In comp.mobile.android, on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:17:12 +0200, "Carlos
E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
Hi,
got a new tablet, a "Lenovo Idea Tab 11" (8GB 128GB) - Luna Grey + Pen"
I'm examining the preinstalled apps. One of them is:
Phone Tracker: Phone Locator
If this had worked, what would its advantage be over
www.android.com\find
Which you can do from any webbrowser.
I used it in Baltimore once when I couldn't find my phone and realized
it had fallen out of my pocket into a taxicab. I made it make a noise,
the driver found it, called me, and I was in no rush and she returned it
an hour or two later.
And just now I tried it again, with it sitting right next to me, and it
found it in Peru, and shows on the map where it is, and it's right
except for 20 feet. It shows it across the street. It also shows the
wifi network, the % charge, , when last seen, and you can have it play a unique sound, you can reset it, or you can marked it as lost (which I
think means locked. If you never lock your phone, you have to come up
with a lock code.)
I don't know if this will work when the phone is off, by giving you the
last location where it was on. That seems simple enough to implement,
but what do I know?
| Sysop: | DaiTengu |
|---|---|
| Location: | Appleton, WI |
| Users: | 1,118 |
| Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
| Uptime: | 41:22:41 |
| Calls: | 14,341 |
| Calls today: | 1 |
| Files: | 186,357 |
| D/L today: |
26,575 files (8,544M bytes) |
| Messages: | 2,533,058 |