And today's lesson is....

[gwendolyngrace]

...Back up your smartphone.

I took my phone to Sprint because the Bluetooth has been acting funny - and because my "mute" button was making the phone freak out and not working. (It would vibrate and switch rapidly from mute to sound and back multiple times and then ultimately NOT go mute.)

They had to replace the device - which is okay, I have tech protection - but because I hadn't backed it up I lost photos, my MPG data from my car, and all my ringtones for various people.

So I'll be synching that back up tonight, but the rest of the data is lost. Luckily it's not hugely *important* data, but still. PITA.

(Oh, and my reward for the Miyazaki dream two nights ago? Was a nightmare about a really horrific plane crash last night. Joy.)

At least I spent the hour waiting for them to fix the phone by price shopping (and eventually buying) new plastic storage totes - a 45Gal. for the tent (with wheels!!), a 22Gal and an 18Gal for fabric and other stuff to go either downstairs or in the Ashland storage unit. They're still in the car, but Progress!

Comments

[baronsteffan.livejournal.com]

You would think that they would pull the data from the old phone and transfer it to the new phone as a service to the customer. Of course, that may have been part of the super+ tech support plan for an additional $N dollars.

I understand they can't do that if the phone is completely dead, but really...

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Lots of technical fails lately. No one is immune.

[baronessekat.livejournal.com]

for ring tones that are free (save the cost of a text message) check out www.phonezoo.com

[grouchyoldcoot.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sucks! As more and more of my brain migrates onto my phone I get more and more paranoid about this sort of fail.

But- did I miss the Miazaki dream?

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the problem was that the couple times I backed up the phone early, it didn't seem to go very well.

The dream? I guess you did. I posted about it the day before.

[chrystie69.livejournal.com]

One of those reasons I love verizon...I have automatic backup of everything to my account, I can even to in and SEE the info when I log in online and I can tell it to re-install on my phone :) Carbonite for phones! LOL