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For those of you with an Android phone that use a "locate my device" app, what are your recommendations?
I installed Lookout years ago for the purpose of scanning apps for viruses/malware, and to locate my phone should I ever misplace it. Thus far, I've never had the need to locate my phone, but I've tried the feature out a few times (over several versions of the app) just to see how it performs. It never works, in that the information it gives me is months old. Last known locations are places I have not been to in weeks. When I tried it this morning, it reported I had a low battery...back in March 2017!
So, do any of you use a similar app that actually does what it is supposed to do?
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I use the built in "Find My Device" for locating my phone and the Google Play Protect to scan all my apps. I haven't really sideloaded any apps for a couple years so I haven't been that concerned.
Co-worker of mine also mentioned the new find my device functionality with Google Home where if you ask it to find your phone, it will ring even if it is set to silent. Although to be honest, I think it did that if you used the web interface as well.
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RJOberg wrote: the built in "Find My Device" for locating my phone
So, you click a button on your phone to find out where it is? 
I'm sure I must have misread that somehow. 
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SerenityNowDev wrote: o, you click a button on your phone to find out where it is?
No, that's just being silly.
You press the button before you loose it, so it knows you will be looking for it. 
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Ah, thanks. I knew I was missing something obvious. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I prefer the battery saving version, where you press the button once you find it.
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SerenityNowDev wrote: So, you click a button on your phone to find out where it is?
The feature you turn off and on is called "Find My Device". Once turned on, which does require location tracking permissions to be turned on.
Once activated, you can log into your Google Account on any PC and access additional functionality. Things like last known location of the phone, remote lock, remote wipe, and having the device ring so you can find it after it slides between the couch cushions.
At least that is what was available when I looked about a year ago.
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Got it. Good to know.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Ok, I begin.
C 8?
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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CodeWraith wrote:
C 8?
I'm not in need of perfluorooctanoic acid, but thanks just the same. 
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I thought you know the rules.
'Locate my phone' is played as follows:
There is a 10 x 10 field grid, with the coordinates encoded as follows:
Horizontally the letters A-J, vertically the numbers 1-10.
In this grid you hide the following items:
- No Windows Phone
- One IPod, 2 fields in a row or diagonally
- One Android Phone, 3 fields in a row, not diagonally
- One IPhone, 3 fields diagonally, not in a row
- One IPad, 3x2 fields
- One selfie stick, five fields in a row or diagonally.
We then take turns searching in each others grid. If a player finds an occupied field, he immediately gets another try. The first player to find all of the opponent's items wins.
Ok, I look in C8.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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I'm not playing.
I don't want to find any iApple iProducts.
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Does the grid have rounded corners?
Because if it does, you are iNfringing iApple iPatents and may be iSued by iLawyers.
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iTdoesn't.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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I use Where's My Droid and it saved me once when I left my phone on the train. I tracked it live from my house via GPS as it made it's way to Ramsgate - I remotely triggered the camera and got several shots of a guy who had picked it up and was either trying to unlock it or just being curious. At Ramsgate station he walked to his house which I then got shots of on StreetView.
Then I phoned him and let him know that
a) I knew he had my phone
b) I knew what he looked like and what he was wearing
c) I knew wthat he lived directly opposite an off licence in XXX street.
...and politely asked if he'd mind dropping my phone off at the local police station the next morning.
He obliged 
Of course he might have been planning to hand it in anyway.
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I use Cerberus for my Galaxy S4 and it seems to work fairly well including extra stuff like taking a picture of my mug and emailing it to me whenever I get my login on the device wrong.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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You don't need those apps anymore 
Sign into your Google account (same as your phone) from any other machine, open a browser, and search on Google for
find my phone .
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That's really rather cool. I don't ever have location stuff turned on (I'm too paranoid) but I'm forever losing it at home when it's on silent so the ring-out feature is mega-useful.
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In the mid-80s, I worked with someone that used mechanical pencils. Since this was long before the 'Find My xxx' apps, he attached a string of rubber bands to his pencil with other end tied to his lab code pocket.
Maybe you could so the same? 8)
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I would recommend nuts[^].
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All of those devices require others with the same device to have walked within a certain distance of yours. I can't recall the name but it is group- or community- something or other. Not much of a help when your phone is rarely in a crowded area.
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That's what she said.
Jeremy Falcon
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Real men use real version control!
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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You are Subversive!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Hey, we can't be gits all of us...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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