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Did you lose your AirPods?

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by Pyrodogg »

masnick wrote: post #253
echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.

I grew up in a small town in the US before cell phones were ubiquitous. When we started getting cell phones, the numbers all had the same first six digits. The last four were assigned in order of provisioning. My friend and I got our phones at nearly the same time, so our numbers were like 555-555-1004 and 555-555-1008. This came in handy when I was going to visit him years later, and my phone died on the plane. I di…

My Dad got a family plan of cell phones for my two brothers and I in ~2003-04 from a fairly small midwestern town.

I have no idea if he was given an option but our numbers were sequential. X, X+1, and X+2.

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Post by alistairSH »

echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.

Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe?

In the USA, the number reflects the area it was issued. So my phone number matches suburban DC. If I move to California, everybody would know I lived in DC in the past. Kind of odd, I guess, but is a leftover from when cell homes didn’t exist and then when numbers weren’t portable across providers.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by jsjohnst »

cromka wrote: post #219
bratwurst3000 wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

could you link the bugreport or sth pls. apple has such weird bugs. on my iphone if i set an alarm and late at night i decide to tell siri to put another alarm she deletes the first one. did miss some flights because of that. and sometimes it doesnt ring at all. have a analog alarm for that now.

Apple doesn’t do public bug reports

Apple officially doesn’t, but the community does…

http://www.openradar.me/

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by brirec »

Does this really only show the last four digits?!

I lost my AirPods Pro in an Uber back in January, and they’ve been in Lost Mode ever since, and I regularly see them moving around between three or so different places on the Find My map. Nobody ever reached out to me, but if it doesn’t even show your number I guess they wouldn’t be able to…

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by jsjohnst »

SllX wrote: post #169
asveikau wrote: post #100

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Maybe the battery is failing?

Could be either/or. I long ago lost the brassiere that came with my AirPods Max (not really lost, I just can’t be arsed to dig it out of where I think it is) and they’ll drain themselves fairly quickly just trying to throw out stray connections to any of the five or so devices they can connect to unless I make a point of disconnecting them. AirPods Pro exhibit the same exact symptoms when the contact inside the case…

There’s a magnetic contact that the “bra” case engages that turns off the headphones so the battery doesn’t needlessly drain. Bunch of companies make after market cases/covers, you should get one of them at least.

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Post by jsjohnst »

Uptrenda wrote: post #201
gandalfgreybeer wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That definitely isn’t normal. My guess is you need to clean the contacts in the AirPods. They might be in the case but it’s still pairing or trying to pair. Shouldn’t drain that much, especially overnight.

I love the airpods but ah... they dont play well with any kind of metal work. If you do metal work with a file the shavings get everywhere and once they stick to the magnet its almost impossible to get them out. I guess this is a very unusual edge case though but thought id post it. lmao.

Might I recommend something like IsoTunes? Far better product to use in a work environment where you might need to hear something going wrong.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by sgerenser »

b112 wrote: post #198
kennyloginz wrote: post #182

Random late night story, my iPhone was lifted while being unattended. Using findmy, I was able to circle in on an apartment complex. After bugging the police for weeks, they finally met with me to look at my evidence. We met directly outside of the apartment. They didn’t leave their SUV. A week later I got the phone back , because you can place a message on the lock screen remotely. The janitor of the apartment calle…

Huh. Where I am, janitor is used exclusively for more of an overall maintenance person of the entire building. And in such scenarios, due to rental laws, the janitor cannot enter an apartment without prior notice... unless of course it is an emergency. (An emergency has to be a real emergency, not "it's urgent to the landlord") So why I find this weird is, did the thief just leave a stolen phone, charged, in their ap…

I assumed the janitor was the “thief.”

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Post by headPoet »

alistairSH wrote: post #262
echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.

Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe? In the USA, the number reflects the area it was issued. So my phone number matches suburban DC. If I move to California, everybody would know I lived in DC in the past. Kind of odd, I guess, but is a leftover from when cell homes didn’t exist and then when numbers weren’t portable across providers.

In the UK cell numbers start with 07 and landline numbers start with 01. And there is no region encoded in a cell number, but landline numbers begin with an area code.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by echoangle »

alistairSH wrote: post #262
echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.

Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe? In the USA, the number reflects the area it was issued. So my phone number matches suburban DC. If I move to California, everybody would know I lived in DC in the past. Kind of odd, I guess, but is a leftover from when cell homes didn’t exist and then when numbers weren’t portable across providers.

> Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe?

They are portable in Europe (I said that in the second part of my comment), but it seemed like they weren’t in the US, because otherwise, the post is a bit strange. The author just tried every number from his area code to find the owner, when it is possible/likely that the owner has a completely different area code. That’s why I thought it might be that the current number always reflects the actual area code.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by tlb »

Uptrenda wrote: post #201
gandalfgreybeer wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That definitely isn’t normal. My guess is you need to clean the contacts in the AirPods. They might be in the case but it’s still pairing or trying to pair. Shouldn’t drain that much, especially overnight.

I love the airpods but ah... they dont play well with any kind of metal work. If you do metal work with a file the shavings get everywhere and once they stick to the magnet its almost impossible to get them out. I guess this is a very unusual edge case though but thought id post it. lmao.

Iron age problems. Wasn’t a problem in the good ‘ol bronze age.
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