found an iphone 4 but it wont work

[MrFug]

Finders keepers eh? When you find something expensive you must take reasonable steps to reunite the item with it's owner. Ideally, you should use the handset phonebook to trace the owner or even hand the phone into your local cop chop. They will return the phone after around 6 weeks if the true owner hasn't come forward.

[owenb]

use it as a ipod touch it will never be a phone agaain int his country

[Jo-Jo]

i'd deffo hand this in to the police station or trace the owner via the phone book i would be really devistated if i lost my iPhone 4 .

[wetdog]

u will still see there phone book tho . must be a name like mom dad or girlfriend ?

or boyfriend. come on micky get with the times

at least make some kind of attempt to reunite the phone and owner.
i dont think you have any interest in returning the phone, your first post was 'how do i get it working' which indicates you had already made up your mind to keep it.

come on dude, return the phone and get the kudos off here

mick.

[Evastar]

surely the mobile phone network know who owns the phone, they can't be that hard to find. put the orginal sim back in and take it to your local mobile shop, it would take them five mins to trace the owner.

a friend of mine lost her mobile last week, the person who found it rang me as i was the last dialled number on it and gave me her name and address for my friend to pick her phone up, she was absolutely delighted to get it back. my daughter has also lost her mobile twice in the last 18 months and the person that found it rang 'home' and i arranged to pick it up. so i guess we've been lucky, three out of three honest people that returned the phones. what would you do if it was your phone?

[Canker_Canison]

O2 will not supply customer details. But if you give them the IMEI & which police station you are handing it into they could easily contact the customer.

Just don't leave them your details as you have flashed the phone. A genuine person would not of done this, only someone who wanted to use it themselves.

For the record it is impossible to change the IMEI on an Iphone since the 2G.

The last time I checked it was only possible to unlock the early versions of the Iphone 4. Since it has been flashed you will not be able to do this.

[paul hick]

thieving robbing bastard,cant afford your own phone so you try and get a found one to work instead of doing the decent thing and handing it in.no chance of you looking in the stored numbers on it as it was probably the first thing you wipped along with all the text messages.hope your earholes turn to arseholes and you shit down your neck.

[wetdog]

thieving robbing bastard,cant afford your own phone so you try and get a found one to work instead of doing the decent thing and handing it in.no chance of you looking in the stored numbers on it as it was probably the first thing you wipped along with all the text messages.hope your earholes turn to arseholes and you shit down your neck.

i really hate it when folk sit on the fence and dont say what they think/feel............

[wetdog]

lets not lose sight of thr fact that it wasnt johnboy1974 who found the phone, but his brother.

i for one overlooked this, so anything that i may have directed johnboys way i retract. but would like my feelings passed on to your brother.

get him to at least try,

mick.

[smirnoff_rules]

True m8 , l would hope someone would hand in a phone l lost , the world is changing for the worst , lm glad that these r blocked these days and r useless to anyone , my son in law lost his in a taxi and phoned the taxi place up and it wasn't handed in but the taxi drivers daughter phoned us and they returned it , and was given 20 notes for his trouble


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[mickydibble]

As far as I'm concerned I have a 3GS and if I lost it I would be mad as a hatter!!! I would just hope that someone like me found it,at least I would know I may? get it back.
I have just got my partner a htc desire hd ! Imagine if she lost it,etc etc and didn't get it back u would be piiissssed. Come on guys DK is not about just answering any question!!
No matter how immoral ,is it?
Everyone likes a good find,I'm sure but not here.

And also no offense to anyone intended including OP and all within. Cheers Micky x

[drawflex]

It's not as if the guy stole it outa someone's handbag or something is it ? Ease up on the guy a bit eh ?

Since he's not able to trace the owners himself.. how likley do you think it would be that if he did hand the phone in... it would be re-united with it's owner ? How hard would the coppers/operator work at tracing it back ?

[xant14]

As a new apple owner myself, you cannot get to the contact book if it has a code lock on.
The phone companies should make the owners id and contact details be clearly seen when trying to operate a phone, that way it could be returned, or if it was a thieving toebag that pinched it, anyone who he took it to for 'repair' could see who's it was.

Not for a minute am I calling you a thieving toebag, I would see if it could be returned if possible.

[DogdySnigwirter]

Can't these new phones be tracked within a couple of metres, switched on remotely and have all the personal data wiped etc ?

[drawflex]

Can't these new phones be tracked within a couple of metres, switched on remotely and have all the personal data wiped etc ?

Yup.. if it's been set-up properly.
But once the simcard is blocked you can no longer do it.