Desperate to find lost phone

[Dave-in-Decatur]

My wife's Samsung Z-fold is lost, and is either turned off or the battery is dead. We live in a tiny apartment and have searched everywhere. I've tried calling it several times but it goes straight to voice mail. We know she used it yesterday around 4:30 pm, and probably later on in the evening. She may have taken it out of our apartment to the common areas of our assisted living center this morning, but it's been unreachable this afternoon.
We have tried Google's Find my device, but the possible passwords she can remember don't work, and without access to the phone Google's other recovery methods aren't possible. We always end up at "You didn’t provide enough info for Google to be sure this account is really yours."
So, any suggestions? Believe me, I know how stupid this all sounds, and I know how unlikely it seems that there's any way to find a phone without being able to sign in to the account. But if anyone has any ideas, we'd be extremely grateful.

 

[B. Diddy]

Hmm -- I know this sounds kind of out-there, but if you're able to get your hands on a metal detector, maybe that can help you scour your apartment or common area.

I assume you already checked with the assisted living center's security office/lost & found? Sometimes there can be a delay between when a lost item is found and when it makes its way to the lost & found bin.

 

[Dave-in-Decatur]

Hmm -- I know this sounds kind of out-there, but if you're able to get your hands on a metal detector, maybe that can help you scour your apartment or common area.

I assume you already checked with the assisted living center's security office/lost & found? Sometimes there can be a delay between when a lost item is found and when it makes its way to the lost & found bin.

Thanks, that's actually an idea. We're in a big enough metro area I imagine we could rent one from somewhere. We have checked with the desk a couple of times. I take a tiny bit of comfort from the fact that I lost something that showed up there a couple of months later. So maybe the phone will turn up there yet.
The main problems are (1) the phone is dead or turned off, or at any rate it's not ringing, and (2) we can't remember her Google password to use Find my device. I was hoping there might be some esoteric technical solution somehow.

 

[B. Diddy]

Unfortunately, forgetting one's Google password can be problematic since so much is tied to the account. See if this helps: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7682439?hl=en

 

[Dave-in-Decatur]

Fortunately we were finally able to give enough acceptable information that Google would send us a reset link (after a 48-hour delay), and we got back into her account. Fortunately there's no evidence anyone's been using the account, such as sending Gmails. Unfortunately, Google's Find my device won't find a phone that's dead, offline, and/or doesn't have Find my device activated on it. Thanks for the help. It's really tough.

 

[Windroid 2483]

I'll be honest: I wouldn't have high hopes that someone who found the phone would know how to get it back to you. When I found a lost phone, with a broken screen, on the road:

#1: I charged it in the hopes that it had some tracker, so the owner would know where it was.

#2: I put it's SIM card into my phone, hoping that the owner (or someone) would call it, so that I could get it back to him. That also gave me the owner's cell-phone number.

That payed off, the owner was able to come pick up his phone. But most people, even most businesses, would not know to do that!

 

[gomezz]

There being no sign of activity from that phone sounds like a good thing as it signifies it being genuinely lost rather than purloined. Time to move on and get a new phone I think.

 

[Windroid 2483]

There being no sign of activity from that phone sounds like a good thing as it signifies it being genuinely lost rather than purloined. Time to move on and get a new phone I think.

A new phone, after it's been missing for one day? Well, maybe a cheap backup phone, if the OP does not have one allredy.