Caper11
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During the September long weekend we went out camping and quading south of edson.
We decided to try out the Robb Snowmobile trail and had alot of fun making progress through the muskeg.
We eventually made our way to a cut block, it was very rough, almost like it was tilled. Half way through we decided to walk to find the trail head. Walking back to our quads I happened to see a phone, picked it up amd it was a Iphone XR, small crack in the screen but in pretty good shape.
When we got back to camp, I cleaned the charge port and plugged it in. After about a hour I tried turning it on and it did.
Date on the phone said May 9th. Thought that was cool, and never gave it much thought the whole weekend till I got it home cause it was locked.
Of course there is no way of getting into these phones if they have been locked, I tried a factory restore and got into the new phone setup screen, but that only gets you so far till it asks for the Icloud login, and password from the original owner. I had some spare time today and was able to see the SN and the sim card number. I decided to take it down to the telus store and see if they knew tricks to identify who owned the phone.
He took the sim card out and identified that it was a Rogers sim card. I gave Rogers a call and the guy on the phone was not very helpful at first, I was asking for his help not the customers personal info. He told me he found a name and number, I asked him to call the number and he was reluctant cause the customer switched carriers. I asked him to try, so he put me on hold.
After about 5min on hold he came back on the line with an enthused tone telling me “you’re not going to believe this but that number was the person who lost his phone, he wants you to call him”. The Rodgers agent gave me his number and I called him.
I got to talking to this fellow from Calgary and he explained that he lost it hunting in a cut block south of edson, in may of last year!!! Ok now Im impressed, that Iphone sat in the dirt with all the rain of last summer, the winter, and the rain from this summer and it still turned on with no other preparations other than cleaning the charge port!!!
I got the fellows info, and shipped it out to him this afternoon.
I’m pretty stoked that I found the owner, let alone impressed that the phone survived in the elements for a year and a half, it was turned on for almost a week in my desk drawer, so im pretty sure its still a good phone.
We decided to try out the Robb Snowmobile trail and had alot of fun making progress through the muskeg.
We eventually made our way to a cut block, it was very rough, almost like it was tilled. Half way through we decided to walk to find the trail head. Walking back to our quads I happened to see a phone, picked it up amd it was a Iphone XR, small crack in the screen but in pretty good shape.
When we got back to camp, I cleaned the charge port and plugged it in. After about a hour I tried turning it on and it did.
Date on the phone said May 9th. Thought that was cool, and never gave it much thought the whole weekend till I got it home cause it was locked.
Of course there is no way of getting into these phones if they have been locked, I tried a factory restore and got into the new phone setup screen, but that only gets you so far till it asks for the Icloud login, and password from the original owner. I had some spare time today and was able to see the SN and the sim card number. I decided to take it down to the telus store and see if they knew tricks to identify who owned the phone.
He took the sim card out and identified that it was a Rogers sim card. I gave Rogers a call and the guy on the phone was not very helpful at first, I was asking for his help not the customers personal info. He told me he found a name and number, I asked him to call the number and he was reluctant cause the customer switched carriers. I asked him to try, so he put me on hold.
After about 5min on hold he came back on the line with an enthused tone telling me “you’re not going to believe this but that number was the person who lost his phone, he wants you to call him”. The Rodgers agent gave me his number and I called him.
I got to talking to this fellow from Calgary and he explained that he lost it hunting in a cut block south of edson, in may of last year!!! Ok now Im impressed, that Iphone sat in the dirt with all the rain of last summer, the winter, and the rain from this summer and it still turned on with no other preparations other than cleaning the charge port!!!
I got the fellows info, and shipped it out to him this afternoon.
I’m pretty stoked that I found the owner, let alone impressed that the phone survived in the elements for a year and a half, it was turned on for almost a week in my desk drawer, so im pretty sure its still a good phone.
