The mobile phone has become our most precious treasure because in it we keep files and photos of great importance, the biggest problem we can have with losing it and besides all this the mobile is turned off. It becomes a problem to have to find a turned off mobile because the task becomes much more difficult and complicated.
Beyond the fact that we will have to become a whole CSI team, we must take advantage of the tools offered by Android phones and iPhones to locate them. Unfortunately there is no magic trick that allows us to locate it, although the most similar will be the Samsung method, an option that allows us to find it in almost any situation.
Find a turned off Android mobile
Devices with the Android operating system incorporate the Find My Mobile tool by default inside them and offer us the possibility of locating them while they are turned on. In this case the precision will be maximum and we can see on the map the exact point where it is. When the mobile is off we will have to complicate something more and follow the following steps:
- We access the web to locate Android phones .
- Then we will access the email account associated with the mobile.
- It will mark the last point where the mobile was.
To find the smartphone we will have to help ourselves from the Google Maps chronology, a button that we find just below the last connection of the device. What we see on the screen later is all the information and journeys that the mobile has made until it has been turned off and this can be key to knowing where the connection is lost or has run out of battery.
In most cases with this information we will be able to know if you are in the car of a friend or relative by mistake, find out if you have traveled too many kilometers to be a coincidence or locate you at the last point where we have evidence.
How to find a Samsung mobile turned off
The great option with advantages comes from Samsung and its system to find the mobile even off. The Find My Mobile application that Samsung mobiles have allows us to find the mobile in any situation. To be able to locate it, we will only have to activate Find My Mobile on Samsung in advance with a few simple steps and we will be much calmer in case the situation occurs.
When we have to find the mobile turned off we will go to the official Samsung Find My Mobile website . We identify ourselves with the username and password of the same Samsung account that we have on our smartphone, allowing us to see where it is on the map. When it is off or without internet connection , the tool will also help to connect via Bluetooth to other Samsung smartphones and give us an approximate radius of the area in which it is.
Steps to find a paid iPhone
Apple smartphones have a somewhat bigger problem, since they do not have a security option like Samsung’s and they cannot be found with Google’s location history. We will only have to access the web to locate an iPhone and it will show us the point where it is if it is on or the last point where it was if it was off or offline. We will have to go to that place to find the iPhone turned off if it is still there.
As a final step, in its options we will see the possibility of putting the lost mode on our iPhone, locking the device so that if someone finds it, they cannot access our photos and other files. The smartphone will be useless until we can find it with the last solution.
The IMEI can allow you to find the mobile
When through none of the above methods we have been unable to find our mobile , we can only opt for the report of the disappearance or theft of the mobile and it will be then when we will have to provide the IMEI number to the police. In both Android and iPhone we can find the IMEI number on the device box, the simplest method.
With this number they will be able to identify the smartphone if it appears, an alternative that no one wants to face but it becomes the last solution in case of losing it.