Saturday 25 August 2012

Steps to Protect or Find your Lost Android Phone


Most of us are addicted and dependent on our Android phone for day to day life. We start our day with Alarm and ends with a Beautiful music (All these we are doing in our Android phone). We can't even think about the day without our beloved Android phone. What if your Little buddy lost and Stolen? What can we do without him? How can we track our Buddy? Is he/she still alive? There are so many questions will arrive, if we think about this.

So here i complied Ways to find your Lost Android phone. These are apps which will help to Find/Protect your Android phone. I've complied according to the votes on Play Store. If you haven't tried or Installed any of these apps, i advise you to try/install it. So that you find or track your phone easily.

1) Where's My Droid


          With total votes of 4.6, Where's my Droid is holding the First place in my list. This app is trusted by almost 50k users world wide. Lets look out the features of this app.

* Find phone by making it ring/vibrate
* Find phone using GPS location
* Text your attention word
* Control from Commander at WheresMyDroid.com
* Passcode protection to prevent unauthorized app changes
* Notification of changed SIM card or phone number
* Stealth Mode hides incoming text with attention word
* White/Black list to control who can use the app via text
* No battery drain

Apart from the above features, Where's My Droid Pro has so many other powerfull features.

Download Link - PlayStore
Official Site - Wheresmydroid.com

2) Android Lost


          With the total votes 4.5, Android Lost took a place of Second in my list.. Lets look at the features of this app...

* read sent and received SMS messages
* wipe phone
* lock phone
* erase SD card
* locate by GPS or network
* start alarm with flashing screen
* send SMS from web page
* message popup
* forward calls
* remote install
* phone status: battery, imei, etc.
* remote SMS alarm
* remote SMS lock and unlock
* remote SMS erase SD card
* remote SMS wipe phone
* remote SMS APN control
* start/stop GPS
* start/stop WIFI
* hide from launcher
* email when SIM card is changed
* get call list
* take picture with front camera
* take picture with rear camera
* make your phone speak with text-to-speech
* SMS message command
* SMS speak command
* lock timeout
* restore settings on boot
* record sound from microphone
* start and stop data connection from SMS
* start and stop WIFI connection from SMS
* content browser prototype

Download Link - PlayStore
Official Website - www.androidlost.com

3) Cerberus Anti Theft


          With the total votes of 4.6, Cerberus Anti Theft holding Third place in my list... Lets look out the Features of Cerberus

* Remote control through the website www.cerberusapp.com
* Remote control via text messages
* SIM Checker (for devices that have a SIM card): you will automatically receive alerts if someone uses your phone with an unauthorized SIM card
* Locate and track it
* Start a loud alarm, even if the device is set to silent mode
* Wipe the internal memory and the SD card
* Hide Cerberus from the app drawer
* Lock the device with a code
* Record audio from the microphone
* Get a list of last calls sent and received
* Get information about network and operator the device is connected to

Download Link - PlayStore
Official Website - www.cereberusapp.com

4) SeekDroid Lite


        With the total votes of 4.2, SeekDroid holding Fourth place in my list. Lets look out the features of this app.

* Control Multiple devices under one account (*)
* Locate your device
* Remotely Enable GPS
* Display its location on a map with history! (*)
* Track the device using breadcrumbs (*)
* Get notified if the device has left a fenced in area (*)
* Text Messaging support
* Virtually no battery drain
* Works without a SIM Card

Apart from Features of Lite version, SeekDroid Pro (SeekDroid AntiTheft & Security) has so many other features.

Download SeekDroid Lite - PlayStore
Download SeekDroid Pro - PlayStore
Official Website - www.seekdroid.com

5) Locate My Droid

(Not Supported for Samsung Galaxy Y Series Phones)

PlayStore Votes - 3.9
Download Link - PlayStore
Official Site - www.locatemydroid.com

You lost your mobile already? and you didn't installed any of the Apps above?


        No Problem, like in military we have a Plan B. No! The app name is Plan B, It is designed for the worst cases like i mentioned above. Plan B is an developed by LookOut Mobile Security. It is one of the best conceptual app for Finding your Lost Android.

How it works?

1) Install Plan B through PlayStore website.
2) Once installation is successfull, The Plan B starts to send recent location of your Android. It will keep on sending the location details to your Gmail ID, when the phone's location is changing.
3) To locate again, text the word 'locate' to your lost phone. And you will get the location details in your friend's phone.

Download Link - PlayStore
Official Site - www.mylookoutsecurity.com

Other method to finding the Lost Android phone is using Google Latitude. Since we are Android users, we have Google's latitude is Pre-installed in our mobile. So using Latitude, you can find the last location of your Lost Android.

Note: The methods of Plan B and Google Latitude are secondary methods. I advise you to use the other apps which i have mentioned above. If your phone is already lost and you didn't installed any of the app which i have mentioned, you can go for Plan B and Google Latitude.

Apart from the above Apps, there are also other apps which perform well for Protecting or Finding your Lost Android Phones.

Share your Views and points with us, if you have any!

PEACE!!!