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Stolen iPhone

I'm also wondering if you had any data services running.

The bill should be able to indicate when data was sent and received. Based on how full the battery was when the phone went missing it should be possible to tell if it was turned off or eventually drained all the power.

A stolen phone would have been likely turned off right away. So if you see data going through a couple days after it's probably just lost.
 
If you left WiFi on you could have found your phone in the house before it died. How soon did you try and call it? Can you identify a phone call (only if answered) at the very moment the 'Barking' occurred?
 
Bonkey said:
Nope. :( I talked to an AT&T guy tonight and he said he didn't understand why people would steal them...he seemed to think you couldn't use them without registering them through AT&T. He did say T-mobile was compatable, but it was really hard to do.
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It's not hard to unlock an iPhone.
 
Bonkey said:
Oh, I did tell the alarm company and they made him give up his cell...which was some flip phone, definitely not an iPhone. It wasn't charged and the company charged the phone over night and checked to see if it had a dog bark ring...They say it did. I find it very coincidental but I am dropping it. That is why I want to know if the dog bark ring is exclusive to the iPhone or if there is a way to track it. ;)
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nickspohn said:
It is exclusive, but have you checked to see if he has made any calls / used EDGE?
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The dog barking is not exclusive to the iPhone. It very easy to put almost any ring tone on any phone. It takes a very minor amount of know how to make a ring tone from an MP3 and then put it on ones phone.

In 5 mins I could easies put a dog barking from the iPhone on my Sony phone and make it my ring tone.
 
ethernet76 said:
I'm also wondering if you had any data services running.

The bill should be able to indicate when data was sent and received. Based on how full the battery was when the phone went missing it should be possible to tell if it was turned off or eventually drained all the power.

A stolen phone would have been likely turned off right away. So if you see data going through a couple days after it's probably just lost.
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No data after 6pm that night...there was something sent that was 256KB around that time and then nothing more.

ntrigue said:
If you left WiFi on you could have found your phone in the house before it died. How soon did you try and call it? Can you identify a phone call (only if answered) at the very moment the 'Barking' occurred?
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How could I have tracked it? I realized it was probably stolen the next day. I kept telling myself that the dog ringer was just a coincidence...and it looks like it was. The guy's phone had a dog bark ringer.


Thanks for all of your help guys. :)
 
Rodimus Prime said:
In 5 mins I could easies put a dog barking from the iPhone on my Sony phone and make it my ring tone.
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The odds of him having the dog bark ringtone...and he heard it come from the guy...and now his iphone is missing... it was "exclusive" in this case :rolleyes:


What is the status? Anything info turn up yet?
 
Nothing. I dropped it when the guy's flip phone had the same exact ring...I just couldn't bring myself to press it any further, especially if I wasn't 100 percent sure and he would have lost his license to do alarms and his job.

It sucks, but it happens.
 
Some Japanese mockup. I think it was available like a week before our iPhones were released. I wanted to buy one to see if it even turns on, but it's just a fake.
 
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