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Find Out Who Is Tracking You Through Your Android Phone

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The Android operating system has become so much popular among the smartphone users just because of it’s easy to use user interface. But unlike the blackberry users, Android users should be a bit worried about their safety and privacy as Android phones don’t offer a secure system to the users. Many users are very much worried about being tracked by others. So, this is for all those people who are concerned about their security and privacy in their Android devices. Here is how you can find out who is tracking you through your device.

Know Who Is Tracking Your Android Device

Let us now go through some useful codes for Android phone users. They will help them to know about their security and also know whether they were being tracked.

  • *#21# is the code that will allow the users to know whether their messages, calls are being diverted somewhere else. Using this code the users can find the details regarding the call forwarding. This code even lets the users know whether call forwarding is enabled or disabled on their device
  • *#62# is the code that the Android users can use to know whether their calls, messages, and data are being redirected somewhere. The users can know whether their calls and messages are being redirected to their operator’s number
  • ##002# code will allow the users to deactivate call forwarding in their device. If you ever feel that your calls and messages are redirected, then you can simply make use of this code to deactivate redirects
  • *#06# code lets the users know the IMEI number of their device which is the International Mobile Equipment Identifier. The IMEI number is needed to find your device if someone has stolen it

*#*#4636#*#* code lets the users know if someone is following them or tracking them, after typing this code from the dial pad in your device, select the UTMS cell environment, then select UTMS RR info, then note down all the numbers under Cell ID, then go to the main menu and then navigate to MM info tab>Serving PLMN and note down the numbers under Local area code, then you need to visit the http://opencellid.org/ website and there you can find the basic location of your phone on the map by selecting the fourth tab to the left.

Use Google Assistant To Lock And Unlock Your Android phone

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Google assistant has quite a lot of features and it even allows you to lock and unlock your Android phone with just a simple voice command. Now let us dig deep into the subject and see how you can do this on your phone, to start with this process, your phone should have Google assistant enabled in it. If you don’t have it enabled in your device, then you must check out our article on it earlier and here it is

Newer Android phones (typically with Android 7.0 Nougat and newer) come with Google Assistant already installed in the device. You simply need to enable the feature and grant the Google app the relevant permissions while setting up the phone.

If you’re not sure if it’s enabled, open your Google app and tap the three-bar Menu button. Choose Settings > Google Assistant to check.

If you have an older version of Android, Google Assistant is delivered through an automatic update. Any phone with Android Lollipop (5.0) or higher can run the app. Download the Google Assistant app from Google Play if it’s not already built into your phone.

Lock And Unlock Using Google Assistant

Once you have the smart assistant from Google on your phone, then just follow these simple steps

• First, you need to have an additional to lock your device and you can use Off+, Screen off, Lock Screen for that purpose
• After installing one of these apps, just open the Assistant and tap on the drawer icon
• Tap the three dot icon and then click on Settings>Shortcuts
• Tap the blue + button there
• Fill the new shortcut with
When I say Ok Google: Lock phone
Google Assistant Should do: Open Screen Off
• And then click Save

You can change the voice command to anything that you may feel comfortable with. And you can even use any app in the place of Screen off if you wish to open any particular application with that command.

Now to unlock your Android phone, you can simply say that voice command that you have set. Simply switch your lock and unlock system in your device and make the process of locking, unlocking hassle free and quick as well.

How To Make An Android Phone Lost In Silent Mode Ring

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Smartphones have become a part of our daily life and we just cannot imagine our lives without smartphones. What if we lost our such an important thing in our lives, there are a lot of ways to find it and get it back. The most general and first technique or the thing we try immediately after we lost our phone or couldn’t find our phone are by just giving it a call. This has become quite a useful thing then and now as we are using this trace our phone if you just forgot where we have kept it. This is fine. But what if our phone is in silent mode and we cannot trace it, don’t worry, here is a technique that you can use to ring a phone that is in silent mode and is untraceable.

