Lost Samsung A55 in Bristol....
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Think this might be a needle in a haystack but there you go.
Son went out in Bristol last night with his work mates, left them just after midnight, booked an Uber which he got into at 12.07am and arrived home (outskirts of Bristol) around 12.30am.
First realised his phone was missing this morning when waking up and he then fired up "Smart Things Find", an app for locating stuff like this. Showed it in the Broad Plain area of the city and for the rest of the day, it's been to Warminster, Bath and now it's currently showing in the City centre again. Last ping was 7.07pm tonight (think it works off other Samsung devices pinging it IIRC).
He's contacted Uber who have messaged back saying they haven't found it, presumably they have contacted the driver? He can't message the driver directly unless it's from the number that ordered the Uber (another dead end). He has a name for the driver but that's not much good either. He knows it was a Dacia Jogger but nothing else.
He's just got back from USA on Wednesday night, lots of photos on there not backed up and running out of time and battery now, I guess.
Is there anything else I've forgotten?
Son went out in Bristol last night with his work mates, left them just after midnight, booked an Uber which he got into at 12.07am and arrived home (outskirts of Bristol) around 12.30am.
First realised his phone was missing this morning when waking up and he then fired up "Smart Things Find", an app for locating stuff like this. Showed it in the Broad Plain area of the city and for the rest of the day, it's been to Warminster, Bath and now it's currently showing in the City centre again. Last ping was 7.07pm tonight (think it works off other Samsung devices pinging it IIRC).
He's contacted Uber who have messaged back saying they haven't found it, presumably they have contacted the driver? He can't message the driver directly unless it's from the number that ordered the Uber (another dead end). He has a name for the driver but that's not much good either. He knows it was a Dacia Jogger but nothing else.
He's just got back from USA on Wednesday night, lots of photos on there not backed up and running out of time and battery now, I guess.
Is there anything else I've forgotten?
Edited by GloverMart on Friday 5th December 21:53
skyebear said:
Drive round Bristol chasing the pings like the CIA hunting Bin Laden's courier in Zero Dark Thirty?
Have you tried ringing the phone to see if the driver answers it? Or does your son tend to leave it on silent?
It's usually set to silent, yes. It's been going to voicemail since when he first called it this morning.Have you tried ringing the phone to see if the driver answers it? Or does your son tend to leave it on silent?
Think the thing that upsets him the most are the photos. His storage is/was full up so the photos he took in the States are saved to the device and not the cloud so barring a miracle, he's lost them.
Edited by GloverMart on Friday 5th December 22:06
Just an update on this... no update! 
I went down into Bristol on Sunday morning and dropped a few leaflets into the hotels and office blocks around where the phone last pinged as well as Cabot Circus. Had a hunt around on the floor etc in case by some miracle, it was there but no luck. Have had no response from the leaflets.
Visited the Uber office yesterday afternoon and they contacted the driver again to ask him to look for it while I was there. He did so, not for long mind, and declared again he couldn't find it. Given that we know the route the phone took through the pings on Friday, I asked the Uber office guy if the driver had gone that way and he said it was unlikely he had had time to do so. Warminster is a good 45 minute journey from Bristol and then it would be a 25-30 minute journey back to Bath where it pinged next.
This all leaves us no clearer as to where it is or who has it. Gutted for my son, just wish there was some way of grabbing the photos off the phone without needing the thing to be switched on or physically with us. Best hope now is that someone switches it on and it starts pinging.
I went down into Bristol on Sunday morning and dropped a few leaflets into the hotels and office blocks around where the phone last pinged as well as Cabot Circus. Had a hunt around on the floor etc in case by some miracle, it was there but no luck. Have had no response from the leaflets.
Visited the Uber office yesterday afternoon and they contacted the driver again to ask him to look for it while I was there. He did so, not for long mind, and declared again he couldn't find it. Given that we know the route the phone took through the pings on Friday, I asked the Uber office guy if the driver had gone that way and he said it was unlikely he had had time to do so. Warminster is a good 45 minute journey from Bristol and then it would be a 25-30 minute journey back to Bath where it pinged next.
This all leaves us no clearer as to where it is or who has it. Gutted for my son, just wish there was some way of grabbing the photos off the phone without needing the thing to be switched on or physically with us. Best hope now is that someone switches it on and it starts pinging.
Are Samsung/Androids like iPhones where they're basically useless when stolen?
How quickly is the phone moving around? If it's still inside the Uber you'd expect it to be moving around with the guy, at a reasonable pace. Presumably at some point in the evening it stops moving? Does it end up at the same place each time?
How quickly is the phone moving around? If it's still inside the Uber you'd expect it to be moving around with the guy, at a reasonable pace. Presumably at some point in the evening it stops moving? Does it end up at the same place each time?
Durzel said:
Are Samsung/Androids like iPhones where they're basically useless when stolen?
How quickly is the phone moving around? If it's still inside the Uber you'd expect it to be moving around with the guy, at a reasonable pace. Presumably at some point in the evening it stops moving? Does it end up at the same place each time?
I think you might not have read the rest of the thread... How quickly is the phone moving around? If it's still inside the Uber you'd expect it to be moving around with the guy, at a reasonable pace. Presumably at some point in the evening it stops moving? Does it end up at the same place each time?
It hasn't pinged at all since last Friday evening at 7.07pm. It was in Broad Plain, Bristol at 07.20, Warminster at 11.30, Bath at 13.30, back to Bristol at 17.00 and last ping was 19.07 behind Castlemead House in Bristol.
Samsung's tracking thingy is much the same as Find my Iphone however given that the last ping is nearly six days ago, unless someone switches it back on, it will be difficult to track.
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