After reading some of the problems others are having, I am immensely grateful for my family
Elvera and I, Chuck & Linda and their kids make five families. We had a great time. A real blessing.
🙂 We had a nice Christmas. We attended the Christmas Eve service at Chuck’s as is our custom. We and Chuck’s herd filled almost two rows (the kids brought their friends). But Elvera got sick and Chuck & Linda took us home. Christmas was quiet until around two when the families started arriving. Fourteen of us for dinner.
Mary’s baby, Graham, was trotting all over the place and Becky’s girls, four and six, seemed to think he was a toy. So they enjoyed playing with him. But his favorite was empty boxes. It’s amazing how much fun an empty box can be. Graham will be one on January 13.
Christmas eve, Chuck & Linda took us to the Apple store. There a clerk worked with us for about two hours. At the end, each of us got an iPhone 5c. I then started to pay for it. It was FREE
I couldn’t imagine how Apple could do that. Chuck says they make it by selling apps. But we don’t need any apps. These have more than we will use.
We did buy a couple of phone protectors. Presumably to protect them if they fell. It was a rip-off. Over $67 for two pieces of plastic or rubber to keep the phone in. But the phones were free and I now see where Apple makes their money. You would figure those covers to be about $5.00 each.
😦 Finally realizing this morning, as the pain has increased, that the ache in my left upper arm is from tendinitis in my left shoulder. Fortunately, I have a prescrip for an anti-inflammatory my doctor lets me keep on hand. (I don’t abuse the privilege, but am prone to tendinitis, so it is good to have it available for when it flairs up.)
I would think that the word would be spelled tendOnitis, since it affects the tendon, but spell-check tells me it’s an i, not an o.
😦 Being a Do-it-now kind of person in an I’ll-get-to-it-later kind of family. If it all came out even in the end, I’d be okay with that. But “I’ll get to it later” usually means “I might get to it later, but there’s a big chance I’ll completely forget about it”. So I often end up jumping in & doing the thing I asked someone else to do.
🙂 The above 😦 is annoying but not terrible. I can usually deal with it with a sense of humor.
🙂 A very lovely Christmas Eve & Christmas Day.
🙂 Lasy Sunday’s lovely Christmas service.
🙂 I like our interim pastor very much, & would love for him to be our full-time pastor eventually, but he doesn’t have plans for that. (I think his current ministry, after many years of pastoring a church, is being an interim pastor for churches in need of one.) I didn’t let on to you all, but I was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with our former pastor. If it weren’t for my conviction that God wanted me to stay in this church, I would have left. I was very relieved when he announced that, at God’s direction, he was leaving.
I told you we got free iPhones. That was good, but not all good.
When they were activated, our regular cell phones were de-activated.
😦 🙂
On the way home, I took Elvera to the humongous Southport Mall in Charlotte. I let her out at Nordstrom and went to park the car. Then, as is our custom, I called to tell her where I was and where the car was parked.
Problem is, my flipphone no longer works. So, I try the iPhone. My “find friends” app requires an internet connection and I don’t have one. So, I try the phone option. I can’t get that to work either. I can reach Linda but not Elvera. So, I have lost my woman in a huge shopping mall.
Fortunately, before we got cell phones in 2001, we made this arrangement, always go to the food court. That is the default, the food court. So, it wasn’t really that bad. I just had to wait until she arrived. Bu it was agitating. Linda told me how to get internet this morning. I can now follow Elvera, and several others, wherever they go. Chuck & Linda can now find us, as well as their kids. It’s a neat app, and it’s free. The phone function is always on, you have to put it on vibrate at times. The cellphones, we turned off.
Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it — and love it. iPhones, like most Apple products, are pretty intuitive and user-friendly once you start fiddling around with it.
And the protection is essential, I never leave my phone without a good case & screen protector (now they have tempered glass ones) as I’ve been known to drop it on occasion. Those screens can really shatter if there’s no cover, including a good rubberized case that will absorb the shock. I’ve never broken an iPhone yet, but I’ve dropped ’em a few times.
