Electronic gadgets play a major role in the modernized world. Particularly speaking, smartphones play a major role in everyone’s life. It became an Inseparable thing from each and every one. Clearly saying, these smartphones become a six-figure in everyone’s Hand. Our day-to-day activities depend on it.
In those times, people memorized their family members’ numbers, but today mobile phones save the numbers, and there is no need to memorize anyone’s number. There are some people who do not even know there’s wife’s or husband’s number and also we stored our most private and important details in it which includes Aadhar card number, ATM card number, bank details and so on.
In that way, everyone entirely depends on mobile phones. What happens if one loses his mobile phone? The following paragraphs will help you to sort out this problem by suggesting ways to find lost mobile phones.
How to find a lost mobile with the help of the cyber department?
When one came to know that his mobile phone was missing, the first and foremost thing to do is he had to file an FIR-First Information Report at the police station. The officials help to find his lost mobile by tracing that mobile phone on the basis of the area where its signal is covered.
What if one’s mobile phone switched off after losing it?
Can anyone have the possibility to find loss mobile when it is Switched Off? Yes. There are some possibilities to find it. Officials of the police station will track the lost mobile’s last signal coverage, and they can also trace where the mobile got switched off.These help them to investigate at the particular point and also they have some updated software.
The software notifies them whenever the switched mobile gets on. This helps one to track it and helps to find lost mobile.Every Android system is run by mail Id. So first of all, log in your email Id in some other mobiles and take a backup of your details and delete it in order to avoid the misuse of our private datas.
In this way one can find his lost mobile with the help of the cyber Department.
How to find lost mobile using Play Store applications?
There are many applications in Google Play Store to find lost mobile. How can one select the best efficient app? No worries. There are some applications which are prescribed by government authorities to find lost mobile phones. The following one is the most user friendly and most effective app to find lost mobile.
Find my device
First step is to go to Google and type “find my device” and log in with the respective email ID and then one can get the details of the lost phone model number and where it got lost.
At the bottom one can see the three options that (i) play sound (ii) secure device and (iii) erase device.
Then click the option “play sound”, one’s lost mobile alarm for five minutes. This option helps one to find a lost mobile if it gets lost nearer. If one wants to lock the lost mobile to avoid the usage of third person. He can select the “secure device” option to lock the lost mobile or if one wants to erase all data on the lost mobile, he can select the “erase” option.
How to find a lost mobile by using the IMEI number?
IMEI number is unique to every mobile like that SIM card number. Anyone can easily find a lost mobile by tracing this IMEI number without going anywhere.
IMEI number present in the box of the mobile phone when bought otherwise, it is also mentioned in the battery or below the battery. Otherwise, one can know his IMEI number by typing *#06#, one can download any IMEI tracing application on a mobile phone and by entering the IMEI number of the lost mobile one can find it easily.
The one important thing is, this method to find lost mobile is applicable only, if you know the IMEI number of that mobile. Apart from installing any app, one may contact the nearby mobile service center shop. They try to find lost Mobile by tracing that IMEI number.
A special feature in Samsung phone to find lost Samsung mobile
Samsung phone users have an additional plus point to trace their lost mobile phone. Samsung recently launched two new technologies to find lost mobile namely Bluetooth low energy and Ultra wire band wireless.
These two new methods help any Samsung users to find lost mobile. Even if it is switched off and the network is turned off.
Let’s see the steps involved in this method.
- Type “Findmymobile.samsung.com” in google and visit the website.
- Login there and one can see lots of options to find lost mobile phones on their screen.
- Click the “Lock” option and safeguard the lost mobile by locking private details such as paying details and previous action of selecting this option is prevented if the lost mobile got switched off by anyone.
- select “Backup” option to restore one’s private details from the lost mobile.
- Then select the “Trace location” option to find the lost mobile.
In this way a Samsung mobile phone user can easily find out his or her lost mobile phone.
How to find lost mobile by using mobile number?
There are many websites which help people to find lost mobile by knowing one’s mobile number. There is no need to know the IMEI number too. Let’s see the steps involved to find lost mobile by using mobile number only.
- Type “Cell track” in Google.
