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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 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

  1. Open the device settings.
  2. Now head to Security.
  3. And then to Device Administrators.
  4. Then 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

  1. Just head to the Android device manager page in your PC or laptop or whatever.
  2. Log in with the Gmail account that you have used to login in your Android phone.
  3. You will now see a page with the Android device manager dashboard with options Ring, Lock, Erase.
  4.  And it will show the tracked location of your device automatically.
  5. 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 Smart Replies In Notifications On Android

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We often find tonnes of notifications in our phone’s notification panel but we don’t get time to reply to them or we don’t feel like typing the message, in such times if there is such a thing which automatically shows some auto responsive messages as suggestions for us to send. For enabling the smart reply feature on Android, users need to use the Fluenty app which is removed from the Play Store due to certain reasons. Now, let us know how to get Smart Replies in Notifications on Android smartphones.

  • The very first thing that you will have to do is that you will be installing the app called Fluentyon your Android device.
  • Now after installing this app successfully, launch this app on your device and then go through some of the introductory prompt messages. After doing all the formalities that appear on the screen, you will see the main interface of the app.
  • In the next step, you will be asked to sing into Fluenty. You can either use your Google or Facebook account to create an account. Once done, tap on the ‘Ok I’m Ready!’ button.
  • It’s a smart reply app, so you don’t need to do anything with the app. From now on, whenever you will receive notifications from the messaging app, Fluenty will throw you the smart replies.
  • If you wish to add a custom reply list, you can do that through the App settings.
  • Similarly, you can adjust the text style of your notification replies also.

 

How To Send Any Link From Your PC To Mobile Phone Using Chrome

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Browsing the internet will be a regular task for many of us, we can say. But this task is mostly done in computers rather than on mobile phones. What if we found an interesting piece of an article or something interesting while we browsing in our PC? We will find ways to share it on our mobile phone. Right!! How do you send any link from your PC to your mobile phone?

What I personally do is sometimes I share it using FB messenger. I share to myself. Sometimes I share in Telegram. Sometimes I save the link in Google Keep notes and then open the link on a mobile phone.

Don’t you think it is something that takes and needs some effort? Yes. Right! There is actually a better and simple way to make the process easier. Do check it out.

Steps To Send Any Link From PC To Mobile

  • To begin with the process, you need to open the Google Chrome browser and type in chrome://flags in the address bar and then press enter.
  • Type “Send tab to self” in the search bar of Chrome flags and select Enabled from the drop-down menu or paste the following in the address bar of Chrome. Or just click on this link chrome://flags/#enable-send-tab-to-self
  • Now you are done with the setup, just simply relaunch the browser and you will find a “Send to *device name*” option whenever you right-click a tab or link. If you have logged in your Google Account on multiple devices, choose the device you like to send the link.

So, these are the simple steps that are involved in the process of sharing a link in your PC directly to your mobile phone. We hope you find this process helpful and try to make use of it every day.

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.