🙂 Low-key but good Christmas, glad it’s over. On to the new year and another pledge to read through the Bible in a year. 🙂
🙂 I’m heading out to Irwindale on Monday to do a story on the final float prep for the Rose Parade. Should be kind of fun, but it’s an hour’s drive away. I’ll have my work laptop with me and have the option of writing the story at our sister paper in San Gabriel as they’re only about a mile from the float plant. They said there’s plenty of room, they have lots of empty desks where reporters used to sit, kind of like our newsroom these days. 😦 …
On the other hand, I may choose to just drive back to our office instead as it’ll be afternoon by then and I definitely don’t want to hit rush-hour freeway traffic driving from what is the base of the SoCal mountains all the way to the beaches & harbor. Not a pretty picture.
🙂 We’re kind of enjoying our cold snap. Go ahead, make fun. Like this crowd needs egging on for that. I may even wear gloves today at the dog park. 🙂
🙂 I got some of the chop-chop prep work done early for the casserole I need to take to church tomorrow — it’s a new recipe we haven’t had before and looks to be more time-consuming than some of the others.
Chas, the “kids” will always be faster than us at the smartphone/computer stuff.
You should see how fast the young reporter who sits next to me can text — amazing. Their fingers and thumbs just fly over those tiny, virtual keyboards. Go figure.
If you have questions on the phone, too, you can always go to the carrier stores (AT&T, Verizon) or an apple store, if there’s one near you, for free help. Apple has these “genius” bars, you can make a 15-minute appointment online easily and then just show up, they’re great, always very helpful if something needs syncing or resetting — or if you just need a quick tutorial.
Also lots of help online, just google your question (although some of the answers I don’t always understand!).
As for apps, there’s GPS, google maps, devotionals, news sites (Fox, Drudge … ). All your news at your fingertips on the go.
Oh, and a Kindle app — it’ll put all your books under that.
A guy in our church also just developed a “give app” for iPhones where you can donate to any verifiable nonprofit (including your church) with your phone.
They also have iPhone 5 for Dummies, Seniors, other helps you can get through amazon. I’ve always liked the “dummies” series of how-to books, they’re basic, include pictures and generally are a good resource to have on hand for questions or problems that come up.
I may get the iPhone for dummies book. sounds like what I need.
I never wanted a phone smarter than I am.
Elvera is going to the mall. I may follow her, just to see how it works.
We’re still bumfuzzled by small things. Like it should be easy to adjust the ringer sound on Elvera’s phone, but I haven’t found it yet. I went to “settings but didn’t find anything.
🙂 Lovely Christmas gatherings on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. It was funny to see Baby Niece interact with her five energetic older cousins (four of them boys). One of the five had got some sort of construction toy with pieces that had suction cups. Of course, they were making the suction cups stick to anything, their foreheads included, which gave them the look of aliens. Baby Niece would watch them in fascinated horror, smiling and whimpering at the same time. I can see that they will tease her something terrible. However, they clearly adore her. The three year old was sharing his toys with her, and he doesn’t allow his siblings to play with them if he can help it (not so much selfish, as independent). The ten year old, who is a musical savant, doesn’t like to be told to play for people (he plays his own transcriptions from film and video game music), but he sat down at the piano and played for her. It certainly is lively around here.
Chas, top (manual) button on the left side of the phone will adjust ringer sound up & down.
If you go to settings on the screen (tap “sounds” on the scroll-down menu), you can also make adjustments there — and select a ring tone to your liking.
There’s away to have different ring tones for different people calling, but I’ve never assigned different tones to different people so not sure how that’s done, but it’s probably easy. That way you’d know if it was elvera or someone else calling you, although you can look at the screen and the names will also pop up if they’re in your contacts directory
Clarification: top manual button increases the loudness of the ring, bottom manual button decreases it. Just keep punching one or the other to get the tone as loud or as soft as you want it.
Thanks Donna. I haven’t found what you’re talking about, Re: “top manual button”. But I found it in “settings”. Elvera is at Tuesday Morning in the mall (I checked on her). I will fix it when she returns.
