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If, however, you’re sure you’re not getting your device back anytime soon, you can press the Erase Device button – think well and hard before you do that. This is useful when you misplace your phone or tablet around the house and you don’t have another phone from which to call it. Now, let’s see what this baby can do for us! First of all, you can click the Ring button to make your device play a tone until the power button is pressed. I’m saying that because you’re allowed to manage more than one device – the list is available if you click the arrow next to the name of the current device. For instance, if you and your wife both use LG G2 phones with the same Google account (so you don’t get things confused). You can click the refresh button on the top right side to get the location again, while the one with a pencil symbol next to it will allow you to edit your device’s name. Once you’ve done that, you’ll see a map with the location of your device on it. Before you can do anything, you’ll need to allow the service to use your location information.

Once that’s done, go to this address to find the web interface for Device Manger. To get the most out of the service, I recommend selecting both options. The menu you’ll find there allows you to choose what you want the service to do. You can also control what Android Device Manager is allowed to do by going to Google Settings on your phone, then Android Device Manager. Now, make sure Android Device Manager is ticked. Well, the interface is now here, so you have everything you need to get things underway.įirst of all, make sure that the service is enabled on your Android device – go to Settings > Security. You may remember that the service has started showing up on Android devices a few days ago, but it didn’t have the web interface to go with it, so you couldn’t really use it.