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Bypass iPhone PASSCODE???

Thanks to those who took my defense. Someone said, "is he supposed to go on a worldwide search" and someone else offered to track the guy/girl down via ATT. Seriously, did you not read my post? I went to ATT (it is an ATT phone!) and the person never collected it. Just b/c it's an iphone doesn't mean someone spent "hard-earned" money on it and is waiting around staring at the wall waiting for a ATT manager to call with the good news.

Someone got a replacement and didn't care anymore. I don't need an ethics course. Why, because I spent a lot of time trying to track the person down! If I were unethical, I would have simply boosted the phone for my own purposes. Again, to those on the moral highground, chill out. It's just an iphone -- not someone's lifesaving medication or childhood memento from a dead family member. I did my best -- that's enough. And I feel like that's fair. This phone was originally found on a dirt path. A dirt path. Even campus police was notified. Only the minimum effort was necessary in such a case and we put in much more than that.

Thanks for the suggestions for bypassing the passcode! I will try them tonight.
 
crashwins said:
It's just an iphone -- not someone's lifesaving medication
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The pool I used to work at (as a lifeguard/instructor/manager) was very popular and we used to routinely find people's EpiPens left in the change rooms. We'd contact people when we could (but we usually couldn't) to let them know where we'd hold them and when they could come to get them. In the three years that I worked there—full time, 40-55 hrs/wk, year-round—we had a grand total of ZERO people come back to claim their life-saving medication :rolleyes:

And yes, we used to pilfer items from the lost and found. At the end of every month it was disposed of so anything still there was fair game. I got my wife (girlfriend at the time) some very nice jewellery that way. Sometimes one does everything he can reasonably do to return a lost item; when reasonable options are exhausted there are two choices: toss it or keep it. Why let something useful go to waste? Isn't that what the second "R" ("Reduce, Reuse, Recycle") is all about?
 
Cask said:
Yes it is very easy to lie on the Internet, but you can't go around thinking everything you read is a lie, especially things like this that don't affect you in any way. Sure the guy probably stole it and is making all this up, but we have no way of actually know that. All we have is this guy's word, if you don't believe him like I said don't bother replying, you don't have to do that either. But judging someone because they might be saying a lie without actually knowing it is wrong.
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"...Sure the guy probably stole it and is making all this up, but we have no way of actually know that..."

"...But judging someone because they might be saying a lie without actually knowing it is wrong..."

I see a self-contradiction here. Oh, and you should never start a sentence with "but".
 
glossywhite said:
Oh, and you should never start a sentence with "but".
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Such proscriptive grammatical rules do not reflect the nature of our evolving language, nor do they make room for the fact that sometimes beginning a sentence with a conjunction (which is then called a conjunct) may be a very effective and appropriate stylistic choice, especially if not used to excess. It maintains an easy, conversational style. It reduces the need for long, wordy compound sentences. And it preserves a link between sentences without the cumbersome use of words such as 'however,' 'nevertheless,' and 'furthermore.'

Some of the best English writers, from Shakespeare to Capote, have all used conjuncts.
 
thelatinist said:
Such proscriptive grammatical rules do not reflect the nature of our evolving language, nor do they make room for the fact that sometimes beginning a sentence with a conjunction (which is then called a conjunct) may be a very effective and appropriate stylistic choice, especially if not used to excess. It maintains an easy, conversational style. It reduces the need for long, wordy compound sentences. And it preserves a link between sentences without the cumbersome use of words such as 'however,' 'nevertheless,' and 'furthermore.'

Some of the best English writers, from Shakespeare to Capote, have all used conjuncts.
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Thanks Buzz Killington.
 
glossywhite said:
"...Sure the guy probably stole it and is making all this up, but we have no way of actually know that..."

"...But judging someone because they might be saying a lie without actually knowing it is wrong..."

I see a self-contradiction here. Oh, and you should never start a sentence with "but".
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havent you ever seen Finding Forester?

Using But is generally OK. As long as you aren't repetitive with it :D
 
I was reading an article recently, might have been on C|net, that talked about how companies like ATT don't really try to track down phones, lost or stolen, or whatever.

