Today my brother lost his backpack and all his camping gear in the woods while he went to get wood. He forgot which way back to the camp, and he has spent the past 6+ hours searching the woods. The iphone is in his backpack, but it is on airplane mode and is unable to be tracked by Icloud's "Find My Iphone". The service provider is Verizon Wireless. Will Verison be able to turn airplane mode off on his phone? Or is there some way for us to do this? We would really appreciate as much help as possible, as we really need to find our stuff. Thank you!
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2This isn't a programming question... – brbcoding May 15 '13 at 01:59
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Or does airplane mode toggle off after a length of time? – Shadowpat May 15 '13 at 01:59
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This is about the iphone OS – Shadowpat May 15 '13 at 01:59
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1Airplane mode disables all wireless communication by default so I would imagine that what you're asking is impossible. – Collective Cognition May 15 '13 at 02:00
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What brbcoding means is, this is off-topic for this site, where we answer questions related to programming. – Michael Petrotta May 15 '13 at 02:00
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Thank you @CollectiveCognition, but what about through a sattelite? They must have some way to access the iphone settings – Shadowpat May 15 '13 at 02:02
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1You could always ask the US Govt for an access to their infrared satellite and have a look at the warm track you left behind in the woods ;-) – Chief Wiggum May 15 '13 at 02:05
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No, the whole idea of the airplane mode is that the phone is not sending or receiving anything. Therefore the airplane mode can't be switched off since you can't connect to it.
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hmm okay, but i would assume they would set it up so that it would still communicate to the provider with smaller packets instead of the usual large data – Shadowpat May 15 '13 at 02:04
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1No, it's really switched off since you don't want any disturbance in communication when flying a plane with 300 souls on board... – Chief Wiggum May 15 '13 at 02:07
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1Don't think the airlines would be very happy with that, @Shadowpat (ignoring whether they should care). Neither would I - smaller packets, but radio still on and burning watts. – Michael Petrotta May 15 '13 at 02:08