In case you have misplaced your phone at home and had kept it in silent mode then ringing the phone to find it, is not an option. However, if yours is an Android device, then you can change the settings remotely just through an SMS by using a wonder app
.'Agastya' is a new Android app that lets you “remotely” perform various tasks on your phone from any other phone via simple SMS commands. The other phone, that is sending the commands, need not be running Android – even the basic Nokia 1100 would do just fine – and either phones don’t require GPS or data plans (Internet).List of SMS commands that you can try on your Android phone:
- RINGER – Turn on the ringer
- SILENT – Turn off the phone’s ringer
- IMEI – Get the IMEI number* of your phone
- LAST CALLS – Know the last 5 missed/received/dialed numbers
- LAST MESSAGES – Retrieve the last 5 text messages received on your phone
- <CONTACT> – Fetch the contact number of a person from the address book.
The data which could be fetched includes
- Phone Profile (Changing profile mode to Ringer or Silent)
- SIM Number (Retriving SIM Number)
- SMS logs (Checking SMS's received on your phone)
- Contacts (Fetching contact number from your Address book)
- Call Logs (Checking Missed Calls/Received Calls/Dialed Numbers)
- IMEI Number