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The phone number geolocator allows you to quickly find the geographical area that a phone number originates from. Enter any phone number to find the location of the phone owner for free. We can also find the name, address, relatives, home ownership, date of birth, and much more for a small fee.
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Phone Tracker by Number app is a robust and accurate GPS tracker that helps you locate your phones and your kids. It is designed to help you find your kids' location by mobile number in a very accurate and fast way. Kids' Phone tracker app enables GPS location tracking between parents and their kids in a private network. Easily add an endless number of your kids to your network and start tracking.
Phone Tracker Service : Happily Serving 20 Million users around the world to locate their kids and even lost phones, App is translated to 44 languages.
Features :
✓ Totally free for an endless number of users. All features are free.
✓ You can see the complete location history for free.
✓ Get GPS notifications, when one of your kids are nearby.
✓ Phone tracker app uses both cell tracking and GPS tracking to optimize battery usage and accuracy of the location.
✓ Find your lost or stolen phone easily.
✓ The app works with all mobile network operators.
✓ You will get an instant notification when your kids move from one location to another. No need to refresh locations to get the latest location updates.
✓ It pinpoints your kid's exact location and provides navigational help on a map so you can route to their location.
✓ See the battery charge level of your kids cell phones in each location.
✓ See all your kids as icon on the map that shows the exact address with the battery level for each of them.
✓ Keep track of the current location of your own cell phone. Track and log all the visited locations since you installed the app.
✓ No need to ask where are my children, the Phone Tracker app is the location finder that puts this information at your fingertips. It sends you GPS location tracking alerts when your kids are moving along the way.
Privacy Protection : Your privacy is our top concern, The app requires too few permissions to protect your privacy. The only needed permissions is to perform the main app function about location tracking so no need to access your photos, accounts.
How to use it to locate kid's phone
1. Install the app and register using your phone number
2. Inside the App tap the send invitation button and select any number of your kids.
That's it! Once your child follows the invitation link and accepts the request both of you will be connected to each other in a private network so you can locate them in every location.
This app is not a spying or secret surveillance solution and the app can not be installed remotely or secretly. To join this service the user has to install the app himself and he has to accept the location sharing request. The user can stop tracking at any time by a single tap.
We love to hear from customers. If you have an issue or suggestion, please send an email to: [email protected]
Phone Tracker Service : Happily Serving 20 Million users around the world to locate their kids and even lost phones, App is translated to 44 languages.
Features :
✓ Totally free for an endless number of users. All features are free.
✓ You can see the complete location history for free.
✓ Get GPS notifications, when one of your kids are nearby.
✓ Phone tracker app uses both cell tracking and GPS tracking to optimize battery usage and accuracy of the location.
✓ Find your lost or stolen phone easily.
✓ The app works with all mobile network operators.
✓ You will get an instant notification when your kids move from one location to another. No need to refresh locations to get the latest location updates.
✓ It pinpoints your kid's exact location and provides navigational help on a map so you can route to their location.
✓ See the battery charge level of your kids cell phones in each location.
✓ See all your kids as icon on the map that shows the exact address with the battery level for each of them.
✓ Keep track of the current location of your own cell phone. Track and log all the visited locations since you installed the app.
✓ No need to ask where are my children, the Phone Tracker app is the location finder that puts this information at your fingertips. It sends you GPS location tracking alerts when your kids are moving along the way.
Privacy Protection : Your privacy is our top concern, The app requires too few permissions to protect your privacy. The only needed permissions is to perform the main app function about location tracking so no need to access your photos, accounts.
How to use it to locate kid's phone
1. Install the app and register using your phone number
2. Inside the App tap the send invitation button and select any number of your kids.
That's it! Once your child follows the invitation link and accepts the request both of you will be connected to each other in a private network so you can locate them in every location.
This app is not a spying or secret surveillance solution and the app can not be installed remotely or secretly. To join this service the user has to install the app himself and he has to accept the location sharing request. The user can stop tracking at any time by a single tap.
We love to hear from customers. If you have an issue or suggestion, please send an email to: [email protected]
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I mean is it possible to program the following functionality:
- App sends SMS to user's phone
- App recieves SMS at user's phone from the SMS sender
- App gets location coordinates of the user's phone
- App sends location coordinates to the SMS sender via SMS
Also is it possible to retrieve the required location of the user via user's phone number via any other means apart from SMS, EMAIL or CALL?
How come Viber and VChat apps are locating user locations via their phone numbers?
Here are some apps on the app store:
Seeking for a reliable answer.
