A woman in Guangzhou lost her mobile phone, she used Huawei's "Find Device" APP, identified the residential building through the location of the mobile phone, and checked door to door through the connected Wi-Fi account, and finally successfully recovered the mobile phone with the help of the police.
After being reported by the media on October 4, this news appeared on the hot search lists of major platforms, attracting millions of onlookers. On the morning of October 5, Ms. Liang said that she had successfully retrieved her mobile phone, and although the information and social account content in the mobile phone had been emptied, she did not intend to hold the relevant personnel accountable.
I was going to give up after losing my phone
Ms. Liang recalled that her phone was lost around August 27.
"I work in Guangzhou, and I can't remember whether I lost my phone due to riding an electric car or other reasons, but I suddenly found that my phone was missing." According to Ms. Liang's account, she called her lost mobile phone and was able to dial it, but no one answered, and later prompted that the phone was turned off. She then tried texting, but there was no response.
"Then I felt powerless and was ready to give up." Ms. Leung immediately started using a backup mobile phone. In early September, Ms. Liang received bill reminders on the payment system on her backup mobile phone for several days, and she checked it and found that it was a bill for a certain game. Ms. Liang didn't know where the bills came from, couldn't check the bills, and worried about the safety of her bank account, she decided to try to retrieve her mobile phone.
Ms. Liang found the "Find Device" app on her original mobile phone and successfully logged in with her ID. Only then did she find that the lost mobile phone was located in a residential area in Foshan City, more than 60 kilometers away from her. Moreover, the Wi-Fi account name to which the phone is connected can be clearly displayed.
After lurking for about a week, she observed the movement pattern of her phone's location every day. On September 16, Ms. Liang set off from Guangzhou and arrived at the community where the mobile phone was located at 7 o'clock that night.
That night, Ms. Liang conducted a detailed search for the located building. "I climbed more than 10,000 stairs at night, but in the end I didn't confirm which household." The building where the mobile phone is located has a total of more than 20 floors, each floor has 6 units, and there are also two units. The night lasted more than an hour, and she was unable to find it.
The next morning, Ms. Leung successfully pinpointed the house number of the resident while searching in the same way in another unit.
After Ms. Liang called the police, she recovered her mobile phone with the help of the police.
On the afternoon of October 5, the polar news reporter used his mobile phone to log in to the "Find Device" function and found that there were multiple mobile phones under the same ID. These relevant information include the specific location of the mobile phone, network status (connected Wi-Fi) and phone number, etc., and the positioning information can basically be accurate to the residential building, and various information is very detailed.
"Actually, it also depends on luck, I probably know that I am located in this building, if I can't find both units, I may have to go to the next neighborhood to continue searching." Ms. Liang said that some brands of mobile phones have a very powerful positioning function. Ms. Liang returned to Guangzhou the same day after getting her phone back on September 17.
Ms. Liang, who took back her mobile phone, found that because her mobile phone did not set a password, all the private photos, videos and other information in it were deleted, and the videos in her social account were also emptied. Ms. Liang is an avid hiking person, and all the hiking life records she kept on her social account have been lost.
In addition, her ID card, card and phone case lost with her phone could not be recovered.
Ms. Liang said she left after getting her phone that day, and she did not know how the police would handle the follow-up of the case. Since the phone has been recovered, she has not considered holding those involved accountable.