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A bit about phones. When providers see you using or checking phone, it’s put on ‘active’ mode, where it will be regularly scanned to register it with closest tower so that it’s ready to receive and send data. This registering with tower is commonly called a ping.
However, your phone isn’t consistently pinged. There are measures to minimise waste of resources. When a provider sees you are not active for a while, your phone is put on ‘sleep’ where it will not register with tower even if you receive something.
It will remain on ‘sleep’ until the ‘sleep’ mode is up (determined by provider but usually about 8 hours). At which point, tower will ping it and if still no activity on your end, it will restart another ‘sleep’ cycle.
Alternatively, phone will stop ‘sleep’ mode whenever you use or check it, this will restart a new ‘active’ cycle and your phone will start regularly pinging with towers again.
Therefore Theo’s next day, 1.40pm ping was likely an end of ‘sleep’ mode to see if there had been any recent activity to turn it into ‘active’ mode. As it obviously wasn’t used, it probably went into a new ‘sleep’ cycle until it ran out of battery. Again, any incoming data while on ‘sleep’ won’t cause a ping, so 1.40pm ping was not Antoine’s message coming through.
All this to say, I’m guessing the phone is still in bush and was not taken by perp. If perp has it, it would have shown movement between 1am and 1.40pm.
The alternate theory would be that perp found Theo with phone at 1am, switched it off. Moved it to beach, left it there until 1.40pm the next day, only to turn it on then switch it back off again. Doesn’t make sense.
So phone might still be in bush but not in direct vicinity of hat, as it was searched with metal detectors.
However, your phone isn’t consistently pinged. There are measures to minimise waste of resources. When a provider sees you are not active for a while, your phone is put on ‘sleep’ where it will not register with tower even if you receive something.
It will remain on ‘sleep’ until the ‘sleep’ mode is up (determined by provider but usually about 8 hours). At which point, tower will ping it and if still no activity on your end, it will restart another ‘sleep’ cycle.
Alternatively, phone will stop ‘sleep’ mode whenever you use or check it, this will restart a new ‘active’ cycle and your phone will start regularly pinging with towers again.
Therefore Theo’s next day, 1.40pm ping was likely an end of ‘sleep’ mode to see if there had been any recent activity to turn it into ‘active’ mode. As it obviously wasn’t used, it probably went into a new ‘sleep’ cycle until it ran out of battery. Again, any incoming data while on ‘sleep’ won’t cause a ping, so 1.40pm ping was not Antoine’s message coming through.
All this to say, I’m guessing the phone is still in bush and was not taken by perp. If perp has it, it would have shown movement between 1am and 1.40pm.
The alternate theory would be that perp found Theo with phone at 1am, switched it off. Moved it to beach, left it there until 1.40pm the next day, only to turn it on then switch it back off again. Doesn’t make sense.
So phone might still be in bush but not in direct vicinity of hat, as it was searched with metal detectors.