all right all right

[dragonlady7]

So I got the phone to turn on, and with Dude's SIM, it worked, so there's that. We then went over and helped his mom move electronics around to take them for recycling. Then we went to the AT&T store.
Do you know how they fixed my SIM card?
They put it in a hole punch machine and made it smaller. Yes really.
Now it works. Phone works. Took some photos on it. Yay! Works as advertised.
I have to get used to it, and that's annoying.

Also it said it came with a transfer device doohickey, but Does Not. Had I known, I'd've ordered one and had it already, but it said it was in the box, and it wasn't, so. Now I won't get it until Monday, which means I can't give my phone to BIL when he comes through on Sunday. So that's annoying. (We have this deal where he always gets my old phones.) So he'll have to wait a week, that's fine, I'll be able to be sure I'm done with it before I wipe it and hand it over.

So: We'll see. But. I have a new thingy. Yay!

Oh also it was noon when we left the AT&T store after the Hole Punch incident, and we were going to just go home but then Dude remembered the halal taco place at Grant & Amherst, so we went and had halal tortas.

Comments

[unicornduke]

newer phones have apps that you can do it through. both my phones were samsungs so I was able to use their transfer app to move all my shit over. but a little more time to make sure everything is off is always good.

I actually still have my old phone....

also a hole punch to adjust electronics is fucking hilarious

[dragonlady7]

My phone has like an app thing, but it tells me "plug in the connector that came with me!" and it didn't come with one because I bought it reconditioned. It can't do it wirelessly, there's too much data. (All I really need is my SMS conversations, but there's apparently no way to do that without the connector. I tried mounting my old phone as a disk on my computer, and you just... can't access them that way.)

[snake_socks]

I actually had the reverse problem once, so now I'm in possession of a full set of sim-adapters, read: tiny, variously shaped plastic chips, each with an even tinier hole that fits my sim exactly.

[dragonlady7]

fantastic. that's fantastic.

you should make jewelry out of them somehow, that's what i'd tell myself I would and then never do.