Making An Android Phone Lost In Silent Mode Ring

For doing this, first of all, the android device manager should be active on your device and it needs just a few simple steps to enable it

• Open the device settings
• Now head to Security
• And then to Device Administrators
• Now here just check the android device manager option to enable it

Now you are done with the setup and to make it ring when you lost it in the silent mode just follow the steps below

• Just head to the Android device manager page in your PC or laptop or whatever
• Login with the Gmail account that you have used to login in your Android phone
• Now a page with the Android device manager dashboard with options Ring, Lock, Erase
• And it will show the tracked location of your device automatically
• You just click on the ring option to find your Android phone

So, just try these simple steps and make your task of searching for your phone simple.

How To Get Face Unlock Like One Plus 5T On You Android Phone

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One Plus 5T one of the recent hits in the mobile phone industry has got many interesting features in it and people are just going crazy over the phone and if you are also one of those One Plus 5T fans, but couldn’t afford to buy it, then you must be satisfied with the articles that we have been offering to get various features from the One Plus device on any of your Android phones. So, here we are back with another interesting thing. The face unlock feature of the One Plus device is another attractive feature that is, in fact, challenging the iPhone X’s face id, so here is how you can get on your phone.

  • Before digging into the process, make a note that this process works with any devices running on Android Lollipop and above
  • Head to Settings>Security>Smart Lock on your Android phone, and here to continue the process, first you need to secure your device with a PIN or password
  • Then you will see the smart lock option active, tap on it
  • Select trusted face from the list of the smart lock settings, and in the screen read the instructions and tap on set up, then on the next screen click on next
  • Then it will start registering your face id by detecting your face, place your face inside the circle and let it scan and after its done, click on done
  • That is it you are done setting up the face unlock in your Android phone, it will unlock your device as soon as it detects your face and for this you need to be facing the camera while trying to unlock your phone and you can see the device detecting your face and getting unlocked automatically and it all happens in seconds.

Get this One Plus 5T like auto face unlock feature on your Android device as well.

How to block a phone number on your Android phone

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Thanks to the smartphone revolution, it has made communication with our dear and loved ones better and easier as well. There comes conveniences as well as disturbances along with everything and this smartphone revolution and easy communication has also made way for spammers, telemarketers, unwanted callers. Who would like to get disturbed by all those spam callers and strangers? No one right!!!! If you are also among those people who are searching for a perfect solution to get rid of such kind of calls and callers, then here is the simple process for blocking a phone number on your Android phone.

Though there will not a generalized way for blocking mobile numbers in Android devices, let us now go through the processes involved in certain types of popular devices.

Blocking mobile number in stock Android devices:

You can do this by simply long pressing the mobile number that you wish to block from the phone app in your device and then just selecting the Block number option.

Or you can also do this by opening the phone app on your device and then tapping on the three dot icon, then select settings, and then hit call blocking where you can add all the phone numbers that you wish to block

Blocking calls on Samsung devices:

Samsung devices are very much popular among the mobile phone users and it is a trusted brand as well. If you also this device and wondering about the process of blocking a mobile number on your Samsung phone, then just simply follow the steps below

You just need to open the phone application available on your Samsung device and then select the number which you would like to add to the block list and hit the option more, and then select the option to add to reject list. You can add, remove and edit this list later on by going to Settings> Call Settings> All Calls> Auto Reject

Using third party application:

Some manufacturers don’t offer their users this rejecting feature by default, and in such cases, the users should make use of third party applications for rejecting unwanted calls. There are a number of applications available in the Google Play Store for the Android phone users. Mr. Number, Call Blocker, Calls Blacklistare some of the applications that you can make use of

Calls Blacklist:

You can download and install this application from the Google’s Android play store. This application is a very simple way of keeping a list of contacts that you don’t want to allow to contact you using your number.

You can simply launch the app and then add the contacts that you wish to put on the reject list in the Blacklist tab. You can add numbers to this list through your contacts, calls log, message log or you can also add numbers manually. That is it, those numbers that you added under the blacklist tab won’t be able to contact you.