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tody
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I found an Iphone covered in dust at a local library. It didn't have a scratch on it and I figured the low paid staff might keep it if I brought it over and handed it to them. I charged it and found that it had not been used since 3 months before I found it, and I only know this because there was a calendar note that said buy briefcase tmrw. There is not a single photo, phone number, recent call, downloaded app, voicemail, fingerprint, email, or anything that could possibly assist me to find the owner. I'm starting to feel like some rich guy just threw it down there for fun hoping someone would find it. The thing is, I did my best to do the right thing. I went to the apple store and made an appointment, they ended up being so busy that they skipped over me. I'd have had to wait another two hours to ask them about it. I called the police station and told them, they said they didn't have time for bs like lost phones and that if I wanted to I could drop it off. Again, I felt like the owner would not recieve it anyway. I myself lost an iphone and only ended up getting it back because one of their employees recognized me from a photo when sifting through it. I had gone there to buy a new one and just got surprised. She told me they get an iphone a week turned into them and that theyre are genuinely so busy that the effort of looking of serial numbers and contacting owners of lost phones barely happens unless there is a direct level of urgency. Even people who come in to store hoping to find their lost iphone may not even get it. So after spending a buttload of time trying to do the right thing, as someone had so generously done for me, I realized now matter what there is little or no chance I will be able to get this owner their phone back. Not to mention I found it in the library of a city that is genuinely 95% wealthy. The only loss was the phone itself, as there was no personal data on it. So I have my iphone now, beaten and weathered to death. And i have this brand new iphone, that is just going to waste. I know you can bring a used iphone and have it reactivated, but I'm worried they will either accuse me of thievery, or take the phone and put it away until they can "contact" the owner. Which as I was told by an employee barely happens. Only if the customer calls into the store itself do they look to see. Rather most phones are sent out after a certain set of days to recycling center and are held for a variable amount of time to allow the owner to contact them, before they are stripped, restored and resold. So it seems to me that apple would be doing more of an injustice to the customer than I am doing. Seeing as how I did the best i could as an average do gooder. Forgive the length of this thing, I just want everyone to understand and not judge me. So the bottom line is, I want to use this thing. Without involving apple, because my nature as a good samaratin will go to waste, and they'll make 400 more dollars. So how do i use it? Do i unlock and jailbreak it? Will my sim work after that, because it comes from an already functioning iphone? It should right? regardless, I'm going to try these things soon. But i want some advice. I did the best I could short of just leaving the iphone on the counter at the store. So please can I have some help in making this phone function. Because after many wasted hours of traveling to the store, talking to careless policemen on the phone, and walking around the library for a good 2 hours asking if someone lost a phone initially after its discovery, I feel I really deserve to use it. Not to mention, I was lied to by apple, whom claimed any damage accidentaly, electronic, digital, or malfunction would be covered by apple care, and the phone would be replaced. Which is not the case, seeing as how the top silver button does not work, the touch screen often fails, and after a series of accidental drops it has deteriorated to a nokia like status. Even with the problems it had before. Help please. And don't give me any guff about run on sentences, and epic questions, and starting sentences with but, because and and. lol. I just need you people to understand. Now help me please!!!