Hi Carlo and Ronni Thanks for that. No, unfortunately there was no passcode set ( a lesson there for everyone reading this) and the police asked for the IMEI but not the phone carrier. We will be following that up tomorrow, mean while I keep trying to locate it until it is locked.
Cheers for now Pedro Sent from my iPad On 11/04/2011, at 22:36, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Pedro, > > As Carlo has mentioned Phone your Partner's carrier & get them to block the > IEMI number. > Even if they guess the passcode if the IMEI number is blocked it will then > make it unusable in Australia. > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 11/04/2011, at 10:17 PM, cm <cm200...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi Pedro, >> >> Luckily mobile phones have an International Mobile Equipment Identity or >> IMEI that is burned in the GSM chip. This number cannot be changed or erased >> and is used by the cell network to identify a given phone. The phone will >> broadcast this number when it is switched on even if a call is not being >> made. The carrier could block a given IMEI to make a phone useless >> throughout Australia. >> >> Just out of curiosity did your girlfriend have her phone password protected? >> If so I guess they must have found the phone unlocked turned of "Find my >> iPhone" before the timeout period. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> >> On 2011-04-11, at 21:36, Pedro wrote: >> >>> >>> Evening all >>> >>> After spending a weekend with my new iPad2 ( yeh!) I have been brought back >>> down to earth with news that my partner had her iPhone4 stolen today. >>> >>> We did the whole find my phone thing but my guess is that it was turned it >>> off straight away as it could not be found. I have tested it awhile ago and >>> it worked fine. >>> The phone carrier has been notified and a new sim has been issued and the >>> number changed over. >>> I have sent a remote lock and a message and my question is this, if they >>> take the sim card out replace it with a new one can it still be tracked. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Pedro >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
