Best Apps To Trace Your Smartphone

Posted on February 09, 2013 by Mitosh Mora // Apple, Gadget News

As we all know that smartphones are getting popular day by day and at the same time it is also becoming a part of our life. We are now using it for almost any minute things from setting an alarm to scheduling our appointments for the entire day to staying in contact with our friends and relative in our busy schedule with the help of social apps. We have got so much depended on it that we will miss it due to any reason then surely we will get through lots of trouble. However, there are multiple ways through which you can get a track to your smarphone. Here we will discuss some of the Android services and applications that will help in tracking your lost smartphone.

Where’s My Droid:

This is an app that is available for absolutely free at the Android Play Store, which can be downloaded directly on your Android based device. This app will allow you to send Remote Wipe Signal, A Flash message, An Alarm and many other signals on your device through an internet enables smartphone or computer. It also allows you to wipe your contents on the SD card as well as integrated memory of the device.This app also allows you to trace your phone through GPS, if GPS signal works at that place where you have lost your device and shows live co-ordinate of device to you on map that can be used for tracing your device stolen or lost. It is also available in Google Play for free and can also opt for paid version with some extra features.

Plan B:

This is an app which is very much popular for its excellent and unique features. It does not require to be installed on your device beforehand, unlike other apps to trace your lost or stolen phone. You can use this app from any other smartphone where it asks for your Google account that you used on your lost device and after getting access to your Google account and uses it to send around 10 emails related to the time and location about whereabouts of your phone. It gets done with the help of GPS Location tracking. This app later also allows you give the location command once again to your lost device by sending SMS from some another smart-device with keyword “locate” to its original number and then it triggers email location sending action. It is one of the very useful app for Android users that does not require pre-installation on your device.

Contact Owner:

Contact Owner can be describes as an app that helps the user to add their details directly on the lock screen of their smartphone. This will not allow any other person to easily get an access to your device without unlocking lock screen of your device. Here the only option that the person will get who have found your device is the details that you have mentioned on your lock screen such as your mail-id or contact number. This app is available for free on Google Play Store.

Antivirus Services:

The antivirus app for the Android also comes with tracing feature. This device also offers complete interface that allows you to configure an alert system, GPS enabling and SMS keyword that can be saved onto samrtphone within this app. Later, the alarm of the phone get triggered through the GPS location or sending a SMS. It is also available at the Google Play Store.
Here are few of the ways which can be used for tracking your stolen or lost Android device. However, this is also true that if the GPS signal is weak or is not there then the process of tracking becomes bit difficult, as almost all the apps are based on the GPS strength to offer updated location of your device. But, still installing these apps on your device can be a good option for the smartphone users.