Help in finding 4pda programs. The best apps to find your missing phone
In this case, such applications come to the rescue to locate, block, obtain information about the use of programs, obtain photos remotely and provide evidence for a possible police investigation.
We have prepared this list of five free applications determine the location of the smartphone and each contains links to obtain additional information and possible download from Google Play.
1. Lost Android:
This is a very valuable application in case of theft or loss mobile phone, which allows you to accurately determine your location through the AndroidLost.com network. We recommend first!
Some of its most interesting features are:
Send a pop-up message to your device so the finder can contact you
-Lock your device with a password
-View calls and messages sent and received
-Send location message using another mobile phone
2. Prey Anti-Theft:
Prey is small program, which will help you find your phone, laptop or tablet if it ever goes missing. Works on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and is also 100% free and open source.
Once the emergency protocol is activated, you receive reports every twenty minutes from the missing device.
Once you log into Prey you can do the following:
— Find your phone on the map via geolocation using GPS and WiFi triangulation
- Take a photo using the built-in front and rear camera
— Block device
— Trigger a loud alarm remotely, even if the phone is on silent
— Display a warning message on the screen
-Get network information as soon as the device connects (for precise location determination)
- Detect change in active SIM card
— Protect the application from deletion
— Activate the application via SMS from any phone and receive a report instantly
3. Find My Phone:
There is another application for mobile search. Find My Phone takes advantage of the possibilities modern technologies GPS to pinpoint your phone's location.
Note: For this feature to work, the Find My Phone app must be installed on the phone and on the phone of the person you want to track or find, so add Find My Phone app on cell phones for all members of your family.
Where is the phone?
Maybe you've heard of "triangulation" in TV shows like CSI. And this is how the app on the phone actually works. Mobile companies know the mobile location because they know the distance from the phone to cell tower. Find My Phone receives this data from operators cellular communication and displays its location on the map.
4. Where's My Droid:
Wheres My Droid was created as a simple app so that when you lose your phone in your home, you can signal to find it, but every month the developer adds new features.
How this app works:
For example, you have a device in silent mode and you don’t know where you left it. You simply find another computer and send a text message with keyword, which you have chosen in advance, you have chosen and just wait, it will automatically activate the sound and begin to report where it is.
The app can also get the phone's GPS coordinates with a link to Google maps, if you are not close enough to your phone and do not hear the ringing.
Features of application:
~ Find your phone by turning on sound/vibration
~ Find phone using GPS location
~ Sending test commands
~ Password protection to prevent unauthorized changes to the application
~Notification about changed SIM card or phone number
~ Stealth Mode hides incoming text with command words
~ White/Blacklist allows you to control who cannot use the application via text commands
~ Does not affect battery charge
Additional features in Pro version:
~ Take pictures from your device's camera
~ Remotely lock your device
~ Remotely erase memory card
~Remotely erase phone data
~Use landlines to activate the application
~ Set up a ringtone if lost (Pro or with registration)
Standard application from Google. Are you afraid of losing your phone? Thanks to Remote control Android, you can rest assured about your device and the data on it. This feature allows you to:
- determine the location of the Android device associated with your Google account
- reset screen lock PIN
- delete all data from the device
- beep on the device
To clarify the location of your mobile phone, you must have access to account, created on the Google website.
Of course, there is a native service from Google " Find device" With it, you can remotely track your phone, tablet or watch on a map. If your device is disconnected from the internet, Google will display its last known location.
In addition, the owners Samsung smartphones and Xiaomi can search for their gadgets through built-in services from manufacturers: Find My Mobile and Mi Cloud.
But all these solutions are inferior to specialized applications. For example, built-in services do not support receiving commands via SMS, which is useful if the thief has disconnected the stolen smartphone from the Internet. They don't know how to photograph a thief or record his conversations. And they are quite easy to get rid of: all it takes is for the attacker to log out of your account.
The applications collected in this article are more functional and reliable. True, an advanced attacker can neutralize most of them by resetting the system. This can only be prevented by using root rights. In this case, some applications will be able to make themselves system applications and will remain after the reset.
1. Bitdefender Mobile Security & Antivirus
The Bitdefender Mobile Security & Antivirus package includes a lot of things: an antivirus screen and scanner, an application blocker and a privacy defender, as well as a built-in anti-theft module. The application allows you to remotely track your smartphone via the BitDefender web service.
But a much more interesting function is controlling your smartphone using SMS. This is very useful if the attackers who stole your smartphone have disconnected it from the Internet.
Send a special message, and the smartphone will tell you its location via SMS, turn on the siren, or erase all data. You can also force your smartphone to call you discreetly, so you can hear what the kidnappers are saying.
