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It has happened to everyone. You have lost or stolen your mobile. Many times you don't know what exactly happened but the phone has simply vanished .

Regardless of what the pot has cost you, it is a nuisance for all the information (photos, videos, emails, phone numbers ...) that you had stored on your mobile and that you have given up for lost .

In Spain more than 800 mobile phones are stolen a day and this figure is multiplied during the Christmas holidays, according to data from the National Police, which includes the repair and sale company of 'smartphones' Librephonía.com.

However, not everything is lost and, sometimes, thanks to the cloud storage systems offered by most operating systems, manufacturers and terminals you can at least recover the information stored on your mobile phone before it disappeared .

Both Android and iPhone phones have cloud storage. Android users can access all their documents and multimedia files from any device by simply entering their Google account username and password .

While iPhone devices have iCloud where they are backed up daily so users can recover all their files on their new device.

Another option is to download storage applications. From Librephonía.com they point out that it is advisable to use complementary backups that automatically store all images and documents.

To ensure that all the information of the different applications is stored in the cloud, it is essential to log in with the Google Play or iCloud account whenever the user registers in a new 'app'.

When the mobile is stolen or lost it is important to protect the personal data stored in the device. Therefore it is advisable to use rescue applications to erase everything that is not wanted to be manipulated by third parties.

In addition, these 'apps' allow you to change passwords and passwords . In turn, you must ask the company to block the device terminal and report the loss or robot at the police station, for which it is necessary to have the IMEI number to identify the phone.

Finally, and this option is recommended only for experts, as pointed out by the company, users can 'root' their 'smartphone'. This means that they can access the entire operating system of their device, so they can manipulate all files and make deep backups .

However, by 'rooting' the device , the phone's warranty could be lost when modifying the operating system , so it is not the recommended action if the user does not know what he is doing .

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