Did you find Elvera at the mall by using the “Find my Phone” app, or track her via GPS?
Laughing. This is going to be fun–and I might even learn a thing or two myself!
Spent the morning rereading a novel I never finished several years ago. I’ve given my agent and my husband my solemn promise I WILL NOT TOUCH Poppy over the holiday. I’m done. Finished. Halted in my tracks. I must move on to something else.
I’m returning to the Civil War novel I’ve started and stopped six times now, in January, but first I thought I’d touch base with old friends in my computer. An interesting experience to read something I haven’t seen in a couple years. I’ve read two now.
I’m impressed by several things–the spiritual wisdom in these books–and discouraged by others: the work necessary to make them publishable being primary. Not sure what will happen, but I was reminded of some important truths this morning–which is always good.
They’re both contemporary novels, anyway, and since I’m now pigeonholed historical, may never see the light of day unless I use a pseudonym. Can’t even contemplate the enormity of that idea right now, so back to the War I go. 🙂
😦 Feeling Chas’ pain. I just picked up my new phone today and am now in Apple password hell once again. And apparently you can’t easily make appointments with the genius bar, either, anymore, they force you into emailing questions, but mine’s not that simple.
🙂 Well, I think for now the phone is working & is synced, more or less — although some of my “notes” on the notes app didn’t reappear. Luckily I found them on my computer and could recreate them on the new phone. I keep a lot of my info on those encrypted “notes” and would be lost without them. A flaw in my system.
😦 Find my phone has been disabled for me apparently, and I’m not sure why. Probably goes back to the stupid password mess. I hate Apple passwords, they’ve given me nothing but grief for some reason.
🙂 At least the bird is out of the house. And the dogs must have caught the loud-buzzing fly that also got in. The cat is bored again, however.
I can never keep track of my Apple password either, Donna–even when I reset it. And Itunes–I have to ask my daughter to do whatever needs doing with it, that never stays in my brain either. I listen to the radio on my phone, not any music downloaded. It keeps insisting I need to connect to the cloud, usually midway through a text message, which drives me crazy.
I’m just not intuitive enough for Apple, sigh. I must be the other brain-sided. 🙂
I have set up a consultation by phone with apple at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday. I have a list of questions and complaints written out so I hope they dint vanish in cyberspace between now and then.
My long-standing gripe about the passwords is that they can’t retrieve them, you always have to pick new ones. I think I had to pick a new password 10 minutes after I’d picked the last one today.
Donna, the reason they can’t be retrieved is that they are stored in an encrypted format. They actually can be retrieved – they just can’t be read, since they are “scrambled.” This prevents them from being hacked by any “bad guys.” Unfortunately it also prevents the “help desk” from getting them, too. Sometimes you can immedaitely change it back to your original p/w but some systems have rules that don’t allow you to re-use one that you used before. Also, some (like Apple) change the rules such that one that was used in the past is no longer “strong” enough and can’t be used anymore.
I restored the new phone with my computer but … now am missing several apps (such as FB and more recent notes & texts). And now when I try to install an app from iTunes on the new phone, I can’t sign on to iTunes because it requires a password to an old @.me account (apparently an additional apple ID I’d set up at some point by mistake) that I keep trying to bury for good but can’t. It keeps returning to haunt me. I thought I had it largely submerged, but here it is again, saying that’s the ID associated with my iTunes account. Sigh.
Hoping the phone call Tuesday can take me through some steps to figure all of it out, but it is rather annoying.
And I miss the simplicity of making an appointment to just go in to the store and physically meet with someone who can usually fix these things so quickly. But I guess they must have been getting overrun with “simple” inquiries so they now would rather handle those via phone calls and emails. Most of my issues are probably due to operator stupidity, so I guess it works better on their end to just call me back and take me through the steps on the phone. And maybe it’s also because the new phone came out a few months ago so they’re still getting higher-than-usual volumes of help requests.
I haven’t been into the Apple store with a problem in a while, but the last time, cute things met me at the door, asked me my problem, played with my phone and handed it back and 30 seconds working. So, if you’re near a store, why not drop by?
