Android Device Manager

This app is extremely useful, but it really should allow you to remotely turn the gps on your phone on. Lots of us have it turned off most of the time in order to save some battery. Maybe there's some software limitation i'm not aware of, but i guess you should be able to make it possible - given your phone has an active data connection. THAT would make this app the slam dunk it has the potential to be.

No remote activation of location which makes no sense because that's what you need to locate a device. It would also be great to be able to use phone towers to locate device. It would be great if the app could try to connect to any open WiFi or something like that to send the location data over the internet. Can't get my lost phone without some of these features added to the app.

Oh my god im absolutely amazed with the result i had with this app. I left my phone on the roof of a taxi and thought it was gone for good. Then i googled how to track a lost phone and i was led to this app. When i located my phone on the other side of town i left my house on foot to find it checking every minute it was still in the same place and when i got there i called it with the option in the app i could hear and then see my lost phone in the middle of a road on the roundabout! Amazing stuff!

All the features provided are very nice but all of them require active net connection and location service ON. What if the thief switches net & location service OFF. Objective behind stealing phone will be to remove the existing sim with new one and use it. So Android device manager should ALSO provide a feature where one can get the details of new sim inserted by sms, there by removing dependency of internet & GPS all the time. Hope you will consider this humble request.

This is a great app. My husband lost his phone somewhere on the side of the highway. It fell from his pocket off his motorcycle, in 5 o'clock traffic, at 70+. This app helped us pin point the exact location. The first time he signed in, it said the phone was unavailable, which led me to believe that it was broken on the side of the road ( I mean, it did fall on to the highway and all!!) I called his phone and then tried again, and worked fine. I give this app a lot of credit! Will definitely keep this app:)

I've done everything possible to get this to work. I've turned on what needs to be turned on and still nothing. I love my Note and the whole samsung line of products, but it has light years to catch up with apple. This shouldn't be this hard. COME ON GET THIS TOGETHER. We pay all this money we expect more, at least I do. Thinking about going back to my iPhone at least I'll be able to find it.

This is better than a GPS to tell us which address the device is in. We lost my son's device inside the house. We had looked for two days, I installed the app, activated the ringer and found his device in less than 30 seconds. (It was in a laundry basket under some blankets.) :-)

Updating a previous review from 5 stars to 1. It never wants to work anymore. I'm not sure what happened, but it will always say its unavailable across multiple devices. When it does work, its because I'm using the app on both phones/tablets right next to me...and even then its wildly inconsistent.

It doesn't work without data or wifi. Maybe under the case that it doesn't have data/wifi could the location coordinates be sent via sms? A lot of people might have their data turned off or don't have it as a part of their phone plan. But many people do have unlimited international messaging plans, so I feel it would be worth investing in.

My wife's phone was on silent and we couldn't find it. We were sure it was somewhere in our house, but we looked everywhere for it and still couldn't find it. So, we remotely installed this app to her phone via Google Play on our computer. We also installed it on my phone. She then logged into her google account on my phone and her phone was listed (since it was linked to her google account). Pressing 'Ring' made her phone ring even though it was on silent. PHONE FOUND!!! AWESOME! P.S. We did try a couple of other phone locator apps, but they didn't work because we had to set things up on her phone before we could use them, but since her phone was lost, we couldn't do it. This app worked completely remotely.

I lost my cell once in Central Park in NYC. I put my name and contact information in it using device manager. The person who found my cell phone contacted me and I got my cell phone back. It has also helped me locate all my devices when need by showing me where they are in Google maps. Also love how I can make my devices ring when I am looking for them. Simply and an a amazing app!

This app is just another measure of assurance when it comes to making sure your phone is in an area close to you or close to were it needs to be. It's like a Big brother/Sister... build into you device to help you find it. I say get it. I got it. Now, I feel less stress when I misplace or lost my $300 - 600 dollar phone.

