Find My Phone totally sucks!

[Mr Lebowski]

Just tried it at the house.
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So far your 0-3 you crack me up lol! You really give bad advice...

Advice ? I'm not giving ADVICE :grin:

and it's you're

 

[taymur]

The phone periodically takes GPS location, in addition to critical situations like before turning on battery saver, or before shutting off as an example.

That's the first information it tries to use, then it connects the phone via internet cellular/ WiFi and triggered the GPS again, (this part rarely worked for me) in order to find the location, at least that's how I see it work.

And I really think you are right with this, it rarely shows where my phone is, but maybe that's due to connection problems as I live in a very bad internet country.

 

[Robert Novak1]

When my 810 was stolen and I was telling the police that I could find it immediately, locate my phone didn't work at all. It still hasn't found the phone, and that was 3 months ago.

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The services only work if the SIM card is in the phone. If the SIM Card is removed and replaced, you are SOL. This is why you keep your phone locked with a PIN

As for the OP,

It works for my Lumia 900, 810, and 571 almost all of the time. The only time it has not worked is when the phone was in a known dead zone....

 

[Mr Lebowski]

The services only work if the SIM card is in the phone. If the SIM Card is removed and replaced, you are SOL. This is why you keep your phone locked with a PIN

As for the OP,

It works for my Lumia 900, 810, and 571 almost all of the time. The only time it has not worked is when the phone was in a known dead zone....

Locked with a PIN doesn't stop someone from opening the phone and removing the SIM. :smile:

 

[metalchick719]

Just tried it at the house.
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So far your 0-3 you crack me up lol! You really give bad advice...

Hmm, funny... I just gave it a try with my 920 and it worked like a charm. Showed me results immediately.

 

[radmanvr]

Seems like a hit and miss kind of thing. On first query it did not show but pressing it again it was able to locate. I am going to call this server lag or queue time.

 

[Robert Novak1]

no but it DOES make the phone useless to them without the unlock code...

 

[Moises Corilloclla]

This is the first time I ever tried it, and it worked, tho with a few yards difference.

 

[Christian Holmstedt]

The services only work if the SIM card is in the phone. If the SIM Card is removed and replaced, you are SOL. This is why you keep your phone locked with a PIN

As for the OP,

It works for my Lumia 900, 810, and 571 almost all of the time. The only time it has not worked is when the phone was in a known dead zone....

It does have to be turned on too right?

 

[Robert Novak1]

yes location services have to be enabled