Or maybe not! They’re probably mobbed this weekend.
I’ve thought of just walking in, michelle — I’ll try the phone call Tuesday morning first, then if I’m still having issues, I will just go over there and wait if I have to. I’m guessing this can be fixed fairly quickly, but I just don’t know how to do that.
Somehow I couldn’t even get to the genius bar reservation page when I was seeking help on the website last night, the store site insisted I either send a question via email or schedule a call back.
It also won’t let me into my kindle app, which did transfer over but didn’t include my automatic sign-in — now requiring amazon/kindle password, sign-ins, etc. Which I’ve tried but it still won’t open the app, I just get a message saying I need to get a kindle account first. Sigh.
We were issued work-use-only phones several months ago (company iPhone Cs) and — I’ll have to double check this — but I believe everything was seamlessly transferred onto that phone from my personal iPhone at that time. (It was just easier to restore everything, even personal stuff, there rather than start from scratch to build new contacts, etc. — my personal phone has, until now, been a mixture of both work-personal use).
Why the same computer syncing/restoration process with this newer phone was so glitchy is a mystery to me.
I took my problems to my daughter on Friday. She found me a new battery to order from amazon in just a couple of minutes. It was only 39 dollars and she has amazon prime, so no shipping.
Also figuring out my new fitbit!
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After reading some of the problems others are having, I am immensely grateful for my family
Elvera and I, Chuck & Linda and their kids make five families. We had a great time. A real blessing.
🙂 We had a nice Christmas. We attended the Christmas Eve service at Chuck’s as is our custom. We and Chuck’s herd filled almost two rows (the kids brought their friends). But Elvera got sick and Chuck & Linda took us home. Christmas was quiet until around two when the families started arriving. Fourteen of us for dinner.
Mary’s baby, Graham, was trotting all over the place and Becky’s girls, four and six, seemed to think he was a toy. So they enjoyed playing with him. But his favorite was empty boxes. It’s amazing how much fun an empty box can be. Graham will be one on January 13.
Christmas eve, Chuck & Linda took us to the Apple store. There a clerk worked with us for about two hours. At the end, each of us got an iPhone 5c. I then started to pay for it. It was FREE
I couldn’t imagine how Apple could do that. Chuck says they make it by selling apps. But we don’t need any apps. These have more than we will use.
We did buy a couple of phone protectors. Presumably to protect them if they fell. It was a rip-off. Over $67 for two pieces of plastic or rubber to keep the phone in. But the phones were free and I now see where Apple makes their money. You would figure those covers to be about $5.00 each.
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😦 Finally realizing this morning, as the pain has increased, that the ache in my left upper arm is from tendinitis in my left shoulder. Fortunately, I have a prescrip for an anti-inflammatory my doctor lets me keep on hand. (I don’t abuse the privilege, but am prone to tendinitis, so it is good to have it available for when it flairs up.)
I would think that the word would be spelled tendOnitis, since it affects the tendon, but spell-check tells me it’s an i, not an o.
😦 Being a Do-it-now kind of person in an I’ll-get-to-it-later kind of family. If it all came out even in the end, I’d be okay with that. But “I’ll get to it later” usually means “I might get to it later, but there’s a big chance I’ll completely forget about it”. So I often end up jumping in & doing the thing I asked someone else to do.
🙂 The above 😦 is annoying but not terrible. I can usually deal with it with a sense of humor.
🙂 A very lovely Christmas Eve & Christmas Day.
🙂 Lasy Sunday’s lovely Christmas service.
🙂 I like our interim pastor very much, & would love for him to be our full-time pastor eventually, but he doesn’t have plans for that. (I think his current ministry, after many years of pastoring a church, is being an interim pastor for churches in need of one.) I didn’t let on to you all, but I was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with our former pastor. If it weren’t for my conviction that God wanted me to stay in this church, I would have left. I was very relieved when he announced that, at God’s direction, he was leaving.
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I told you we got free iPhones. That was good, but not all good.
When they were activated, our regular cell phones were de-activated.
