How To Trace Lost Android Mobile With Google

What most of the people do after loosing their Android mobile, they just forget it and emphasis on buying a new one. Same thing you will follow if you lost your Android mobile! but wait there is still hope to recover your Android mobile by tracing it with the help of several online options available. One of the greatest recovery option is Google. Yes, Google can do it for you but it have some basic requirement to trace your lost or stolen Android mobile with Google.

Today we will learn about the several ways that can be used to trace lost Android mobile. Android is an open source, flexible operating system that is powered by the web king Google. For the security reasons Google provide several options for tracing your own Android phone location that is currently synchronized with your Google account. Below are the best possible ways to trace lost or stolen Android mobile.

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Tracing Lost or Stolen Android Mobile

As already mentioned above that there are many possible ways to trace your Android device location if it is still running. Here we will discuss all the possible ways in detail that can help you to trace your Android mobile device in real time.

Tracing Lost Android Mobile Device With ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER

Android Device Manager is a outstanding service provided by the Google that is capable of locating your phone's exact location with longitude and latitude in the real time, but condition is that your device must be connected to your Google account and must have Internet access. More over with the help of Android Device Manager you can Ring your phone at full volume for five minutes, that option works if you have forgotten where you have putted your Android mobile. Android Device Manager is not only limited to tracing location or ringing the Android phone but also facilitates you to lock your android device and even you can erase whole data present on your android device including the data stored on SD card. But remember Android Device Manager can only work when your Android mobile is connected to your Google Account and have access to Internet as without these two basic requirements Google's Android Device Manager is useless.

You can simply access Android Device Manager from first page of Google by searching a small query that is "Where is my phone", this query will return the result from Android Device Manager at the top of first search results page like shown in the screenshot below

After searching the above query Google will automatically try to contact your phone for gathering its location data and show it on the top of result. In this Google will automatically detect your device that is presently connected to your current location account. The good thing about Android Device Manager is that it provides accurate location of the phone but still there is a condition that Location must be enabled in your Android mobile device.

Tracing Lost Android Mobile Device With Google Timeline

Timeline is another great feature by the Google which facilitates to find accurate data of the android mobile like where the person having mobile is travelling with exact time and location. This is really very helpful tool that can very smartly detect your Android mobile's location. You can even check location and travelling data of any date that you wants to check just by selecting the date from the top menu. In the above example you can see how the Timeline is detecting and presenting the data for the January 3, 2016 of my Android Mobile with its accurate location it is also providing time of travelling and at what time where I was. Like in the Android Device Manager your Android Mobile must be connected to your Google Account similarly you can only access your data for your android phone when your Google account is connected to that particular android mobile device.

You can simply access Google's Timeline by the url - https://www.google.com/maps/timeline