So if the OP did try to find the original owner, most likely that would have gone nowhere.
 
glossywhite said:
Oh, and you should never start a sentence with "but".
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Just to build on what others has already said:

Beginning a sentence with a co-ordinating conjunction is perfectly acceptable if what follows is an independent clause. This form should be used sparingly in normal writing (as is true for anything—one should not over-use words, metaphors, etc.) and even more sparingly in formal writing. Instead one should consider using a conjunct, i.e. a conjunctive adverb (furthermore, however, nevertheless, etc.). Each co-ordinating conjunction has a corresponding conjunct that holds the same meaning but represents a higher level of language.

thelatinist said:
Such proscriptive grammatical rules do not reflect the nature of our evolving language, nor do they make room for the fact that sometimes beginning a sentence with a conjunction (which is then called a conjunct)
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A co-ordinating conjunction doesn't become a conjunct when used to begin a sentence. Conjunct is another word for a conjunctive adverb, much like gerund is another way of saying verbal noun ;)
 
Wondercow said:
Just to build on what others has already said:

Beginning a sentence with a co-ordinating conjunction is perfectly acceptable if what follows is an independent clause. This form should be used sparingly in normal writing (as is true for anything—one should not over-use words, metaphors, etc.) and even more sparingly in formal writing. Instead one should consider using a conjunct, i.e. a conjunctive adverb (furthermore, however, nevertheless, etc.). Each co-ordinating conjunction has a corresponding conjunct that holds the same meaning but represents a higher level of language.


A co-ordinating conjunction doesn't become a conjunct when used to begin a sentence. Conjunct is another word for a conjunctive adverb, much like gerund is another way of saying verbal noun ;)
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Just to build on more off topic posting...
 
Wondercow said:
A co-ordinating conjunction doesn't become a conjunct when used to begin a sentence. Conjunct is another word for a conjunctive adverb, much like gerund is another way of saying verbal noun ;)
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But if you start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction, there is nothing for it to coordinate. Its function is actually adverbial; that is, it functions as a conjunctive adverb or a conjunct. We can argue all day over whether it is best to call it an conjunctive adverb (as I do, describing function) or a conjunction (describing its formal part of speech), and I don't think either of us can said to be right or wrong.
 
How can you claim you've done everything to reach the owner when you haven't even bothered trying to bypass the passcode to call / message his contacts?

You're just now, after 4 months, trying to get through the passcode so you can keep it for yourself?

If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... it must be a duck trying to steal someone else's iPhone.
 
Konz said:
How can you claim you've done everything to reach the owner when you haven't even bothered trying to bypass the passcode to call / message his contacts?

You're just now, after 4 months, trying to get through the passcode so you can keep it for yourself?

If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... it must be a duck trying to steal someone else's iPhone.
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It is impossible to bypass the password to access the info, as that would defeat the whole purpose of the passcode completely, don't you think? It is possible to wipe the iPhone clean and bypass the password that way, but the password is there to protect the user's info.

To the people attacking my grammar: What's the point of that? If you find a valid argument then do so, but I don't need English lessons, thank you very much. It seems that you were able to understand what I was trying to say (unless your comprehension is not very good) so what's the point on correcting the grammar? Now we have a full page of people giving their opinion on the grammar which was not the subject. And just FYI...English is not my native languague, I would like to see how glossywhite writes in Spanish.
 
Konz said:
How can you claim you've done everything to reach the owner when you haven't even bothered trying to bypass the passcode to call / message his contacts?
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If people could do that, what would be the point of passcodes? Sure, there may be some question over whether OP did everything he could to locate&contact the owner, but that's not one of the things he could have tried.

