How To Recover Your Lost/Misplaced Android Phone with Android Apps
1. Plan B
If you ever lose your phone and don't have a contingency plan in place, you can remotely install Plan B on your phone and locate it instantly.
Plan B, on the other hand, lets you remotely install it using the Android Market Web interface and immediately sends you the phone's coordinates after it does. You don't need to configure it, create an account, or do anything else—-its location will just show up in your Gmail. It'll track your phone for 10 minutes, emailing you updates if it moves, after which you can just text the word "Locate" to your phone to track it again. For some phones, it can even turn on GPS if it's turned off (though it'll need an internet connection if you're installing the app remotely).
Plan B is a free download for Android 2.0 and up
Download Link :- Plan B
2. Prey (Both for Laptops and SmartPhones)
Android SIM Protection
Android phones set up with Prey actually have fewer reporting and alarm modules than laptops, but they do have one unique feature: SIM card protection. If a thief attempts to swap out the SIM card in your phone, the new SIM number is captured and text-messaged to a contact you set up in the Prey options. With that kind of data and a police contact, you're pretty close to tracking down your phone.
3. Agastya
A new Android app that lets you “remotely” perform various tasks on your phone from any other phone via simple SMS commands. The other phone, that is sending the commands, need not be running Android – even the basic Nokia 1100 would do just fine – and either phones don’t require GPS or data plans (Internet).
The workflow is easy. You send an SMS command from a friend’s phone to your own phone in a given format and the app reacts accordingly. For instance, a command like “ringer” would turn on the ringer while “silent” would put the phone to silent mode.
The app can also help you retrieve your missed calls list or your incoming text messages via, you got it right, SMS. This feature should be handy for people who own multiple phones – you can easily check the call and SMS logs of your secondary phone from the one that’s in your pocket.
Here’s a complete list of SMS commands that you can try on your Android phone:
- SILENT – Turn off the phone’s ringer
- RINGER – Turn on the ringer
- IMEI – Get the IMEI number* of your phone
- LAST MESSAGES – Retrieve the last 5 text messages received on your phone
- LAST CALLS – Know the last 5 missed/received/dialed numbers
- <CONTACT> – Fetch the contact number of a person from the address book.
Download Link :- http://bit.ly/N5XFOn
4. Where's my droid
Agastya isn’t the first app that offers such features. The more popular Where’s My Droid app can not only turn on the ringer of your phone remotely but will also send you the phone’s current GPS location by SMS. There’s overlap but these apps are more inclined towards locating your lost phone while Agastay is like a command console – you can toggle between phone states or even fetch details of a contact remotely from the phone’s address book. The IMEI feature is also handy for blacklisting your misplaced phone.
Download link:- http://bit.ly/LGRj30
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