For Lo, I am Woe: Phone Edition

[lydy]

My phone has gone all flaky on me.  It can't seem to maintain a cell and data connection.  It is fine on wi-fi.  This does not work for playing Pokemon Go.  In the process of attempting to troubleshoot, I attempted to do a factory reset.  Seriously, the less said about that, the better.  Turns out, Google back-up kinda doesn't, very much.  So, I lost all my Neko Atsume cats, and a whole host of other items.  Of possible interest to you, evidently at some point I was saving my contacts to my phone rather than to Google, and so I lost all that, too.  If you think I should have your phone number, I probably don't, anymore.  If you want me to have it, you could email it to me at lydy at demesne dot com.  Or, you know, call me.  Phone number remains the same.  

After the failed factory reset (we're not talking about that, remember?) I also had Ting (who have been uniformly wonderful) send me a new sim card.  I installed it last night and, nope, didn't help a bit. So, in a spasm of frustration, I bought a new phone.  

Said phone should arrive Thursday or Friday.  My new Macintosh Air is also due to arrive Friday.  So I predict Friday shall be  Tech Tears day.  (Technology makes me cry, a lot.)

And lo, I am woe.   

Comments

[thewayne]

Wow, very sorry to hear that. It sucks when all we want tech to do is work, and when it gets borked it borks all over the place. I ran in to a similar problem trying to remove encryption from my last iMac, ultimately I had to have a new hard drive installed.

About a year ago my wife's MacBook Pro decided to spontaneously brick itself. We drove to Las Cruces and had them transplant her hard drive into my MBP (fortunately they were the same model year) while they worked on it. Double-fortunately it was trivial. Triple-fortunately it had been a while since her employer had bought her a new laptop, so they did. She got a brand-spanking new MacBook Pro with a solid-state drive, which developed glitches. We took it to the Apple Store in El Paso and they said they'd check it out and probably replace the keyboard/trackpad. I was in Las Cruces at a meeting when they called to say it was ready for pickup, so I drove over. It was exhibiting the same problem. Spoke with the manager, and he said it should have never been taken for service, it should have just been replaced. Except it was purchased through a university contract. So a round of phone tag ensued between Apple, NMSU, and the observatory. Eventually spousal unit got an even newier MBP, now with a 1 TB SSD.

That thing is scary fast and light. And the display resolution is unbelievable, though my 27" 5K iMac beats the pulp out of it.

If we lived closer together, I'd offer to help, but there's a thousand miles or so between us. I recently helped my masseuse replace her WiFi and install a UPS, seems to be the most common tech support that I do up here. Best of luck to you!

Good luck!

[lsanderson]

WIth the new tech.

Phone backup always seems to back up the stuff any idiot can replace in five minutes (or not miss for the rest of their lives) and not back up anything that you really want it to back up. Wot's up with that?

[carbonel]

This sounds awfully familiar. Is this a late reporting of earlier events, or did you go through this misery twice?

Sympathies, in any case.