About this app

Track My Phone application helps you control and operate your mobile remotely. You can get the location of your mobile, make the siren play loud, send a message to your mobile, call a number, make it vibrate for 5 sec, and even take pic remotely and email pics to your email ID. All this you can do even when your mobile is not with you.

*** Kindly note that to Uninstall the app you need to deactivate admin privileges that you have provided to the app. To do that, you need to open the app and click on deactivate button and then uninstall ***

All you need to do is follow these steps
1. Install the app in your mobile
2. Register by providing an email ID and PIN (no spam mails guaranteed).
3. Log in at http://trackmyphones.com/tmp (tmp for Track My Phone) providing the same email ID and PIN

That's it. Your mobile is now ready to be tracked remotely. All the features are totally free for eternity.

What all things you can do remotely using this app?
1. Vibrate - vibrates your mobile for 5 seconds
2. Ring Loud - even when the volume of the mobile is low, a siren will be played with full volume
3. Show message - displays a message text composed by you on the screen
4. Call - calls the number from the mobile
5. Get Location - gets the current location of the device and displays it using Google Maps
6. Take pic from front/back camera. The pic will be emailed to your registered email address.
7. Lock your device. This needs admin privileges.
8. Change PIN of your device. This also needs admin privileges.

Wonder how these features are useful?
1. Imagine you forgot where you have kept your phone. In the bathroom? Kitchen? Just log into our website and click on the "Ring Loud" button. A siren will go off and you will know where exactly your phone is.
2. Worried when you lose your cell? Just log in to the site and make a call to another number. Answer that another number and you can listen to whatever the thief is speaking. Or just get the location of the device and you can keep track of your mobile. And when you are close the place, just play "Ring Loud"
3. Want to know where your kids are? Just install this app in your child's phone and you can get the location info instantly.

Use of Device Administrator (BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN permission)
If you enable device administrator privilege for the app, the app will be able to perform the following functions which is not possible without the device administrator privilege for the app
1. Change PIN of the device by issuing a command remotely
2. Lock the device instantly

You can enable/disable device admin privilege for the app any time from within the app. The option to enable/disable device admin privilege is provided in the main view of the app itself. As usual a notification will be displayed while doing any operation in the background

Compliance with Google Policy:
In order to be complaint with Google Policy, whenever a command is sent from the website to the mobile, a notification will be displayed in the notification bar of the mobile. This notification cannot be disabled.
Also, the ads are now child targeted.

The permissions used are for making the above feature (apart from ads) work. Not for anything else.

New features

Updated the Terms Of Use section to highlight the use of BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN (administrator privileges).

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows an application to read from external storage.