good afternoon to you. I had an Iphone 4S stolen from my wife last july. a phone a bought in Neaples Florida in January 2013.

So 9 months later, what's the question?

If it has not been powered on, it has not connected to the internet and it won't show up.

well if you erased it then even if it did connect to the internet somewhere it surely wouldn't be connecting under any account you have access to. It would be connecting using whatever account the current user has.

It's gone. Cut your losses and move on...

aoliveira64 wrote:

Ok, but as you say 9 months later, a stolen telephone has not been connected to the internet yet! this is realy hard to believe.

Why?

If they could not activate it, they likely tossed it into the trash.

t? is it possible to get the Serial number for this device that I bought in Naples in January last year?

Curious as to what you would now need this info for?

See this -> iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

You may be able to get the serial number, but other than giving that information to the police (who after nine months from the theft are highly unlikely to care), having the serial number won't help you since you can't track the device that way.

When you erased the iPhone remotely, you removed any ability to track the phone, so even in the highly unlikely event that the thief, or whoever he sold the iPhone to, didn't erase it himself, the iPhone was rendered untrackable.

As the others have said, barring a miracle recovery by the police as part of some other investigation, the iPhone is gone. Time to move on.

Regards.

aoliveira64 wrote:

Cris, the question was more to know if the system realy works???]

Log into iCloud.com/FindMyiPhone and see the other devices.

Make sure you have FindMyiPhone enabled on those devices (Settings > iCloud - FindMyiPhone).

Note that you need to log into iCloud.com with the same AppleID used to enable FindMyiCloud on the device.

Note that since you lost it in July last year, it did not have iOS 7 on it so all the thief had to do was restore it in iTunes tp remove your AppleID.

With iOS 7 (released in Sep 2013), and FindMyiPhone enabled, it cannot be restored without the AppleID/password of original owner, even if it is erased.

aoliveira64 wrote:

Ok, so if it is connecting using someone else accout, the serial number has not change correct? and it could be tracked them!

No.

iPhones cannot be tracked by serial number.

how to avoid that someone can be there using something that i paid for.

If the iPhone had iOS 7 on it and a screenlock passcode set, then there is no way someone else can be using the iPhone. Activation Lock would prevent the iPhone from being activated without your Apple ID and password even if the thief or the person they sold the iPhone to restored it. Prior to iOS 7 there was no way anyone could prevent the iPhone from being used. It could be blacklisted by the cell carriers but there are ways around that (selling it in another country, for one).

I did not erased it immediately, only after few weeks. even in this period nothing happened.

After a few weeks it's highly probable that the thief or purchaser erased it themselves. No one is going to wait on a stolen iPhone for weeks and risk the owner being able to trace it. Most thieves will erase or sell the iPhone within days, and probably within hours.

So i am let to believe the system does not work.

The system does work as designed, though no such system is completely foolproof.

further more if I erase it I loose the track possibility, then what is the point. only the data on it?

Some people are more concerned about the data on the phone being obtained by the thief then they are about being able to track the device. Hence the option to erase the device.