Comments on: Sprint Family Locator

By: Brianna

Brianna — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:45:38 +0000

If my childs phone is off can i still track them and can they change their phone to be set for 911 and i not be able to track them because for me it isnt working

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:04:57 +0000

Does the technology work if the locator feature in the phone is set for 911 only? I ask becasue my work recently added the feature to our phones but I have the locator off on the phone itself.. Are they still able to locate?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:52:08 +0000

I have used this service for about a year for my teenage daughter. I have the service set up on her account, so it never sends her a message that it is locating her. If you set up someone on another account to be located, first they have to approve you to do that, then each time they are located it tells them that you located them.

So, for my daughter, she doesn’t know that we are locating her. We set up a notification to inform us if she didn’t make it to school, or didn’t make it home from school. It might seem like a “big brother” type thing, but we have the service for her protection and our piece of mind. Its a small price to pay…and perhaps because she knows she can be located, she will stay the straight and narrow.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:30:47 +0000

That is somewhat correct. Your family would be notified once that they can now be located, but they would NOT be notified through out the day.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:07:59 +0000

I have found that the service tells that the phone is “Off” when it is actually “On” and can be very far off on on Real Time when the phone is where it is. My real time example is I am looking to see if my children have left a weekend place with my ex husband and the service says they are still 100 miles away when they are home safe and sound and their phone is in my hand and turned “on”. Another example: I wnted to see where my wife was so I knew where our kids ball game was, knowing she was at the ball game, the service showed her phones as being more than 5 miles away from where she really was. I confirmed this by driving to where I thought the game was and she and her phone was there. When we got home I check the service and it said her phone was “Off” when it was in my hand “on”. I would reccomend not to rely on this service…

By: chayni

chayni — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:44:36 +0000

so if i wanted to get this service as the primary account holder, all of the ppl on my account would be notified if i got this??? and it notifies them throughout the day????

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:09:05 +0000

Two days ago at 10:30pm I was frantically looking for my Sprint cellular telephone. I knew that I had left it at full volume, so if it was in my house I would have definetly heard it. It was dark outside, and around seven o’clock I was biking around.

So, I took another cell phone, and continously called it while biking in the hopes of seeing it light up, or hearing it.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find. When I got back to my house I was unable to find it, which made me angry. I sat down at my computer, and just checked my emails not really knowing what to do.

In a few minutes I remembered that sprint is offering a promotion where you can, access Sprint Family Locator. I immediatly signed up, and accessed it from my computer. It began loading.

In less than a minute it was showing a dot on a map, exactly where my phone was. I thought that the roads around the dot were something near to me, but I soon realized that they definetly where not.

These roads were in the town next to me, in a trailor park. . . . .

I know knew that either my phone was stolen, or taken. Maybe they were planning on giving it back to me the next day.

Anyway, the next morning I drove to that house. Knocked on the door a few times. No answer.. another time… no answer. On the window next to the door they were selling their trailor, and so a number was listed there.

I called that, and immediatly got a hold of a woman that had a very hard time speaking english. She handed the phone over to her son. I asked about my phone. He respded with a positive answer. He had my phone.

When I got it back he told me that he would have returned it, and I gave him a $20.00 reward. Without the sprint GPS locator I probally would never have gotten my phone back.

I think it was unlikely that he was going to return it, because i called 51 times, and he never answered it. I was sending text messages to the phone telling him that I need my phone back.

So, I love Sprint GPS locator, and without it I would never have found my cell phone. Which by the way was a LG Rumor2.

By: kt

kt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:40:05 +0000

Im totally going to track my boyfriend. The only thing that sucks is it sends reminders to that person that they are being spyed on… So i dont know if i should do it or not. But i think he is lying about where he is while im at home taking care of the baby. well see wont we?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:32:33 +0000

No.

By: Shenola

Shenola — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:23:18 +0000

Do this technology work if cell phone is turn off?