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wrinkster22

wrinkster22

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Jun 11, 2011
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Today my iPad mini was stolen from me. It had a passcode on it. I want to know how it will connect to internet. I thought that to get a notification from iCloud/find my iPhone the iPad needs to be connected to internet.
Please help me!
 
wrinkster22 said:
Today my iPad mini was stolen from me. It had a passcode on it. I want to know how it will connect to internet. I thought that to get a notification from iCloud/find my iPhone the iPad needs to be connected to internet.
Please help me!
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Yes, it does need to be connected to the internet for you to send a message to it or wipe it through iCloud. If it's a cellular iPad, that shouldn't be too hard. If it's wifi only, the thief will need to connect to wifi. If they don't, there's not much you can do.

However, if it's running iOS 7, they will not be able to restore and use it without knowing your iCloud account name and password. Not much consolation, but hey..
 
How was it stolen?

Sadly, most thieves brazen enough to committ grand theft (depending on the iPad, but it can be, crazy as it sounds) know enough to not connect it wirelessly.

If it had been linked/secured through iCloud it's better than nothing, but thieves also realize that parts are valuable too and may never even bother turning it on.

Hope it works out. Time to call insurance and get a police report.

Sorry to hear it. It's only money, you can always make more.
 
Yeah people will steal anything with an Apple logo on it these days. Hopefully you had iOS 7 installed and the thief won't be able to do anything with it except sell for parts and get a few dollars.
 
Apple Trees said:
Yeah people will steal anything with an Apple logo on it these days. Hopefully you had iOS 7 installed and the thief won't be able to do anything with it except sell for parts and get a few dollars.
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itjw said:
How was it stolen?

Sadly, most thieves brazen enough to committ grand theft (depending on the iPad, but it can be, crazy as it sounds) know enough to not connect it wirelessly.

If it had been linked/secured through iCloud it's better than nothing, but thieves also realize that parts are valuable too and may never even bother turning it on.

Hope it works out. Time to call insurance and get a police report.

Sorry to hear it. It's only money, you can always make more.
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Tyler23 said:
Yes, it does need to be connected to the internet for you to send a message to it or wipe it through iCloud. If it's a cellular iPad, that shouldn't be too hard. If it's wifi only, the thief will need to connect to wifi. If they don't, there's not much you can do.

However, if it's running iOS 7, they will not be able to restore and use it without knowing your iCloud account name and password. Not much consolation, but hey..
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Thank you everyone for your quick replies I really do appreciate it. Its the first generation iPad mini Wi-Fi only. It is running IOS 7. I was sitting down and turned around and suddenly it was missing. Less then a minute and someone swiped it. I do use iCloud and sent out a bunch of notifications but I guess it will not connect to the internet ever again. Luckily I purchased it on a credit card that covers stolen products within x months. Thanks for the sympathy I appreciate it everyone! I am bummed out but at least all my photos (Yes I use my iPad for taking pictures, sorry for the social awkwardness) I have since checked are on my photo stream.
 
Odds are against ever seeing it again. Most likely it's going to get sold for parts on ebay or something. Keep an eye on ebay in your area maybe you'll get lucky. I know a guy that had his stolen. He found it in ebay. He bid and won it and then had the guys name and address. Went to pick it up and took the police with him. They couldn't prove he stole it but nailed him for possession of stolen property.
 
Sorry this happened to you.
If it's any consolation, the thief probably thought or was hoping it was the mini retina, so there is at least that.

Plus, time to (sadly) change your sig line. . .

:(
 
wrinkster22 said:
Thank you everyone for your quick replies I really do appreciate it. Its the first generation iPad mini Wi-Fi only. It is running IOS 7. I was sitting down and turned around and suddenly it was missing. Less then a minute and someone swiped it. I do use iCloud and sent out a bunch of notifications but I guess it will not connect to the internet ever again. Luckily I purchased it on a credit card that covers stolen products within x months. Thanks for the sympathy I appreciate it everyone! I am bummed out but at least all my photos (Yes I use my iPad for taking pictures, sorry for the social awkwardness) I have since checked are on my photo stream.
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Never leave your devices unattended in public. Never.
 
ninety5eclipz said:
Odds are against ever seeing it again. Most likely it's going to get sold for parts on ebay or something. Keep an eye on ebay in your area maybe you'll get lucky. I know a guy that had his stolen. He found it in ebay. He bid and won it and then had the guys name and address. Went to pick it up and took the police with him. They couldn't prove he stole it but nailed him for possession of stolen property.
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braddick said:
Sorry this happened to you.
If it's any consolation, the thief probably thought or was hoping it was the mini retina, so there is at least that.

Plus, time to (sadly) change your sig line. . .

:(
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617aircav said:
Never leave your devices unattended in public. Never.
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By some miracle the iPad was recovered. Now i just need to prove who did it and debating placing criminal charges for theft under $1000. And oops your right I should change my sig.
 
ugcop said:
Well, tell us the rest of the story....
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I was in a relatively small class. There were 35 people and two staff. The iPad was stolen and I reported it immediately to the TA. She called down the monitors who searched everyones bag. The iPad was still not found but one student left in the middle of the class to the doctors. The school called there parents and told them that they suspect they have the iPad. The parents searched the thief's bag and found it. I called the parents and they said they had the iPad. The part that bothers me also is that when I got it back it was disabled for 5 more minutes. Meaning that between the time the parents found it and i picked it up he tried to get into it.
 
wrinkster22 said:
I was in a relatively small class. There were 35 people and two staff. The iPad was stolen and I reported it immediately to the TA. She called down the monitors who searched everyones bag. The iPad was still not found but one student left in the middle of the class to the doctors. The school called there parents and told them that they suspect they have the iPad. The parents searched the thief's bag and found it. I called the parents and they said they had the iPad. The part that bothers me also is that when I got it back it was disabled for 5 more minutes. Meaning that between the time the parents found it and i picked it up he tried to get into it.
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Bravo for the school being proactive. Not sure that would have happened down here in sue, sue land.

