I was searching for a way to recover lost iPhone on forums (I didn’t lose because I don’t have Iphone. I was just excited to know!),their were many questions about the Iphone being lost/stolen but no proper answer on how to recover it! So here is a simple guide which I have compiled for recovering your Apple Iphone device. I hope this guide on how to recover lost iPhone helps people to retrieve them quickly. You can also check out Cell Phone tracking ways to find any cell phone like iPhone with the use of GPS location tracking system.
Recover Lost/stolen Iphone :
Navizon has released a beta version of the Navizon GPS application for Apple iPhone featuring a new option called Locate-by-SMS which allows you to locate your lost iPhone by sending an SMS text message to it.
When an SMS is received that begins with the keyword you specified in the settings, the software will automatically determine the current location and send a reply containing the location of the device. If the location is in USA and a street address has been identified, then the SMS reply will contain full details, otherwise it will just contain a link to a point on Google Maps.
This Navizon application attempts to determine the location three times before a failure SMS 
message is sent.Navizon also includes GPS location tracking option that allows all users to track their friends and family members .
You can see the Video on How Navizon recover’s the Lost iphone!
How to use Navizon to locate your stolen/lost iphone
You can activate this feature by going to the settings and enable the Locate-By-SMS function. Enter your chosen keyword and your Iphone device is set. When you send a sms to your iPhone with the chosen keyword, Navizon will send back the coordinates of your phone to the senders number.
Retrieving your iPhone’s GSM cellular id location via Twitter
This program is called FindMe which allows you to get the GSM cellular id of your Iphone using twitter.This application tells you the GSM tower’s cell id as well as its latitude and longitude with the help of Google Maps.
How Findme should be used to retrieve the GSM cellular id
First create a new Twitter account just for your iPhone (create a new account). Open the Settings panel, and look for the “Protect My Updates” checkbox. It’s towards the bottom of the page, just above the Save button. Check this and click Save. With protected updates, only the Twitter users you approve will see the updates for this iPhone-only account (just you? you + spouse? spouse, kids, and “special friends?” Up to you).After creating your phone’s Twitter account, you’re ready to set up your iPhone to tweet in on a regular basis.
You can also use a public Twitter account if you want everyone to be able to track your progress say while you are travelling.
Read instruction on How to install Findme on Iphone
Download Findme now
Things you need to do in order to protect your current Iphone
Though everyday lots of iphone are stolen and lost,you must be aware and It is your responsibility to keep your own iPhone safely until you are damn rich to afford another one! Just be careful!!!
Another way to protect is by registering to Myfoundcast. Myfoundcast is free and has a patent pending (application for a patent has been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The law imposes a fine on those who use these terms falsely to deceive the public.Details of the patent filed will remain confidential) technology is the internet’s first lost and found service that allows you to create custom wallpaper and embed information into that wallpaper so when somebody finds your iPhone they will know how to return it. All members are given a unique tracking ID and automatically registered in our lost and found database. You may register the serial number of any iPod or iPhone.
They have a annual free membership now, so register as soon as possible!
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im having the same case as u.. cn anyone help us with it?
I lost my iPhone…
I went to school this moring listening music with it and in lunch time i found that it was gone from my bag…
I am so sad…
I bought it yesterday… I am so so so sad…
I got my iPhone back!! Here is the cold hard TRUTH! Forget all you have read and heard except http://www.rewardingreturn.com/ or a similar technology to encourage honesty through bribery because nothing else will work! Here is how I got my iPhone back …
Unless a reward that appears on the phone works nothing else will, here is why. My phone was stolen from me and the thief removed the Rogers (Canada) sim card (so my number was gone) he then installed a new sim card. He also did a device erase (too easy to do) so all the apps were gone. Rogers was told 15 minutes after it was gone that it was STOLEN. Rogers did not care … they had a new customer and would sell me a new phone at FULL PRICE $699, that is ALL they would do even though they know it as put back on their network within 8 hours.
Call the police. Get a sympathetic officer who actually wants to do their job. Go to your iTunes and click on “preferences” then “devices” and rest your pointer on your device's last backup. Information will appear including the IMEI number. This number is golden as the police with this number and a call to the correct department of your cell provider can easily locate the phone and thief even with a device erase and new sim card installed. Rogers has a police only department for this that will NOT speak to you the rightful owner but if detailed information is required, Rogers requires a WARRANT. Rogers Law Enforcement Division (416)935-5300.
The police who picked up my phone would not lay charges but I did get my phone back a little worse for the ware.
Two last pieces of advice … lock the phone and enable “erase if 10 bad passcode attempts” because “restore” is amazing and restores EVERYTHING and no personal info has wound up in the wrong hands. Lastly write down the MAC address before you loose the phone as if is not in iTunes and it could possibly be used to locate it as well.
