Google has made it possible to manage and delete all the data on your phone in an easy and effective way using the new service called "Android Device Manager", which allows you to locate and wipe your data remotely with your phones and tablets.
Today Google has updated the Manager to include options such as creating or changing the screen lock PIN, adding an important option to remotely erase all terminal data completely.
We will explain below how to activate the Android Device Manager in a few simple stepsas it is extremely easy.
How to activate Android Device Manager
- First go to google.com/android/devicemanager en your laptop u computer
- Allow Android Device Manager use location data as you can see in the following image:
- You will see the list of devices that you have connected to your Google account. Once on the selected device, you can send a notification to the device on which you want to activate the remote password and wipe the data.
- When you have received the notification in your terminal you can press the notification and it will ask you if you want to activate the device manager. In the following image we show it:
- Activate it and you will see two options "Locate this device remotely" and "Allow remote lock and factory data reset." You select the second, since the first is activated by default, giving this option the appropriate permissions to be able to manage your terminal remotely.
- Activated the two options, back to Administrator Android devices on the web and refresh the page
- Now you will see two options highlighted next to the one to ring the terminal, as they are "Block" and "Delete" and you will have your device ready to remotely block the terminal and even erase all the data from the phone
When you select the terminal lock remotely, a window will pop up that allows you to activate a PIN or password on your phone, even if you haven't had one on your device before. The moment you carry out this action, in seconds, your terminal will turn off the screen and when you want to turn it on, it will ask you to enter the PIN that you had previously created.
If you have lost or stolen your terminal, the first thing you should do is block it, and then delete all the data using the other option that you have activated in the Android Device Manager. When you wipe or erase all data, the device will automatically erase the data from internal storage as well as from SD card. As soon as the wipe has been executed, you will receive a notification email indicating where and when all your data was deleted in the terminal.
The blocking and deletion are carried out immediately, and if at the time of performing the action the device had no internet connection, upon having it again, he would execute it.
Un great service offered by Google with the Android Device Manager, which all of you can do with this easy tutorial and thus have your terminal more secure.
More information – New features in Android Device Manager
Source - Android Central