- Type your phone number and click “check now”.
- one can trace out the location of the lost mobile.
Link for that website: https://www.celltrack.eu , by using this link one can find lost mobile by using the lost mobile phone’s number.
How to find a lost mobile which is turned off?
Finding lost mobile, which is already switched off, is not an easy task, but it is not impossible. Believe our technologies. We discover new mysteries every day. We can send spaceflights all over the universe and also can send spaceships to an unknown planet.
Then, is this impossible to trace a mobile phone? Definitely no, by using updated softwares one can easily find a lost mobile even when it is Switched Off. Let’s see the possible ways.
- Search Google location history of your lost Mobile by using one’s mail ID then one can trace out at which place that mobile is switched off and one can find out the network coverage area when the lost mobiles’ last signal. That signal coverage area is visible to him and it can help to find that lost mobile.
What if one’s mobile phone is stolen by others? What if someone steals one’s private photos? Don’t worry if someone steals your private photos from your lost phone’s gallery, one can also trace out the last phone by using some tricks and tips. The following steps will help one to find lost mobile.
- whenever a photo is taken from a mobile, it will automatically save in the Google photos if one enables the “Back and sync” option in the Google settings.
- Next thing is, by using the lost phone’s email ID, one can easily get notifications of the lost mobile’s location through their Google photos, when the photos are taken from the mobile.
- Finally, one can easily trace out the location and it helps to find the lost mobile.
How to find a lost Mobile by using a Google account?
This method is an easier and effective way to find lost mobile phones. One has to login with his respective Google account in “Android device manager” with the help of others’ phones or personal computer. The following ways will help a person to find a lost Mobile by using Google account.
This method is just like finding the lost mobile by using the option ‘find my device’ but in another way. So follow the steps which have already been mentioned in the previous paragraph under the heading ‘find my device’ to find lost Mobile by using Google account too. But the slight difference is, the steps are the same but in a different way.
What if one’s mobile lost permanently?
Don’t worry. This is just a small gadget which was made to help us. It doesn’t mean without these smartphones, no one can survive. What are the things one has to do if he came to know that his mobile lost permanently, and it would not recover. Let’s see it through the following tips.
- The first and foremost step to do is, one has to block the Sim number of the lost phone and erase all the data after backuping the private details through email ID, which prevents anyone from misusing the lost mobile.
- Second thing is, if one’s mobile gets lost within two months from the date of buying, one can claim insurance by filing FIR on it. One can also contact the nearby mobile service center to know more details on it.
- Didn’t you insure your new mobile? Chill, you can apply insurance any time even now too. And after successfully registering the insurance policy, one can file a complaint about the lost phone to claim the insurance amount after a week of registration.
- But one cannot spend this insurance amount in any other ways. He has to buy a new mobile phone and has to send the proof video to that insurance agency.
- Is a police complaint necessary? Yes, it is most important to complain about it. Because if anyone misuse one’s lost mobile by doing crimes it notifies the police authorities. Because the majority of the lost mobiles are used for doing crime activities by someone.
Things to keep in mind while recovering a lost mobile
One may find lost mobile by using any of the above suggesting ways to find lost mobile, but there are some things to keep in one’s mind while recovering a lost mobile, Let’s see.
- If one finds his mobile phone, he should not go a single to recover the phone. Because it is okay to recover a mobile which was lost by unnoticingly, but think what if someone stole your mobile? There are some possibilities to get a severe attack from that person while going to recover the lost mobile phone.
So, it is necessary to have help with someone else. one may also seek help from police authorities.
- In India nearly more than 2 lakh people’s phones got lost but only seven percent of them have recovered yet. So it is necessary to keep your mobile safe before getting lost.
- Don’t always depend on any smart phones. Nowadays many of us treat these smartphones as a very trusted person and they upload their private datas on it. What if the mobile hacked? What if the mobile phone lost? Treat machines as machines, Technologies as Technologies. Not as humans are not more than that.
one may use his mobile phone as his crime partner. He may think that no one can watch what are the things he is doing. But, there are many third-eye monsters, which are always waiting to steal one’s private datas. So be aware.