Tim
Ontario, Canada
i have lost my iphone,
but dont have any kind of find me apps on it.
and when i ring it it goes straight to voicemail, so im guessing its got no battery,
PLEASE HELP.
jajaja noo parcera usted piensa q se lo van a devolver??
mira sinsera mente yo no estoy seguro,por ke ami me lo robaron hoyy y estoy llorando como un estupido jeje olle pero si de algun modo optienes tu iphone mandame un mensage a julito-28@hotmail.com okk chao
AT&T has the family map that for a fee you can locate people you share a plan with. I added it to my daughters phone for safety reasons but if the phone is turned off or the sim card removed those features do not work. I wonder if the mobile me works if they remove the sim card. I plan on trying it out since she has lost another iphone.
me robaron mi iphone 3gs
la empresa donde lo compre lo puede encontrar por el gps?
no tenia ninguna aplicacion de rastreo-
I lost mine yesterday. its driving me insane. i need it. it has my music. thats the most important part. Is there anyway i can track it after its already lost. I didnt download any of those programs beforehand. =/
i got my iphone stolen yesterday during gym class, and now i am trying very hard to get it back. I never thought this would happen to me so I don’t have any of these tools already on my iphone, is there anything i can do to get it back?
I wish I’d read these notes before I had lost my iphone tonight
hey iphone lover don’t be such a A hole i had my iPhone for 3 years before i came out of my pocket on a roaller coaster at 6 flags while i was wearing jeans and that was my 3rd day there
how do you find a lost iphone if it is off or out of battery?
Charlie is correct! Now Rewarding Return has an iPhone app too
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=304187575&mt=8
Lose your iPhone and they’ll ship it back to you for FREE.. so sick!
I think you have to do it before. I cant find any way to do if you haven’t installed the software before hand
But will these things work if youve already lost your phone? Or does all that crap have to be done BEFORE you lose it?
Maybe I’m missing something, but Sprint has a tower-based Family Locater service that can get your phone located to as close as a few yards. We have it on four family devices. Press Apple to patent their version of it and save all those lost phones.
I almost mailed my iPhone to Dallas Texas, while shipping out a server to another COLO. I’ve never been so determined to find something, I only had the phone for 2 weeks at that time. LOL
Just lost mine , yes, I admit it ..I feel like a total idiot. But for finders it is easy to make the phones marketable even if blocked and locked.
Once there is no value to the finder (not even as an itouch) they might be more likely to consider returning the phones for a nice reward instead of having a dead phone.
Hi YOU PEOPLE ARE EPIC FALIURE HOW DO YOU LOSE AN IPHOJNE? YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DO KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS!!!!!!!!!! DONT TAKE IT OUT! KEEP IT THIER NOT IN JACKET I KNOw HOW IT FEELS TO LOSE SOMETHING WHEN I WAS IN 5TH GRADE SOME one STOLE MY NINTENDO DS while i was at the bathroom i cried for like 2 weeks,,,, hey i was only 10,,,,, no i am 16 and have a iphone and i carry it in my jeans but it is really hard for it not to get stolen when its gym peroid because we have to change and leave our bookbages and stuff like that in The locker room that really worrys me! Is thier anything i can do so i can prevent this from hapenin? if so email me at ksaud@ebnet.org
I use the Owner Information iPhone application in case an honest person finds my iPhone and actually want to return it.
Check it out: http://www.phonefound.com
Best thing I’ve found so far is http://www.RewardingReturn.com
If someone finds your phone, they get a reward for returning it and Rewarding Return makes all the arrangement (for free) to get it back to you.
I’ve shamefully lost iPhone twice even though i love it more than my GF and I’ve had it back in my hands within 2 days both times
I want to be the Jared of Subway for them – this crap really works and saved my life
You should note that as of today, October 21st, 2008, Navizon software does not work on the iPhone 3G or on iPhones with 2.x firmware. They have been working on a total rewrite and will submit the rewrite to the Apple store, which means that jailbreaking will no longer be required; however, there is no estimate on when this software will be ready. Numerous complaints from paying customers on their forum regarding this issue, which is one reason they never should have charged for a product that required jailbreaking.
this seems really helpful !
i lost my iphone less than a week ago and it has literally driven me crazy
i would ive anything to have it back and because i am only 16 i don’t hav the money to buy a new one
hopefully this will work
thank you very much !
Thanks for this post!
Here we go!!!
i never had a iphone before but just has a Windows mobile(htc touc), this things really seems to be a good way but is there any thing like this for windows mobile!?
\m/ awesome man
cool tricks and just bit same tricks, people get catch a cell phones thief but cell phone should be N Series.
thanks to share with us.
@ Pallab,
For sony ericsson security, I use mGuard, but have never tested…. Try that if you started using SE again…
this looks great man… i had a history of losing phones in a hurry…
I am sure iPhone users will find this helpful.
I recently lost my SE
I dont have an iphone
but this looks amazing…