I lost one of my phone 2 months ago. I've sometimes checked Android device manager to locate it and try locking it, but recently my lost phone disappears from the list ! How it can happen ? Does a person know the way to skip this link in order to use or to sell the lost phone ? I still have the original box of this phone (with its IMEI). Please help, thank you.
2 Answers
When the playstore is logged in from a new account,your previous account will notify that the device is removed from the playstore device list. so it will not show your old phone.
As soon as the new "owner" factory-resets the device, it no longer has a Google account associated – and thus the link to ADM dies. Same if the account is removed from the device: Google services no longer have a way to query the device using your account information, as the device won't recognize those anymore.
There are also other possibilities:
- battery is empty, so the device died.
- battery was removed
- dedive went into airplane mode
- device was placed on a train track, and a train passed on top of it
- device was drowned in the sea and short-circuited
Many more possibilities, but I better stop here – you've got the idea ;)
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All other possibilities, possibly not the a case of removal of account, not even humorously Oct 21, 2017 at 7:46