Lost cell phone hunting. How to find it??? HELP...

[skychief]

Needing some advice please.   I lost my cell phone this morning while hunting.  It was set to NOT ring nor vibrate.   I have retraced my steps twice and came up empty, the second try included a metal detector.

Do any of you know if I can get the phone to ring with a code or something similar?

I called my carrier and asked about locating it with GPS and the representative seemed to think it would not pinpoint well enough  in a 100 acre woods.

I thought maybe one of you might have a suggestion.  I don't mind losing the phone as much as the card in it with all my contact's numbers!

Thank for any help or ideas!

[skychief]

The phone is a Rugby by the way, not a smart phone.

[dhermon85]

Hands and knees????
Good luck

[McDave]

This is sort of a long-shot, but once I was elk hunting in New Mexico, and I stopped to eat some lunch in an area that was pretty dense with trees (well, not by East Coast standards, but pretty dense for New Mexico).  Later, as I was walking around I decided to take a practice shot at a pine cone.  I reached into my coat pocket for my shooting glove, but it wasn't there.  I figured I must have pulled it out when I sat down on a log to eat lunch, but I had no idea how to find my way back to that exact spot.  Then I remembered that I had turned on my GPS there to find out where I was.  Although I hadn't created a way point, because I didn't think I would need to come back there, the GPS always makes a dot on the map whenever it is turned on.  So I looked on the GPS map to find that one dot, and when I found it I navigated back to it and sure enough there was my shooting glove on the log.

Hope you find your phone!

[Froggy]

Metal detector ......again and again.

[59Alaskan]

A mess of kids and a $20 reward.

In all honesty.  I am sorry to hear about this.  I am prone to losing stuff and it is very frustrating.  The kids and a $20 may work.  I found mine with kids and a $5 once

[skychief]

Contacted Samsung, the maker of the phone.  They said I was out of luck as far as GPS locating goes and they said there is no way to enable the ringer.

We sent men to the moon 40-some years ago.  Still, even with today's technology, we can't make my lost phone ring.  

Rats!

[Rob W.]

Maybe try using another phone to search for other devices through bluetooth or the PTT. If that don't work call a bunch of buddy's and put a 6pack up for reward.

That sucks I have been there twice once before a snow storm and once after shooting a nice buck.

Rob

[Bobby Urban]

It should light up when it rings(even on silent)  Take another phone with you in the dark and keep calling yourself as you walk the trail??

[goingoldskool]

X2 on the call after dark...

Good luck

[Steve in Canton]

Buy a new one

[old_goat2]

Yeah, after dark would be my guess too!

[Justin Falon]

Go to your Verizon dealer. They have thousands to choose from!!

[Cookie125]

The gps should get you within 13ft or so if they can give you coordinates for your handheld gps. Is it a smart phone you lost or a regular.  I lost mine a month ago. Used an app to get the coordinates and it got me close enough that when I called it lit up so I could see it.

[LimBender]

That sucks.  Lost a cellphone to rain last year - water was running right into my pocket!  We found my dad's a couple weeks ago in the middle of some woods, but we retraced steps and it had juice and could hear it ringing - thought that one was a goner.

I agree on trying gps, should get you at least close.   Good luck.

[skychief]

Thanks all.   Just got in from trying  to see it light up while calling it after dark.   No luck in finding it though.

It is a flip phone and I am told GPS won't help.

Looks like a different phone is in my future!

[Froggy]

Are you absolutely sure it isn't hidden in your truck, gear or clothing. I have a couple times lost something and it turned up in a place I was 110% I had thoroughly checked ???

[xtrema312]

You could have lost in not in the woods.  Always a chance of that.  It could turn up.  

Do a grid search with some friends of the areas you were in.  Woods are not has hard to search as fields or swamps and I assume you didn't walk all 100 acress.  Or better yet maybe get a tracking dog to sniff out your sent on it and track everywhere you went.  That could work.

Sounds like a lot of work for a non-smart flip phone, I say good time for a new one. I would probably loose one of those on purpose like the commercials. I wouldn't put much effort at all in a phone given how cheap they are and how fast they upgrade.  Make sure to link the new phone to outlook or something so you don't loose contacts and other info in the future. Get a smart phone so you can read trad gang in the slow times on stand.     :D

[skychief]

I have turned everything upside down!   I still know that misplaced things show up where we least expect them and am keeping my eyes peeled.

I am 99.99 percent sure I dropped it into the chest pocket of my bibs this a.m.  

If it shows up, I promise to tell all right here!   Thanks again everybody.

[Shane Reed]

As others said. Go in at dark with another phone. The light will stick out like a sore thumb. Or you can try tracking dogs.