Lost Straight Talk Phone in House...HELP

To my knowledge, there is nothing that can help once the phone is dead. There has to be some battery life to get the phone to ping. Sorry

My idea would be to tell your son 'Geeze I'm really sorry you misplaced your phone. Since it hasn't turned up you have 2 choices. You can go through every single thing and room in the house looking for it or you can pony up the money for a new phone plus any additional charge to have the info switched over from the old phone to the new one.'

I don't know that tire's much you can do if the battery is dead.

Frankly, if he's old enough to have a phone, I think he's more than old enough to start a methodical search, room by room. That doesn't mean upending everything (like most kids do) but it means looking, replacing things or putting them where they should have been in the first place. That includes stuff that isn't just his - family stuff, sibling stuff, your stuff...!!! He may say, "It wouldn't be in that pile, because I wasn't even in that area." Well, maybe. But it's not where he thinks it could be, so by definition, it's where he thinks it couldn't be! And, it could be in the car, at a friend's house, or any of a number of places he thinks it isn't.

Let it be a huge nuisance so he will never do this again. He'll learn to deal without a phone (like you did when you were growing up) and and will learn to use the land line at his friends' houses or to actually memorize some key phone numbers.

Not sure if it's also a good thing, but you will learn to manage without texting/calling him (like your parents did when you were growing up).

I do think it makes sense to make him responsible for paying for a new one if that's what it comes down to.

Good luck!

Check all pockets in pants,coats, etc.
Check his laundry bin/bag.
Check under all couch/chair cushions.
Under/behind his bed.
What was he doing Monday?
He should retrace his steps through his whole day and search everywhere he was.
It's a really good time to exhaustively clean his room.
If it doesn't turn up soon, it's likely it won't turn up at all until right after it's been replaced.
I swear if it isn't a Murphy's Law it should be.

Have your son search the house? Or tell him he will need to pay for the new phone out of his own pocket money. That might light a fire under him. Technology can only do so much-- sometimes some effort and elbow grease are what's necessary.

If it's dead none of those programs will work. According to AT&T anyway.

every time i cant find something i stop looking, and the next day it turns up. you could clean you house top to bottom while looking to find it.. when i am home alone and i cant find my phone i use call my phone .com to make it ring, but its gotta be on and have a ring tome audible for that one to work.

I think there is something called Plan B app that might help. You don't have to have it installed on your phone before you lose it I don't believe. Google that and maybe it will help - good luck :)

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I think there is something called Plan B app that might help. You don't have to have it installed on your phone before you lose it I don't believe. Google that and maybe it will help - good luck :)