😦 🙂
On the way home, I took Elvera to the humongous Southport Mall in Charlotte. I let her out at Nordstrom and went to park the car. Then, as is our custom, I called to tell her where I was and where the car was parked.
Problem is, my flipphone no longer works. So, I try the iPhone. My “find friends” app requires an internet connection and I don’t have one. So, I try the phone option. I can’t get that to work either. I can reach Linda but not Elvera. So, I have lost my woman in a huge shopping mall.
Fortunately, before we got cell phones in 2001, we made this arrangement, always go to the food court. That is the default, the food court. So, it wasn’t really that bad. I just had to wait until she arrived. Bu it was agitating. Linda told me how to get internet this morning. I can now follow Elvera, and several others, wherever they go. Chuck & Linda can now find us, as well as their kids. It’s a neat app, and it’s free. The phone function is always on, you have to put it on vibrate at times. The cellphones, we turned off.
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The twenty-first century is getting to be a problem.
In more ways than you young whippersnappers know.
Even my greatgrands handle these things better than we do.
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I am glad you found her.
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🙂 Chas has a smartphone.
Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it — and love it. iPhones, like most Apple products, are pretty intuitive and user-friendly once you start fiddling around with it.
And the protection is essential, I never leave my phone without a good case & screen protector (now they have tempered glass ones) as I’ve been known to drop it on occasion. Those screens can really shatter if there’s no cover, including a good rubberized case that will absorb the shock. I’ve never broken an iPhone yet, but I’ve dropped ’em a few times.
🙂 Low-key but good Christmas, glad it’s over. On to the new year and another pledge to read through the Bible in a year. 🙂
🙂 I’m heading out to Irwindale on Monday to do a story on the final float prep for the Rose Parade. Should be kind of fun, but it’s an hour’s drive away. I’ll have my work laptop with me and have the option of writing the story at our sister paper in San Gabriel as they’re only about a mile from the float plant. They said there’s plenty of room, they have lots of empty desks where reporters used to sit, kind of like our newsroom these days. 😦 …
On the other hand, I may choose to just drive back to our office instead as it’ll be afternoon by then and I definitely don’t want to hit rush-hour freeway traffic driving from what is the base of the SoCal mountains all the way to the beaches & harbor. Not a pretty picture.
🙂 We’re kind of enjoying our cold snap. Go ahead, make fun. Like this crowd needs egging on for that. I may even wear gloves today at the dog park. 🙂
🙂 I got some of the chop-chop prep work done early for the casserole I need to take to church tomorrow — it’s a new recipe we haven’t had before and looks to be more time-consuming than some of the others.
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Chas, the “kids” will always be faster than us at the smartphone/computer stuff.
You should see how fast the young reporter who sits next to me can text — amazing. Their fingers and thumbs just fly over those tiny, virtual keyboards. Go figure.
If you have questions on the phone, too, you can always go to the carrier stores (AT&T, Verizon) or an apple store, if there’s one near you, for free help. Apple has these “genius” bars, you can make a 15-minute appointment online easily and then just show up, they’re great, always very helpful if something needs syncing or resetting — or if you just need a quick tutorial.
Also lots of help online, just google your question (although some of the answers I don’t always understand!).
As for apps, there’s GPS, google maps, devotionals, news sites (Fox, Drudge … ). All your news at your fingertips on the go.
Oh, and a Kindle app — it’ll put all your books under that.
They’re amazing little things.
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A guy in our church also just developed a “give app” for iPhones where you can donate to any verifiable nonprofit (including your church) with your phone.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/social-affairs/20141220/redondo-beach-man-develops-app-that-makes-donations-quick-easy
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They also have iPhone 5 for Dummies, Seniors, other helps you can get through amazon. I’ve always liked the “dummies” series of how-to books, they’re basic, include pictures and generally are a good resource to have on hand for questions or problems that come up.
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And, bottom line, remember, you’re an engineer. You’ll figure it out probably in no time. 🙂
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I may get the iPhone for dummies book. sounds like what I need.
I never wanted a phone smarter than I am.
