Using "Find my iPhone" I mistakenly touched either Erase or Lock! What now???

My friend seems to have Locked or Erased his iMac!
When first started it asked for his PIN, but the iMac wouldn't respond to it.
('m now learning that the PIN that he used is the PIN to unlock his iPhone, as it didn't ask him to create a PIN.)
Now when I restart I'm brought to a screen which wants to know if I want to resotre from a Time Machine backup.?
I go down that road and find my Time Machine backup, but when given a choice of where to restore, his internal hard drive is not shown, only his SuperDuper backup drive. (at least he's well backed up.)
Is this like the iPhones are now, to prevent larceny, where it Bricks the iMac??
Certainly there has to be a back door, like using his Apple ID and password.
What to do??

Did you boot OS X Recovery?
Using two fingers hold the ⌘ and r keys simultaneously while starting the Mac. Use Disk Utility to verify the disk's presence, partition and / or erase it if necessary, after which you can use Time Machine to restore it.
Is this like the iPhones are now, to prevent larceny, where it Bricks the iMac??
No, there is no OS X analog to iOS's Activation Lock, unless you are referring to an EFI Firmware Password. Use OS X Recovery to remove a Firmware Password if you configured one. If you forgot that password, only Apple will be able to help.
Is there a back door to open it up again?
The above is all there is.

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Leave your contact info via Find My iPhone. The message will display next time it's connected to the internet, and when it does, you will receive an email telling you that the message is displayed and your iPod is located somewhere.
Chances are, you may never hear from it. Hope you have it running iOS 7.1 (which equips the device with Activation Lock, a feature that allow no one other than you access to your device) since for those running iOS 6 and below the device can be wiped and sold hands down. (It's worth mentioning though, iOS 7.0.x has a bug that allow some "clever" thieves to wipe your device despite the Activation Lock.)
Don't beat yourself up. You don't have to FaceTime it -- If a call could come through, so would a Find My iPhone message. (And you should receive an email message.) Just wait for a few days for any email message and if there is none, I'm sorry.

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- On the devices go to the Mapps app. Does you correct location show?
- Try resetting your dvices. That is what I had to d after updating to iOS 5.
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212

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Is there any way to find a lost iPod Touch 4G without using Find My iPhone or MobileMe? By using the serial number or the iTunes account synced in it?

"Is there any way to find a lost iPod Touch 4G without using Find My iPhone or MobileMe? "
Other than looking for it or luck, no.
"By using the serial number or the iTunes account synced in it?"
No.

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Imlost my ipod about a week and a half ago, and the last place i remeber using it was ina friends car, but i looked in my friends car and it was no where to be found!! Kinda weird, but anyway I want to know if there is any way for me to track or find it without the Find my Iphone app.

Only the old fashioned way like if you lost a wallet or purse.
No app is required.
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iCloud: Find My iPhone
- You can also wipe/erase the iPod and have the iPod play a sound via iCloud.
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the iPod and report to police
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the iPod (it erases it) using it unless you had iOS 7 on the device. With iOS 7, one has to enter the Apple ID and password to restore the device.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
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Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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... AFAIC Location Services is a joke.
With both devices sitting side by side on my kitchen table, Location Services has NEVER shown the devices to be any where close to each other, and at times Location Services has been as much as a 1/4 of a mile off between the two devices.
Your iPod Touch has no GPS receiver so determining its location relies upon wireless routers whose location is known. Its "location" is actually that of a wireless router. Your iPhone 4 can use GPS, cellular triangulation, and Wi-Fi. One would think GPS would be most accurate but urban areas have a greater density of cells and GPS signals are easily obstructed so cellular triangulation is often more accurate.
Therefore the two devices' locations can be expected to be different. Differences of a quarter mile are easily explained if you understand how location services works: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1975
Skyhook Wireless (I think Apple uses its own database now): http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/
Location Services is not a "joke"; its intended use is for basic navigation and for such applications as determining where the nearest restaurant is. It cannot tell you that your iPod is under the couch cushions and that your iPhone is in the car.

Ipad is showing as offline when using "find my iphone"

Hi
I am having trouble getting my ipad to be located using find my iphone. This was working and has now stopped working (and did stop working prior to installing iOS 5 so im pretty certain its nothing to do with my software update the other day)
I have downloaded the app, location services are on as are push notifications and of course find my iphone is enabled. Ipad is definately on and connected to the net as its only the wifi version.
When i try to find it, it says that its offline. I have tried a whole lot of things so far and nothing as worked
- turned airplane mode off/on - restart - no luck
- turned push notifications off/on - no luck
- turned location services off/on - no luck
- deleted my icloud account and then added again - no luck
- deleted the app and downloaded again (clutching at straws at this stage!) and still no luck
I read somewhere that it could be to do with me recently changing my apple ID which i did a couple of weeks ago - the suggestion that i read was to change my apple id back and it should work. Problem is that my old apple ID was 6 letters long and no capitals, so i can't change it back even if i wanted to
Also what annoys my is that i can actually locate my iphone sweet as just not my ipad
Any help would be greatly appreciated

No. It must be online in order to locate it.
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iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
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Using find my iphone while roaming without notifications activated

Hello,
I used to be able to use "Find my iPhone" while roaming internationally without have push notifications on (iOS 4.x.x.) but now with iOS 5 there isn't a way to use that feature without enabling notifications as well.
In Settings>General>Network
There is an option of Cellular Data but it turns off Data Roaming when you disactivate Cellular Data.
Basically my question is, is there anyway to turn off all notifications while roaming yet have find my iphone activated.
I know that if I send a message in say "whatsapp" in 4.x.x it would send but i wouldn't get notified unless I was in the app, but now they are pushed either way which makes it expensive for me since I am roaming 270 days out of the year.
Thanks

You cannot trace it if it is offline.
Hopefully you have a passcode on your iPad and you have backups of these documents.

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Is there no way to identify devices from each other?
Can't find any help in icloud either.

What ever device you still have on had. Go to settings - general - about - name - then the name.
I have 4 devices 2 iphone and ipad - which I've name differently so I don't get confused when using find my iphone.

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i was using "find my iphone" and when given the location it was an old location. A post read that the iphone was either turned off or the wifi was not being used. A remove or cancel button appears with this message. I accidentally clicked cancel and now when trying to retrive information about the location of my device it says that I must refresh page or set up instructions. There must be a way to reinstate my account without my device physically present but I do not know how...can someone help me?

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No. It must be online in order to locate it.
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iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
If you activated Find My Phone before it was lost or stolen, you can track it only if it is connected to the Internet by Wi-Fi or cellular. What you cannot do is track your device using a serial number or other identifying number. You cannot expect Apple or anyone else to find your device for you. You cannot recover your loss unless you insure your device for such loss. It is not covered by your warranty.
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Why pop up message comes now if i use find my iphone to locate my family phone added with same id

I was using find my iphone app to locate my kids as all my iphones were registred against one ID. They never come to know that I am locating their location and know where they are. Now I come to know that when i tried to locate them pop message comes to their phones that someone has tried to search your location. This is really not good. even if phone lost and other person can find out that we are trying to search the location. How to close this pop up messages or what is the solution?

Once again - check that out:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4006
"With iCloud and iOS 5 or later you can locate, play a sound on, display a message on and remotely lock, or erase your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. If these features do not work as expected, use the troubleshooting steps below. "
Translation: if you didn't mess up by clicking "play sound" or "display message", then your kids just got you. They already disabled location services I bet.
Another translation if first was too subtle, there is no message if you just locating.

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