Had a bit of a roller coaster evening today....
Have been working in Manc land and was on my way back home when my missus must have rang me about 10-15 times repeatedly (I was already on the phone talking to a work colleague), anyway to cut a long story short she calls me in hysterics because my daughter had lost her iPhone on the bus as she was going into Liverpool town center....typical woman over exaggeration and making absolutely no sense when your trying to get some real detail out of her.
Luckily she remembered that I was able to track my daughters iPhone, now this isn't the stupid rubbish apple offering as I tried to use it, and of course its inability to accurately pinpoint the location and lack of features meant that I may as well of just kissed the phone goodbye, so i use iLocalis, which can only be run on a Jailbroken phone, and it also offers a significant amount of additional features.
After several screaming sessions and a lesson on how to use a browser (god it can be so frustrating with complete technophobes) and at the same time me trying to drive at 80 through 50Mph roadworks, with some Muppet afterwards sitting in the outside lane doing 60 (FFS people outside lane....60Mph....please learn to find the accelerator pedal) I manage to get her onto the website. Then a further level of frustration trying to talk her through the options and what to do, without success which by that time I was about 15 minutes away from home....
Gets in, fires up the web app, finds out that the phone had been turned off at x time at the bus station, also got a picture of the little shit that had it (on failed unlocks it will take a pic on a camera). Also set the update to real time, sent a message to it so when it was turned on it would pop up and set the phone to lock (just a black screen which renders it useless)
Anyway, 19:20, the phone pops up at a house in Liverpool, now it turns up in an area that I would say, is probably not one of the best for community spirit or its social friendly way, in fact there are some quite low down characters, so next thing is that after about 5 minutes of watching the phone not move, it was quite obviously switched off again (you can set the phone so that they can't power it down, but you can circumvent this if you try to put it in DFU mode). I thought it best given the fact her inability to navigate a browser I stayed and she went along with a friend, just in case the phone moved etc, which in hindsight was probably a bad idea (and not just a woman thing)
Missus takes the picture, find the house and again in typical over aggravated woman style knocks at the door and demands that the woman tells her who the picture is of, without any explanation. Now naturally as I would do, you would tell someone to piss off and close the door....which she did, and then wouldn't answer. I gets a call with her shouting off about getting the police and that she had spoken to some drug dealer next door who was like, i don't care if i have to get the phone myself I don't want the police here (for natural reasons).
So, goes up there myself and in between me leaving, getting a myriad of "hurry up calls as the area is dodgy" I finally get's there, knocks several times before she answers, explains the situation and the woman calls her son. I even took printout's from Google maps highlighting her house and the iLocalis logs to show the road, and 10m range of where the phone was, last location etc etc. The son apparently in her conversation with him acts decidedly shady and she tells him to get home (hes about 17-18)
10 minutes later he turns up. The missus after me telling her once already to go sit in the car with her sister, shoves the picture in the lads facing shouting "do you know him eh" (My immediate thought was Jesus love calm down, but I let it slide),
Explains, that I'm not arsed about the wheres and why for and says I just want it back, he replies with "yep, its a mate from college" and I have the phone upstairs....
He comes back down, passes the phone back minus the case, with a scratch across the front, apologizes, says he's feels bad and that he kinda thought "finders keepers etc". Told him not to worry, left with phone in hand.
Gets it home and it looks like he placed in in DFU mode as he couldn't get in. Kicks it out and the phone is disabled (60 min i think), but finally manages to login.
So the story is, F*** you apple for you condescending self righteous attitude to all things open source and you're blatant lack of support for developers outside your circle of trust, but thank you to Cydia Jailbreaking, and iLocalis.
Have been working in Manc land and was on my way back home when my missus must have rang me about 10-15 times repeatedly (I was already on the phone talking to a work colleague), anyway to cut a long story short she calls me in hysterics because my daughter had lost her iPhone on the bus as she was going into Liverpool town center....typical woman over exaggeration and making absolutely no sense when your trying to get some real detail out of her.
Luckily she remembered that I was able to track my daughters iPhone, now this isn't the stupid rubbish apple offering as I tried to use it, and of course its inability to accurately pinpoint the location and lack of features meant that I may as well of just kissed the phone goodbye, so i use iLocalis, which can only be run on a Jailbroken phone, and it also offers a significant amount of additional features.
After several screaming sessions and a lesson on how to use a browser (god it can be so frustrating with complete technophobes) and at the same time me trying to drive at 80 through 50Mph roadworks, with some Muppet afterwards sitting in the outside lane doing 60 (FFS people outside lane....60Mph....please learn to find the accelerator pedal) I manage to get her onto the website. Then a further level of frustration trying to talk her through the options and what to do, without success which by that time I was about 15 minutes away from home....
Gets in, fires up the web app, finds out that the phone had been turned off at x time at the bus station, also got a picture of the little shit that had it (on failed unlocks it will take a pic on a camera). Also set the update to real time, sent a message to it so when it was turned on it would pop up and set the phone to lock (just a black screen which renders it useless)
Anyway, 19:20, the phone pops up at a house in Liverpool, now it turns up in an area that I would say, is probably not one of the best for community spirit or its social friendly way, in fact there are some quite low down characters, so next thing is that after about 5 minutes of watching the phone not move, it was quite obviously switched off again (you can set the phone so that they can't power it down, but you can circumvent this if you try to put it in DFU mode). I thought it best given the fact her inability to navigate a browser I stayed and she went along with a friend, just in case the phone moved etc, which in hindsight was probably a bad idea (and not just a woman thing)
Missus takes the picture, find the house and again in typical over aggravated woman style knocks at the door and demands that the woman tells her who the picture is of, without any explanation. Now naturally as I would do, you would tell someone to piss off and close the door....which she did, and then wouldn't answer. I gets a call with her shouting off about getting the police and that she had spoken to some drug dealer next door who was like, i don't care if i have to get the phone myself I don't want the police here (for natural reasons).
So, goes up there myself and in between me leaving, getting a myriad of "hurry up calls as the area is dodgy" I finally get's there, knocks several times before she answers, explains the situation and the woman calls her son. I even took printout's from Google maps highlighting her house and the iLocalis logs to show the road, and 10m range of where the phone was, last location etc etc. The son apparently in her conversation with him acts decidedly shady and she tells him to get home (hes about 17-18)
10 minutes later he turns up. The missus after me telling her once already to go sit in the car with her sister, shoves the picture in the lads facing shouting "do you know him eh" (My immediate thought was Jesus love calm down, but I let it slide),
Explains, that I'm not arsed about the wheres and why for and says I just want it back, he replies with "yep, its a mate from college" and I have the phone upstairs....
He comes back down, passes the phone back minus the case, with a scratch across the front, apologizes, says he's feels bad and that he kinda thought "finders keepers etc". Told him not to worry, left with phone in hand.
Gets it home and it looks like he placed in in DFU mode as he couldn't get in. Kicks it out and the phone is disabled (60 min i think), but finally manages to login.
So the story is, F*** you apple for you condescending self righteous attitude to all things open source and you're blatant lack of support for developers outside your circle of trust, but thank you to Cydia Jailbreaking, and iLocalis.
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