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Astrocloud · 01-28-2006, 06:28 AM

My sig other is furious. I lost her cell phone last night and I have no idea where it is. It's not in the house and it's not in the car. When I call it -it rings for a while so I believe the battery is still working and the phone is on ... somewhere.

We were at a friends house and she gave me the phone. The details are blurry because I was drinking.

Now I've lost my cellphone before and I was lucky enough that someone at a restaurant found it and gave it to the management who answered it when I called.

Any Ideas on how to find a lost cellphone?

maleficent · 01-28-2006, 06:30 AM

I'd keep calling it and hope someone answers it...

or check with the friend who's house you were at and ask to come over to search for it

Charlatan · 01-28-2006, 06:41 AM

Stop calling it... you're keeping my kids awake with all that ringing.

Grasshopper Green · 01-28-2006, 07:12 AM

The only way I've found lost cell phones is by calling it and having an honest person answer. Hopefully a friend from the party picked it up and just isn't answering it...yet.

ratbastid · 01-28-2006, 08:59 AM

Funny story that won't help at all:

A couple years ago, lurkette and I were on vacation visiting my parents. One night we went to this great asian restaurant for dinner, and when we left, lurkette forgot her pocketbook. The way this pocketbook worked was, there was a slot inside the cover of it to hold her palm pilot.

On our way home from the restaurant, my grandmother called my mother's cell phone, extremely upset. She said had just gotten a call from some chinese-sounding person who had kidnapped lurkette and was holding her for ransom.

Turns out, our waitress had opened the purse, seen the palm pilot, turned it on, and saw my grandmother's number, which was the most recent one lurkette had looked up, and called it. Somehow between the woman's accent and my grandmother's poor hearing and sketchy grasp on modern life, the "We have your granddaughter's purse" turned into "We have your granddaughter".

Funny story. Told you it wouldn't help.

CSflim · 01-28-2006, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ratbastid

"We have your granddaughter's purse" turned into "We have your granddaughter".

That's hilarious!

cyrnel · 01-28-2006, 01:15 PM

Check the online call history often. If someone's making outgoing calls you know why they aren't answering.

FatFreeGoodness · 02-04-2006, 07:05 AM

Tell the cell phone company. They can always locate the cell phone to within one cell, which may be enough to help you remember where it is. Depending on the model of the phone, they may be able to locate it to within a few feet.

01-28-2006, 06:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
Astrocloud Apocalypse Nerd	The "Help get Astrocloud out of Hotwater" Thread My sig other is furious. I lost her cell phone last night and I have no idea where it is. It's not in the house and it's not in the car. When I call it -it rings for a while so I believe the battery is still working and the phone is on ... somewhere. We were at a friends house and she gave me the phone. The details are blurry because I was drinking. Now I've lost my cellphone before and I was lucky enough that someone at a restaurant found it and gave it to the management who answered it when I called. Any Ideas on how to find a lost cellphone?

01-28-2006, 06:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	I'd keep calling it and hope someone answers it... or check with the friend who's house you were at and ask to come over to search for it __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

01-28-2006, 06:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Stop calling it... you're keeping my kids awake with all that ringing. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

01-28-2006, 07:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
Grasshopper Green ...is a comical chap Location: Where morons reign supreme	The only way I've found lost cell phones is by calling it and having an honest person answer. Hopefully a friend from the party picked it up and just isn't answering it...yet. __________________ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" Formerly Medusa

01-28-2006, 01:15 PM	#7 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Check the online call history often. If someone's making outgoing calls you know why they aren't answering. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

01-28-2006, 08:59 AM	#5 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	Funny story that won't help at all: A couple years ago, lurkette and I were on vacation visiting my parents. One night we went to this great asian restaurant for dinner, and when we left, lurkette forgot her pocketbook. The way this pocketbook worked was, there was a slot inside the cover of it to hold her palm pilot. On our way home from the restaurant, my grandmother called my mother's cell phone, extremely upset. She said had just gotten a call from some chinese-sounding person who had kidnapped lurkette and was holding her for ransom. Turns out, our waitress had opened the purse, seen the palm pilot, turned it on, and saw my grandmother's number, which was the most recent one lurkette had looked up, and called it. Somehow between the woman's accent and my grandmother's poor hearing and sketchy grasp on modern life, the "We have your granddaughter's purse" turned into "We have your granddaughter". Funny story. Told you it wouldn't help.

02-04-2006, 07:05 AM	#8 (permalink)
FatFreeGoodness Tilted	Tell the cell phone company. They can always locate the cell phone to within one cell, which may be enough to help you remember where it is. Depending on the model of the phone, they may be able to locate it to within a few feet.