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Found a Phone - Nexus 5

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  • 28-05-2014 12:41pm
    #1
    Bubonic
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I picked a phone off the seat of a taxi at about 1am last night thinking it was mine, only to find a while later that I had two phones.

    Its a Nexus 5. I've attached a picture of the front screen of it. As you can see its
    sim locked, so anyone who comes to collect it would have to know the pin.

    Someone might recognise the guy in the picture.


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    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    You should alert the Carraige Office. If the person knows they left it in a taxi, then they will be looking for it from there.


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    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    You should alert the Carraige Office. If the person knows they left it in a taxi, then they will be looking for it from there.

    You can contact the network and tell them. they will contact the user


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    #4
    Bubonic
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Bubonic


    Agent Smith wrote: »
    You can contact the network and tell them. they will contact the user

    Good point, but if the phone is sim locked what information can I give them? Sim number?


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    the_syco
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    Turn off phone. Open up phone. Remove battery. Some people write their name and address here in case they lose their phone.

    Unfortunately, some of the more stupid people also give their contact number, which just so happens to be the phone you have found...


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    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,577 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    the_syco wrote: »
    Turn off phone. Open up phone. Remove battery. Some people write their name and address here in case they lose their phone.

    Unfortunately, some of the more stupid people also give their contact number, which just so happens to be the phone you have found...

    Can't remove the battery or open up an N5,

    Maybe leave it on and charge it? Any android charger will do!

    Then try carriage office I would say?

    The sim is on the side of the phone, you would have to pry it open with a little needle thing, may give you name and number but you risk powering it off at that... ;-(


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    Bubonic
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Bubonic


    Fieldog wrote: »
    Can't remove the battery or open up an N5,

    Maybe leave it on and charge it? Any android charger will do!

    Then try carriage office I would say?

    The sim is on the side of the phone, you would have to pry it open with a little needle thing, may give you name and number but you risk powering it off at that... ;-(

    The Carriage Office don't do lost items any more, you have to push it through the guards. But there are 5 different numbers listed, no way of knowing which one is local to the owner.


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    surpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 383 ✭✭surpy


    its only sim locked, take the sim out and check their emails / facebook


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    surpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 383 ✭✭surpy


    or pull down on the notification bar, that should bypass that lock


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    bmm
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bmm


    Branding will be on the sim, so you get the correct network.


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    Bubonic
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Bubonic


    bmm wrote: »
    Branding will be on the sim, so you get the correct network.

    Yeah, its vodafone, so I guess I will just drop it in to a vodafone store.


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    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,577 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Bubonic wrote: »
    Yeah, its vodafone, so I guess I will just drop it in to a vodafone store.

    Vodafone don't do Nexus phones!

    They are bought sim free from Google, try get a number out of it from the "people" app...

    Pop your own sim in and try it....


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    Bubonic
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Bubonic


    Fieldog wrote: »
    Vodafone don't do Nexus phones!

    They are bought sim free from Google, try get a number out of it from the "people" app...

    Pop your own sim in and try it....

    Tried that, it has a software pin on it too.


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    surpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 383 ✭✭surpy


    Plug it into a pc. Check for any files.
    might be a cv or some photos on there.
    if you can find a photo that looks like it was taken at home upload it to a exif data checker and see if you can get a google maps address

    http://regex.info/exif.cgi


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    Mimikyu
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    Bubonic
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Bubonic


    Captain Morgan wrote: »
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    I think that is the best chance, I'll drop in to a store and see if the can read the sim.


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    reddevilfan
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭reddevilfan


    Bubonic wrote: »
    I think that is the best chance, I'll drop in to a store and see if the can read the sim.

    had any look with it


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    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Can you bring up the address book?

    I found a new Iphone 5 a few weeks ago...lucky i was able to open the contacts. All the names were foreign but i found a "Mamo", called it and it was the girls mother...20 mins later and i had a huge foreign lady hugging me and babbling to me (think she was happy!!).

    Fair play to you OP.


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