Can O2 lock your phone if it is Stolen?

[p18trg]

Never a nice thought some one is flicking thru your contacts and private photos.

[Gajet]

No they can onlu IMEI block it to prevent it making calls, consider using the built in password options.

[amino]

they can imei bar it but the orbit works without a sim in terms of browsing stuff so I guess so, unless you set up a handset pin as well as a sim pin

[p18trg]

What happens if they put a different sim card in there before i tell O2?

Can you still search around on the device with Active Sync if there is a lock.

[amino]

it will still imei bar the handset, I would guess so re the active sync q, bes thing is to put a handset pin in

[p18trg]

i take there is a hack to unlock the IMEI after they have blocked it.

[reisyboy]

No there is no hack unless you phyically flash the phone to change the IMEI as i amware this is not possible.. well probably but more likly to completely f*** the phone up.

Now there is a small thing there is no INTERNATIONAL blacklist for IMEI i think the EU or atleast many EU countries are linked so you cant just go to France from UK and use a bared IMEI but i know it u go to like Thailand you can (gave my girlfriend a phone i had when she was on holiday and it worked that was bared here because i reported it stolen and then it turned up).

Anyway no-one on here will help you change an IMEI its to risky for all they know you may have stolen it. (this is not an acusation in ANYWAY) However there are those that will try this sort of technique.