If you're visiting Las Vegas, watch out for "BlackBerry Pickers"!
- my girlfriend's Z10 was recently "stolen" (guy said he found it, pft). we went on BlackBerry Protect, located it (which turned out to be pretty accurate), sent a couple messages to the phone letting them know I knew the location and could pick it up there and gave them my phone number. then I sounded the alarm. after a little while, my girlfriend got a hold of her carrier and blocked the IMEI.
22 hours later I get a phone call from a guy saying he found the phone. he says he had to leave it in his car over night because it was making an annoying sound and starts asking me about all the security features it has because I knew where he lived. I just told him it had a lot and left it at that.
tl:dr - give it time, maybe when they realize it's useless, they'll return it.BBVegasGirl80 likes this.07-18-13 01:27 AMLike 1 - Tre LawrenceBetween Realities
Still, knowing where it is when it lost all juice could be useful.07-18-13 02:14 AMLike 0 -
Posted via BlackBerry 1007-18-13 02:24 AMLike 0 - I would have raised a stink about it if they weren't clear about that when it was initially offered. Unless you full out declined the insurance. Not sure why people do that.07-18-13 09:23 AMLike 0
- No, I didn't decline the insurance at all. I truly had no idea. I'll raise more of a stink today, though. Someone I know is really gunning for me to join Solavei, but I'm not sure I want to do that yet.07-18-13 01:07 PMLike 0
- my girlfriend's Z10 was recently "stolen" (guy said he found it, pft). we went on BlackBerry Protect, located it (which turned out to be pretty accurate), sent a couple messages to the phone letting them know I knew the location and could pick it up there and gave them my phone number. then I sounded the alarm. after a little while, my girlfriend got a hold of her carrier and blocked the IMEI.
22 hours later I get a phone call from a guy saying he found the phone. he says he had to leave it in his car over night because it was making an annoying sound and starts asking me about all the security features it has because I knew where he lived. I just told him it had a lot and left it at that.
tl:dr - give it time, maybe when they realize it's useless, they'll return it.07-18-13 01:10 PMLike 0 - My alternate contact number is a permanent feature of my lock screen; you can enter two lines of text to always display anything you wish. Problem solved.BBVegasGirl80 likes this.07-18-13 01:10 PMLike 1
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- I was in Vegas recently and left my iPhone in a cab. I immediately used iCloud from another phone's browser and sent a ping to my device. Nice thing about iCloud is it let's you display an alternate contact number on the stolen/lost device. After about 30 minutes the device was no longer able to be located on GPS. Figured it was stolen.
The next day I get a call from the cab stand saying they have my iPhone. I imagine the cab driver powered off the device because the pings are so annoyingly loud. They mailed it back to me. Had I lost my Q10 I probably would've dead in the water. BlackBerry protect definitely needs to adopt those features.
This was tthe first iphone and I'd paid 600$ for it new.
But I don't think yoy would've been dead in the water if you had aQ10 because with BlackBerry Protect you can have you phone make that horrible alert sound that definitely draws attention. You can display any info on the screen like reward or contact info as well as view it's approximate location on a map.
You can also wipe the phone.
Posted via CB1007-18-13 02:08 PMLike 0 - I was in Vegas recently and left my iPhone in a cab. I immediately used iCloud from another phone's browser and sent a ping to my device. Nice thing about iCloud is it let's you display an alternate contact number on the stolen/lost device. After about 30 minutes the device was no longer able to be located on GPS. Figured it was stolen.
The next day I get a call from the cab stand saying they have my iPhone. I imagine the cab driver powered off the device because the pings are so annoyingly loud. They mailed it back to me. Had I lost my Q10 I probably would've dead in the water. BlackBerry protect definitely needs to adopt those features.
protect lets you do all of that. You can display any message you want. And can make your phone sound off. along with GPS locate. Juss sayin...
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