Penguinbaits 810 Stolen
 

I left the windows open in the Jeep for 5 minutes. I went into Burger Street, Grand Blanc, Michigan, to oder some lunch. I could see my jeep from the resturant, but
I guess they must have done it exaclty when I was ordering my food and not watching.

If anyone in Michigan runs across a sale on a used 810, please let me know I have my WLAN number.

Can I report it to Nokia? or maemo?

Oh well, I am deeply saddened by my stupidity. I did not notice it immediately and thought maybe I misplaced it, but I have desparately searched the entire house and its not here. Last I remember seeing it was in my cup holder in my jeep.

This will bring some of my development efforts to a HALT!

I am praying its lying around the house somewhere still, but I have looked everywhere and I can't find it.

If I have to replace it I hope the n900 is coming out soon!

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My heart is with you, PB. I know exactly how it felt. I cracked by Toshiba e740 (a winCE with wifi when people dont even know what is wifi) screen, when I turned around to fetch something. The screen cracked between my shirt pocket and the steering wheel. I felt like a pet was found dead. Hope you find it somewhere in the house,

BTW, I think you should report to the police and have it listed as a stolen/lost property and, maybe, claim catastrophic thief lost on next year tax return.

bun

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Hopefully u had a lock code on the device so that the thief can't access the full potential of the tablet.

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There should be a way to track the IP of these devices so that if they are stolen, we can see if they ever pop up online. I always thought this about iPods as well. Since they have unique IDs, it would not be difficult to report a unit as stolen and prevent it from being used for many things -- and perhaps report where it is being used.

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Definitely report it stolen to the police and definitely DO NOT go to pawnshops and look for it/warn them about it!!! Sounds counterintuitive But I have a friend who is a pawnbroker and here's how he explained it to me-

In the cops vs. crooks game of stolen merchandise, the pawnbroker plays the part of the goat tied to the tree. Pawnbrokers purchase goods, the serial numbers of those goods are run through a police database. If the SN matches, the goods are confiscated and returned to their rightful owner. If that happens the pawnbroker is out the money they spent on said goods. If you go around to all of the pawnshops and warn them about your stolen 'whatever' those brokers will not buy it when it walks in the door and you won't get it back ever! You stand the best chance of retrieving your tablet if the police know what's up and the pawnbroker is ignorant. Go look for it. But if the pawnbroker asks why, just tell him you're shopping for one.

By all means though, check classifieds, Craig's List, eBay, etc... You could get lucky. If you find it and the SN matches, having a theft report on file will allow you to call the police and have a uniformed officer with you when you confront the thief.

good luck,
kernelpanic

strangely enough I just started a thread on this earlier this morning here. Weird!

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I have had 770 800 and 810, and never once locked it.

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With the prevalence of NAT type routers giving access points, most portable devices are pretty opaque from the internet. Unless, there's a phone home service..

Anyway, PenguinBait, did you leave any accounts in the device that the thief might be able to use without knowing the password (maybe email acct or social sites that you save the passwd on the device)? Maybe you can check the login times (start taking notes) to see whether the thief is actively using the device without resetting it. If so, that may be used as a vector of attack.. maybe sending yourself a trojan into one of these accounts hoping the thief would execute the binary... which would in turn take his picture thru the webcam, capture a few pertinent system info (ifconfig, some logs and whatnot) and send the parcel back to your new email account (this will show his smtp trails as well.. hopefully).

If Nokia cares, maybe giving them the serial number may help. In case the device shows up for service in the future.

Getting in touch with local wifi hotspot providers (with your police report as supporting document) may be worth a try, as they have the technical means to detect the item via the mac address if the thief plays with the device in a nearby wifi hotspot.

Calling nearby pawnshops maybe? If they don't have it, maybe leave a request for them to contact you if they have any n810 for sale in the future..

That's all I can think of for now.

I really hope you get it back, man.

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More than likely the thief has no clue about the potential of the tablet locked or otherwise...

The shame is they pro'ly saw it as a GPS unit and after realizing it's not a new Magellan, TomTom, or Garmin, will not be able to quickly unload it and it may never be heard from again.

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Unfortunately it was a fresh flash, with 3 boot from SD partitions. I had been using my install-tools tarball and testing. So no accounts, nothing that can help me :(

I was wondering if there would be a way to give it to maemo and be notified of IP address of user trying to upate flash in the future? It seems like it would show up eventually?

Oh well, how do you say "C'est la vie"

Its times like this the serenity prayer fits nicely

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Oh man... at least you don't have to worry too much about them having your personal information :(

I wonder if the maemo application store can be used somehow to detect\interact with your specific tablet...