Android device manager

[fldude99]

For those that want to have Android Device Manager active, you need to go into security settings and make sure it's still activated. The Play upgrade a couple of weeks ago disabled this. Just noticed this on mine and have seen some mentions of this in other forums

 

[prissysox]

Ok. Thanks.

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[jephanie]

For those that want to have Android Device Manager active, you need to go into security settings and make sure it's still activated. The Play upgrade a couple of weeks ago disabled this. Just noticed this on mine and have seen some mentions of this in other forums

Thanks for the tip. I checked mine and it was indeed disabled. Excellent post.

 

[myRT]

For those that want to have Android Device Manager active, you need to go into security settings and make sure it's still activated. The Play upgrade a couple of weeks ago disabled this. Just noticed this on mine and have seen some mentions of this in other forums

Great find. Thanks

Posted via my MotoX

 

[fldude99]

I think this is a very important thing to check, so I'm taking the liberty of bumping this in case someone is missing it on the back pages of this forum...

 

[mkreef]

Regarding the Device Manager, I don't see an app for this like the they have for the iPhone. Anyone know why?

I can use a browser, but it does not work very well (the window to select device takes up half the page, etc).

 

[fldude99]

Regarding the Device Manager, I don't see an app for this like the they have for the iPhone. Anyone know why?

I can use a browser, but it does not work very well (the window to select device takes up half the page, etc).

That's because there is no app. It is a setting in security, device administrator. Then you use device manager on a browser to locate, etc

 

[mkreef]

That's because there is no app. It is a setting in security, device administrator. Then you use device manager on a browser to locate, etc

I know there is no app -- I asked why.

If I want to locate a device from another device, it is very inconvenient doing so from the browser (even using Chrome, which I would have expected to behave the best).

At first I didn't get the point of the Find My iPhone app, until I had a wife and kids with iOS devices -- I could pick up any device and find the others. Now my wife has a Note 3 and my son a Nexus and I would like to find their devices from my Moto X. I can make do with a browser, but the UI is horrible and would prefer a device optimized app.

 

[fldude99]

Do a search on the play store. There's a multitude of apps like that. Device manager is just Google's entry into that type of feature.

 

[Rocketsaucev2]

The gray google settings app has the device manager in it

Sent from my Nexus 10

 

[mkreef]

Do a search on the play store. There's a multitude of apps like that. Device manager is just Google's entry into that type of feature.

I'm aware of that and have used some others but I prefer to use the google built in functionality. The web app is perfect with a drop down for each device -- I can quickly switch between the location of various devices (no logging in and out of other accounts). Just needs a companion app.

 

[icebike]

Both My Devices prompted me to Turn on Device Administrators today out of the blue.

I suspect Google must have done some sort of a reset on the service, because I wasn't aware of this thread
until I came here to the forums to search. Upon checking, both were in need of setup, even though
I had them set up previously.

 

[mkreef]

I'm aware of that and have used some others but I prefer to use the google built in functionality. The web app is perfect with a drop down for each device -- I can quickly switch between the location of various devices (no logging in and out of other accounts). Just needs a companion app.

Update: somehow I missed the news, but the companion app launched in December, one month after I wrote the above.