The battery flatlined so I 'll have to charge it first but would like to know what is the SOP?

It's an iphone 5.

Have one myself.

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Why not call the owner?

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
Why not call the owner?

Duh!

I'm an Android user myself, but if its not locked I'm sure there is an 'about phone' option to you can access and you should see who the carrier is and go from there. If it's locked, you're toast. The FBI can't seem to gain access to a locked phone so you won't either.

Jim

If I thought I lost my iPhone in a taxi, I'd call the taxi dispatcher, asking if someone turned one in.

A college-sportsbar tavern where I perform service work is constantly finding iPhones. The unlucky call the tavern landline asking if one was found. The owner usually is asked to unlock it to prove ownership.

If you turn it on, even locked, they may be able to locate you. Also, the phone may be set up to display an emergency contact number on the lock screen as well.

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Originally posted by Woodman:
If I thought I lost my iPhone in a taxi, I'd call the taxi dispatcher, asking if someone turned one in.

Yep, I'd turn it in to the taxi company. The person who lost it may have paid with a credit card, so the company might be able to take the initiative.

I wouldn't turn it in to the taxi company, because I don't trust most people. Take to an Apple store and I'm sure they can plug it in and find out who it belongs to. I'm pretty sure Apple will no by the ESN or IMEI what carrier it is registered to and go from there. Plus you might be able to get info by plugging it into a computer with iTunes.

Maybe the owner will eventually call you? I found a phone a few years back while visiting Providence R.I. that happened to belong to a Brown University student who called me the next day and was irate that I was no longer in the area! I offered to and did mail it back to her.

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Originally posted by CQB60:
Maybe the owner will eventually call you? I found a phone a few years back while visiting Providence R.I. that happened to belong to a Brown University student who called me the next day and was irate that I was no longer in the area! I offered to and did mail it back to her.

This would be my approach. Charge it & see if they call to recover the phone.

I found an iPhone on the road once.
I put the SIM card into my phone because the screen was smashed.
I called the last person that left them a voicemail and they
Contacted the owner & he called me.

No cab companies this neck of the woods, none that keep track of rides anyway. Here you rent the dispatch service to get radio rides and that is all.

To make things worse/ funnier, the driver was an old geezer very very deaf. Had to repeat him directions at least three times and tell him four times to stop and let us out. The phone owner might have called his phone until it died of exhaustion and out of hope and batteries

Will resurrect the device when I get home. It has a sticker on the back that looks like it came back from a service repair shop.

I've never been able to get past my own lock screen and down here we hardly ever plan for the emergency. Usually phones get snatched/stolen on the streets and that's the end of the story.
A friend of mine was able to track his unit to 10ft and had a policemen standing next to him so he asked for help. The cop replied he wasn't getting paid enough to get his ass killed retrieving stolen property, to give it a try and see how it worked out for the owner. My friend learned a valuable lesson that day.

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I found a phone in the park once. Battery was dead. I had a charger for that brand so I charged it up and turned it on. No password so I called someone on the call list and asked if they knew whose phone it was. She contacted the owner through a land line and we met to return the phone. Convoluted, but hey, the phone was returned and I felt good about that.

Charge it, turn it on and let the owner call you. If he has it setup, he can put it into lost mode and it displays a message that says "This phone is lost. If you find this phone, please call this number....."

He may have written it off anyway and had it erased. If I lose my phone, I can have "Find my iPhone" send a signal to erase my phone if it's lost. As soon as the phone has a signal, the command is sent and the phone will be erased remotely and it will basically be a brick.

And yes, the apple store should be able to help find the owner.

Tony.

Turn it on and see if it displays the phone carrier. Turn the phone over to them.

^^^^^^^ unless there are NO Apple stores in the whole country.

It's funny but iPhones, particularly recent ones, are a statussymbol in my country. They're 99% smuggled since there's no official Apple presence in the country since they did not reach an "agreement" with the previous venezuelian style government and therefore the phones were never allowed to be sold locally.

Most of the cel phone units biz went to Samsung and in lesser quantities to other brands.

So, no support, parts, decent repair shops or didly squat. You can find all kinds, types and sorts of cheap cases or chinese knock offs of brand ones. Had a couple of "brand" ones turn to dust in my hands in a year.

Not having support hurts. When an iOs update neutered my i4s wifi that hurt. Turned it into a brick now that the battery lasts two songs. No spares on the market.


Phone companies are all about grabbing ppls money and providing little or no service.Customer Service is anything but that. No one has ever heard of a phone company returning a phone. Less likely to return a phone that legally should not exist.

Tomorrow i'll charge the lost phone and fiddle with it. No way I'm trying the SIM card in my phone.

I just wouldn't turn it on near home....

Throw it out and do the guy a favor iPhone 5?

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Originally posted by downtownv:
Throw it out and do the guy a favor iPhone 5?

I still use my iphone 5 more than my 7. I'm on my 3rd battery on it.

Yeah, be careful about leaving it on at your house, if they have the find my phone setup, the owner may come with a bunch of dudes to your doorstep.

If you go this route, do Not breath the fumes from the guts.