Congratulations!
 
And don't even think about not prosecuting. If you don't, the guy will have a laugh at your expense, and these people need to be taught a lesson. A criminal record will hamper him / her and that's how it should be. All my stuff is totally covered by insurance, but I would ALWAYS proceeed with charges whatever the item.
 
Yeah, don't pity them. They didn't pity you when they tried to swipe your iPad.
 
I have posted this somewhere else, I will post it again here.

If you lose iOS device that have iOS 7 installed and find my phone enabled, don't give up. Sooner or later the person who finds it or the thief is going to get your message with your contact details. The person below in a story, who bought a stolen iPad Air on eBay got the message from the owner when she was trying to activate the iPad as a new product.

BvizioN said:
This is really a good story that happen just last week to one of my work friends and it shows how beautifully find my iPhone and activation lock are implemented.

She bought last December an iPad Air for her husband who works frequently abroad and does lots of flying. On the way back from Belgium to Manchester he forgot the iPad air in the plane. He got back to the airline staff but no luck! iPad had disappeared. Not in a lost and found either. So he kind of give up.

So she (Sue) tells me 2 days after about her husband loosing the iPad she had given to him as a Christmas present and I asked her if she did try to look for it on find my phone. It didn't surprised me to much when she said she had not idea what that was. So I asked her if she knows her husbands apple ID details (she had them) and asked her to sign on iCloud.com

The lost iPad seemed to be off line. I asked her to activate the Lost Mode and enter her contact details, which she did. Now all she can do is just wait for that phone call! I have to say she was quite amazed by the fact she did not know any of this stuff was possible.

Several day passed. And then all the sudden she got a call from a lady in Northern Ireland. She said she bough an iPad on eBay and was trying to activate but a message comes up saying this iPad have been lost and please call me on ## number. The person who sold the iPad to her did describe it as bought from someone from a paper but did not get the activation details so he could not activate it. So she bought it from this guy (almost brand new iPad air 16GB, for £150) She bought it for her daughter.

My friend Sue explained to her that this is an iPad that have been lost, found by (quite possibly airline staff) and she should get in touch with ebay and PayPal to get a refund. She demanded to have her iPad returned to her. The lady from Northern Ireland give Sue the transaction details on eBay and Sue got in touch with the seller. Not surprisingly he appeared to be someone working at the airport. He had no option but to admit he did find the iPad and he sold it on eBay, he said he would be happy to refund the buyer and did beg Sue to not report him (he would probably been kicked out of his job)

So the buyer got refunded for the missing iPad she bought on eBay and she have just send it to Sue by special delivery today. Sue is going to put the iPad on his little office desk as a surprise for him to find when he gets back from abroad.
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This is incredible.

But ABSOLUTELY press charges. The fact is, had it not been for some over-reaching search (and something that would undoubtedly never happen here... you would be the one getting sued lol) you would never see it again and he would have gotten away with it!

Teach him (and his parents) a valuable lesson: there are CONSEQUENCES for stealing. If you let him get away with it, he'll just do it again, and next time he'll only be smarter.

Throw the book at him, and maybe he'll think twice next time.

(Or maybe he'l turn into a hardened criminal drug lord that will haunt you forever... but at least you have good health care up there!)

Seriously though, go nuts. I would. It's not about revenge, it's about right and wrong.

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BvizioN said:
I have posted this somewhere else, I will post it again here.

If you lose iOS device that have iOS 7 installed and find my phone enabled, don't give up. Sooner or later the person who finds it or the thief is going to get your message with your contact details. The person below in a story, who bought a stolen iPad Air on eBay got the message from the owner when she was trying to activate the iPad as a new product.
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This is true for the most part, but lately the gig has been PARTS. While it is a lot harder to work on an iPad, parts aren't cheaper, and just because the logic board is locked doesn't mean anything else is.

It's sad, but most stolen iDevices are probably gone forever.

Still worth a try, and the story was (and is here) great, but they are the 1 in (probably) 1000.

Be safe out there people... I tell my wife that if she wouldn't put a stack of hundred dollar bills where she puts her phone, don't put the phone there either!
 
wrinkster22 said:
Today my iPad mini was stolen from me. It had a passcode on it. I want to know how it will connect to internet. I thought that to get a notification from iCloud/find my iPhone the iPad needs to be connected to internet.
Please help me!
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That is correct. You can log in and put it into lost mode etc. In order for anyone to use it they will have to either guess your passcode or attempt to restore it. Which is why you do NOT want to hit the link that says 'remove from account'. That way even if they erase it, they won't be able to get it to activate. And Apple won't do crap to help them (they have to know the email address as part of the security protocol)
 
Sorry to hear that. It sucks. I had my iPhone 4s with iOS6 someone took it when I fell asleep on the bus I had iPad with me in my messenger bag. I put iPhone on lost mode with my relay number but someone did called and refused to leave message several times I have a gut feeling someone want a reward. I am not paying for reward just because someone took it away! :apple:
 
At least make sure it gets into the school record that he is a thief.

It might destroy his chances of a quality education later in life... but heck if that happens, he deserves it anyway.

Likely it would only kill some scholarships and entry into some top tier schools where academic honesty is a trait they look for.
 
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