Hey, all. I work at a hotel, and a few months ago one of the housekeepers found an iPod touch with a cracked screen in the hallway. Thirty days passed and nobody claimed it, so it was up for grabs (since the housekeeper didn't want it) so I nabbed it. It took me a while to get my hands on a charger, but after charging it, I found out it works, and the cracked screen doesn't even hamper its use!
Can anyone direct me to a good, easy-to-read guide that shows how to use one of these things? I mainly want to find out how to delete all of these apps this guy had (he's got games like Angry Birds, but also something called "Bikini X-Ray", which is exactly what you'd think... >.>) as well as hopefully erase any personal information he might have left in here. Also, it seems to load really slowly. Is that normal for these things?
I know pretty much nothing about using one of these, if that wasn't clear. So help me out!
You should be able to get a PDF user's guide on Apple's site or iTunes. If you look in settings you should find an option to erase everything. Or, if you want to keep the music (perhaps less than legitimately but I don't know) you can probably just download iTunes, synch it, and then delete the stuff you don't want. Hope that helps. Been a while since I had a Touch.
M
Lawful Good
1. Start the Settings app
2. Go to Store
3. Apple ID is the email account that the iPod Touch is attached to.
or attempt to email one or more of the Contacts in the device.
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Lawful Neutral
1. Start the Settings app
2. General
3. Erase All Content and Settings
4. Google how to jailbreak the device.
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Lawful Evil
Well, it's an iPod touch, not an iPhone, so is jailbreaking it necessary? I don't even know what this thing can do (I'm fairly certain it can browse the internet, and play music and stuff, but what requires a phone/internet/whatever plan and what doesn't?).
Well, it's an iPod touch, not an iPhone, so is jailbreaking it necessary? I don't even know what this thing can do (I'm fairly certain it can browse the internet, and play music and stuff, but what requires a phone/internet/whatever plan and what doesn't?).
Jailbreaking will still allow you download apps from Cydia or wherever. They have wifi so, yeah, surf, run internet-connected apps, games, etc, as long you have a wifi connection. It's effectively the same device just without the GPS or phone capabilities. Which, while being called an i"Phone" is really only a small part of its capabilities.
Greg
This reminds me of something eerily similar where my cousin lost her camera while in France. She was quite upset. On the very last day she checks her Facebook and she has a message from a woman she doesn't know saying she's found my cousin's camera.
Turns out in had fallen out of cousin's purse and bounced under a display rack in a clothing store. The clerk there found it and went through the pictures, found one of my cousin holding up her boarding pass with and Facebooked her. Long story short she now has an acquaintance in France, with standing reciprocal lodging agreements if every they visit each other's home centuries/area (France, USA).
The iPhones camera roll is easy to access and worse still chances are the person left the location services on in the camera App. This means given the right software (Google Earth should do) you can pull the GPS location data attached to the photos and found out exactly where the phone was from. (Creepy hun?)
An issue UltimaGabe is that each iOS device has UUID (unique hardware ID). While unlikely it is possible for the person who lost it to report it as stolen (although it almost sounds like it was thrown in anger if it was in the hallway and had a cracked screen), which could prompt Apple to lockout the device and brick it.
Try to return it using the info suggested here, but if the proper owner can't be found, take it to the nearest Apple store and see if it's still under warranty.
A friend of mine found one of the latest iPhones while out with a friend of his who is a cop. He tracked down the owner, but then she bailed because the owner was a high priced call girl and she was dropping her identity as soon as anyone said "cop." The iPhone it turned out was broken but still under warranty, so the Apple store gave my friend a new phone and explained that this sort of thing happened all the time since prostitutes and drug dealers regularly ditch phones when they ditch identities.
That said, it most likely belongs to a regular hotel guest who'd like it back or at least could tell you to keep it with a clear conscience if it's not worth much to them.