Elvera is going to the mall. I may follow her, just to see how it works.
🙂
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We’re still bumfuzzled by small things. Like it should be easy to adjust the ringer sound on Elvera’s phone, but I haven’t found it yet. I went to “settings but didn’t find anything.
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🙂 Chas has a smartphone.
🙂 Lovely Christmas gatherings on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. It was funny to see Baby Niece interact with her five energetic older cousins (four of them boys). One of the five had got some sort of construction toy with pieces that had suction cups. Of course, they were making the suction cups stick to anything, their foreheads included, which gave them the look of aliens. Baby Niece would watch them in fascinated horror, smiling and whimpering at the same time. I can see that they will tease her something terrible. However, they clearly adore her. The three year old was sharing his toys with her, and he doesn’t allow his siblings to play with them if he can help it (not so much selfish, as independent). The ten year old, who is a musical savant, doesn’t like to be told to play for people (he plays his own transcriptions from film and video game music), but he sat down at the piano and played for her. It certainly is lively around here.
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Chas, top (manual) button on the left side of the phone will adjust ringer sound up & down.
If you go to settings on the screen (tap “sounds” on the scroll-down menu), you can also make adjustments there — and select a ring tone to your liking.
There’s away to have different ring tones for different people calling, but I’ve never assigned different tones to different people so not sure how that’s done, but it’s probably easy. That way you’d know if it was elvera or someone else calling you, although you can look at the screen and the names will also pop up if they’re in your contacts directory
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Clarification: top manual button increases the loudness of the ring, bottom manual button decreases it. Just keep punching one or the other to get the tone as loud or as soft as you want it.
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Thanks Donna. I haven’t found what you’re talking about, Re: “top manual button”. But I found it in “settings”. Elvera is at Tuesday Morning in the mall (I checked on her). I will fix it when she returns.
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Donna! Emergency. I got the flashlight on somehow and don’t know how to get it off.
I pushed all the buttons I know of.
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NEVER Mind. I found it.
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Did you find Elvera at the mall by using the “Find my Phone” app, or track her via GPS?
Laughing. This is going to be fun–and I might even learn a thing or two myself!
Spent the morning rereading a novel I never finished several years ago. I’ve given my agent and my husband my solemn promise I WILL NOT TOUCH Poppy over the holiday. I’m done. Finished. Halted in my tracks. I must move on to something else.
I’m returning to the Civil War novel I’ve started and stopped six times now, in January, but first I thought I’d touch base with old friends in my computer. An interesting experience to read something I haven’t seen in a couple years. I’ve read two now.
I’m impressed by several things–the spiritual wisdom in these books–and discouraged by others: the work necessary to make them publishable being primary. Not sure what will happen, but I was reminded of some important truths this morning–which is always good.
They’re both contemporary novels, anyway, and since I’m now pigeonholed historical, may never see the light of day unless I use a pseudonym. Can’t even contemplate the enormity of that idea right now, so back to the War I go. 🙂
In January.
I’m reading anything I want right now. 🙂
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🙂 😦 The tree had to come down today.
🙂 This year we had a live tree
😦 They have to come down earlier if you put them up at Thanksgiving.
😉 I know I took all of the decorations out of boxes but now I can’t find all the boxes for them to go back.
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Find my phone. I have an image of the shopping center. But she left that and went tothe grocery store.
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😦 Feeling Chas’ pain. I just picked up my new phone today and am now in Apple password hell once again. And apparently you can’t easily make appointments with the genius bar, either, anymore, they force you into emailing questions, but mine’s not that simple.
🙂 Well, I think for now the phone is working & is synced, more or less — although some of my “notes” on the notes app didn’t reappear. Luckily I found them on my computer and could recreate them on the new phone. I keep a lot of my info on those encrypted “notes” and would be lost without them. A flaw in my system.
😦 Find my phone has been disabled for me apparently, and I’m not sure why. Probably goes back to the stupid password mess. I hate Apple passwords, they’ve given me nothing but grief for some reason.
