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User profile for user: rhunderhill
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Lost/stolen iPhone - can I 'brick' it via iTunes and Apple?

I lost my phone in a taxi and it is now 'power off' so now stolen (too soon for the battery). I heard ver 2.0 could be used to render the phone inoperable in just such a situation (especially important for business users), so my question is how? My phone is registered to my home computer and it's an original iphone unlocked via pwnage as I now live in China.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Aug 9, 2008 12:24 AM

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User profile for user: Andy Howington
Andy Howington
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Posted on Aug 9, 2008 1:28 AM

I don't think that's what they said it could do. I think it is more along the lines of remotely wiping all of your sensitive data such as contacts and email from your phone. Plus I think that is for Enterprise users only (aka through business)
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User profile for user: Paul Judd
Paul Judd
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Aug 9, 2008 9:30 AM in response to rhunderhill

rhunderhill wrote:
I lost my phone in a taxi and it is now 'power off' so now stolen (too soon for the battery). I heard ver 2.0 could be used to render the phone inoperable in just such a situation (especially important for business users), so my question is how? My phone is registered to my home computer and it's an original iphone unlocked via pwnage as I now live in China.



Sorry you are out of luck since you hacked the iPhone. We cannot support hacked products. Anyway the only thing that remote wipe is for is the exchange functionality. The best you can do is get your carrier to disable your SIM. No guarantee though since you hacked your phone.
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User profile for user: Mac Pro 8core - x86
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Aug 9, 2008 9:58 AM in response to Paul Judd

Paul Judd wrote:
rhunderhill wrote:
I lost my phone in a taxi and it is now 'power off' so now stolen (too soon for the battery). I heard ver 2.0 could be used to render the phone inoperable in just such a situation (especially important for business users), so my question is how? My phone is registered to my home computer and it's an original iphone unlocked via pwnage as I now live in China.



Sorry you are out of luck since you hacked the iPhone. We cannot support hacked products. Anyway the only thing that remote wipe is for is the exchange functionality. The best you can do is get your carrier to disable your SIM. No guarantee though since you hacked your phone.



So would you buy a new iPhone if you moved to Japan?
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Aug 9, 2008 10:02 AM in response to Paul Judd

Thanks for that. I appreciate your comments and advice. I think the 'hacked' issue is a separate thing. I would love to have an un-hacked iPhone but in certain countries this is just not possible. Hopefully this is about to change over here in China. We got our first Apple store 3 weeks ago but negotiations between China Mobile and Apple are still to be finalised. I wanted an iPhone because it is the only one that I was confident would sync all my contacts fully with my Mac and because it's an excellent device. A shame it isn't available worldwide.

Thanks again for responding. I hate having lost my iPhone but will have to live with that momentary lapse in a taxi on the opening night of the Olympics here in Beijing.
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Lost/stolen iPhone - can I 'brick' it via iTunes and Apple?

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