Comments on: Never Lose Your Droid – Tracking A Stolen Android Phone

By: Gary (admin)

Gary (admin) — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:41:17 +0000

If the phone is in airplane mode, then all of its antennas are shut off which means the phone is disconnected from the outside world. Unfortunately, the only way to find the phone then is to do it the old fashioned way – look everywhere you can think of and see if you can figure out the last time you’re certain you had your phone with you and see if you can follow the path to your phone.

By: lra

lra — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:39:58 +0000

Can Plan B be installed on a phone that is in airplane mode? I tried to install it on the computer. The gray bar said that it was installed, but no messages have been sent to my gmail account. Any suggestions on how to find it in this circumstance?
Thanks.

By: Gary (admin)

Gary (admin) — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:25:59 +0000

Also, keep in mind that Where’s My Droid will likely not be of any use to you if your phone is already lost since you can’t remotely activate the app.

By: Gary (admin)

Gary (admin) — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:19:05 +0000

If you go to Google Play, you’ll see the gray button say “installed” instead of “install” if it was able to successful install the app remotely.

By: lea

lea — Sun, 06 May 2012 06:31:37 +0000

I already lost my phone tried downloading plan b, and wheres my droid but the same thing is happenning.. The phone does not use sim card. the phone is still ringing. What happens is the program will say installed then when I go back later and look at it , it will just say install. What exactly does this mean how do i know if the program actually got installed remotely??

By: Gary (admin)

Gary (admin) — Sat, 05 May 2012 14:20:36 +0000

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if your phone has been missing for three months, there’s no app on the planet that can help you. Hopefully by now you’ve reported the phone as lost to your carrier and gotten yourself a new phone.

By: Gary (admin)

Gary (admin) — Sat, 05 May 2012 14:19:07 +0000

You don’t need to have used Google Play, all you need is a Google Account (i.e. a Gmail Account that you attached to your phone the very first time you used it).

By: montay

montay — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:08:00 +0000

i cant find my android phone i being looking for it for 3 months i need help i used that wheres my android app and i cant find it i tryed to find it on my gmail account but i dont know how to work it so can anybody please help me

By: linusfletcher

linusfletcher — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:05:43 +0000

Hello well i went to install plan B but the icon that i have never used google play from my smartphone so now what? My phone might still be on its an android

By: John

John — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:07:13 +0000

I did try almost all apps out there and some work better than others. Recently I started using one called Family Tracker. The things that I like about it as opposed to the others is that it works with both Android and iphones. So I have it on all of my familys phones (my daughter insists on having an iphone). I can now track them and also use it as a way to find their phones if they misplace them.
One more thing… you can also use their stealth ping feature to force the remote device to update its location without it indicating anything, so my kids or (the thief if it get stolen) have no idea what is going on. Links if anyone is curious:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fibercode.familytracker
I found their site helpful to set it up: http://fibercode.com/android/family-tracker