The bastards nicked my SPV M500..... Can I track it?

[phatphat]

My phone was stolen in london yesterday. It had a PAYG sim in it, and I have been calling it and sometimes it rings. I've left messages and texts but nothing.

I have seen services like mapamobile and followus which offer triangulation tracking but the problem with this is that I don't want the theiving twat to know that I'm tracking it, and all these services send tracking notification texts ti the handset being tracked.

Does anyone know of any services or software that can track my phone?

I've been trying to postpone it ( to give the teef a chance to redeem themselves) but worst comes to worst I'll call orange and get the phone blocked.

[jigero]

try https://www.immobilise.com/

[phatphat]

Get this: ORANGE can see (on screen - while I'm on the phone to them) who put their SIM in my phone by looking at the IMEI info!
They WILL NOT TELL me as this would be a breach of the information of the theiving c*nt that took my phone. I have already registered the phone stolen with the police and their response was "well if we followed ever stolen mobile phone we wouldn't be doing anything else blahblahblah"

The police said if I knew who took the phone they would go and arrest them, search their house (and find all my other items they nicked at the same time).

Does anyone know of software or a service that can track my phone from the IMEI?

[vijay555]

Googling throws up a number of sponsored links, eg
www.mobilelocate.co.uk

Not sure if it's IMEI based. was it insured?

V

[phatphat]

Unfortunately, all of these pay services send a text message to the phone that you want to locate and will only then locate that phone, once a permission to locate reply text has been be sent from that phone back the locating service.

For my circumstances, this won't help as there is no way that the theiving w@nker is going to allow themselves to be tracked.

Any other ideas greatly apprecited (especially from orange employees hint hint) :lol:

[Carty]

Have you tried calling your opperator to find which cell tower its using? By this way you may get to know his location. And moreover i heard somewhere that if three towers' triangle pointings with distance may be help you to locate your phone in exact position, but i don't think theyl use this technology for finding a phone.Its only used to track terrorists :)

Anyway, good luck on your next device. Use precautions like my software UTA :)

Regards
Carty..

[phatphat]

Carty you are exactly right, the signal can be triangulated to pinpoint it's location within a few metres however this is only really done for serious crimes, such as kidnapping, murder, terrorism etc.

But further than that, the network (orange in this case) when someone puts a SIM into a handset, that info (SIM data and IMEI) is recorded by network and for this reason I did not have the phone immediately blocked. When I spoke to Orange they could actually see who is using my phone now!, but they will not give me the info and just for theft the police don't get involved to the point where they get a court order to request that person's details.

Bloody annoying :x

[wlanguide]

Hey I think you may want to try http://www.eastmobiles.com :eek:

[grimm18]

in australia, a stolen phone, once reported stolen with imie number. the phone is locked/blocked/bricked by all the telco's.