Android Device Manager: App Download & Setup - how it works

With Google's Android Device Manager,  you can locate your lost smartphones, whether you just can not find it or the phone has been stolen. With the Android Device Manager app, you can then ring, lock or even delete your smartphone via the PC browser.

Android Devices Manager: Features

If you can not find your cell phone, if it is silently sounding, or you think you lost it or it was stolen, then the Android Device Manager is a great help. You can ring or lock your smartphone. If you are sure that it has been stolen, you can delete the content remotely.
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If you have set up the Android Device Manager app on your smartphone and one of the described cases occurs, you can then control the functions either via the PC browser or via the app on another phone.

The most important functions:

• Locate your own Android device.
• Let the device ring at full volume to find it if it is nearby.
• Lock your smartphone remotely.
• Deletes all stored data on your Android device.
• Find out when the device was last online.
• Register your smartphones with new names to help you better map them.

Android Device Manager: Download

You can download the Android Device Manager app from our website in the Google Play Store. Just click on the displayed download button. Once you've downloaded and installed the app, you'll need to set it up properly on your smartphone.

Set up Android Device Manager

How to set up the Android Device Manager on your smartphone:

1. Installs the app.
2. Opens the Smarphone settings.
3. Opens the menu item Security .
4. Tap on the point Device administrators .
5. Here should be a check mark in Android Device Manager set.
6. If not, tap on the app to start it.
7. Now the permissions that the app has, for example:
• Delete all data
• Change screen lock
• Lock screen
8. Touch Activate .
9. Now you can find your phone in an emergency by browser again.

Note: To be able to use all Android Device Manager features in an emergency, location access on the phone should be turned on.

Use Android Device Manager - instructions

If you want to find your smartphone, go like this:

1. Open the  Android Device Manager website and log in with your Google Account, which you also use on your Android device.
2. Even in the mobile app on the smartphone, you can locate all the smartphones that have the Android Device Manager installed and linked to their own Google account.
3. Your device will then be displayed in the box in the upper left corner. If you have several registered devices, you can select the smartphone to be located.
4. At the top left you will see, when your smartphone was last online, if it is currently online and if the location access is deactivated.
5. You have the following options:
• Ringing : Your cellphone rings at the loudest level.
• Lock: Your old lock screen will be replaced with a password lock that you can choose.
• Delete: All data on your smartphone will be deleted.

Note: Even if location access is disabled and airplane mode is turned on, you can still ring, lock, or delete your smartphone. It only has to be connected to the internet via WLAN.