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Find my iPhone iOS 4.2.1

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kiantech

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I want to use the new free find my iPhone feature on my iPhone 4. When I try to add a 'mobile me' account it asks for my apple id. When I try to sign in it says verifying...then says my password is wrong (and yes Im using the right ID/pw. Anyone else have this problem?
 
i love this.. i never had mobile me so the ability to display messages on someone elses phone is awesome [considering i pretty much know all the log in for my family so pranking would be alot of fun]
 
Setting up Find my iPhone account

Hey, am using an iPod Touch 2G. I wanted to set up the new Find my iPhone account but I don't have the iPhone or the iTouch 4G.

Can anyone please setup the account for me. It would be grateful. Mail me on: skyperbon@gmail.com

will give you the id and password to set up.

Thanks in advance.
 
I dont think it would work on 2g.

Edit:

My mistake, I meant to say it wont work if its not updated to the OS 3.0 or higher.
 
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mufadal84 said:
i love this.. i never had mobile me so the ability to display messages on someone elses phone is awesome [considering i pretty much know all the log in for my family so pranking would be alot of fun]
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Ditto. This new feature is awesome! :apple:
 
I got it to accept my password, sent out the verification. The mobileme account still isn't verfied, anyone know how long it takes. I figure it may be awhile with everyone doing it now.
 
skyperbon said:
@mufadal84: Thanks a lot for the fast reply. Didn't realise that 2G was not supported.
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Find my iPhone does work with any iDevice running iOS 3.1 or later. I've got my kid's 2G iPod Touch set up. Now this is with the full MobileMe paid version, I can't speak for if they've changed anything with the free Find My iPhone (obviously the signing up is different since you have to do that from a current iOS device but you know that already).
 
skyperbon said:
@mufadal84: Thanks a lot for the fast reply. Didn't realise that 2G was not supported.
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All iOS devices support Find My iPhone (even the original iPhone and original iPod touch) - you need iPhone OS 3.0 or higher.

To activate the free service, you need the latest iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.
 
kiantech said:
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I want to use the new free find my iPhone feature on my iPhone 4. When I try to add a 'mobile me' account it asks for my apple id. When I try to sign in it says verifying...then says my password is wrong (and yes Im using the right ID/pw. Anyone else have this problem?
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I was having problems too, so I just typed my password into a word doc then pasted it into the password field on Mobile me, seemed to work fine.
 
If you're having trouble with Find my iPhone where it says it needs an e-mail and the password might be incorrect, go to appleid.apple.com .
From there login to it with your AppleID and check to make sure your AppleID matches the e-mail address you provided if not there should be a box for you to submit so that all that matches. You can also check to see if your e-mail has been verified, if it hasn't it won't have a checkmark saying verified. Double check all that.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/find-my-iphone-setup/
Should help you get started.
 
anyone else having issues trying to find their phone? the account continues to ask me to type in my password, but it doesn't let me in.

i have reset my password and everything.
 
forcetactic said:
Does this use constant 3G connection to keep gps updated every few min?
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No.

When you use the feature, Apple will contact your iOS device and tell it to send its current location back to Apple. It'll then be displayed to you on me.com or in the Find My iPhone app.

Your device should only use GPS for a few seconds when doing this. If your iOS device is able to use Wi-Fi, it should send it over the Wi-Fi network.
 
I am a MobileMe subscriber and had Find my iPhone for some time. After the 4.2.1 update it didn't work and I had the exact same issue as the others. All I did was reenabling the feature on my iPhone (by disabling and then enabling it), and it worked after that...
 
Do you have to be on 4.2.1 on your iPhone 4 for this to work, considering the fact that you can add older 3.x devices?

Password and gmail addy (Apple ID) arent going through so just wondered.
 
I am really frustrated. I am having no luck accessing where my iphone is at www.me.com. It asks me over and over again to enter my password without showing anything.
 
OMGitsShan said:
Do you have to be on 4.2.1 on your iPhone 4 for this to work, considering the fact that you can add older 3.x devices?

Password and gmail addy (Apple ID) arent going through so just wondered.
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To set it up for the first time you need to have iOS 4.2.1 or higher on a current generation device (iPhone 4, iPod touch 4th Generation or iPad).

The feature works on devices running older iOS versions once you have an account that can use the service.
 
I changed both of my ID's and primary email to the same thing - but when I add mobileme to the accounts on my iPod, it says it's sent an email to my old primary email address, and haven't received the email on either of the accounts.
 
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