Charge it up take it to the cop shop turn it on and let them take care of it.

The one time I lost my cell phone in college, the guy that found it called the contact named "Dad" and told him "I've got your son's phone." We were able to coordinate from there so he could hand it back to me. Boy, did I hear about that for months...

But, y'know, I never did it again.

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
Turn it on and see if it displays the phone carrier. Turn the phone over to them.

This. I found a phone once and did that.

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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.

IRATE

Thats gratitude for you.

I'll sooner find myself without a phone than being able to afford my current i5s replacement.

Actually looking, with no luck, for a fresh battery to put inside my old i4s just in case my i5s battery kicks the bucket.

No cop shop either. Some of you guys have no clue how it is down here in the fourth world...
Someone dumped a car in front of my appartment two weeks ago. Parked on the WRONG SIDE of the street. It has the spare mounted on the front left wheel, all airbags exploded, no frontal plate and the bottom of the front grill is on the floor. Inside, you can see a handicaped card.
The tow truck picks cars parked in front of my appartment almost on a daily basis, usually at night. The owners watch their cars being take away for parking where they shouldn't. A fine plus a towage stiff fee. But, they have ignored this one that started collecting a thick crut of dust. Have a cop assigned to stay in my building (who knows why or for whom?) and he/she wouldn't handle the abandoned/stolen car arguing it's a city matter and not police bussines....


Much cheaper to put the phone in a box and throw it in the river than pay a fee and trust it to our mail system. Same results.

Different cultures... go figure.

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Sounds like you would have been better off leaving it in the cab.

I found a locked iPhone on the sidewalk once. I used Siri to call "mom" and she contacted her son through other means to come meet me.

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

I think that was my favorite version. It fit perfectly in my hand...hmm maybe it was the 4..

Take it to your local PD. When I receive phones turned in, I call 911. They see the incoming number. Then they search it against prior call records. 9 of 10 times I find the owner ID that way. (I'm the PD)

Again, PD not an option. We´re talking mostly uneducated ppl that chose civil service with minimum qualifications that require little or no education and try to stick to it as the perfect sinecure.
And in no time discover corruption is the way to go if only to be able to stay.
You`ve seen it in so many movies...

Right now the phone is charging, failing miserably at Orguss solution. No Mom, home or Office...

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If you can access Siri, Ask Siri "who am I" and if they have identified themselves to Siri, it will tell you who they are and pull up their contact card.

Hi Nicky,

Any concern about the phone owner finding its location (i.e. you) by the phone tracker and thinking the phone had been stolen? They won't know about your trying to find them and of course anyone who was found would state they were trying to track down the owner.

Just worried that you may be taking a legal risk by having it around trying to be a Good Samaritan. For that matter, if the phone's owner is a 'take the law into your own hands' sort, might be more than just a legal risk.

I'd do the obvious things, quickly, that you're already trying and if they fail, get rid of it ASAP. Probably, yeah, to the police - whether or not that would get it to the owner, it would at least put you on record as no longer having it and as trying to do the right thing.

When you are on the screen where it wants you to enter the pass code there is a “emergency” option on the bottom left. If you click that then again on the bottom left there is a “medical ID” you can click on. If they’ve filled that out it’ll have their name, DOB, and immediate contacts.

As others said you can also just ask Siri to call mom, dad, work, or whoever and let that person know you have the lost phone.

Chances are they probably have find my iPhone searching for it too and it’ll gps ping when it’s powered on.

I’ve got several iPhones back to people by using Siri to make calls to people in their contacts.

I guess I might have some of your concerns covered.

This post is my CYA card. Of course it`s in english.

since I do not plan to stick to a hot potato, I only barely charged it. when it dies, it dies.
Tried the who am I option in spanish but who knows how would you put it in the rigt words. So far no luck with that, asking Siri for mom, dad, office or home. also tried the emergency number but it started dialing only 6 numbers while I need minimum 8.
Left the phone visible on a desk and asked those around it to please pick it up if it rings so we can ask who the owner is....

That should prove my bonafide, am I right?


Me and friends, taking selfies

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It's a burner phone. I'd toss it before Tuco or Heisenberg comes looking for it. Just sayin'...



BTW...LMAO at the "selfie" pic above. That's some funny stuff right there, 0-0!!

You could also ask Siri “who was the last person that called me?” and it’ll show the number.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
It's a burner phone. I'd toss it before Tuco or Heisenberg comes looking for it. Just sayin'...



BTW...LMAO at the "selfie" pic above. That's some funny stuff right there, 0-0!!

The "bona fide" reference made me think of the movie.


rmc85 just tried that but I`m coming a number or two short... The phone says I`m not autorized to perform the task.

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Hi Nicky,

Don't have an iPhone so can't add any device/Siri thoughts to the above. Keeping it at your office and telling co-workers what's going on sounds like good policy if the owner shows up and questions motives.

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tried the emergency number but it started dialing only 6 numbers while I need minimum 8

I wonder if it's set up for a different country? Could the cabbie have had a visitor from overseas...Maybe Siri is looking for questions in a different language?

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It has a sticker on the back that looks like it came back from a service repair shop.

Don't know if the sticker has enough detail to try to identify the shop and contact them?

Kinda flailing here on my end. I admit the thought of losing my phone and having someone honest and helpful like you find it is why I have always had my land-line number and address on my wake-up screen on my Androids.

If the owner cared about their phone they'd take better care of it or make it easy for you to return it by putting their contact info on the lock screen or calling it 24/7.

My guess is that it's going to end in one of two ways: they call you and coordinate a return or they don't call you and you'll have a new to you iphone.