How to Track Your Lost/Stolen Android Phones?

"How to track my lost or stolen Android phone or mobile ?" is one of the questions that 85% of the android users have on their mind around the world.

There are normally two ways to find your lost Android Phones. The first method is locate your phone with the help of tracking app and second method is to find your android phone without tracking app. We are going to show both ways as how can you do it for yourself.



Method 1: Googlge's Andoid Device Manager



It's the official tool from Google to track your android phone and tablests by signing into Android Device Manager website. Once you log in using your Google account Id Which you used to setup your device, you will be able to track and locate it. You need to choose among the devices on the website if there are many. Once you choose it, then it will show you the location on the map and you can perform some other functions as well.

There are some requirements before you will be able to do it.

• Lost/Stolen Android mobiles must be connected to the Google Account.


• Lost android must be online or connected to the internet.Nothing can be done if there is no Internet.


• You must have enable Android Device Manager to track your mobile through Google app settings.(Normally it's ON by Default)

If you believe that you can satisfy above 3 conditions then follow the simple steps below :

• Log into Google's Android Manager.


• You will be directly able to see all your active devices.


• Click on your lost android phone and you will be able to see its location however Google also says location given on map is close to the accurate location. The device must be nearby somewhere.


• You can perform 3 actions from this website: Ring and lock your phone remotely and erase its data. (Lock and erase must be allowed for android device manager via Google app setting. It's turned off by default.)


• If you lost it somewhere in your house,office then you can see the location in the map and you will be able to figure it out or simply ring it.

Method 2 : Google Map Location History



Google maps is the second easy way to know the locaation of your Android phone Quickly . Though Google maps location history, you can track your phone and know its location. Using this way, you can easily find your android devices.Even if the location is not accurate, you will come to know as where your device possibly can be.

There are few things which needs to be done before you can use this method :

• Device Must be connected to the google account.


• Internet access must be active in the lost/stolen device.


• Location reporting and history  features must be enabled in Google app settings on your device.

Follow this steps bellow to use it :

•  Visit https://maps.google.com/locationhistory


•  Clcik on today's date.

•  Click " show timestamps" just below the calendar.


•  Now you will be able to see different locations where device was registered.


•  To see the last available location, you need to clcik on the latest timestamps.

Now using timestamps, you can check out the places where your phone appeared more than 2-3 times.



Method 3: Using AirDroid

AirDroid is another great alternative which offers similar features to android device manager. However AirDroid also provides some great features beside lock,wipe,erase and taking pictures from camera.