What do I do if I find a lost phone? How do I check if a second-hand phone is lost or stolen? What if the phone I bought second-hand was working, but is now blacklisted? I lost my phone while travelling overseas, what can I do? What is an IMEI number? What is an EID number? Note: Not all carriers support eSIM. You do not need your EID to blacklist your handset.
What is an IMEI block? Green status: this IMEI number is not currently blacklisted. If you lose your phone or think it has been stolen, report it as soon as possible to your mobile phone service provider and they will blacklist it. Contact your mobile phone service provider to have your phone blacklisted. Contact your mobile phone service provider. We pay a top premium for Apple products but slowly customers are looking elsewhere for similar products i. How would Apple know with certainty that the iPhone has indeed been stolen?
Unless the report came from an authorized law enforcement agency, Apple can have no such assurances. And if law enforcement does contact Apple on a matter of stolen property, Apple will cooperate with them.
Few police departments, however, have the time to pursue such research for a single lost or stolen cellphone and hence only in rare circumstances, such as in the case of a threat to safety a kidnapped child, for instance or a theft ring will they take the initiative to contact a manufacturer for assistance. I can find no evidence that BMW actually disables a car, they seem only track it, and then only if you 1 subscribe to the service, an extra cost option and 2 have filed a police report.
And even then the service is, from all reports, quite easily disabled. So it's of little more value than Apple's Find My iPhone service, which is available to all iPhone ownsers at no extra charge. As to the blocking by IMEI, again, Apple has no control over the cell networks and hence cannot block any iPhone from connecting to a cell network.
This can only be done by the cell networks, and none cooperate to the extent that any phone can be blocked from all, or even several, different networks. I understand the ire and frustration when something you own is lost or stolen, but there is again no practical way any cellphone manufacturer can block use of an phone permanently throughout the world or provide foolproof tracking capabilities.
Fine, whatever. But Samsung won't do any more to locate a lost or stolen product than Apple will, and in fact to the best of my knowledge provides no location service at all.
I will reiterate , it can be done the technology is there but it's not in a company's interest to do it , that's it I rest my case!. Some people would make it up, yes; false reports of theft abound. And police reference numbers would do no good unless they are reported to Apple directly by the police, since those could also be made up. Please stop now. Buy some other product, if you feel that another company will give you better service. I'm not missing the point at all.
There is no point in telling Apple it is stolen. Apple has NO legal rights to interfer with how a carrier runs their business and their network.
Apple could not help you no matter what - it is not their cellular network and they cannot dictate who can or cannot connect to it, nor can they interfer in the operations of the carrier's networks. Only the carriers can control access to their own networks. Telling Apple completely misses the target for what you are complaining about. Dear Michael, forget the carrier I'm not interested in the carriers, I'm only talking about an Apple products , the carriers provide the airway for us to use with the aid of a phone , we bought an Apple phone and we would like Apple to assist us in preventing the stolen APPLE phone from being used on ANY network.
My daughter had a message pop up on her replacement phone with the comment " your iphone has been found ", when we logged into her account and checked the track was showing the phone was in Islamabad!. Let's leave it there , there is life after Apple and other products which are just as good and do not restrict you to the world according to Apple i.
More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. The government will start blocking unregistered cell phones starting April 18 as it imposes the International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI policy to curb the circulation of illegal phones. However, cell phones that are activated and used prior to the date will not be blocked, Ismail said.
The government issued in October last year a regulation that allows a national IMEI system to identify illegal cell phones and requires operators to block them from networks. The phones are commonly sold on domestic and overseas black market. The Communications and Information Ministry is working with the Trade Ministry, the Industry Ministry, the Finance Ministry as well as network operators to implement the regulation.
If the identity is not registered, operators can block it from their network. TheJakartaPost Please Update your browser Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website.
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