This app DOES work on all 3 of my devices. I installed it and tested it on all of them. I was able to make them ring or lock the screen from each device. My nexus' 5&9 run marshmallow and my nexus 7 is stuck on 4.4.3. All 3 are sim enabled but the sim from the 7 is in the 9 so I tested it with WiFi on instead. Location services had to be on "high accuracy" for it to work. I don't like having to leave my location on but at least I know if I turn it on when I'm not at home with my devices I can still find them if they're lost or stolen. Gives added peace of mind if I remember to use it. Update: It works on my original Galaxy nexus too running 4.2.1!!

Yes, I have two kids so they did forget or dropped their phone several times. This app comes handy every time. So far so good. We have found the phones every time. Only if there was no connection or if phones were off there is nothing to do. I would say at abt 98% of the time I tried to read the location of devices it was successful.

On a number of occasions I've had to log into this app to locate my wife's phone, whom is notorious for consistently misplacing it with the ringer set to vibrate or silent. This app can be installed on any android device and can locate (as long as device settings permit) and ring the phone even with the volume off. Other features include locking the device and wiping info if it is lost or stolen. I can honestly say that I've never had any serious issues with this app. Perhaps adding an ability to override gps settings could make this app more useful in locating the device on the map feature.

Last night my other half lost his phone, after searching everywhere in the house for it I downloaded this app, signed into his Google account. It tracked his phone right to the shop where he had been a couple of hours ago, locked the phone and put my number down. This morning, his alarm went off, which alerted the shops manager, who then phoned me off the phone alerting me that he had left his phone in the shop and that it was under the counter waiting for us to collect it. I highly recommend this app.

App was great initially but the last couple times I've checked it locates the phone at my home but it won't ring. The time I really need this to work is when I'm in a hurry and can't find my phone. Without the ring feature it's generally worthless. I'll give it two stars since it can still locate the phone if it's on and connected. That way if it's stolen or I left it someplace else I can get close.

Works well for what it was intended for but needs improvements. If GPS is turned off it won't find location for example. Why on earth this simple feature of over riding GPS settings isn't implemented is beyond me. So basically only allows you to find your phone if someone hasn't turned settings off, ie was stolen/found by someone. Also why can't you lock phone with a new password?

I like the app but would like to see more functionality. For instance, since this suppose to be a anti-theft app, add a feature to remotely record audio/video or even take a picture remotely. Also add sim card change notification and also since this is a Google/Android app, somehow implement this into Android OS in case one tries to do hard reset and it prevents such action. Follow me on Google+!

Make it like the one on AVG antivirus where you send a sms to the device and locks, factory reset, alarm, take a picture when the intruder tries to unlock it,lock the whole device when sim is removed, etc. And make a full security app which is not full of unnecessary carp like a ram cleaner and stuff. And it is not OK I wish I could give it 2.5 stars.

This app should be exempt of 2-step verification procedures. If I'm using someone else's phone to log in to device manager and I have turned on 2-step verification, then I can't log in without the code generator which is usually saved on the phone which is lost? I think this app shouldn't require 2 step verification when you log in to your account. A password should suffice for finding your phone.

Up until today I have not been able to find this Droid in the Play Store. Now that I have been able match it up, I know now that I also have no record of having software copy on hand. I also now understand, to some degree what I need to do to make it effective in tracking an having my device (phone) either returned or it's data completely destroyed. If this is not a correct assumption of the likely outcomes then would you please correct my assumptions.Thank you. Guy H Martin

If you really want to make this app better (which you clearly don't since you've made it worse), ditch the notification you get when the device is searched for and add something that shows the last place it was pinged. I'd rather see the last place it was on at than for me to see "location unavailable"

This app helped find my phone and my husband's phone before. Now it keeps giving me an error when I try to log in from my phone. My child hid my phone today and I tried to use my father's to find it. It no longer rings at full volume, but now rings at whatever volume the notifications are set to. Once I found the phone (no thanks to this app) I turned the notifications on silent just to verify and it doesn't ring at all. FIX IT! I used to love this app.

