Is there a way to track an android? (specifically Galaxy S3)

Nine_Lives

Take the iPhone for example -

Find My iPhone gets installed on the phone. An account is set up. The person gives us their details & we can see where they are in the world from a PC at home.

Is there a similar thing you can do with the android version - where you can see where it is from your PC?

d123

Nine_Lives wrote: »

Take the iPhone for example -

Find My iPhone gets installed on the phone. An account is set up. The person gives us their details & we can see where they are in the world from a PC at home.

Is there a similar thing you can do with the android version - where you can see where it is from your PC?

Have a look at Samsung Dive.

matttye

d123 wrote: »

Have a look at Samsung Dive.

Agreed.

http://findmymobile.samsung.com/login.do

Think this is enabled by default on Samsung Galaxy devices if I remember correctly, but the device needs to be logged into a Samsung account to be trackable and a lot of people don't bother with them.

grumbler

http://www.google.co.uk/mobile/latitude/ ?

matttye

grumbler wrote: »

http://www.google.co.uk/mobile/latitude/ ?

May work but it's disabled by default.

grumbler

matttye wrote: »

May work but it's disabled by default.

And?
What the OP asked for was something similar to:

Find My iPhone gets installed on the phone. An account is set up. The person gives us their details & we can see where they are in the world from a PC at home.

Certainly nothing can be enabled by default that allows other people to track you easily.

Nine_Lives

Thanks.

enabling (or not) by default isn't really an issue here. If an app needs to be installed, or a setting needs to be altered, then it can. It isn't a problem. This isn't an operation to spy on the chap down the street where you'll be lucky to get access to his phone. This is a family member wanting select others to be able to see their whereabouts.

matttye

grumbler wrote: »

And?
What the OP asked for was something similar to:
Certainly nothing can be enabled by default that allows other people to track you easily.

You're right.. I'm just so used to people asking for 'plan Bs' after they've already lost their phone, I assumed this was another one without fully reading the first post

Rev

Check out android lost. Great app. My friend has it on her S3. She hard reset the phone and from my house a few miles away I reinstalled the app. No notifications came up on the phone itself (we were doing this as a test). And activated it.

Then you're able to track. Take Photos. Copy content. Lock. Unlock. Make a call. Stop a call that's in progress etc.

Nine_Lives

Just to double check - the phone doesn't have to be 'rooted' for any of the above suggestions does it?

jem16

Nine_Lives wrote: »

This is a family member wanting select others to be able to see their whereabouts.

Ok assuming you want it to do the job of Find my Friends on iphone/ipad then use Google Latitude on the iPhone and as part of Google Maps on the Galaxy S3.

http://www.google.co.uk/mobile/latitude/