I HATE CELL PHONES

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I've been without one for nearly a week and have no other way except this site, snail mail, of a drive by to contact anyone.   Bought a new one had it ready to go but when I activated it the old phone was shut down and the new one is defective.  Well, CRAP!

 

With all the physical problems I have had recently I have to count on my Life Alert system.   My friends and family have no way to contact me.  it's Christmas time and I'll miss a lot of calls.  Hell, I can't even make any obscene calls to phone companies.

[PowderRiverCowboy]

Well look on the Bright side, you at least have people to call , Mine never rings unless its a scammer . guess the cell reception in Cemetery isn't great .  I truly hate this time of year.  If it wasnt for kids i would just skip it.

[Michigan Slim]

I do believe your old phone can still call 911 even if deactivated.

[Rye Miles #13621]

41 minutes ago, Michigan Slim said:

I do believe your old phone can still call 911 even if deactivated.

I believe you are correct .

 

Forty why not bring it back to the store that you bought it from ?

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

I believe you are correct .

 

Forty why not bring it back to the store that you bought it from ?

 

He just wants to GRUMP a bit.

(Maybe move this to the GTUMPY OLD FARTS WITH GUNS thread????? It is a good GRUMP!)

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Forty, if you're able to get on here, I presume that you have internet. Maybe you can go the the website of your phone provider, (Version, AT&T, or whoever), and contact them by Chat and ask for help.  

Does your phone use a SIM card? If so, you should be able to reinstall it in your old phone. 

[Pat Riot]

Forty Rod, I never leave the phone store without having them do the transfer. I am tech savvy enough with these things to be my greatest impediment in getting them working. 
You should take it back a make them make it work. 
 

If a phone store tech says “It’s simple. Just blah, blah, blah.” 
I say “Prove it. Show me.”

If he or she balks I remind them that “I am the customer and I need your expertise.” The words “your expertise” gets them every time. 
I am not opposed to messaging someone’s ego to get my way. 

[Lone Spur Jake SASS #7728]

What cell phone service company are you dealing with?  If you can't get it resolved by this Thur. morning Zeke's breakfast with our cowboy folks, we will get it fixed for you.  

 

[watab kid]

8 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I've been without one for nearly a week and have no other way except this site, snail mail, of a drive by to contact anyone.   Bought a new one had it ready to go but when I activated it the old phone was shut down and the new one is defective.  Well, CRAP!

 

With all the physical problems I have had recently I have to count on my Life Alert system.   My friends and family have no way to contact me.  it's Christmas time and I'll miss a lot of calls.  Hell, I can't even make any obscene calls to phone companies.

i hear ya on this - i hated them since they became the electronic tether , but after having on i got used to the convenience of fingertip contacts , the day i left mine on the bumper and drove off to run errands i discovered that going without for a week was a real PITA , however , a while back [as in weeks-less than two months]  i found the need to have mine operating and near [5 feet] of my person mpost of the time as it monitors my pacemaker , not that the thing wont work without the phone but i wont get the alert frm the monitor service if it isnt working as it should , 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

8 hours ago, Michigan Slim said:

I do believe your old phone can still call 911 even if deactivated.

So does my Life Alert system so I haven't even looked.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

8 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

I believe you are correct .

 

Forty why not bring it back to the store that you bought it from ?

Got it from Best Buy, a place that I never left without being disappointed.  Their Geek Squad couldn't get it working and they wouldn't replace it without going through their corporate office.

 

I'll never go back there again.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

5 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

Forty, if you're able to get on here, I presume that you have internet. Maybe you can go the the website of your phone provider, (Version, AT&T, or whoever), and contact them by Chat and ask for help.  

Does your phone use a SIM card? If so, you should be able to reinstall it in your old phone. 

Went through all that crap via their website and they kept telling me call their help line.  I explained that I DIDN'T HAVE A FUNCTIONING PHONE, but the dumb SOBs obviously didn't read it.

 

Finally spent $50.00 and three hours at Tuff Techies and am having a new phone sent to me ready to go.  All I have to do is charge it up and spend another three hours re-entering my contact list....again. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

4 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Forty Rod, I never leave the phone store without having them do the transfer. I am tech savvy enough with these things to be my greatest impediment in getting them working. 
You should take it back a make them make it work. 
 

If a phone store tech says “It’s simple. Just blah, blah, blah.” 
I say “Prove it. Show me.”

If he or she balks I remind them that “I am the customer and I need your expertise.” The words “your expertise” gets them every time. 
I am not opposed to messaging someone’s ego to get my way. 

Best Buy doesn't do that and their Geek Squad, for all its bragging and ads, CAN'T Figure out how to.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

4 hours ago, Lone Spur Jake SASS #7728 said:

What cell phone service company are you dealing with?  If you can't get it resolved by this Thur. morning Zeke's breakfast with our cowboy folks, we will get it fixed for you.  

 

The company is Lively.  The last phone of theirs worked well, but this one's "defective" so I'm getting a new one sent....in 3-4 days.  See you Thursday

[Pat Riot]

On 12/19/2023 at 8:56 PM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Best Buy doesn't do that and their Geek Squad, for all its bragging and ads, CAN'T Figure out how to.

Well, learn from this and move forward. Who’s your carrier? Perhaps go to them and see if they can help.  

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

The carrier is Lively.  I understand it is owned by Best Buy.  I understand the Cricket phones are also their brand, but when the phones work they are so simple even a dinosaur like me can work them.

 

Anyway, it's solved now......or will be when the replacement phone gets here.................and if it works.

 

I just love how the past comes back to bite you.  I have worked with computers since 1966, back when they promised that computers would save time (questionable), 

paper (in a pig's arse it did), and it introduced us to chat, warped 80-80 IBM cards, static electricity problems, vibration shut downs, etc ), paper (and how's that working out?), manpower (my operation went from  16 people to 29), save money (have you priced any top-of-the -line home computer systems recently), make communications faster and better (totally BS), and simplify our lives (still trying to find the lying SOB that sold that crap to everyone).