Re: I hate phones. And Best Buy.

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:22:49 -0800
 > 
 > Of
 > course they probably won't be able to transfer my files from the
 > old phone to the new one, so I'm going to end up spending the next
 > two months doing nothing but fighting with telephones -- which iirc
 > is the same thing that happened (but for a different reason that I
 > don't remember) the last time I needed a new phone.

When the battery on Noelle's old Samsung bulged, I was still able to
use SmartSwitch to transfer all the data.  I stored it on an SD card
on the old phone and plugged it into the one.  Because the differences
in the OSes were quite different, not all the settings transferred
(ringtones were the most obvious), but a lot did.

You can also use Google Back-up, but, like I mentioned before, it
supposedly doesn't do as well at transferring all your settings and
apps.  Also, even with high speed internet, it takes a while (> 10
mins) to back-up to Google.

It's pretty outrageous that Geek Squad refused to work on a phone with
a broken battery.  I imagine that that is the most common phone
failure.  (And laptop failure, too.)