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Jan. 16th, 2016 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesApparently nothing with a microchip in it likes me this weekend.
My old phone was dying, so I went last night to try to buy a new one. Couldn't do it, because I apparently needed my Sprint account PIN, which I set up sometime years ago and never use because I pay my bills by mail. And besides, I hadn't backed up the old phone lately. So I came home and spent entirely too long setting up a new username and password with Sprint so it would tell me what my PIN is. In the course of which my laptop decided to start making That Noise, which means it forgets where its system folder is and I have to remind it. Fortunately I managed to do that without too much agita.
This morning I backed up the old phone, wrote down the Sprint PIN, and went off to the Apple store. I ended up getting the new phone for $11.75 because I traded in the old phone, and was warned at least twice that if I did that, they would brick it, so was I sure it was backed up? And then I spent $75 on protective gear for the new phone, because I believe in that. Set up the new phone as far as possible on the way home (until it said "back up from iTunes?" and the answer was Yes), came home, plugged the new phone into iTunes, and it said it couldn't restore from backup because the new phone's software was out of date. Download and install new software. Then discovered that the new phone had backed itself up before installing the new software, and its backup had overwritten the backup of the old phone. All my apps and all my contacts went *POOF*. So I reinstalled all the apps I can't live without (and paid $10 for ad-free versions of a couple of them), but the contacts really have gone *POOF*. So if you think I ought to have your phone number, let me know what it is.
My old phone was dying, so I went last night to try to buy a new one. Couldn't do it, because I apparently needed my Sprint account PIN, which I set up sometime years ago and never use because I pay my bills by mail. And besides, I hadn't backed up the old phone lately. So I came home and spent entirely too long setting up a new username and password with Sprint so it would tell me what my PIN is. In the course of which my laptop decided to start making That Noise, which means it forgets where its system folder is and I have to remind it. Fortunately I managed to do that without too much agita.
This morning I backed up the old phone, wrote down the Sprint PIN, and went off to the Apple store. I ended up getting the new phone for $11.75 because I traded in the old phone, and was warned at least twice that if I did that, they would brick it, so was I sure it was backed up? And then I spent $75 on protective gear for the new phone, because I believe in that. Set up the new phone as far as possible on the way home (until it said "back up from iTunes?" and the answer was Yes), came home, plugged the new phone into iTunes, and it said it couldn't restore from backup because the new phone's software was out of date. Download and install new software. Then discovered that the new phone had backed itself up before installing the new software, and its backup had overwritten the backup of the old phone. All my apps and all my contacts went *POOF*. So I reinstalled all the apps I can't live without (and paid $10 for ad-free versions of a couple of them), but the contacts really have gone *POOF*. So if you think I ought to have your phone number, let me know what it is.
