Remotely Lock and Wipe Your Samsung Galaxy Note 3

6 Parts:

Prerequisites for remote locking and wipe

Setting up Samsung Galaxy Note3 for remote locking and remote wipe

How to perform a remote lock on your Galaxy Note3

How to perform a remote wipe on your Galaxy Note3

Questions and Answers

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This is part of the VisiHow series on how to use the Samsung Galaxy Note3. You can visit the main reference of the article on how to Use Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for a full list of Note3 VisiHow Articles

Being one of the most powerful smartphones on the market today, your Samsung Galaxy Note3 can act as your mobile and home offices. It may store important events like birthdays and anniversaries, as well as important financial information such as your bank accounts and credit card numbers. This is the reason why there is a need for better phone security to keep unwanted people from retrieving data that may cost us a lot. Samsung recognized this importance of security, so it offers the features to lock your phone, which is basic to most providers, and Samsung Knox, an added security feature for business data. If you want to know more about locking your device, you may refer to this article on how to Keep Your Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Secure by Using Locks. If you want to know more about Knox, you can check this article that discusses how to Create a Separate Mobile System on Your Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Using KNOX.

On top of the security features mentioned above, Samsung offers a final layer of protection for the data on your device in cases when it gets lost. You can remotely lock and reset your device so malicious people cannot use these data for personal gains. The next sections will help you set up your device for remote connection, remote locking and remote wiping of data on your Samsung Galaxy Note3.

You need to comply to these requirements before you can set up remote locking and remote reset of your Galaxy Note3:

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   Have a Google account.

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   Set up a Google account on your Galaxy Note3.

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   Have internet access enabled on your device.

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   Have internet access available for the remote device (computer, Laptop, or other mobile device).

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Before you can perform remote procedures on your Galaxy Note3, you need to set up your device for remote access. Follow the procedures below to set up remote access on your Galaxy Note3:

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   On your computer, log in with your Google account.

   

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   On your computer, go to www.google.com/android/devicemanager Android Device Manager's site.

   

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   On Android Device Manager's site, click on the "Accept" button.

   

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   Check if your device is displayed on the site.

   

   • If you get a "No active devices" prompt, it means that your Google account has not been set up on your Galaxy Note3 yet. If this is the case, you need to sync in your Google account to your device by following the procedures in this article. When you are done with setting up, proceed with the next step.
   • If your device name is listed, then you are good to go. Proceed with the next step.

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   The page will now display your device name, as well as the data of location, time and date of your device's last use.

   

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   Click on the "Setup Lock & Erase button" to start with the process of setting up remote access.

   

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   Click on the "Send" button. This will send a message to your Galaxy Note3, asking for a confirmation for remote lock and reset.

   

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   Your computer will contact your device and will wait until it confirms access.

   

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   Enable internet access on your Galaxy Note3 and wait for the confirmation message.

   

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    On your Galaxy Note3, open the confirmation message by tapping it on your notification bar. To open your notification bar, do a swiping gesture from the top-most part of your screen to the bottom part.

    

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    You will now be taken to the activation page, where you will be required to tap on the "Activate" button to start with the setup.

    

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    You will see two options: "Remote locate this device" and "Allow remote lock and Factory Reset". Tap on the check box for both options to enable remote locking and wiping of your device.

    

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    Go back to your computer. The Android Device Manager page will now display the "Lock" and "Erase" option.

    

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    You have successfully set up remote locking and remote wiping of data on your Samsung Galaxy Note3.

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If your Note3 has been lost and you think that there is still a chance that you can recover it, or there are no confidential files on it, then you may remotely lock your device first then try to locate it through the Device Manager's site. This way, your phone will not be accessed by unwanted people and you will still have the chance to locate and recover it. Follow the procedures below to remotely lock your Galaxy Note3.

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   Go to your computer's web browser and login with your account in Google.

   
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