Niamh writes:
Found this on a Northbound DART in Pearse street station. It’s waiting for its owner with the staff at Connolly [station]. Anyone?
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Niamh writes:
Found this on a Northbound DART in Pearse street station. It’s waiting for its owner with the staff at Connolly [station]. Anyone?
Do you’ve to enter a pin once you slide to unlock?Presume you do but if not could try calling one of their friends?Assume you’ve tried this already though!
Hey, yeah it was the first thing I tried! Protected by pin, so it’s waiting in Connolly. Hope the daft spoon gets it back :)
Daft spoon, tee hee
Bring the phone to me. I’ll unlock the phone. I’ll sell the phone on. I’ll buy you a coffee.
Date?
can one not just wait for someone to call the phone…surely the person that lost it will call it
can one not just wait for someone to call the phone…surely the person that lost it will call it
No the battery is dying, the phone doesn’t have long to live, we must act NOW!
And no one has an Iphone charger these days…
Not if its an iPhone 5. Damn you for dying Steve, DAMN YOU!!!
padi, I’d say it is an iPhone 3/GS/thingy.
Roundy/curvey edges and all that.
Pretty much like the one I have. Same cover to.
That looks like Des Bishop in the front row???
If it’s Des Bishop’s phone and he gets it back, you know he’ll base an entire tour talking about this.
NO WAY, Someone is actually on eMOBILE !!
Looks like a cult group photo
A smiling Bishop surrounded by children. Is it Sean Brady’s?
If you lose your phone and you’ve got a PIN on it, you’re not going to get your phone back.
Some people* put a contact number on their Lock screen so you can see it without needing the PIN.
*I need to get around to doing this.
Please explain this theory.
If someone picks up the locked phone and sees the number (a phone number for a relative of yours) on the screen they’ll ring that number and let your relative/friend know where your phone is.
Either that or they steal the phone an bring it to get unlocked but hey, worth a shot!
I think Chucky R Law was referring to the theory from I also Had my Bike Stolen above. A theory which I also would like explained. The adding a number to the locked phone screen is handy but if that’s not turned on I’d rather lose a locked phone than an unlocked one with my email and god knows what else still possibly logged in.
Yes indeed. Sorry for my vague response, Niamh.
If the phone is locked, the kind person who found it can’t use the last dialled etc. to return it to you.
You can remote wipe your phone with Find My iPhone. If fmip isn’t working, that’s because they’ve already wiped it, or at least aren’t connected to WiFi where they can read your emails.
If your phone is stolen, the thieves aren’t stealing it so they can read your emails.
Also, don’t cancel your contract immediately, with or with a PIN, so they can dial from your phone and so Find My iPhone keeps updating.
What I do have a PIN on is “Restrictions” so that when someone finds my phone, they can’t turn off location services, can’t delete apps and can’t remove the Apple account that’s Find My iPhone is attached to.
Right. PIN protection = lost forever. So there’s no chance that someone will phone the phone? Not even the owner? Nowhere to put an engraving or sticker with contact details?
Yes, what is this and how does one do it? I’ve had a look in settings and am none the wiser
Take a photo of the phone number written on a piece of paper (or typed on your phone and take a shot of the screen) and then set that as your wallpaper. Easy
Bingo. Or if you’re fancy you could make some sort of nice image with the number visible and upload it to your phone for use as lock screen.
Just remember, kids – don’t put your own mobile number on your lock screen. That won’t work at all.
Lads this is an easy one.
Nearly all folks who put these locks on their phones, dont enable the phone wipe after 10 attempts.
Meaning, all you have to do is guess the thousand combinations.
I had to do that once for a combo lock on my father in laws suit case. Took less than an hour.
But give them a day or so to pick it up first, just in case.
If it’s 4 digits would it not be 10,000 combinations rather than 1,000?
oh ye, that would be a mere ten hours. haha ten hours continuously doing thumb gymnastics.
Mick, your polite rebuff is not very broadsheet of you. You should have rubbed my nose in it a little more :-)
There was a subtle sneering condescension in my message that obviously went over your head pet…nah, I’m only messing…anonymity shouldn’t always inspire bad manners…
I think there’d actually be 9999 combinations, rather than A thousand. So, “all you have to do” in your mind is ten times easier than what is actually necessary to guess the code.
See mick, Bingo has the right attitude. Dont let them off lightly. No error should go unmocked :-)
No error should go unmocked, true.
I just had to reply to your comment because you suggested a number between 0 and 10,000 might be guessed easily. I hope I have at the very least taught you that such a guess would not be easy.
:)
I would have done the same, Bingo. I would have done the same.
Give it to a small child to play with and they’ll soon crack the code
Yeah, you were working with 3 digits on the case, 4 permus is 9999. Anyway, I called in and said, “hey, I lost my phone, it has a black rubber case with a slight tear on the top left and a pic of my family on the screen……did you find it?……..fair play on the sentiment though….
I’m assuming in good faith that the staff in Connolly have enough cop on to ask the claimant for the pin and check that it’s correct before they hand it over.
There are actually 10,000 if you include 0000 – just sayin :)
If that really is Des Bishop you could tweet him and see if he remembers where that photo was taken.
Potentially mortifying for the owner of the phone, potentially excellent entertainment for sleuthing internet do-gooders.
2:43pm post and still not claimed? “That’s my friend Sean, etc”.
Must be that Sean is ashamed of his iPhone3 and doesn’t want to get it.
Hi
This is a photograph of me, my secrey mistress and our illegitimate children.
Please remove this picture of my secret second family from your website as soon as possible.
Regards
Dan