The next day

[susandennis]

Yesterday turned out to be new phone day... all day long.  Turns out there's a T-Mobile store that is easy to get to from here. The folks there were very nice. But they don't sell, in the store, the kind of service I wanted. The kind of package I wanted is only available on the web. The sim card, which is required, takes for.ev.er to get.  Turns out the one I ordered several days ago won't be here until Thursday and I wanted service NOW!

So that led me to buy a sim kit that was not correct but got me the card and then I came home and did some fancy footwork on several customer service calls to get it switched to what I wanted.  All this was exacerbated by my own cluelessness.  While I was in transition, I had a trickle of data service which I took for a true T-Mobile data signal and was really bummed.

But, finally, I got it fixed. (Props here to all the customer service people I talked to yesterday. In retrospect, I was using all the wrong terms and talking to the wrong groups and still they were patient and respectful and didn't ask me to repeat my DNA a million times.)

Once I got it fixed, all is good.  The data speed here at the house (needed mainly for occasional network backup) is perfectly adequate.  Verizon may be a little better but not that much.  It's blazingly fast compared to Sprint.

The phone itself - Google's Nexus 4 - is a good phone. There is a short list of things I knew about and things I am discovering that I will really miss over my Note 2.

- no removable battery
- no removable/expandable storage
- the very highest volume is still way too quiet
- the camera (some of these might be fixable w/ another camera app)
    - no sound
    - no burst
    - not the greatest pictures

But, I love the size, the screen, the weight.  There is no crap on this phone and it is snappy.  And it has the latest and greatest android.

My plan is to use it exclusively for several days or a week and then decide whether or not to switch.

Today is swim and aqua aerobics.  We have a substitute teacher today. It's someone I've heard about and always wanted to take a class from but never had the opportunity.  Today is it!  My plan is to get there before class for some laps.

Apres swim plans are currently loosey goosey.  I'll be playing it by ear.  I don't really have any must do/have to things on the list.

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is so antithesis of what I read from various customers in the mailroom. Problem after problem, after problem with T-Mobile. I think a lot of it is the customer base TMO has attracted over the years, clueless and the inept.

So many of them don't know how to properly write, let alone address a letter, and often can't write decently to save their lives, and many hand write their letters. It's a travesty, really.

Glad you got your issues resolved without issue, or complaint.

[timbear.livejournal.com]

Mine has sound on the camera. There are several volume controls though, perhaps the camera one is turned down. In the camera app hit volume up and touch the mixer icon (block with lines in it to the right of the volume slider) to bring up the other controls.

May also be worth popping into a Verizon company store (not authorised dealer) and picking up the LG wireless charger. Whenever you are at home, drop it on the charge puck and bingo, it's always fully charged when you grab it to go out.

[susandennis]

I actually did install another camera app and when I went back to the stock one to verify that there was no volume slider, when I hit the physical volume button, it took the picture! And made a tiny little noise!! Never did find the slider but at least now I know there's noise and I can work with that. I think I'm going to find a proper camera click mp3 and replace.

I thought about getting one of those charger pads and I just might. However, I have charging cables all over this house - in the kitchen, by the tv chair, by the bed so plugging it in isn't that much of a hassle as long as I'm here. And, let's face it, I'm pretty much always here!!