Find Your Lost Android Phone Without Installing An App!! (2019)
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Android doesn’t come with a “find my Android” feature, so there’s no official way to track your phone if you lose it. You should prepare your phone for loss by setting up such a tracking app — but what if you didn’t?
Your first instinct may be to download Lookout’s Plan B, which has been the go-to app for this purpose. However, Plan B only runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and lower, so modern Android phones will require a new solution. If you are still running 2.3 or lower, you should definitely check it out, but everybody else can keep reading.
How It Works
Most lost-phone-tracking Android apps must be set up ahead of time. However, there’s a reason Plan B works (if you have a Gingerbread device, at least). That’s because Android allows you to remotely install apps — click the Install button on the Google Play website and the app will be remotely downloaded to your device, assuming it’s turned on, connected to the Internet, and configured to use the same Google account. If the app can set itself up, you should be able to remotely locate your phone.
While Plan B doesn’t work, Android Lost does. To set up this app, you can interact with the app on your device — or you can send a special SMS message to your device. Assuming you have access to someone else’s cell phone, you can push the Android Lost app to your lost phone, send an SMS message, and then it will be linked to your Google account. You can then log in with your Google account on the Android Lost site and locate your phone.
Using Android Lost
First, install the app. Open the AndroidLost page on Google Play. Click the Install button and remotely install the app to your lost phone.
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Next, you’ll need to activate Android Lost. Since you don’t have your phone, you’ll need to send an SMS message to your phone for this to work. Use another phone and send a text message with the following content to your lost phone:
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Your phone’s Google account should now be registered with Android Lost, assuming it’s powered on and has a connection. You can now open the Android Lost website, click the Sign In link, and log in with the Google account you use on your Android phone.
Access the Controls page after logging in with your Google account, and you’ll be able to track and control your phone remotely. You may have to wait a little while before your phone becomes registered. In addition to requesting the phone’s location, you can also activate a loud alarm that will make the phone’s screen flash — particularly useful if you think you’ve misplaced the phone somewhere nearby and need to track it down.
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After your phone sends its location back, you can view it and click a link to open it on an interactive Google Maps page.
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You may have to wait a little while for the phone to become registered. If you have pushed the app and sent the SMS message and the phone never becomes registered, it’s possible that it’s powered off, has no signal, or — worse — that someone has wiped the phone and you won’t be able to track it because it’s no longer linked to your Google account.
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If you’ve lost your phone and never set up a tracking app ahead of time, Android Lost is the best you can do at the moment.
Other apps can send your phone’s location in the background (so you can view it even if your phone has been off), remotely wipe your phone, or install themselves deep into your phone’s storage so they can persist across wipes (this requires root access). However, you’ll have to set up such apps ahead of time.
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i have lost my phone today….evening and am searching on youtube for videos that may helpful to find my lost phone….my lost phone was switched off how can i find it on google map unless phone gets onn….
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Thans alot man. I was able to dind my phone!!. I was looking for hours!!
Thank you so much. Where's My Droid wasn't working for me and I never knew about this! Subscribed!
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Good thanks bro..
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HEHEHEHE you like a man dude I find my MICROSOFT lumia 640 xli who is stolen about 3 months thanks the android guy but this function can works on android watches?????
Great job, Very handy info
thank u so much i thought I lost my
phone but I found it with help from the video
Thanks A Million Man!!! I was able to track my phone and go get it. I appreciate you making a video that actually works none of that app or software selling bullshit. Keep it up.
I lost my phone and i suspect the guys who stole it a still keeping it off. is ther a way in which i can track it even if its off because all the required settings for it to be tracked were on.
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works great… Thanks for the tip.. great video!!!
What do you do if the location is unavailable?
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These tracking programs are nothing, my phone was stolen and there is no chance to get it back, only imei is the only solution and is not up to me, only police can track, thieves are hard reseting the phone or reinstall OS so once your google account is deleted from phone you can not track it anymore 🙁
Hi…Great videos and tutorials, much appreciated help and advice..Do you know of a phone to phone locator program..Basically an App that shows the gps location of another phone ?..An App that works that is..Thanks for any help, maybe you can do a nice video.!
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Thanx for so much info 🙂 I have a query though.If I lock simcard and someone stole my phone and remove it to use in his phone will he has to type the same password I have given?
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thanks…..this is very useful. can you please upload the tutorial of how to mirror your android screen?
Thanks for your video. ..I must say this is very helpful for every single person. 🙂 (Y)
I unfortunately changed my google password as soon as i lost the phone. Can I still find the phone? Pls help!
My GPS is off is there anyway to turn it on without it or am i screwed forever?
I have a Samsung Array that was recently stolen. It's old, but has internet. I don't think it's connected to a my google acount. How can I find it's location?
**QUESTION**
I CAN NOT DOWNLOAD PICTURES THEY SENDING ME. BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE MOBILE DATA? BUT IT IS CONNECTED TO WIFI.
WHY WONT IT DOWNLOAD?
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If only Apple did this like far out !!! Such a great thinking goes into these android phones absolute geniuses
awsome video yo really helped