topic Re: help to find lost phone if it is off in Mobile Apps & Services

help to find lost phone if it is off

akayush77 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:25:37 GMT

hiii , i have an idea which help Samsung to find any phone which will lost , just some technical upgradation and it will help us to keep all phone safe.

we will use signals to find phone if it is off
it can be open from Samsung website to track it
it can be traced by any tower

Re: help to find lost phone if it is off

smiley — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:33:39 GMT

But if a phone is off then it cannot register with any cell phone tower.

If your handset cannot register with a cell phone tower then the phone cannot 'ping' with the network, and it does not know it is there.

If the network does not know it is there then it is impossible to trilaterate a position for your phone.

And if you cant calculate a position for your phone then this is simply just not possible.

If you believe you have a way to overcome this simple engineering theory then feel free to discuss on here. This will only be a discussion though... we are mostly just customers. However I am an engineer with a speciality in GPS navigation and have a background in mobile networks and communication. So I do have some engineering expertise.

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Re: help to find lost phone if it is off

Star_girl — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:07:04 GMT

Maybe they can install some kind of sensor that doesn't turn off but I am pretty sure that's illegal.

Re: help to find lost phone if it is off

Tourbillon De La Vie — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:54:53 GMT

trilaterate, new word for moi👌

Re: Re: help to find lost phone if it is off

smiley — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:48:23 GMT

Trilaterate is the method of positioning... typically with GPS. The distance of three known points is measured and the intersection point of these distances is the user location.

Distance from cellphone towers uses a similar process.

https://www.google.com/search?q=trilateration+vs+triangulation+cellphone+positioning&sca_esv=fe7632689ec76c6d&sxsrf=ANbL-n5DYoVquZD1P4_Kv9du0CxRh5Tlpw%3A1768049231535&ei=T0piaYWzIK_NhbIPhbey8Qw&oq=trilateration+vs+triangulation+cellphone+positioning&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIjR0cmlsYXRlcmF0aW9uIHZzIHRyaWFuZ3VsYXRpb24gY2VsbHBob25lIHBvc2l0aW9uaW5nMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBDIFEAAY7wUyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBEiyOVDlB1iqNnACeAGQAQCYAZgBoAGPFaoBBDMuMjC4AQPIAQD4AQGYAhmgAuEVwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigXCAgUQABiABMICBhAAGBYYHsICCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFwgIHECEYoAEYCsICBBAhGAqYAwCIBgGQBguSBwQ1LjIwoAfsdbIHBDMuMjC4B9QVwgcIMC4xNS44LjLIB0uACAA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

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Re: help to find lost phone if it is off

akayush77 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:51:10 GMT

On the time of new mobile purchase we register ourselves there....

when it is off

we go to Samsung website open from there just for few second to give signals to near tower .

we can open the off phone with some reserve battery ( which all time avail) by the help of some software update..

my story is

when we lost our mobile , we can go to near Samsung office there we give our details there and from there mobile will on for 1 min only for give signal ( no screen will shown on )... as to no give details to mobile holder (thief)...

Re: help to find lost phone if it is off

AndrewL — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:55:37 GMT

@akayush77: Please be advised that I have removed your personal email address from your last post for data protection purposes. If you wish to communicate privately with other Community Members, then please utilise the 'Private Messages' feature by tapping on your profile > Private Messages .

While it isn't exactly what you are suggesting, please note that SmartThings Find does include an 'Offline Finding' option which allows you to locate your Galaxy devices even when they are offline. To find out more, please take a look at the link below.

https://www.samsung.com/my/apps/smartthings-find/?srsltid=AfmBOophH60m4ebKoziJ0N31PJrWcy64rZeKnG9G2pxjOl0FxlUFRYZC

Re: help to find lost phone if it is off

2772204 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:45:14 GMT

A phone that is fully off cannot connect to towers, so it cannot be tracked. Samsung’s SmartThings Find can locate offline phones using nearby Galaxy devices. Your idea would need hardware changes and is not supported. Enable offline finding before a phone is lost.