How to Find your Lost Android Smartphone with Google Android Device Manager

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A smartphone has become a basic need of life these days. Millions of people are find lost android smartphoneusing Android devices today in the world. But there is always a risk of lost or theft with every gadget. And since Android devices can be used to store many confidential information and many useful data, it is always a threat to your personal and confidential life when your android device is lost or stolen. There are some apps you can install on your device to find it in case you lose the device. There is a smart solution to this, to find your android smartphone after losing it or after being stolen. That is to protect your device with Google’s android device manager which can be configured directly from your android smartphone. This may be very useful when your phone is stolen, you have lost your smartphone or tablet or if you have misplace your Android phone somewhere and forgot where you have placed it. 

How to work with Android Device Manager
Follow the steps below to activate Android device manager on your android smartphone or tablet.
Go to Settings on your android device.
Now, within Settings, move to Security
Then move to Device Administrators
You will see some apps there and the first one would be Android Device Manager.
Tap on Android Device Manager and Activate it
After activating Android device manager on your Android smartphone, you need to open your web browser and follow these steps to find your device when it is lost or stolen.

Visit the Google Play home following this link
You will see a ‘Gear icon’ on the top right corner for settings.
Click on it and you will see Android Device Manager.
Proceed with clicking on Android Device Manager
Once Android Device Manager is opened in your web browser it will automatically contact your device. The map of your country will be displayed on your web browser.
Once Android Device Manager has located your smartphone you will see its location on Google Maps and the distance it is away from you right now.
After these steps are done, you will see three options there to select to perform when you lost your smartphone or it is stolen.
 Ring the device: While enabling this option, your device will ring in full volume for 5 minutes even if it is in silent mode. this feature is useful if you frequently forget where you have put your phone and cannot find it. Unfortunately this feature is useless when the phone is put into switched off mode, because the phone will not ring when it is switched off. 
 Lock the device: This feature will enable you to create a new password for your device when it is lost and no one except you will be able to access it. This option is very helpful when your device is lost or stolen.
 Erase all Data: This option will erase all data on your smartphone including phone numbers, email id, memos, calendar items and other confidential data. This feature is useful when your smartphone is lost or stolen and it was loaded with lots of confidential data which you obviously do not want to disclose to anyone. You can enable and use this feature for lost device.

Useful Android Apps to find lost Android smartphone or Tablet



There are some apps in the Google Play store which can be used to recover your android smartphone when you lost it. Android Lost is such a great app to find lost android device. Another service you can use as an alternative to find and recover Android smartphone is Find my Phone.
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How to transfer prepaid balance from Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel, BSNL, Idea, Tata Docomo mobiles

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Hi everyone, while traversing on the web, I found a very useful trick today which is unknown to most mobile users in India. That is to transfer prepaid mobile balance to your friends number or to your girlfriend/boyfriend, spouse, parents mobile number on emergency. Yes, this is possible to transfer prepaid mobile balance among numbers on the same operator network. That means you can transfer balance from a BSNL number to any other BSNL mobile number, Airtel to Airtel number, Vodafone to Vodafone number etc. This trick may be extremely useful when your friend or someone have emergency requirement to call someone but do not have balance on their mobile and have no money in hand to get his prepaid balance recharged. Here is how you can achieve this.
Transfer Airtel Mobile prepaid balance:
First Follow these steps to send balance from Airtel to Airtel mobile 
 SMS GIFT <amount to send> <friend mobile number> to 141 (e.g.airtel to airtel prepaid balance transfer GIFT 30 90XXXXXXXX).
 You will receive a message saying that you your amount has been transferred to 90XXXXXXXX.
(Minimum Balance to transfer in Airtel to Airtel prepaid mobile is ₹1/-)    
 Terms and Conditions of Airtel are applied for transferring balance. This trick works only in selected circles.
  You are advised to try this trick for low amount first then try for higher amount to trnsfer.  
Another Method to transfer balance from Airtel to Airtel prepaid Mobile:

