Oy, that phone finally failed

[nadinbrzezinski]

That samsung phone. I came out of the courthouse today, and as I turned the samsung on, it froze for fifteen minutes and that battery started to drain. So off to AT&T store. Too late for them to do squat about it, and the contract still has eight months.

They suggested Gamestop for a used phone. I got an I-phone 4 with 32 gigs of space for a tad more than the 4s with 8 gigs they could even consider. You need to buy the contract back. So got an iPhone, made a call to the boss, and it drained 1% of the battery! not 20%. Anybody willing to wager when I will buy another Samsung?

Oh and did the upgrade to 7. Whatever we are at. No loss whatsoever in performance.

[NYC_SKP]

1. I'm kind of sorry I upgraded to ios7. The photos sorting is completely new.

No longer can you look at your entire photo collection on a world map.

Instead, photos are grouped into "moments" and "years", and you can still look at a single year on a map but not your entire collection.

I hate that one element, and there's no getting out of it.

Hoping they'll do an update and restore the features as it was as an optional setting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. That be nice, actually

but mine would be hilarious. So many taken in City Hall, downtown san diego and the courts.

Regardless, now I have my apps happy. But I discovered I cannot message hubby, who happens to be on an Iphone too, weird huh? So tomorrow might go back to these guys (AT and T) and ask, why? Though my stupid messages from IPN are coming in like well, very well. So perhaps Tom has to message me first, since this was pre used. Makes not sense, but.

And what do you know? Tom sent me a text, it's fixed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Done loading some of my writing apps,

and the thing just works.

I took the old one to Best Buy. I got $35.00 for it. What caught my ear was that the guy receiving it said that many of these are getting sold to them now, it is a wave. They are also taking forever to wipe out the info and all that. He also said that some folks have simply bought iphone fives without a contract, just for the provider they use. I found that to be astounding.

I think they are having the issues that were seen in China, but sadly, we would need a class action suit here in the States in Federal Court, and I doubt anybody has the stomach. They are all between 13 and 19 months old.

[sir pball]

4. Nah. It's just the S4s are out now.

I pay attention to the buzz about the S3 over on xda and rootzwiki (gotta keep AOKP up to date); there's no massive class-action-level issues with the phones here*, it's just that the new shinies are out and the Samsung crowd is possibly even more fickle than the iDevice crew. Me, I'm manufacturer-agnostic but too invested now in Android to switch...the Moto X looks quite nice. Or the LG G2.

* - US phones use Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC's while the Chinese phones use Samsung's own Exynos chips - the problems are theorized by hobbyists more knowledgeable than I to be something in the Exynos hardware.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I am not sure about fickle

that thing overheated, as in seriously overheated. Started to freeze, battery drained very fast, and could not get the apps to do squat. I got a defective unit, regardless of how you slice it. The Iphone is working like a charm right now.

[sir pball]

6. Oh, I just meant fickle in terms of getting the latest product immediately

The S3 forums went stone-dead within 48 hours of the S4 release. I'm not denying there's issues with your phone at all, I'm just saying that there isn't a market-wide problem with the S3s in the US.

Me, I'm the tinkering/hobbyist type so I'd have violated the software eight ways from Sunday before tossing it (Touchwiz, the Samsung wrapper for Android, is notorious for causing or exacerbating almost all the known issues with the phones), but I'm also not one to argue with what works for anybody else.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I got 35 bucks at best buy

So that is cool. And given how long we use apple products, I should be thinking of upgrading in 18 months or so at the earliest. We use our gear until it dies.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Even the scanner app works well

We have a two alarm, so it's good to try it.