How to locate lost mobile phone with NetQin Anti-lost

NetQin mobile security is a total mobile security solution that protects your mobile phone from viruses, malware and spyware. This app also has Contact backups, system optimization, network manager, privacy protection and mostly anti-lost features. Today I am going to be concentrating on the ‘Anti-lost’ feature to teach you how you can locate lost mobile phone with this feature.

The NetQin anti-lost feature allows you to remotely locate your mobile phone if lost or stolen. So I am going to discuss in details how you can use this feature. But first, you have to download and install this app on your mobile phone before you could lose it, else you won’t be able to use this app. So download and install NetQin mobile security for your mobile phone version on your phone now before we proceed. But if you have already installed this app on your phone, you can continue with the guild below.

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How to use Netqin anti-lost feature to locate lost mobile phone:

Step 1: Am assuming you already have NetQin installed on your mobile device already, launch the NetQin application on your mobile phone.

Step 2: Open the Anti-lost option and enable the option as you can see on the image below.

Step 3: Set the password and reporting mobile number.  Whenever your SIM is removed and another SIM is placed in your phone, the anti-lost feature of NetQin mobile security will send you an SMS of the new number. Store this new number very well because you will be contacting your phone remotely with it without the person holding the phone even noticing.

Step 4: Then study the anti-lost help so you can master the remote commands very well. There are two ways you can locate a lost mobile phone with NetQin Anti-lost when you lose your mobile, the first is via the web and the second is via SMS.

To use the web option, send the commands by visiting i.netqin.com on a PC or send the command via any mobile phone. Now send any of the commands below to the now number sent to your by your phone along with your password in this format.

To locate your phone send: locate*your password*

To delete your files, send delete*your password*

To lock your phone, send lock*your password*

To set off an alarm, send alarm*your password*

You will have to be a Pro member to enjoy some of these features, so I recommend you upgrade to a Pro account.

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Step 5: Then your lost mobile phone will send you a GPS location of its current position which you can then search via Google Maps to locate your lost mobile phone.

Following the above steps carefully, you can be able to locate a lost mobile phone with NetQin mobile security. I hope you find this tutorial interesting enough to share. Please use the comment form below to share your view about this topic. Remember to subscribe to my RSS feeds.