android phone stolen

Fenrir785

devastated. I had everything on there.

what I want to know is, even if the thief has reset the hpone, wiped everything and installed a new sim card can they still trace it?

thanks in advance.

Atomic Pineapple

Fenrir785 wrote: »

devastated. I had everything on there.

what I want to know is, even if the thief has reset the hpone, wiped everything and installed a new sim card can they still trace it?

thanks in advance.

Can who still trace it?

The best an operator can do is IMEI block it, but this only works within Ireland and the UK I believe and the phone will be usable in another country.

You can only trace it yourself if you've installed an app that does that for you, or if your using a Nexus device you can use the Google device manager to trace it if its till on and hasn't been wiped.

If you didn't have root its likely a factory reset would mean you will never be able to trace it if the thief performs this.

Fenrir785

the police, can the police still trace it.

swampy353

http://www.geek.com/android/how-to-use-android-device-manager-to-track-your-lost-or-stolen-phone-1564801/
Have a look at the link above, try to track it ASAP reduce the risk of them changing settings

Riesen_Meal

Or try get on this while your logged into your gmail on PC and see can you locate it?

Worth a shot :

https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager

EDIT : Swampy got there first, didn't see his link, apologies