If attackers change your SIM card, BitDefender will notify you and provide you with a new number.
BitDefender is an extremely capable application, but you have to pay for it. You can try it for free for 14 days only.
2. AVG AntiVirus
By gaining administrator rights, Avast can make itself invisible and rename its package in the application manager so that attackers do not realize that the smartphone is being tracked. Avast Mobile Security can be built into the smartphone's firmware and will continue to function even if a thief resets the system.
The paid version of Avast has the possibility of remote identification: when you try to unlock your smartphone, the application will take a photo of the thief. The smartphone is considered stolen after eight attempts to enter the password.
4. Lost Android
Application of the web service of the same name for tracking lost smartphones. Both the application and the service cannot boast of a beautiful interface, but the advantage of Lost Android lies elsewhere. This application weighs only 170 KB and works even on the oldest and low-power devices running Android 2.2.
It’s all the more surprising that so many different functions were crammed into it. Here you can read sent and received SMS from a lost smartphone, blocking, erasing data, alarms, camera recording, sound recording, and pop-up messages...
Manage lost smartphone It is possible both through the web service and via SMS. Moreover, using SMS you can order the phone to connect to the Internet and GPS, even if the thieves have disconnected the smartphone from the Internet.
Overall, this is an extremely functional application that will work for free on any smartphone. If you are unpretentious in terms of interface and do not want to overload your smartphone with bulky packages, this is definitely your choice.
5. Cerberus
One of the most powerful applications for finding smartphones. Can track the location of the phone using GPS, Wi-Fi points and cell towers, allows you to view a list of all outgoing and incoming calls, record sound through the built-in microphone, secretly take and send photos to a specific address, and much more.
Cerberus has advanced protection mechanisms. The app icon may be hidden, messages sent by Cerberus will not appear anywhere, and if you have root access, you can make Cerberus system application, so it will continue to work even after a system reset.
The application can work in conjunction with smart watch. To do this, you need to enable the corresponding functions in the “Wearable devices” settings section.
The first week of Cerberus is free to use, after which you'll have to fork out for a subscription.
6.Lookout
Lookout antivirus includes, among other things, an anti-theft function. It allows you to track your smartphone on a map and turn on the siren. If the smartphone turns off, Lookout will remember the location where the signal was last traced.
The application can send you to email photo of a thief trying the device. There is also remote erasure of data.
Lookout with all premium features is free for two weeks. Then the application's capabilities will be reduced. However, the remaining ones are still enough to find a lost smartphone.
IN free version Prey can track up to three devices. IN Pro versions open additional features. For example, tracking up to 500 (!) devices and automatic update their status, collecting information about the networks to which the thief connects, and so on.
A smartphone is an integral part of every person, and it is extremely difficult to argue with that. Firstly, smart phones accompany their owners almost everywhere. Secondly, in their vastness internal memory there is a huge number of personal photos, videos and other files. What will it be like for the user if they are lost along with the smartphone itself? It's better not to try to imagine. However, it’s still worth being safe. Special applications will help you do this, the most worthy of which we paid attention to.
First of all, it is worth mentioning the product from Google. By the way, the search giant’s involvement in the development of the application is far from its only advantage. Android Device Manager can determine the location associated with an account Google devices and delete the data in its memory.
In addition, the application can be used to reset the screen lock code. In case of loss, the owner of the smartphone can indicate his contact number.
This representative of today's list is struggling not with the consequences, but with the cause. In other words, it tries to prevent theft. This is done using a loud signal that will sound if the device is moved or disconnected from the power supply.
According to our colleagues from androidauthority, this functionality will be useful for safely charging a smartphone in public places. Without constant monitoring of him, of course.
avast! Anti Theft
Developers of antivirus applications decided not to stand aside. In particular, Avast showed its vision of protection against theft.
In addition to the basic functionality - tracking the device’s location, blocking it and clearing memory - the application has several more interesting features. For example, remote creation pictures, intercepting sound from the phone's microphone, and setting a notification about changing the SIM card to another device. Really useful.
The name of the application rather opaquely hints that thieves should be no less afraid of it than the mythical three-headed dog - Cerberus. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, Cerberus can hide from the list installed applications, accordingly, the thief will not guess about its existence.
Secondly, the program allows you to obtain a list of calls made after the theft. Finally, the application automatically activates GPS as soon as its owner tries to find the lost item via the Internet.
The list of capabilities of devices under control is almost endless. Recently, another item was added to their list - the ability to find a lost phone.
If you move a certain distance away from the smartphone, the watch will begin to vibrate. If the absent-minded owner does not notice this, he will have to resort to another method. Pressing a specific key in the application will launch a ringtone on your smartphone. Accordingly, the user will only need to follow the sound.
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