Taking phone off silent

dominatrix1 · 30 Mar 2006 at 15:24

I think i have lost my phone somewhere and it is on silent. It still rings but not sure where it is , is there anyway i can ring a number that will make the phone ring loud by and chance??

Energize · 30 Mar 2006 at 16:09

You can use a website to track the phones locations for you costs money though.

dominatrix1 · 30 Mar 2006 at 16:16

what is the website please

Dinomania · 30 Mar 2006 at 16:26

Most the the mobile tracking websites require the tracked mobile to reply to a text message which authorises the surveillance. So I doubt that'd be useful to you.

Have you lost it, or was it stolen?

When did you last have it, where were you, etc etc...

Energize · 30 Mar 2006 at 16:28

Some don't require a reply, they were designed so that if someone got into trouble and couldnt use their phone they could still be tracked.

You could ask the network provider to tell you where it is.

dominatrix1 · 30 Mar 2006 at 16:33

i lost it at school today, and it still rings but is on silent which is why i need to find out where it is

dominatrix1 · 30 Mar 2006 at 17:08

will the newtwork providor be able to track the location of my phone?? is they can not do it who can??

Alex_L · 30 Mar 2006 at 17:20

as far as i'm aware tracking the exact location isn't easy, as I believe they have to do it by triangulation. I think your biggest obstacle will be persuading the phone company to do it. Also i'm not sure how accurately they can track the location of it to.

Energize · 30 Mar 2006 at 17:35

They can track it to within a few meters, great for finding out where your phone is if it got stolen.

Have you tried lost property, at the school

?

Desmo · 30 Mar 2006 at 17:57

I'd be 99% confident that a phone company won't be wasting their resources searching for a phone lost by some school kid

dominatrix1 · 30 Mar 2006 at 17:59

whay found it , it was on my friends drive from when i dropped him off earlier

Spamalot · 30 Mar 2006 at 18:03

dominatrix1 said:
whay found it , it was on my friends drive from when i dropped him off earlier

How did you find that, lol

Energize · 30 Mar 2006 at 18:05

Desmo said:
I'd be 99% confident that a phone company won't be wasting their resources searching for a phone lost by some school kid

They would if they didnt want to lose customers.

Dolph · 30 Mar 2006 at 18:17

Energize said:
They would if they didnt want to lose customers.

Mobile phone networks don't offer a phone tracking service, full stop. The only time most companies will do it is with a police/home office request.

It tends to involve lots of people with reams of computer printouts and maps to do it properly as well....

Energize · 30 Mar 2006 at 18:19

Most other websites seem to manage fine, and they dont have as nearly as many resources and are able to track within 10meters.

.SJ · 30 Mar 2006 at 18:35

Energize · 30 Mar 2006 at 18:48

I dont know any specifically but if you type mobile phone tracking into google theres loads, it was on the news a while ago because parents could track their children without their consent.

Desmo · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:18

Energize said:
They would if they didnt want to lose customers.

No they wouldn't. I tell you what, phone up your operator and ask them to do and then come back here with your results

Dolph · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:27

Energize said:
I dont know any specifically but if you type mobile phone tracking into google theres loads, it was on the news a while ago because parents could track their children without their consent.

Well, an obvious UK example would be http://www.childlocate.co.uk/, however they reckon 400-600m (in town) and 600-2000m (rural) for most networks (hardly the 10m you quoted). You also need to be pre-registered, paying and signed up for a minimum of 12 months at a cost of £69.95, and can't locate a phone until it's been confirmed. That gets you up to five phones and 25 locations between them.... any more than that and you're paying extra.

All these services are doing is basically telling you which transmitter that particular mobile is logged on to (taking into account average transmitter overlap and so on), which is rather different from true triangulation of the signal.

Energize · 31 Mar 2006 at 01:57

There was a service called MapAmobile launched a few years ago, which has an accuracy of up to 50yards, uses proper triangulation and costs £24 a year, so no doubt more accurate services have been made since then, espically for phones with gps where it is much more accurate to track.