Google accounts ans IMEI numbers

Nulty

I've recently lost my phone and I've been trying to work out if theres a way to know what happened to it. I know that it's not impossible for IMEI numbers to be cloned but its unlikely that an Irish phone would have that done I think.

I've blacklisted the IMEI so no Irish network will register the phone to use their service. I've reported it stolen/lost to the Garda who have a record of the IMEI number if it ever turns up.

I know you can use Location Services to see where the phone was when it was last connected to the internet with location services turned on. My phones a Samsung and I set up the findmymobile feature whichber registered to hasn't picked up anything since the phone went missing.

The only way of knowing if the phone is being used by someone else, as far as I can gather, is if it has had its IMEI number registered to another Google account.

Has anyone ever thought to investigate this for themselves? Do you think it would be possible to find out if an IMEI number has been registered to another account? Especially since I've reported it to the Garda?

griffdaddy

I don't think Google would give away that information unless a court forced them to be honest

Nulty

griffdaddy wrote: »

I don't think Google would give away that information unless a court forced them to be honest

I was thinking the same. It should be available though. There are obviously use cases where it would benefit someone like me, who is trying to track down their phone.

The_B_Man

Check your gmail. At the bottom right it gives the IP address of anyone who's logged in with it. Sometimes this can mean that they just synced, as opposed to reading your emails.

Either way, check the IPs there. Something might come up.