How Can I Find a Lost Device When It's in Silent Mode?

How Can I Find a Lost Device When It's in Silent Mode?

I lost my tablet somewhere in my house and have been searching for hours. It's an Android device, which seems to have Wi-Fi enabled (responds to pings), but doesn't seem to react to cloud-based messages.

Please see below a few ways by which you can locate your device –

airodump-ng app – This app will help in getting a signal reception especially if a compatible Wi-Fi card and a Linux distro are installed. The signal reception on the device can be seen as PWR (in decibels). Using this, you can keep ringing the device and see an airodump-ng screen update a lot faster with the MAC address of the device. Increasing the PWR and moving around your house with your laptop will help you in locating your device.

Homing Cone – A cone built by using a brass mesh will help in blocking radio signals. By holding the phone towards the middle of the cone all signals will be blocked. In case you receive a signal then it is probably being received from the open area of the cone.

Ethernet & More – If your device has a signal strength measurement on it then you can use DD-WRT to locate it. For more information regarding the DD-WRT see http://www.dd-wrt.co.in/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F This is how it works:-Take a long Ethernet cord.
-Plug its one end into the router and the other into your cable modem, Internet connection, etc.
-Keep moving the router around your house while seeing where you get the strongest signal.

Some More awesome stuff how to find your lost device:

• 1)There is an awesome stuff called Cerberus anti theft install this

Remote control allows you to perform many operations on your device, like:
- Locate and track it
- Start a loud alarm, even if the device is set to silent mode
- Wipe the internal memory and the SD card
- Hide Cerberus from the app drawer
- Lock the device with a code
- Record audio from the microphone
- Get a list of last calls sent and received

For More details:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.cerberus

• One more awesome app is Prey Anti Theft

Once you log into Prey you can do the following:

- Find your phone on a map through geolocation using both GPS and WiFi triangulation
- Take pictures using the built-in front and back camera
- Lock your device from any unwanted intruder
- Trigger a loud alarm remotely even if your phone is put on silent
- Display a tailored alert message on the screen

            For More details:

            https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prey

• One more simple technique is install a SMSalarm app on Android is good - send a text to a silent phone to have it start ringing.

Another wonderful, awesome,simple mindblowing way to find your mobile and the most powerful way which I feel is :

if you have an android device(mostly everone will have), you can use Android Device Manager (https://www.google.com/android/device...)

Very easy to use...!!

Hmm. A bit rough, but I suppose it's moderately effective. I do, however, have an alternative which is a bit easier.

1. Buy an Android device.

2. Don't lose it…!!!! :D:D