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Lost Samsung Galaxy S3

  • 16-08-2013 10:22am
    #1
    Moyglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    My friend was away for a few days and somehow lost his phone / had it stolen.

    The phone is dead and going straight to voicemail.

    I don't suppose anyone has any ideas of how we might possibly be able to trace the phone despite it being dead?

    Unfortunately, the phone isn't insured to make it worse.


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  • #2
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    The only thing i can think of is look at gmail/dropbox etc and look for IP addresses accessing the account. It could have picked up a signal before it died so you can at least trace your steps

    Does google maps still show recent places? is there a way to access that in your google account?


  • #3
    Moyglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Moyglish


    Thanks very much, very helpful.

    We've just rang the local garda station and a Samsung phone was handed in around the time he reckons he lost his, just awaiting a call back to see if it might be his.

    Fingers crossed! :)

    If not, will most definitely do as you have suggested.

    Thanks very much.


  • #4
    Moyglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Moyglish


    Unfortunately, the garda station had a different Samsung.

    Phone has now been blacklisted.

    Will try the suggestion above, I'd say with the phone being dead it's a lost cause at this stage now though.


  • #5
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭KAGY


    Moyglish wrote: »
    Unfortunately, the garda station had a different Samsung.

    Phone has now been blacklisted.

    Will try the suggestion above, I'd say with the phone being dead it's a lost cause at this stage now though.

    If he set upa Samsung account when he got the phone he could try the find my phone section on their website


  • #6
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Just tried this again. Amazing. :D

    http://findmymobile.samsung.com/login.do


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  • #7
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭KAGY


    MarkR wrote: »
    Just tried this again. Amazing. :D

    http://findmymobile.samsung.com/login.do

    Thanks for posting the URL, I was too lazy to find it on the phone. BTW it helps when you've lost your phone at home too - use the ring at full volume option.

    And for those who have cyanogenmod I saw something similar in the latest unstable version 10.2. Can't post a screenshot as I've gone back to omega rom


  • #8
    Moyglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Moyglish


    I don't think he ever set up one of those Samsung accounts unfortunately.

    Even if he had though, the phone has been dead for 7 days now, so doubt the Find My Mobile feature would even work?

    I think it's a lost cause now at this stage. We reckon he probably lost it in the back of a taxi, tried ringing as many taxi numbers as we could find, hasn't turned up yet though.

    Ah well, tis an expensive lesson learned.


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