Windows Phone 8 - Lock Your Phone and Show Message Online

How to Lock Your Windows Phone 8 and Show Message Online


information   Information
Find My Phone is a free service for your Windows Phone 8 at the My Phone section on WindowsPhone.com that can ring, lock, erase, or show your phone on a map from any Internet-connected computer. Find My Phone makes it easier to recover your phone, or to prevent someone from using it without your permission.

This tutorial will help show you how to lock your Windows Phone 8 and have it show a message from any Internet-connected computer to help find and prevent someone using it without your permission.

Note   Note
Find My Phone uses SMS (text messaging) to send commands that map, ring, lock, or erase your phone.

If Microsoft can't lock your phone right away, they'll offer to keep trying if you'd like, and will send you an email if they succeed. For errors that state "We'll keep trying", the Find My Phone service will try for a 72-hour period. This is the typical length of time many mobile operators queue SMS messages in their system.

For any error messages, see: Error messages when using Find My Phone on My Windows Phone



Here's How:

1. On any computer, go to WindowsPhone.com.

2. If you have not already, you will need to Sign in (upper right corner) using your same Microsoft account that you used to sign in on your Windows Phone 8, and click/tap on Find My Phone in the same upper right corner drop down menu. (see screenshot below)
Sign_in_Find.jpg

3. Click/tap on Lock. (see screenshot below)
WindowsPhone.com_Find-My-Phone-Lock.jpg

4. If prompted to set up Find My Phone, then verify that the displayed phone number is correct for your Windows Phone 8, check the I authorize... box, and click/tap on Done. (see screenshot below)
WindowsPhone.com_Find-My-Phone-1.jpg

5. Type in a message up to 160 characters, create a 4-digit PIN password, check to Ring the phone as locked if you like, and click/tap on Lock. (see screenshot below)

Tip   Tip
You might consider providing a phone number or an email address in the message, so someone who finds your phone can contact you.


WindowsPhone.com_Lock-your-phone-1.jpg

6. If your phone was successfully locked, click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)
WindowsPhone.com_Lock-your-phone-2.jpg


Tip   Tip
To Unlock Your Windows Phone 8

If you find your Windows Phone 8 after locking it above, you would just need to turn on your phone, swipe up when you see the message, then enter the 4-digit PIN password to unlock it.


Unlock_Windows_Phone_8.jpg






That's it,
Shawn


 

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I had to enable PUSH to get this to work in the UK.
 

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