Gmail (or Google Apps) is generally setup to automatically retrieve email from your Google Account in a preset time interval: 5-min, 15-min, 30-min or 1-hour. If you have your phone setup to automatically retrieve emails from Gmail, upload photos to Dropbox, or edit notes on Evernote you'll be able to find the IP address of the lost phone by logging into a respective website. The first and foremost thing you'll have to do is finding the IP address of your lost phone. Resetting your phone to factory default may require password, so you may still have time to track down the IP address of the phone before it gets reset. If a thief is smart enough, he/she may have wiped out your phone and reset to factory default setting. If you haven't installed tracking software on your phone, you're out of this option and may have to use IP address to track down the phone. If you have tracking app installed on your smartphone such as Prey or Phone Tracker, you may want to use the app to retrieve the lost phone.

If you lost a non-Android phone, this article will describe what it takes to track down the IP address of your phone, and how hard it is to recover it. If you lost an Android Smartphone, you still have a chance to recover it by following the Locate your lost Android smartphone article. But, can you recover the lost phone by tracing the IP accress? The answer is unlikely. Is it possible to track down the phone by using an IP address? The answer is Yes. Our readers have been inquiring about retrieving lost or stolen smartphones by tracking down the IP address of the phone.

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