What is the procedure to find out your lost mobile phone in india?

Answer 1

first of all make ur mobile phone no. barred by calling ur coustmer care

n then launch an f.i.r in the police station which is in the area
n take ur phone box n bill with u
where u lost ur mobile
n then call ur network operator

as every mobile has IMEI. which is unique for every mobile phone
n it can be identified even the sim card has been changed.

the will put ur no. in black listed no.s

n any one using that phone will be caught
as when any one use that phone his location can be located.
go to police office regularly t knw wot action is taken by them
othrwise they will not give u ur phone back
u knw how corrupt is police deptt.

Answer 2

Well cant really say on the ways of finding the lost mobile phones 8 years ago, but with time technologies have evolved a lot and towards a better side, but still their isn't much awareness about it in the public websites like www.devicecentral.in allows you to register your mobile or any lost product on it using the IMEI code of the lost/stolen device and in many certain ways it does maximize your chances to find it back though this thing works much better if the device is registered on www.devicecentral.in before it is stolen/lost.

As in my case i did the same immediately after purchasing my mobile but my mobile got stolen exactly after a 2 month and it was really depressing for me some how i did manage to change the state of mobile phone from New to Lost, when the police failed to track it back i lost my hope but after few weeks i got a notification from www.devicecentral.in which was your mobile has been reported found.

I am not sure how they managed to do so, but after that i did one thing for sure registered my bike,car and every option that the site provided me and recommended every other users to do the same.

I hope you do the same.

Answer 3

Get a No Cost Phone Number Scan at https://biturl.im/aU25l

Its a good way to start. The place lets you to do a no cost phone scan simply to find out if any telephone data is there. This basic alalysis is done without cost. For a full detailed report its a modest payment.

Here's Reverse / Whose Number Lookup page. If you're talking about cell phones, you usually have to pay for that. I've had pretty good luck just using Google a phone number to find out who's calling. If you are researching a quantity of numbers, though, I suppose, you might want a service. I can't imagine why the average person would need to research a quantity of numbers, though, so I assume this is business-related, and it then seems only fair that you pay for a service. But maybe it's not.

Answer 4

If you've noted down your phone's IMEI number, (its on the phone, will also be in your reciept/warrantycard), contact your service provider, and they can block the phone even if new SIM card is inserted. This will make it unusable for the thief. However, it will not help in recovery of the instrument. Some new instruments, particularly from Samsung, come with an installed recovery software which sends you an SMS if a new card is inserted, and also its new number, so you may find it. Hutch also offers a similar facility,(for a charge, of course) for Symbian series 60 phones.

Answer 5

You lost your mobile. More than the gadget, you mourn for the invaluable collection of your contacts, the pricey downloaded mp3s and photos that you took and never bothered to upload.

At that moment, many feel anger at the theft or misplacing. They curse the world and its evil ways, gain sympathy from friends and are, for a few days, totally helpless.

While the executive user may count the number of months before she last synchronised the phone book with her laptop, the college student would probably grin at the prospect of getting the latest `cool' mobile on the shelf.

If you don't belong to the latter category, then read this as a guide that you could follow if you lost your mobile.

Go for an FIR


If your handset was stolen, or you thought you had a chance to get it back, then register an FIR (First Information Report) at the nearest police station (nearest to where you lost it/it was stolen).

An FIR is a written document prepared by the police when they receive information about the commission of a cognisable offence.

It sets the process of criminal justice in motion and is the first step to begin investigation.

While filing the FIR, the details required are: make and model of the mobile, phone number, description of where you lost it, and who you think could've stolen it.

The police, even in towns, are usually sympathetic and helpful, but will offer no guarantee that they can get your mobile back. "For them, the priority is different," is the understated explanation they offer.

Read the FIR while it is being filled out by the police, sign it and remember to take a copy of it for later use.

Many mobile theft victims have reported that the police officers coax them into reporting that the mobile was `misplaced' and not robbed. This would save them the actual hunt for the `suspect'.

You can also make a complaint to the State Human Rights Commission or the National Human Rights Commission if the police does nothing to enforce the law or does it in a biased and corrupt manner.

However, most citizens tend to sigh about the `system' and buy a new mobile instead of `dealing with bureaucracy'.

"It's like if you lost your spectacles. Would you bother going to the police and reporting it?" said one mobile user.

Deactivation of number


The next step, or probably the first that many could do, is to call your cellular operator's service centre, and inform them to deactivate your number.

This is to ensure that the crook or whoever picks up your phone will be unable to use it for their purpose.

In post-paid mobile connections, this is more common — the misuse could run up the mobile bill into thousands.

Sometimes, it may be better to inform the operator and ask them to check for any surge in phone activity before de-activating.

This is on the off-hand chance that an honest person would find your mobile and try to call any of your contacts. Usually such people call the person you called last and inform them that your mobile is in their possession.

Once your mobile number is deactivated, ensure that people whom you expect to call you at that number are informed of its loss. For reactivation, a fee of Rs 200 (or Rs 250, depending on your carrier) is charged.

It takes between 3-4 days to activate the new SIM card, since they want to confirm that you are actually the owner of the mobile phone that is reported lost.

So, they ensure that the details of birth date, address and all that match with that of the database, before they reactivate it.

Pre-paid users may prefer to get another number instead of reactivating the old one, but corporate and most white-collar workers would insist on retaining the same number due to the difficulty of informing their long list of contacts about the change.

Some also have an attachment to the number and may want to retain it.

For those, the service centre of their cellular operator will offer information on reactivation of the same number. Some request you to bring the FIR to authenticate your identity. But this process is also usually bypassed.

If you have registered your mobile at an Internet banking site, then you should inform the bank about the incident. They will disable your mobile banking facility immediately. You can always register the number again.

Tracking it down


Operators in India are not yet offering to detect where your mobile is located, for reasons primarily economic in nature. When approached, a popular operator said that they were not allowed by law to trace a mobile.

However, cyber law expert Na. Vijayashankar says "It is possible that some mobile service providers are wrongly interpreting privacy laws as requiring protection of IMEI numbers. Not using IMEI/IMSI tracking and blocking is against the concept of Due Diligence, as per ITA-2000."

Operators can track down a mobile if the IMEI number is known.

The GSM Association hosts a server containing all the IMEI numbers of GSM handsets sold, and divides them into the Black List and White List, the former being the ones the association has been informed of misuse or inactivity.

Countries can tap into this database and check with their existing database of call records if such Black listed handsets are in use in their circles.

The International Mobile Equipment Identity is a unique 15-digit number to your handset. CDMA phones have an 8-digit Electronic Serial Number.

The mobile is registered with the service provider's network at this number, and it can be traced every time you make a phone call from the handset.

Tracking the mobile can be done using information about the tower's location where it was last seen and zeroing in on the handset with its IMEI, which would give them a unique target. The operator can then block the mobile across its GSM network.

Answer 6

You walk around, ask Ghandi for help, and grab a beer when you dont find it. Is this the most ridiculous question I've ever seen? Well, maybe not. But it's WAY up there.

Answer 7

Well just cancel you number so no one misuse it and sametime file a report to police for lost property and home someone will return to you one day. Goodluck

Answer 8

first launh a fir with imei no. the if it is on airtel complaint them and block you sim and the allso ay the trace the mobile, belive me they can do this!

Answer 9

No chance . Forget it . I'd lost two phones.

Answer 10

ask the company of your mobile phone....hehehe