I remember a thread a few months ago where the owner of an iphone forgot their password, and they went to the Apple store and asked for help from the Genius bar to try to retrieve information off the iphone. And the answer they got was, there is absolutely no way to get past a passcode-locked phone without wiping all info currently on the phone. If even Apple can't do it, then noone can.
 
funny reading this thread. bro you could end up like me, i got my iphone 3g s still over here fresh out the plastic. i work security so im over here jailbreakin tinkering away, i go to close down shop and guess what i find??? iphone 3g s brand spanking new. honestly evil quan said keep it but i know i would go nuts if mine was lost. so anyway i gets outside and call the last 5 recents(no passcode). i wait the next day, charged it up and everything, get back to work and the phone rings and i answer. the person said im on my way to retrieve my phone. i said ok would you mind bringing a bill and i.d... long story short this ****er brings the police claiming im trying to steal his phone. top it off i almost got fired because of the nonsense going on while on the clock.

so in typing all that bro, if you are real and this is not a ******** ploy to steal, i say keep it, reset it and go for what you know. it has been 4 months. always good to have a back up. i might get chewed out for saying that but oh well. thats life.
 
JUSTQUAN said:
funny reading this thread. bro you could end up like me, i got my iphone 3g s still over here fresh out the plastic. i work security so im over here jailbreakin tinkering away, i go to close down shop and guess what i find??? iphone 3g s brand spanking new. honestly evil quan said keep it but i know i would go nuts if mine was lost. so anyway i gets outside and call the last 5 recents(no passcode). i wait the next day, charged it up and everything, get back to work and the phone rings and i answer. the person said im on my way to retrieve my phone. i said ok would you mind bringing a bill and i.d... long story short this ****er brings the police claiming im trying to steal his phone. top it off i almost got fired because of the nonsense going on while on the clock.

so in typing all that bro, if you are real and this is not a ******** ploy to steal, i say keep it, reset it and go for what you know. it has been 4 months. always good to have a back up. i might get chewed out for saying that but oh well. thats life.
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wow thats retarded! that person is a ****en dumbsh*t! maybe you shouldnt have asked for a bill! lol


i found a phone at a rave..i was 'under the influence'..so i was totally feeling good.. i went home and called the last dialed number said 'i found this phone and im located here or if you talk to the owner of the phone, call it and ill answer'. so some dude called and said thanks that he'll come over the next morning. he lives like an hour away and drove to where i stayed. i didnt ask for money or anything but my roommate and i looked through his phone and saw his gf's naked pics..there was a couple of em haha. when he came, he brought his gf with him LOL.
 
polobreaka said:
wow thats retarded! that person is a ****en dumbsh*t! maybe you shouldnt have asked for a bill! lol


i found a phone at a rave..i was 'under the influence'..so i was totally feeling good.. i went home and called the last dialed number said 'i found this phone and im located here or if you talk to the owner of the phone, call it and ill answer'. so some dude called and said thanks that he'll come over the next morning. he lives like an hour away and drove to where i stayed. i didnt ask for money or anything but my roommate and i looked through his phone and saw his gf's naked pics..there was a couple of em haha. when he came, he brought his gf with him LOL.
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WIN! But yea, JUSTQUAN, that sucks. Why would you have told him your address if you stole it? Haha.
 
use Voice Control without knowing PASSCODE

just press and hold the home button and you can dial any number.

It will not give you the contact/view photos as with the previous hack:
By hitting the Emergency Call button and then tapping ###, Call, and then quickly hitting Lock.
 
Cask said:
He is stating he did his best to find the owner!!! What is he supposed to do now???? Go on a worldwide search for the iPhone's owner??? He found it, tried to contact the owner, wasn't possible then keep it. These "Holier than thou" people are really annoying. Stop being moral police, if you can help this guy's question then do so, otherwise why even bother posting.
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Exactly. This forum is full of people like that. I do enjoy browsing, but it definitely gets old.
 
I found an iPhone once. I turned it off immediately, restored, jailbreaked, and unlocked it when I got home. Put it on craigslist and sold it for a cool $250.

And there's nothing any of you can do it about it.
 
iPhone 62S said:
Turn the phone completely off, then hold down the home and power buttons at the same time until you get a iTunes icon on the screen, then plug it into a computer with iTunes installed and hit "Restore".

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Simples!
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Simples pic, LOL
 
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