Top 10 Ways to Track Your Stolen Mobile Phone You were walking on a road; Just then somebody snatched your phone! You were in the party taking pictures of people you hardly know, you put your phone down at some table and forgot to get it back. Next thing- you are panicking! Well, there is no need for the panicking. Your mobile is still not lost or theft if you know how to get it back. Here are top 10 tips which may help you to track your stolen mobile phone which may or may not be stolen. Let’s go through these tips. trace lost mobile 1) Call Yourself: Of course your phone is stolen, but this should be the immediate step one must take. Some of your friend may found it lying somewhere on the ground. Some of your friend may be mistakenly dropped it in her purse. Or you may find it in the back pocket of your jeans. Chances are there that may be some nice person may take your call and tell you where you’ve dropped your mobile phone. 2) Offer a reward: Chances are there that somebody has just stolen your mobile for food, money or thrill. Of course it may take some time for them to sell it somewhere. You can simply borrow some other friend’s phone to send a text to your own phone and offer that thief some cash reward if they call you back to arrange some meeting for returning back your phone. You can tell them clearly that if they return you back the phone, all will be forgiven and take care that the reward may commensurate with the value of phone. 3) Family tracking app: In your family, may be your parents or siblings are using some program like iHound to track the whereabouts of your phone. So, you can simply pass on the location to police and they can retrieve your phone easily. 4) IMEI number: Congratulate yourself if you are a Smartphone user. Every Smartphone has this unique IMEI number which can help you to trace your lost mobile phone. When you lose your mobile, you can file a FIR to the police attached with a copy of your IMEI number. Give this copy to your service provider who will track the phone based on its unique IMEI number. Meanwhile, you can block you phone so that no one else uses your phone. 5) Avast Mobile Security: This app helps you to provide twin measures for your mobile phone’s security. It provides a mobile antivirus as well as mobile tracking controls. The main feature of this app is its antitheft property which is invisible to thieves and provides us the remote options for locating the phone via some web portal or some SMS commands. 6) Mobile Chase- location tracker: This is also a fine app to track the stolen mobile phones. This app checks when some thief or some pick pocketer changes the SIM card and sends some SMS within 5 minutes from the new SIM to your number, which has been stored within the application itself. That SIM contains the GPS location data which can help to tell the current location code. 7) Thief tracker: This is another handy app to trace your stolen mobile phone. With this app, you can catch the thief red-handed. The app will get triggered after making any unsuccessful attempt to unlock your mobile phone. This app will then click the picture with the help of phone’s front camera and will send you an email without any knowledge of the user. 8) Anti Theft Alarm: This is an amazing app. You can simply activate the alarm before leaving your phone on the table or anywhere else. If someone tries to move your phone, an alarm will sound which will stop only after entering the PIN. You are going to love this app! 9) Kaspersky mobile security: It is a very popular app for tracing the stolen mobile phone. This app provides the anti-theft defense, allows you to block your SIM, helps you to wipe out or find the missing phone You can also filter the unwanted SMS texts and calls using this app. Also, another exciting feature of this app is the Anti-Virus Lite with cloud storage security scanner that will alert you to before they harm your phone. 10) Plan B Look out mobile security: This app is also known as “find my phone” app. You can download this app after losing your own phone. That’s why this app is known as B plan. It requires an access to the Android Website and your Google account. After installing it, Plan B will start locating your phone using the GPS and the cell towers. In some other phones, GPS can get started automatically. The location will get updated after every 10 minutes. These were top 10 steps to keep in mind to track your lost mobile phone.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:21:58 +0000