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Find your lost Samsung phone by following certain steps.
In case you have misplaced or lost your Samsung smartphone, there are several methods to retrieve it. Wondering how? We've got you covered. By following the steps listed below, you can trace your Samsung smartphone to its last location using Google Maps, activate ringing if the phone is on silent, and lock it remotely, among other things. So, without any further ado, let's take a look at how you can find your lost Samsung smartphone.
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If calling your mobile number on the Samsung smartphone doesn't work, you can use the methods below to track it. There are as many as four methods to find or locate your lost Smartphone whether it is offline or online.
Find My Mobile This is Samsung's proprietary tool designed to locate and track lost or misplaced Samsung smartphones. If enabled, it can be used to track your device even if it is not connected to the internet using Samsung account. Here's how:
If the lost or stolen Samsung is offline and doesn't have internet access, Find My Mobile can still show its location, provided the Offline finding feature is enabled. The latter uses other Samsung devices to create a chain using Bluetooth and accordingly alert you on its location.
If you didn't enable the Find My Mobile feature on your Samsung phone, you can use Google's Find My Device service. Here's how to begin the search for a lost Samsung smartphone using Find My Device:
That said, Find My Device doesn't have an offline tracking feature yet. However, it offers various options that can be performed for ensuring the data within the phone is not compromised. These include resetting the data, signing out of the Google account and playing a loud sound so that its location is easily determined when the device is close by.
If you own a Samsung Galaxy Watch and happen to lose or misplace your Samsung phone, the watch can help you retrieve the phone if it's nearby. This method requires both devices to be paired before the misplacement. Here's how:
Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) is a government portal that allows people to track and block their lost or stolen phones. Use this method if your Samsung smartphone is genuinely lost as it requires you to register an FIR first at the nearby police station. Once that's done, here's how you can use the CEIR portal to block your phone across all telecom operators in India.
As long as the lost phone is powered on, the police will be able to track it through the IMEI number and will instruct all the telecom operators to stop all communication services even if the SIM card is replaced with a new one.
No, in case the lost Samsung phone has been switched off, it cannot be traced using the Find My Mobile or Find My Device service.
Samsung's Find My Mobile comes with several options that help you track your lost phone and preserve the data contained in it. To use these features, you'll have to log in to the SmartThings Find website using your Samsung account from another device such as a PC or a mobile phone. That said, the features are as follows: