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Found a Huawei smart phone on Diversey just west of Kimball this morning

In the eastbound bike lane.  The phone is password protected so I can't access the contacts list to reach out to anyone.  It was fully charged and was getting email notifications as of this morning (which is why I finally turned it off...couldn't turn down the extremely loud notification volume), so it wasn't out there for too long.  Hoping to return it to its owner.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on June 24, 2013 at 2:06pm

I've wondered about this.  My phone is password-protected, but my son said he keeps his open and works to not access anything sensitive from it, precisely so that if someone finds it they can get it back to them.  Is there any indication of the service provider on the phone?  If so, perhaps a trip to your local Verizon/AT&T/Sprint/T-Mobile store would help it get back to its owner.  I presume they could scan the bar code in the battery compartment to identify the owner.

Permalink Reply by millenial removing Bernie tattoo on June 24, 2013 at 2:09pm

Who's going to admit owning a Huawei phone? (lol, poor)

Permalink Reply by Don on June 24, 2013 at 2:36pm

Unfortunately, no info on service provider anywhere on the phone or reboot screen, and no SIM card.  Which is weird.  Is that how pay-as-you-go phones work?  Oh well I tried, which is more than anyone did when I lost my work Blackberry.

Permalink Reply by Bez on June 24, 2013 at 3:34pm

Most pay as you go phones that run on the Sprint network (Boost, Virgin, and at least one other that I can't recall), some Sprint phones, and some Verizon phones don't use SIMs.  They normally have some sort of carrier branding on them.  I don't suppose there is a model indicator either on the phone or under the battery, is there?  May be able to tell the carrier based on that.

As to the question of locking the phones, I run a corporate mobile program and I usually tell people to at least put their name and office line on the lock screen.  That way, if it's lost and some kind-hearted soul find it, they can at least call the office to try to return it.

Permalink Reply by dan brown on June 24, 2013 at 3:34pm

craigslist has a lost and found forum...also there is a site called

TGIF (thank god I found it)  http://tgifound.com/

thanks for being a good samaritan...good karma to you

Permalink Reply by Bez on June 24, 2013 at 4:50pm

Small correction, a lot of the higher end smartphones are requiring SIMs from all carriers now in order to be global compliant.

Cameron 7.5 mi said:

Whether or not a phone has a SIM card depends on what network standard it was built for. CDMA networks like Sprint and Verizon don't use SIM cards. A lot of phones have an emergency call option on the lock screen that lets you call 911 and a few other numbers that the owner listed as emergency contracts. Look in there and see if the owner listed any emergency contacts.



Don said:

Unfortunately, no info on service provider anywhere on the phone or reboot screen, and no SIM card.  Which is weird.  Is that how pay-as-you-go phones work?  Oh well I tried, which is more than anyone did when I lost my work Blackberry.

Permalink Reply by Don on June 24, 2013 at 4:59pm

Thanks, all.  Guess I'll try Craigslist but I'm not optimistic.  At least it's not a really fancy phone (though that'd make it easier to track down the owner).

Permalink Reply by Juan Primo on June 25, 2013 at 7:54am

Last time I found a password protected smartphone, I was able to find the owner because he was calling it from a landline.  I'm glad I kept the power on.  My total record is three found/three returned/none lost.

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