Dial *141# from your Airtel mobile and follow the simple IVR instructions like press the number of share talk time.
Transfer Limit is ₹5 to ₹50   
Note that sender should have ₹17 as their minimum balance to use this facility of  to transfer balance from Airtel prepaid to Airtel prepaid mobile number.
Vodafone Prepaid Mobile balance transfer:
Dial *131*<Amount to send>*<Receiver Number># and call. (e.g. *131*30*900XXXXXXX#)
Transfer Limit is ₹5 to ₹30 onlyvodafone to vodafone prepaid balance transfer
There are service charges applied for using this service. The service Charges are as follows: ₹2 (for ₹5 to ₹9 transfer); ₹3( for ₹10 to ₹19 transfer); ₹4(for ₹20 to ₹30 transfer).
 Note: Sender can transfer balance only once in a day and Receiver can receive balance up to 3 times in a day.  Also the processing charge differs with every circle so you can ask for transfer charge to your vodafone customer care service.
BSNL Prepaid Mobile balance transfer:
To transfer prepaid balance from BSNL prepaid number to another BSNL bsnl to bsnl prepaid balance transferprepaid number, follow these steps:
SMS GIFT <Reciever BSNL Number> <amount to send>  to 53733 or 53738
(eg: GIFT 940XXXXXXX 50 )
Aircel Prepaid mobile to Aircel prepaid mobile balance transfer:

Dial this code *122*666# to transfer your Aircel prepaid balance.
Using this service, Aircel prepaid users can transfer balance up to ₹100.
Idea prepaid Mobile to Idea balance transfer:
Idea users try the following steps to send prepaid balance to another Idea number
 Dial: *567*<Receiver’s Number>*<Amount to send># (e.g. *567*9xxxxxxxxx*40#) Transfer Limit: transfer limit for this serviceidea to idea prepaid balance transfer is ₹10 to ₹50.
A Service charge of ₹2 is employed for using this service.
The sender can transfer money just once a day.
As an alternative method, try this:
Dial  *151*1234*<Idea prepaid Number to send money) * <amount to send> # from your Mobile. You can transfer ₹5 , ₹10 , ₹20 using this code.
Tata Docomo prepaid Mobile fund transfer:
Tata Docomo users can try these methods to transfer money
SMS BT <Reciever Mobile Number><Amount to send> and send it to 54321 (eg: BT 98XXXXX 50)
  To reverse the Amount a Member needs to type “RBT Transaction ID” and send it to54321
Charges  ₹1 and for reversal no charges.
Terms and Conditions: The sender’s account balance for “Balance Transfer” has to be Transfer Amount + ₹1 at the time of transfer. If balance is not sufficient the transfer will be declined. However, the SMS will be charged. In case of Reversals the amount reversed will be dependent on the balance available with the recipient.
The system will recognize “BT” or “bt” or “Bt”
Few More Words: If you are not able to send or transfer prepaid balance to some number, then you should check again that are you doing it the right way? And remember that you cannot transfer prepaid balance cross-provider, means you can send balance only to the same network. Due to mobile number portability, a number may have changed its service proovider, so you need to crosscheck. And mobile service providers keep changing their service numbers, so it may change during due course of time. As far as my knowledge it is working till now.
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How to Download Android apps from Play Store directly to your Computer

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Android devices rule the mobile device market these days. Android users are increasing day by day in the world and so is the app market for Android. Google has an official app market for Android apps named as Play Store, as you all know it. Play Store comes preinstalled in any android device and you can download any app from the Play Store or app market directly to your android phone. The Play Store is accessible from non-android devices also like Computers running Windows or Linux, but the app cannot be downloaded to your computer directly from the Play Store. Have you ever wanted you could download an Android app to your computer and then install it into your Android device later? There are some other marketplaces which provide android installable apk files which you can download to your computer and then transfer to your phone, but they carries a high possibility of carrying viruses, keylogers or other threat. Soit is advisable to install apps from Goolge Play Store only. But what if you want to store the app to your computer first? Yes there is a way you can download Android apps from Play Store to your PC. Here is the steps:

    Go to Google Play
    Select your app
    Copy the app URL.
    Go to apk Downloader.
    Paste URL and Download.
Step 1: First go to Google Play and search for the application you want to download.
Step 2: Search for the app you want to download and go to that apps page.playstore
Step 3: Copy the URL from the address bar of your browser.
Step 4: Open a new tab on your browser and open apk downloader. You can type http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ or go directly from here>> 
Step 5: Paste the URL to the box shown in the below picture. Click on Generate Download Link.apkdownloader
Step 6: After generating the Download link, Click on Click Here to download button to start downloading the app. This will store the apk file to your hard drive and you can transfer it to your phone later. That’s it. Enjoy!!download
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