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15 miles into a today I discovered i had lost my phone somewhere between devils dyke and stanmer park trails
Cue me doing a very slow back track ride looking for my phone
Finally got home tried ringing my phone but got no answer, then I connected to my google account - and found i had turned tracking on at some point (I think the wife wanted to know where i was on a trip to lake district)
And I was then able to pinpoint the location of my phone in brighton
And found an option to secure my phone and put a messsage on screen - but as i wanted to get my phone back asap I drove down to the address , headed down an alley to the back of the house where lights were on , saw someone though an open window and got his attention and asked if he had my phone
He did !!! - he was a fellow mtn biker - but as i had forgotten to put a if found message on my phone he wasnt able to call me, and id left phone on silent - doh!!!
So set location tracking on and set a if found message - if you want to find your phone when i pops on while doing a small jump in stanmer park - I'd rather have google knowing where I am than risk losing my phone for good
Alternatively keep your phone at the bottom of your back pack when riding....
Doesn't it work for sunglasses 🙁
Grey/fluro decathlon photochromatics somewhere between Peebles and the Pentlands.
Yes, this helped when my phone was 'borrowed' by a pupil a couple of years ago.
Phone locked and quickly tracked down to what turned out to be their uncles house round the corner.
Bell rung, enquiries made, police not called (but threat was implied), pupil on incredibly best behaviour whenever in my presence!
I suspect pudding might have been withheld at home for a while 😆
So long as the phone has data connection you can remotely locate the phone even if GPS is turned off, at least with modern versions of Android. Google locate phone service should send message to phone which will turn on location and ping it back. You can also remotely wipe the phone if you suspect it's in the wrong hands.
I managed to shed a phone about ten metres from the mast at glentress. It was snowy we'd had to push round windbliwn trees and sheets of ice on the track. So i walked in for it.
Its a looooong way on foot cobsidered turning back many a time!
If it’s possible to remotely lock it and send a message, it should be possible to change the ringing volume.
I like the idea of phone tracking, but not that Apple are therefore tracking me to add more data to their big data.
If it’s possible to remotely lock it and send a message, it should be possible to change the ringing volume.
One of the options on Android is to ask for it to ring at full volume.
I'd rather loose a phone than have google continuously harvest my personal data.
Can you not turn on location remotely the same way you could set a message?
If it’s possible to remotely lock it and send a message, it should be possible to change the ringing volume.
Yep. Type 'find my phone' into Google and one of the options is to make the ringer sound at full volume for up to 5 minutes.
I thought this was going to be an epic near death story of being stranded on a mountain side, having to cut open and get inside a dead cow/horse/bear for warmth, and only being saved from death thanks to mobile phone tracking...
Boo. 😁
My wife lost her phone after it dropped out the car door pocket outside our house. When we realised what had happened and located it, we walked 500yrds down the road, I rang the phone and the surprised lady who likely wasn’t going to hand it in passed it in surprise to my wife who was standing outside her front door...
Cleary she’d picked up the phone walking past our house and pocketed it.
Doesn't work for engagement rings or wedding rings. Mrs F put hers somewhere safe when her fingers swelled up, then remembered a few weeks later. Been left in a pair of socks, that she had thrown out.
Just going through insurance to get something similar sourced... argh