to this article in which we are going to explain in great detail how to find your smartphone if it has been lost or stolen.
For this we must know that from any computer we can locate our Android device, thanks to the synchronization that Google makes of it. Just by going to the Android Device Manager and using the Settings Menu of your account of the searched giant, you will be able to locate your device.
Of course, do not worry, for now we have only discovered how to do it and now we are going to explain it step by step how to do it.
You must have your Google account synchronized with your device
If you have a smartphone or tablet with Android operating system, the most normal thing is that you have a synchronized Google account, because the search giant practically forces you to do so, but it will not be enough for you to review it, especially if you have not yet lost or your terminal has been stolen.
To make sure you have that Google account synced You can access the device's “Settings” menu and check it in “Accounts”. As you can see in the following image, your Google account should appear in a similar way.
Access the Android Device Manager website
Android Device Manager Or what is the same, the Android device manager will allow us to locate our smartphone or tablet with great precision in the event that we have lost it or it has been stolen.
Before logging in to this website that Google makes available to any user, it is necessary to take into account two things before starting to log in.
First of all you must be very careful and check that you are going to log in to the official Android Device Manager page, and is that the network of networks is full of pages that perfectly imitate this one of Google with which hackers and hackers seek to steal the password to the users' Google account.
If you use a public computer or to which more people have access, use an incognito session in Google Chrome to prevent anyone who later uses that device from having access to your Google account and the location of your mobile device.
Keeping the location activated on your smartphone can help you
Once we log in and find ourselves within the application, we can locate our device. Our lost terminal will offer its location using nearby antennas to triangulate its location in a simple process that is used in many areas of life.
Using only the margin of error of the location of the smartphone or tablet will be between 600 and 800 meters. In the event that we have activated the location on our device it will be only 20 meters so it will not be too difficult for us to find it in the event that we have lost it.
There is no doubt that, for example, the battery consumption keeping the location activated is much higher, but when it comes to locating our device it is essential that it is activated. If you are careless or prone to losing your smartphone, do not play it and always keep the location activated.
Other most interesting options
Android Device Manager not only allows us to locate our mobile device but also offers us three other most interesting and useful options. We are going to review them to be able to take advantage of them in case of need.
To ring
If you have lost your device, for example at home, you can make it ring from Android Device Manager to find it more quickly. By pressing this option you will get the device to start playing at maximum volume for five minutes without interruption. The only way to stop it is by pressing the power button on the terminal.
Block
In the event that the terminal has been stolen a good option may be to block it, something that we can do with the second option offered by Android Device Manager. By activating this option, the traditional home screen of our device will be replaced by one with a password, which we will choose ourselves. In addition, it is also possible to add a message and for example an address where the thief or whoever has found the device can leave it to collect it as soon as we can.
If your smartphone has been stolen, you can always leave an intimidating message with which to get it back, although I'm afraid it won't do much.
Delete
If none of the above options has helped you locate your device or get it returned, the time has come to erase the device so that no one can get hold of our important data, with our private images or with any compromised video that we may have stored.
Remember that this option is a desperate measure and that if you decide to erase your device you will never be able to recover in any way the data that you had stored on it.
One more option; locate your smartphone from your Google account
Finally, we are going to show you another way to locate your mobile device in the event that it has been lost or stolen. Accessing the settings of your Google account from the web browser, for which you must access the next adress, we can locate our device.
Once you have entered the password they require, you must select the option "Find your mobile". Then you will have again some options very similar to those that we had available in Android Device Manager.
Have you managed to locate or find your smartphone thanks to the tools and methods that we have made available to you?.