Great app, comes in handy all the time in my house but is it not possible to have a last location or ping? As if the device has gone flat you can't trace it but if you had an idea of the last place at least you've got somewhere to start?? Then it would be 5 Star!!

Works great on devices that are different, but I've got 2 Dragon Touch tablets (same model) that cannot be located at the same time on the app. Shouldn't the app be looking for the serial# or something? I can find the first tablet...but as soon as I turn on the second, it doesn't show. If I turn off the first tablet and wait a while, then the second tablet shows up with the name of the first...how do I know? Because when I ping it, it rings...but under the name of the 1st tablet. I need to be able to see both tablets at the same time with their OWN names and can ring them separately (even when both are ON)

Please add google earth on it. So that, we can easily find our lost android devices. In Google maps, it only shows road and area. So, this is not helpful for us to finding a device. You should add a feature. A person who lost his phone he can easily find his phone by locate him where he is. Suppose I lost my phone in a area. I located the area. Than go for it. But i can't locate me where i am. So, i'm sure u will take my feedback. Thank u Google.

...if you're System volume is turned down. S5 Verizon user. The first thing we noticed when we upgraded to S5 was the location has to be on now in order to use find it. But that's why the app was great b4 - plus we don't have unlimited data, and I don't care for killing the battery when I'm not using Maps. Thought it was just because of something new with the S5. Now if you're notification volume is down it just vibrates. No ring. On the desktop & app version. I'm over it.

Better if you improve location accuracy and provide no option to turn off tha rigtone. For example if my phone is stolen then i will never want the thief to turn it off if it have inbult battery so plzz add a fuction to disable everything while locked by this software and do not allow to pause or stop the full volume ringtone unless correct passwor is inserted it will help soo much.

But it's a big one. I lost my phone and tracked it and as soon as I tried again they had turned the locating services off. I later found out that when I search for the phone it actually shows up on the lost phone that it has been located. Needless to say I never got the phone back. Is there any way to track it with out the thief's knowing your tracking it?

Love the guest sign in, location, and ringing the device. We should have this app pre-installed so everyone knows about it, and they can have their preferences set up, like if they don't want other people locating their device. I just wish I could delete old devices from my account that I don't have anymore.

This app is pretty accurate when it comes to device location and has gotten better over the years. It doesn't show you if the device is under a stack of books but it will show you within about 10ft or so where it is generally located. You must allow the app permissions and also have your GPS enabled and device turned on in order for it to work. It also notifies the device being found that it was just located. I definitely use it on all of my devices!

Firstly its not accurate and secondly a notification pops up saying Device manager has located this device. This means a criminal now has the opportunity to hide the phone or destroy it because they know the device has been located. There are other apps that do a better job. Dont waste your data loading this crap app.

so... i lost my S7 didnt have the app installed but of course my Gmail was logged in on it. i went to google and searched and searched for my phone but nothing. so i figured whoever found it must have turned it off. thats when i decided to use the erase function when they did turn it back on. Funny thing is my phone was returned to me 3 days later. i powered it on and maybe 3 mins after it went into a android update mode and erased everything! lol i cant be upset it worked flawlessly.

All good and very useful but all of a sudden I received a notification about my Apps List being data mined. Why? It never did it before. Silently activating data mining is a surefire way to break someone's trust... please can this be explained. (I know what data mining is but why is it needed?)

My phone got stole. As I have 2 phones in both my I'd is log in I can't find the phone which got stole as I can't sit whole day with this app open and eyes staring on it. It shows my phone this phone location right but the other one it doesn't show

On android lollipop you can set up "smart lock" so if your GPS states you are close to a certain location the lock screen is disabled. If you then use device manager to lock the device, it won't do anything because you are still within that area.

you can`t search you mobile when you lost your mobile without data connection. please improve it. it's very helpful device for people..

Used to work now it just says no active devices. Spent hours on the phone with support and I was referred to use 3rd party app... From Google support.

Only one thing missing we cant turn on data by sending somecode or by messaging or it might turn on by itself if more than 5 times incorrect password given