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Q: How to find the owner of an ipad that my dad found?

Hello,
my dad found an ipad about 20 days ago (wifi-3G). He didn't know what it was. Back from his trip, my sister bought a power cord to see if she could find information about the owner but the device looks blocked, deactivated, I don't know how to say it (I don't have the ipad in my hands, and English is not my first language .
I called the airport where it was lost, and I haven't heard back from them.
I called Apple, left the ipad serial number and reported the find, I haven't heard from them either yet (this happened today though).
My guess is that the owner thought it was lost (after 20 days) and wiped it off? Deactivated it? Or what else? I told my sister to leave it on. It just got a message that says: Welcome to roaming international... etc etc (what does it mean, other than it's in a different country? that it's working?)

Anyway, do you think there is a way to ever return the ipad to the legit owner?

For obvious reasons I am not going to post the serial number here
I only wish that when I called Apple, they would match the serial number with the owner and give me the contact. Think this will happen?
Thanks

Posted on Dec 1, 2010 11:37 AM

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  • by koban4max,

    koban4max koban4max Dec 1, 2010 9:51 PM in response to Robert Sandhaus
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    Dec 1, 2010 9:51 PM in response to Robert Sandhaus
    Did you get any reward?
  • by fetta,

    fetta fetta Dec 2, 2010 5:06 AM in response to koban4max
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    Dec 2, 2010 5:06 AM in response to koban4max
    As of now, I haven't been contacted by anybody (not the airport where it was lost, not the owner through my Apple report).
    I thought the same about unlocking it, that it would wipe all the data? That is, if the owner hasn't remotely wiped it already when he was he wasn't getting it back after days.

    If I don't get any call/email later, I will call Apple back and make sure they got my email right.
  • by varjak paw,

    varjak paw varjak paw Dec 2, 2010 6:46 AM in response to iPadKisser
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    Dec 2, 2010 6:46 AM in response to iPadKisser
    Those are almost certainly referring to jailbreaking the device, not unlocking a passcode.
  • by Richard Olpin,

    Richard Olpin Richard Olpin Dec 2, 2010 6:47 AM in response to fetta
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    Dec 2, 2010 6:47 AM in response to fetta
    Surely if your dad found the iPad in an airport the logical thing to do would be to hand it in at the customer services desk, which is the first place someone is likely to check if they'd lost something?
  • by iPadKisser,

    iPadKisser iPadKisser Dec 2, 2010 7:01 AM in response to varjak paw
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    Dec 2, 2010 7:01 AM in response to varjak paw
    I think there are macGeeks could break that passcode to reach the owner,, yes its all in the name of loyality and morals.
  • by fetta,

    fetta fetta Dec 2, 2010 9:54 AM in response to Richard Olpin
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    Dec 2, 2010 9:54 AM in response to Richard Olpin
    +Surely if your dad found the iPad in an airport the logical thing to do would be to hand it in at the customer services desk, which is the first place someone is likely to check if they'd lost something?+

    Richard, yeah that would have been logic. They were boarding, he walked around the waiting room showing the ipad hoping that someone would claim it; then he told the boarding attendants but they didn't take it, and he didn't have time to go to lost and found. He was hoping he could find the owner on the plane, but then he figured that anybody could have claimed it as theirs... he is not very tech savvy, he had no idea what he had in his hands, and he didn't speak the language. So he figured that once home, after getting a power supply, someone could look into it, figure out an email address, a name...
  • by fetta,

    fetta fetta Dec 3, 2010 9:44 AM in response to fetta
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    Dec 3, 2010 9:44 AM in response to fetta
    still no answer from anybody, but my sister found a sticker on the back of the ipad with a company website. I called the company, they said they will check if someone lost an ipad traveling through Amsterdam, and will get back to me
  • by marconiusrex,

    marconiusrex marconiusrex Dec 3, 2010 9:31 PM in response to fetta
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    Dec 3, 2010 9:31 PM in response to fetta
    Very nice of you to be so diligent in trying to see that the iPad is returned to the owner. But, like finding a lost wallet, if the original owner does not come forward or can not be found after a certain amount of time...say a few weeks......then enjoy your new iPad!
  • by callaway,

    callaway callaway Dec 3, 2010 9:53 PM in response to Robert Sandhaus
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    Dec 3, 2010 9:53 PM in response to Robert Sandhaus
    Fetta and Robert, good for you!! You are both good people. You deserve all the good Karma that comes your way. Too many others would simply keep the found items for themselves. You've helped me take a big step towards restoring my faith in humanity. Thank you.
  • by sonpit,

    sonpit sonpit Feb 23, 2011 3:00 AM in response to fetta
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    Feb 23, 2011 3:00 AM in response to fetta
    Fetta, It's been over a year now ... did you ever find the owner?

    Message was edited by: sonpit
  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Feb 23, 2011 6:34 AM in response to sonpit
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    Feb 23, 2011 6:34 AM in response to sonpit
    Fetta, It's been over a year now

    To be correct, just under 3 months, not a year.
  • by Michael Morgan1,

    Michael Morgan1 Michael Morgan1 Feb 23, 2011 10:09 AM in response to Chris CA
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    Feb 23, 2011 10:09 AM in response to Chris CA
    What? He posted in 2010, it's now 2011 . . . you do the math.

    No, wait ...
  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Feb 23, 2011 10:19 AM in response to Michael Morgan1
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    Feb 23, 2011 10:19 AM in response to Michael Morgan1
    1 December 2010 (original post) to now 23 February 2011 = 55 days, which is not "over a year".
    And the iPad has not been released for "over a year now".

    If we're only using years (without months or days), then it has been one year.
  • by kevin buick,

    kevin buick kevin buick Sep 16, 2011 4:00 PM in response to fetta
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    Sep 16, 2011 4:00 PM in response to fetta

    u can take it to ur local police station and hand it in

    or take it to an apple store and say u found it

  • by Julian Wright,

    Julian Wright Julian Wright Sep 16, 2011 4:07 PM in response to kevin buick
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    Sep 16, 2011 4:07 PM in response to kevin buick

    You are responding to a thread that is 10 months old. Don't you think it might be a little late to take your advice now?

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