It is always a pain to discover that you have lost your phone, whether it is brand new or whether you have used it for a couple of months. With the Redmi phone, it is possible to find your phone and no go through the burden of buying another one. Here's how:
Using the IMEI Number
If you lose your Redmi phone, you can lock or disable it from a distance. Here is how to go about it:
By Using Gmail
If your phone was powered by Android, you can go through the recovery method differently.
Through MI Cloud Services
If you synced your phone with your XIAOMI account, you could use your account to help you find your phone. This is however only possible you had enabled the "Find Device" option on your phone and if your phone has Wi-Fi or mobile data connection.
Mi Cloud also has other features that can help you get your phone back:
What to Do If You Break Your Phone
The parts of your phone that mostly break are the charging port, headphone port, and the screen. Breakages create a lot of inconveniences because the most fundamental uses of charging and touch will no longer be available. You can only be sure that your charging port s broken if you use your charging cable and battery brick on another phone and they function. The same goes for the headphone port. Here are the options you have for fixing them:
After thousands of Redmi customers came to GetHuman in search of an answer to this problem (and many others), we decided it was time to publish instructions. So we put together What do I do if I lost or broke my Redmi phone? to try to help. It takes time to get through these steps according to other users, including time spent working through each step and contacting Redmi if necessary. Best of luck and please let us know if you successfully resolve your issue with guidance from this page.
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