Found an iPad on the street

Aye hand it in then theres allways a chance you can get to keep it. Plus you never know who it was used by could have just been stolen anything its not worth even thinking about it get it down to cop shop :)
 
233 said:
Looks like it's goosed

I'd imagine there will be some internal damage as well
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I hope not! While I haven't been able to do much with it, the screen rotates correctly so the gyro works, the battery was at 89% it gave me a list of the local wifi networks, and it had all the saved emails there, which covers most of the important parts. The camera (cameras?) will probably have bitten the dust though.
 
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Fix that easy dude.

Probably some kid who got angry because he wanted a white one and his "bitch mom" wouldn't get it. Or that is what I imagine happened.
 
I'd try and return something like that personally. Surely someone you know has the correct Apple connector (sigh propitiatory) so you can find account details etc?
 
iviv said:
Actually that would be very handy for me, there's a station 5 minutes down the road from where I work, which is a 15 minute train ride from where I found it. It wouldn't be unreasonable to hand it in there, would it? It's all the same force so the information that an iPad has been handed in should be made available to all forces? I may pop in at lunch and see what they say.



It didn't seem to have a 3g connection, so I assume it's a wifi version, could that be blocked?
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Well, just spent 10 minutes walking to the police station, only to find that it's closed. Thanks, Google!
 
I hate that police stations have done that. They have become fortresses that you are not allowed to actually go, making it very difficult to talk to the police in person :-( Bloody budget cuts.
 
Halfmad said:
Apple wouldn't be allowed to give that information out
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That's what I'd have thought. At least with the police they are the first port of call if you lose something. Apple would have the apple ID, but I can get that by plugging it into iTunes.
 
wouldnt apple be able to contact the owner though? I wouldn't have expected them to give info out (DPA etc) that would just be silly!
 
robfosters said:
If there are saved e-mails, can you not glean enough information to start another successful OCUK detective hunt?
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But if we do that I might not get a few iPad! :p

From what I saw of the emails, they seemed to mostly be marketing emails from places like rent a car. I wasn't able to open any other emails though due to the extremely limited use of the touch screen.
 
Take it to the Apple store, plug it in to a Mac and get the details.

Hand it in to the police with the details and I'd also report it to Apple to be sure. Can't do much more than that.

Maybe email the email account that you have access to, on the off-chance that the owner remotely checks the account
 
iviv said:
But if we do that I might not get a few iPad! :p

From what I saw of the emails, they seemed to mostly be marketing emails from places like rent a car. I wasn't able to open any other emails though due to the extremely limited use of the touch screen.
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To be honest mate, I don't think it would be worth saving with the amount of damage that's taken place there. But there may be stuff on it that the owner wants.
 
EVH said:
Take it to the Apple store, plug it in to a Mac and get the details.

Hand it in to the police with the details and I'd also report it to Apple to be sure. Can't do much more than that.

Maybe email the email account that you have access to, on the off-chance that the owner remotely checks the account
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Why not suggest he fix the screen and hand-deliver it to the original owner too? :p

It's been lost, hand it in to the police and forget about it. If you can't get any owner info off it easily there's not much else to be done.
 
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