My phone has been stolen

[Ja5onG]

My phone was stolen from my locker at some point on friday night.

Contacted my network provider to cancel the sim card which has been done. And I have changed all password to any accounts I access via the phone including my google password.

I just found out about device manager and I tried to do a location search, it says location in unavailable. But it centralises the map over nigeria etc. Does this mean my phone is now in this region and the location cannot be specifically placed? Screen shot attached

 

[TwitchyPuppy]

Wow that blows.. Sorry to hear that.

I know Find My iPhone requires the device to be powered on or an internet connection (Wifi or data) in order to be able to locate it so my guess would be that Android Device Manager works pretty much the same way.

Oh and do not forget to ask your carrier to blacklist your phone!

 

[Ja5onG]

yeah really suck, wasn't just my phone. Was my wallet, house/cars keys aswell.

Phones the biggest gutter though as I hadn't backed it up for ages to all my pictures are gone.

Just trying to figure out if the location the device manager is giving as accurate, mainly so I can show police. And partly for my own piece of mind as I know the person that stole it isn't close by

 

[cnotes2019]

My phone was stolen from my locker at some point on friday night.

Contacted my network provider to cancel the sim card which has been done. And I have changed all password to any accounts I access via the phone including my google password.

I just found out about device manager and I tried to do a location search, it says location in unavailable. But it centralises the map over nigeria etc. Does this mean my phone is now in this region and the location cannot be specifically placed? Screen shot attached

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Nigeria? Where the heck are you located? Police won't do anything. It's gone. Time to get a new phone or use a backup if you have one. This time taking all precautions such as location services and backing everything up.

 

[Ja5onG]

I'm in scotland.

I work at the Amazon depot and they have a massive amount of foreign folk be it european/african working there over the Christmas/New year period as temp workers.

Completely agree the phone is gone

So I take it I can assume that the area that the location manager is showing is roughly where the phone is currently?

 

[Mooncatt]

Whether or not that screen shot is accurate is kind of moot. If it was in any way accurate, that's too huge of an area to expect the authorities to search. Not to mention by being shut off, the phone could be moved to the other side of the planet and Google wouldn't know until it accessed the net again. They also could have simply reset it before giving it that chance, rendering the device manager useless.

 

[Ja5onG]

oh god, not expecting any authorities to search for it. The phone is gone.

As said I was just wondering if the device managers location ability was accurate. It wasn't just my phone that was stolen, my wallet, car keys and house keys were stolen too. My car has been taken away for all its locks to be changed. My house locks have already been done.

If it is accurate and the person was in the area in the screen shot I can maybe be at easy that they aren't going to try and get in my house

 

[Lara78]

Your phone is NOT in Nigeria! If the location is not available, then device manager shows this map as a default position!
Longitude and latitude values of this map is (0,0)

 

[monsieurms]

Phones the biggest gutter though as I hadn't backed it up for ages to all my pictures are gone.

For future reference, there are a ton of apps that AUTOMATICALLY back up your photos. You don't have to do a thing after you initially set it up. Lookout will do it. Facebook Moments will do it. I've gravitated of late to COPY.COM. Tell it to watch a certain directory, anything in it is automatically uploaded to the cloud. AND if you sync to your desktop or laptop, it will also automatically be downloaded to those devices. You don't really have to do anything. Free for intro space, which will cover lots of photos.

BTW, do follow through one person's suggestion to have your carrier blacklist the phone. Also--Android Device Manager will wipe your phone as well as locate it.

Keep checking back on Android device manager. If the phone goes online, it may pop up on a location scan. You can also send a wipe signal.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Oops, missed the last part, never mind.

 

[rumbikrobo]

Sorry to hear that your phone has been stolen. It really sucks.

 

[N4Newbie]

Go to https://www.google.com/maps/timeline and log onto your Google account.

Assuming that you had Location History enabled, you will be able to see where your phone "was" for an extended period of time, whether it is currently powered on or not.

 

[Ja5onG]

Hi Guys, yeah I did the timeline thing on Saturday morning as soon as I got home, and the last update is from when I went into work. The phone hasn't been online since that time and the the same goes for the device manager it also says the phone hasn't been online since friday night.

And to Lara 78 thank you for the info. I did find it curious

 

[N4Newbie]

Hi Guys, yeah I did the timeline thing on Saturday morning as soon as I got home, and the last update is from when I went into work. The phone hasn't been online since that time and the the same goes for the device manager it also says the phone hasn't been online since friday night.

And to Lara 78 thank you for the info. I did find it curious

Well, then, my guess is either your phone was stolen by a true pro (who knows enough not to turn it on prior to doing a factory wipe) or perhaps it wasn't stolen at all and wasn't in your locker. Like, maybe you dropped it or left it somewhere and just assumed it was in your locker with the rest of your stuff. Was your locker ransacked? Anything else missing?

 

[PhiPsi32]

Yes, OP subsequently stated wallet, keys, etc. were taken.

Depending on what OS is on the handset, a factory reset will still require a Google password. The phone is essentially bricked.

I would keep checking Device Manager for a few days at least.

 

[Ja5onG]

Yeah everything in my locker, the jacket my phone was in. Along with my house keys, car keys and wallet.

I did the password reset via device manager so they cannot get onto the phone if they figures out the swipe code.

Handset was running 5.02 i think, the latest version.

I'm seriously thinking of changing google password to, which will mean i cannot locate device once thats done?

 

[monsieurms]

I'm seriously thinking of changing google password to, which will mean i cannot locate device once thats done?

As long as that phone remains a registered device on your Google account, changing your desktop Google password should not matter.

 

[Ja5onG]

thanks for the info

 

[PhiPsi32]

It can take up to 72hrs for your handset to register the new Google password provided the phone has a data connection.

 

[jadiseul]

Unless the Android device manager option is checked on your device there's no way you can locate the phone. The option is under Device Administrators or something like that depending on the phone brand. Mine is always checked (ticked on) on all my Android devices. I recently installed Kaspersky on my LG G3 and it even takes a picture of whomever is using it at that time you're tracking it down.