Muhammad Maqsoodur RehmanMuhammad Maqsoodur Rehman
4 Answers
Yess, possible with conditions:
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If you have your app installed in the user phone and a server app communicating with this app, and there at last one of location service providers activated in the user phone, and some horrible android permissions!
In most of android phones there 3 location providers that can give exact location (GPS_PROVIDER 1m) or estimated (NETWORK_PROVIDER around 2-20m) and PASSIVE_PROVIDER (more in LocationManager official documentation).
1* App sends SMS to user's phone
Yess, can be server app or you create an android app if you want something automated, so you can do it manually by sending SMS from your default SMS app! I use Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS Gateway and here (lot of APIs to send SMS )
2* App receives SMS at user's phone from the SMS sender
Yess, you can get all received SMS, and you can filter them by sender phone number! and do some actions when your specified sms received, basic tuto here (i do some actions according to the content of my SMS)
3* App gets location coordinates of the user's phone
Yess, you can get actual user coordinates easily if one of location providers is activated, so you can get last known location when the user have activated one of location providers, if those disabled or the phone don't have GPS hardware you can use Open Cell Id api to get the nearest cell coordinates(10m-10Km) or Loc8 api but those not available in all around the world, and some apps use IP location apis to get the country, city and province, here the simplest way to get current user location.
4* App sends location coordinates to the SMS sender via SMS
Yess, you can get sender phone number and send user location, immediately when SMS received or at specified times in the day.
(Those 4 yesses for you :) )
Viber and other apps that access to users locations, identify there users by there phone numbers by obligating them to send SMS to the server app to create an account and activate the free service (Ex:VOIP) , and lunch a service that can:
- Listen for location changes (GPS, Network or Cell Id)
- Send user location periodically(Ex: each 2 hours) or when user position changed!
- Stock user locations in file and create a map based on daily locations
- Receive SMS and update user location
- Receive server app commend and update user location
- Send events when user go inside or outside of a defined circle
- Listen for what user say and record it or open live voip call :s
- Maybe anything you think or u want to do :) !
And your application users must accept all of that when installing it, of corse i don't gonna install apps like this because i read permissions before installing :) and permissions maybe something like that:
The final user will accept for something like that (those permissions of an android app u asked about):
This app has access to these permissions:
Your accounts-create accounts and set passwords-find accounts on the device-add or remove accounts-use accounts on the device-read Google service configuration
Your location-approximate location (network-based)-precise location (GPS and network-based)
Your messages-receive text messages (SMS)-send SMS messages-edit your text messages (SMS or MMS)-read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
Network communication-receive data from Internet-full network access-view Wi-Fi connections-view network connections-change network connectivity
Phone calls-read phone status and identity-directly call phone numbers
Storage-modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Your applications information-retrieve running apps-close other apps-run at startup
Bluetooth-pair with Bluetooth devices-access Bluetooth settings
Camera-take pictures and videos
Other Application UI-draw over other apps
Microphone-record audio
Lock screen-disable your screen lock
Your social information-read your contacts-modify your contacts-read call log-write call log-read your social stream-write to your social stream
Development tools-read sensitive log data
System tools-modify system settings-send sticky broadcast-test access to protected storage
Affects battery-control vibration-prevent device from sleeping
Audio settings-change your audio settings
Sync Settings-read sync settings-toggle sync on and off-read sync statistics
Wallpaper-set wallpaper
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Smile2LifeSmile2Life
I checked play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=and.p2l&hl=enThey are not locating the user's current location at all.So based on the number itself they are judging the location of the user. Like if the number starts from 240 ( in US) they they are saying location is Maryland but the person can be in California. So i don't think they are getting the user's location through LocationListner of Java at all.
PritiPriti
Quick answer: No, at least not with native SMS service.
Long answer: Sure, but the receiver's phone should have the correct setup first. An app that detects incoming sms, and if a keyword matches, reports its current location to your server, which then pushes that info to the sender.
josephusjosephus
The answer is: you can't only through sms, i have tried that approach before.
You could fetch the base station IDs, but this won't help you a lot without the location of the base station itself and this informations are really hard to retrieve from the providers.
I have looked through the 3 apps you have listed in your question:
- The App uses WiFi and GPRS location service, quite the same approach as Google uses on the phone. phonesavvy maybe has a base station location database or uses a database retrieved e.g. from OpenStreetMap or some similar crowd-based project.
- The app analyzes just the number for country code and city code. No location there.
- Dito.
LukasLukas
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