My phone was stolen off of my desk yesterday. Someone walked into my office, unplugged it from my computer and walked off. No one else in my office heard or saw anything (of course!)
My phone is a jailbroken, tethered, 3Gs, running 5.1, and I use straight talk.
I activated "Find my iPhone" when I first got the phone, and had been using google latitude.
Latitude lead me on a wild goose chase all night long - and Find my iphone says my phone is offline. When I call though, it rings, and my instant messenger shows me as "idle" (I am checking on whoever has my phone from other accounts of mine).
Will Find my iphone not work because of my jailbreak?
Is the SIM still in the phone if it rings when I call it?
When will Find my Iphone become online? Ever?
Will Latitude ever give me an accurate location?
Anything else I can do that I haven't thought of? I want the phone back.
Chances are the phone has been restored and is someone's new toy. I would advise getting the new iPhone 4S, can even get it prepaid now, reason being is it cannot be ramdisk booted for ssh access to hack it if you passcode locked it, you then could jailbreak to use tools to protect it from being restored or accessed via wifi, usb, or bluetooth, and you would have a completely protected phone. With a GSM carrier they could just remove the sim to prevent Find My iPhone from working, but would make it a brick until they manually cracked the passcode, haha... Now if you have a CDMA carrier, would require them to take it out of service range or use it in a faraday cage to attempt manually cracking(no easy feat) the passcode without letting them be found via Find My iPhone, excellent... and even if they went through the trouble to keep it from getting service, it would still be a brick without the passcode, so the only thing they could do is dismantle it to part it out...lol
Should call to disable the sim card and if you still have the IMEI, call and report it stolen, maybe it will get blacklisted. Would force them to use it only as a iPod touch. Also, if you had stored passwords to accounts on the phone, I would advise changing your passwords ASAP, in the event they just took out the sim and are rummaging through your stuff.
Last edited by overdrive31; 06-27-2012 at 12:51 PM.
Should call to disable the sim card and if you still have the IMEI, call and report it stolen, maybe it will get blacklisted.
You did offer excellent advice except this part. If oasisfan is using a GSM model iPhone, neither At&t or T-mobile will blacklist a GSM handset, only lock down the mobile # to prevent voice/data/messaging until he gets a new phone active. Once the phone is replaced, the old phone will not use the OP's account anymore. No need to know the IMEI as they will identify the account by the mobile #.
If I'm annoyed and you're annoyed, does that make us a paranoid ??
Sarcasm is a fine art...
"Don't believe everything you think"
It's not a matter of if you win or lose, it's how you assign the blame
There is a National database being constructed for stolen phones to be blacklisted...at the very least they can maybe put the IMEI on a waiting list to be blacklisted once the database is online or hold out for the blacklisting to be implemented to call, only this still doesn't stop the thief from selling it outside the US where it would work.
Chances are the phone has been restored and is someone's new toy. I would advise getting the new iPhone 4S, can even get it prepaid now, reason being is it cannot be ramdisk booted for ssh access to hack it if you passcode locked it, you then could jailbreak to use tools to protect it from being restored or accessed via wifi, usb, or bluetooth, and you would have a completely protected phone. With a GSM carrier they could just remove the sim to prevent Find My iPhone from working, but would make it a brick until they manually cracked the passcode, haha... Now if you have a CDMA carrier, would require them to take it out of service range or use it in a faraday cage to attempt manually cracking(no easy feat) the passcode without letting them be found via Find My iPhone, excellent... and even if they went through the trouble to keep it from getting service, it would still be a brick without the passcode, so the only thing they could do is dismantle it to part it out...lol
I'd like to hear more about those tools.
Unlocked iPhone 5, unlocked iPhone 4
Unlimited airtime, Unlimited CAN/US long distance, Unlimited SMS to CAN/US wireless numbers
2500 Call Forwarding minutes to CAN/US numbers
CiD, 6GB
Google Voice for visual voice mail with message transcription, conditional greetings, unlimited messages (vs 35 message cap), remote retrieval from any PC or phone, no auto-purge after 10 days and most importantly no $7-$8 charge.
$53
-afc2remove tweak to prevent access to jailbreak filesystem over usb
-VPNonly tweak to prevent wifi access if it gets left on
-use a public key instead of password for SSH if you use it to prevent brute force
-keep bluetooth disabled..not sure if there is a tweak other than SBProfiles to control bluetooth. If you needed bluetooth enabled all the time, how easy is it to hack into a iPhone using it?
-afc2remove tweak to prevent access to jailbreak filesystem over usb
-VPNonly tweak to prevent wifi access if it gets left on
-use a public key instead of password for SSH if you use it to prevent brute force
-keep bluetooth disabled..not sure if there is a tweak other than SBProfiles to control bluetooth. If you needed bluetooth enabled all the time, how easy is it to hack into a iPhone using it?
What are the sources on cydia for all of these tweaks?
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