Finding a stolen phone

palandri

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How would I go about finding a phone that is not registered through Windows LIVE?

What you can do is report it to the police as stolen and also give them list of calls made on the phone after it was stolen. You should be able to get a list of calls made off you AT&T account.
 

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Gsm phone? you're sol no police are going to waste time on that. Person who took it got a new phone gratz to them.

Hope you had insurance. Get ready to pay that deductible.

And yes it sucks. I've been there.

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Registering it on live won't help the tracking isn't real time and it's useless once they take the sim card out. If your phone is locked they will be forced to factory reset it which will wipe all of that out anyways. Live provides faster tracking via SMS, which won't work with the phones sim card pulled out.

Those services are useless in all cases except when you misplace your device in your house or a relatives, or something like that.

The best way to track a phone is to get a court ordered search warrant to the carrier for imei tracking, and that won't happen unless you got robbed an attempted murder.


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Thanks for the replies. The reason for this thread was that my girlfriend got her Trophy taken from a party. She doesn't know much about these new-fangled services on smartphones and AT&T didn't register Windows LIVE when they set her phone up for her.

Thankfully it was a friend that accidentally picked her phone up and she got it back a couple of days later.


I have set up those service for her now.
 

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Thanks for the replies. The reason for this thread was that my girlfriend got her Trophy taken from a party. She doesn't know much about these new-fangled services on smartphones and AT&T didn't register Windows LIVE when they set her phone up for her.

Thankfully it was a friend that accidentally picked her phone up and she got it back a couple of days later.


I have set up those service for her now.

I thought the Trophy was a Verizon phone, no ?
 

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I thought the Trophy was a Verizon phone, no ?

haha, look at you reading between the lines, nice job because that is a good question, haha

But he has a Focus so maybe a Freudian slip?

Why are people exchanging phones at a party? Even if you let someone see it to play around with it...why are you letting them run off with your hundreds of dollars toy?
 

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Thanks for the replies. The reason for this thread was that my girlfriend got her Trophy taken from a party. She doesn't know much about these new-fangled services on smartphones and AT&T didn't register Windows LIVE when they set her phone up for her.

Thankfully it was a friend that accidentally picked her phone up and she got it back a couple of days later.


I have set up those service for her now.

Yea, those services are decent for finding it at a friends house. They're useless and a waste of battery life if the phone actually got taken, like when my Vibrant was swiped in a mall nothing could help it cause the person who picked it up turned it off and took the SIM card out the minute I started calling it.

I don't think these things will ever truly be secure until there is a way to put a lock code on factory resets, TBQH. I cannot believe no one came up with a solution for that yet. Being able to factory reset so easily via 3-button method makes almost every GSM phone a jackpot if found or stolen.
 

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haha, look at you reading between the lines, nice job because that is a good question, haha

But he has a Focus so maybe a Freudian slip?

Why are people exchanging phones at a party? Even if you let someone see it to play around with it...why are you letting them run off with your hundreds of dollars toy?

Ah yes, my mistake. It is a Quantum, the one with the keyboard.

No one was exchanging phones, she had hers connected to the music player and someone disconnected it, placed it on a table, and started playing from their phone. It was then taken from the table.
 

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Yea, those services are decent for finding it at a friends house. They're useless and a waste of battery life if the phone actually got taken, like when my Vibrant was swiped in a mall nothing could help it cause the person who picked it up turned it off and took the SIM card out the minute I started calling it.

I don't think these things will ever truly be secure until there is a way to put a lock code on factory resets, TBQH. I cannot believe no one came up with a solution for that yet. Being able to factory reset so easily via 3-button method makes almost every GSM phone a jackpot if found or stolen.

funny you mentioned this...... i remember some of the old nokia and motorola feature phones of yersteryear had this exact implementation....yet all these smartphones have almost nothing in the way of this.
 

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