Hi WAMUGers, I realise this information is too late to help Callum, but might help others who don’t already have either MobileMe “Find My iPhone” or another Tracking App. setup on their iPhone & iPad & iPod Touch.
<http://db.tidbits.com/article/11853> GadgetTrak for iOS Adds Background Location Updates: "The point of theft-recovery software is simple: to provide some kind of post-loss updates from your devices, preferably with coordinates included from either a GPS receiver, Wi-Fi positioning, or both.” … Cheers, Ronni On 07/02/2011, at 10:17 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Sorry to hear this Callum. > > You must file a police report that it is stolen. > > I take it you don't have MobileMe with 'find my iPhone' activated on the > iPhone? > If you did you could put a message on the screen, or wipe the data. > > Sounds like you have contacted your carrier and reported it stolen & they > have blocked the IMEI number which will then make it unusable in Australia. > > All networks will have a copy of it.. because the owner would have it > registered against their SIM card.. Each time you log onto the network, make > a call.. even when the phone swaps network towers the IMEI is registered from > the phone to the network and recorded... which is what the network would use > to block it with... and that information is passed onto each of the networks > to add to their Stolen Phone registry to block logging onto the network. > > Was the iPhone purchased from Apple? Report a stolen Apple product: > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2526 > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 07/02/2011, at 9:02 PM, Callum Prior <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> Sadly my partner has had her iPhone stolen in transit to the US. She was in >> Auckland for a couple of hours and had her phone and wallet stolen, and the >> airline lost her baggage(!). >> >> As she was also travelling with a toddler who had just done a Perth - >> Auckland flight and some security guards who didn't seem interested in >> helping her out, she wasn't able to report it to the police while she was >> still in Auckland. >> >> The phone's passcode protection was active at the time and we've already >> blocked the telephone account and removed my credit card data from iTunes. >> Is there anything else I should be doing? >> >> It's not likely we'll see the phone again, but should we be concerned about >> the data on the phone? How hard is it to break through the passcode >> protection? >> >> Cheers! >> >> Callum Prior >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