🙂 At least the bird is out of the house. And the dogs must have caught the loud-buzzing fly that also got in. The cat is bored again, however.
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We don’t have flies in the house this time of year. It is too cold. But not very cold.
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These are cold-weather flies.
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Must be the ocean breeze that brings them in.
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It is good to be liked, Donna.
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I can never keep track of my Apple password either, Donna–even when I reset it. And Itunes–I have to ask my daughter to do whatever needs doing with it, that never stays in my brain either. I listen to the radio on my phone, not any music downloaded. It keeps insisting I need to connect to the cloud, usually midway through a text message, which drives me crazy.
I’m just not intuitive enough for Apple, sigh. I must be the other brain-sided. 🙂
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Oh. I ‘liked’ my own comment. How silly is that?
I have set up a consultation by phone with apple at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday. I have a list of questions and complaints written out so I hope they dint vanish in cyberspace between now and then.
My long-standing gripe about the passwords is that they can’t retrieve them, you always have to pick new ones. I think I had to pick a new password 10 minutes after I’d picked the last one today.
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Donna, I once “liked” my own comment. I was messing around with something and hit the like button. Nothing came of it.
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Donna, the reason they can’t be retrieved is that they are stored in an encrypted format. They actually can be retrieved – they just can’t be read, since they are “scrambled.” This prevents them from being hacked by any “bad guys.” Unfortunately it also prevents the “help desk” from getting them, too. Sometimes you can immedaitely change it back to your original p/w but some systems have rules that don’t allow you to re-use one that you used before. Also, some (like Apple) change the rules such that one that was used in the past is no longer “strong” enough and can’t be used anymore.
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I restored the new phone with my computer but … now am missing several apps (such as FB and more recent notes & texts). And now when I try to install an app from iTunes on the new phone, I can’t sign on to iTunes because it requires a password to an old @.me account (apparently an additional apple ID I’d set up at some point by mistake) that I keep trying to bury for good but can’t. It keeps returning to haunt me. I thought I had it largely submerged, but here it is again, saying that’s the ID associated with my iTunes account. Sigh.
Hoping the phone call Tuesday can take me through some steps to figure all of it out, but it is rather annoying.
And I miss the simplicity of making an appointment to just go in to the store and physically meet with someone who can usually fix these things so quickly. But I guess they must have been getting overrun with “simple” inquiries so they now would rather handle those via phone calls and emails. Most of my issues are probably due to operator stupidity, so I guess it works better on their end to just call me back and take me through the steps on the phone. And maybe it’s also because the new phone came out a few months ago so they’re still getting higher-than-usual volumes of help requests.
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I haven’t been into the Apple store with a problem in a while, but the last time, cute things met me at the door, asked me my problem, played with my phone and handed it back and 30 seconds working. So, if you’re near a store, why not drop by?
Or maybe not! They’re probably mobbed this weekend.
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I’ve thought of just walking in, michelle — I’ll try the phone call Tuesday morning first, then if I’m still having issues, I will just go over there and wait if I have to. I’m guessing this can be fixed fairly quickly, but I just don’t know how to do that.
Somehow I couldn’t even get to the genius bar reservation page when I was seeking help on the website last night, the store site insisted I either send a question via email or schedule a call back.
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It also won’t let me into my kindle app, which did transfer over but didn’t include my automatic sign-in — now requiring amazon/kindle password, sign-ins, etc. Which I’ve tried but it still won’t open the app, I just get a message saying I need to get a kindle account first. Sigh.
We were issued work-use-only phones several months ago (company iPhone Cs) and — I’ll have to double check this — but I believe everything was seamlessly transferred onto that phone from my personal iPhone at that time. (It was just easier to restore everything, even personal stuff, there rather than start from scratch to build new contacts, etc. — my personal phone has, until now, been a mixture of both work-personal use).
Why the same computer syncing/restoration process with this newer phone was so glitchy is a mystery to me.
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I took my problems to my daughter on Friday. She found me a new battery to order from amazon in just a couple of minutes. It was only 39 dollars and she has amazon prime, so no shipping.
Also figuring out my new fitbit!
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