finding an offline mobile device

[PhillyB]

so despite this being my fifth time to southeast asia i fell for the oldest trick in the book. a few days ago my credit card info was stolen and i had to have a new ATM card mailed to me, but it didn't get here in time for my departure, so the cash i have with me is going to have to last me the whole trip, which means i'm cutting every cost i can. i like walking, so taxis are expendable, and after landing at the airport i decided to walk the four miles to my hotel.

 

three blocks from my destination a couple of girls zip up on a motorbike, flag me down. the lead one is acting all friendly… my first thought was prostitutes, since it's 3am in vietnam. she pulled up and asked me a couple of questions, and i was eager to use the vietnamese i've been studying for the past month, and started answering them and conversing in vietnamese… then suddenly before i know what's happening the other one slides a hand into my pocket and they take the fug off and leave me standing in the dust wondering what the hell just happened… and then i realized it was gone.

 

anyway i was in rage mode all night, hostel i made reservations at wouldn't answer the door, i had to find another place, and the wifi wouldn't work there, so i couldn't use find my iphone until the morning when they reset the router, and by then the damn thing had been turned off. it's listed now as an offline device… any of you tech-savvy guys have any ideas on how to track it down? i thought you couldn't turn GPS off of the phones so you could track it even if it was turned off. If someone wipes the phone, does that kill the GPS signal when they do turn it back on?

[Kettle]

GPS depends on the battery. My wife's iPhone was stolen, and we were told that all we could do is the remote lock and wipe once the thief turned it off. It makes it into a brick that can't be jail broke or have information retrieved from it and Therefore makes it worthless.

[Chimera]

I can't answer the question, but you've never seen Full Metal Jacket?

[Pejorative Miscreant]

This sucks but you should never trust a local on a Vespa at 3:00 am no matter what country.

[Kevin Greene]

Forget about the phone unless you want to end up flavoring kimchi.

[Kevin Greene]

n/m

[Hotsauce]

"three blocks from my destination a couple of girls zip up on a motorbike, flag me down. the lead one is acting all friendly…"

Damn, that sounds like the beginning of a porno.

That sucks that happend. I hope you find it

[Chimera]

you can put it on lost mode http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2700

 

 

that page also says tracking will be available next time it's turned on. if you do the remote lock, make sure you leave it on your account until it has been wiped and locked. otherwise, it won't take effect.

[pstall]

so despite this being my fifth time to southeast asia i fell for the oldest trick in the book. a few days ago my credit card info was stolen and i had to have a new ATM card mailed to me, but it didn't get here in time for my departure, so the cash i have with me is going to have to last me the whole trip, which means i'm cutting every cost i can. i like walking, so taxis are expendable, and after landing at the airport i decided to walk the four miles to my hotel.

three blocks from my destination a couple of girls zip up on a motorbike, flag me down. the lead one is acting all friendly… my first thought was prostitutes, since it's 3am in vietnam. she pulled up and asked me a couple of questions, and i was eager to use the vietnamese i've been studying for the past month, and started answering them and conversing in vietnamese… then suddenly before i know what's happening the other one slides a hand into my pocket and they take the fug off and leave me standing in the dust wondering what the hell just happened… and then i realized it was gone.

anyway i was in rage mode all night, hostel i made reservations at wouldn't answer the door, i had to find another place, and the wifi wouldn't work there, so i couldn't use find my iphone until the morning when they reset the router, and by then the damn thing had been turned off. it's listed now as an offline device… any of you tech-savvy guys have any ideas on how to track it down? i thought you couldn't turn GPS off of the phones so you could track it even if it was turned off. If someone wipes the phone, does that kill the GPS signal when they do turn it back on?

Short of giving one us your # I don't know how else you could locate.

My wife loses her iPhone every couple of months so I use the locator frequently. Pm if you think that will help.

[PhillyB]

full metal jacket was the first thing that flashed through my mind when i realized what'd just happened. thank god i put my wallet in my other pocket or i'd be up poo creek without a paddle.

 

anyway i've tried to trace the phone, but to no avail. turning it into a useless brick is an option, but the problem there is once you've locked it out, you lose the ability to track it by GPS… at which points it's just as useless to me. all i really do is spite the asshats that took it. which is fine i guess, but it doesn't do me much good.

[PandaPancake]

I would like to start off by saying, what did you learn? I always keep locals at least an arms distance away. As an American they'll spot you from a mile away.

I do feel bad saying that. I hope it doesn't ruin the trip

[PhillyB]

I would like to start off by saying, what did you learn? I always keep locals at least an arms distance away. As an American they'll spot you from a mile away.

I do feel bad saying that. I hope it doesn't ruin the trip

 

i've always been proud of my cunning in situations like that. i've gotten my way out of tourist scams and robbery attempts countless times all over the world. i have no idea how it slipped past my guard. maybe it's because the chick was hot.

 

either way, pejorative miscreant nailed it. nothing good comes on a vespa after 3am. yall write that one down

[PhillyB]

oh and the little fuger that did this has hacked into my gmail account and icloud… i've spent the past hour on a poo-ass internet connection battling him to out-lock each other out of my account. i think i won, but not before i sent myself the following message

 

Tôi sẽ giết chết bạn tối nay.

 

which i hope he read along with the rest of my mail he went through cause it's a death threat

[PhillyB]

if someone logs into your email from another device and it registers, is there any way to track that poo down? any way to get IP addresses? i'm so fuging pissed right now i want nothing more than to track this fuger down