iPhone Tale

[dadoftwogirls]

So yesterday I am working the beach where I live in Southwest Florida. I get a strange signal on my F70 that is showing a quarter and then something else. I start digging down about 8 to 10 inches and find the quarter. I sweep again and get a strong hit for what I think is junk. Having already started the hole I go ahead and dig around out pops a gold iPhone 5s all caked in dirt. I try to turn it on and nothing. I bag it and get it home and figure there is no way it will work as dirty as it was and the amount of rain we've had. I go about cleaning it, getting all the dirt out of the openings with compressed air and a vacuum. I plug it in and wallah... the charging signal comes on. After about 20 minutes of charging I turn it back on and the home screen pops up but it is locked. There is no way I can tell who's it is in this condition. As such, I hook it to my computer and do a factory restore (I am very versed with Apple products). I let it reboot and when it goes to restore the phone, the find my phone feature pops up and says the phone was lost and call a number listed. The phone is bricked. Long story short, in less than an hour I tracked down the young lady who lost it 12 weeks ago while on spring break from Michigan. I boxed it up this morning and it's on it's way home via UPS at my expense. She wanted to pay me a reward, but all I asked her to do was something kind for someone in the future. Needless to say the young lady is elated to be getting her phone back.

 

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[Heyjak]

So yesterday I am working the beach where I live in Southwest Florida. I get a strange signal on my F70 that is showing a quarter and then something else. I start digging down about 8 to 10 inches and find the quarter. I sweep again and get a strong hit for what I think is junk. Having already started the hole I go ahead and dig around out pops a gold iPhone 5s all caked in dirt. I try to turn it on and nothing. I bag it and get it home and figure there is no way it will work as dirty as it was and the amount of rain we've had. I go about cleaning it, getting all the dirt out of the openings with compressed air and a vacuum. I plug it in and wallah... the charging signal comes on. After about 20 minutes of charging I turn it back on and the home screen pops up but it is locked. There is no way I can tell who's it is in this condition. As such, I hook it to my computer and do a factory restore (I am very versed with Apple products). I let it reboot and when it goes to restore the phone, the find my phone feature pops up and says the phone was lost and call a number listed. The phone is bricked. Long story short, in less than an hour I tracked down the young lady who lost it 12 weeks ago while on spring break from Michigan. I boxed it up this morning and it's on it's way home via UPS at my expense. She wanted to pay me a reward, but all I asked her to do was something kind for someone in the future. Needless to say the young lady is elated to be getting her phone back.

Nice!!!!

 

[hubcap76]

One heck of a good story, well done on a potential life changing experience for another human. If I could like posts on this phone you would get one.

 

[hamiddetecting]

Well Done!!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Great story. Good pix. Nice Sherlock Holmes "who-dunnit" mystery solved. Thanx for the great read and good hobby image inducer

 

[rons1947]

Great story and return.W.T.G.,Thanks for doing such a good deed.I'm glad that she appreciated it.

 

[sponge]

Great return. Great story.