Around 2:00 on Friday, I got a text from Farmer H:
"Pony wants to meet so he can use my phone to get one ordered so be late coming home"
That was good news. Around 4:30, when I was in town, I got a text from our phone service provider:
"You have successfully linked this phone number to your [phone company] ID. If unauthorized, call xxx-xxx-xxxx. This phone number on your billing account was linked to your ID. If this charge was unauthorized, call or log in to adjust your line permissions."
Well. I would think that with our three phone numbers being on this same account, we would all have permission to use it. I know that I've added Farmer H and The Pony to this account before. I don't know what that gave them permission to do. Get a SIM card, I suppose.
Anyhoo... 45 minutes later, I got another text that me or my authorized user had entered into a finanancing agreement that may impact my monthly bill. And to call if it was not authorized. That's the thing. There are better bargains if you pay monthly rather than buy the phone outright. I don't like that. We have always preferred to get it over with, and not drag it out. Genius used to order our phones, and "jailbreak" them, and get them set up.
Anyhoo... five minutes later, I got another text that a SIM for The Pony's number had been updated. That was curious, but I knew they were dealing with the phone, so didn't worry.
Turns out The Pony had ordered the new phone using Farmer H's. Farmer H drove The Pony over to Bill-Paying Town to get the phone from the phone store. The Pony needed a new SIM to get his to transfer all his data. Usually we have that done in the store, but The Pony said he could do it at home, setting the two phones side by side. It took about 90 minutes, so I'm glad Farmer H didn't have to wait in the store for the staff to do it.
ANYHOO... The Pony has a new phone! We had a 15-minute chat Friday evening. Such a relief that we are now back in the communication loop! As with his last phone, The Pony will pay us monthly for his portion of the bill. All is well in Hillmomba once more.
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I'm so glad all is now sorted and The Pony is back. When I transferred my SIM to this new secondhand phone I had to re enter all my contact numbers manually, didn't take too long and the old phone didn't have photos on it. I wonder now if I remembered to delete those numbers from the old phone.
River,
I am relieved that I can be contacted now if The Pony needs something. He let me know when he got off work today, so I could stop worrying.
The Pony backs up all his phone info on "the cloud," so it was easier (if not quicker) for him to transfer that stuff to the new phone. He has lots of pictures!
I don't trust that cloud. Unknown to me and without my say-so half my i-tunes playlist has disappeared into it and only the purchased songs remain. All the ones I downloaded from cd's are up in the cloud. But I have Windows media as well, not owned by Apple, and all my songs are there as well, even the i-tunes store purchases, so I listen from there instead. The i-tunes store won't get any more of my business.
River,
I don't trust it either! I don't want my vital info getting out there. I'm pretty sure a hacker could trace me. I suppose it's good to have as a backup for photos, as long as you understand that it may not be forever.
Technology is not my friend. Think of all the people with their "priceless" memories saved on videotape, and now you have to search hard to find something to play them. Or have them converted to another format, which may also go by the wayside. Like the cloud!
I'm the kind of person who would hire an artist to draw portraits of my family on cave walls!
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