How to Find Lost or Stolen Smartphone?

Smartphone has become an essential part of daily routine. Every morning after rising from bed, the first thing generally we do is, we check our Smartphone’s. To check whether we have received any urgent messages or have missed any alerts. We can’t imagine a single day without our Smartphone. Our heart misses a beat when we get to know, we have lost our Smartphone.

I can understand, how difficult it is, to manage without Smartphone. But here is a good shade of news, with today’s great technology and security, we can track our Smartphone. Now, if our Smartphone gets stolen we can trace it back. This article will introduce some ideas and point which will help you in such situation:

IMEI number

IMEI is International mobile Equipment identity, which is unique for each handset. This number can be retrieved by pressing ‘*#06#’, it is advisable to note this number somewhere , from where you can easily check it back in case if your Smartphone is lost or stolen. You need to file a FIR with police.

Then a copy must be made, which must be sent to service provider to track it back. After this, with help of IMEI number the handset can be traced. Once your handset is located, you can request the service provider to block that, before you get your Smartphone back.

IMEI Global Database

This is another way, through which you can track your lost or stolen Smartphone. All you can do is add your IMEI number to global database. While in such case if your Smartphone is found, you can be contacted by IMEI number. This will be a bit long route to trace your handset, but still this will also work in such situations.

Find my Phone:

This is very convenient application; Android user can take advantage of this. All you need to do is install this application add your friends and family on this app. After adding you can track everyone’s phone moment. This might sound not so good, but this application can be pretty useful. You can easily track your friends Smartphone through this application, if it is lost or stolen.

• Google Latitude
• • Don’t worry, if your mobile cannot carry such high level application, Google latitude is perfect solution for those. Google latitude uses your GPS, to locate your Smartphone. You can log-on from computer and get all updates of location of your device.

These are few application which is total savior , in case you have lost your Smartphone or stolen.