Losing your mobile phone

BobbyD10

Okay, on the Luas the other day and I noticed as you do, how dependent people have become, or even attached to their mobile phones.

It's sorta an extension to their body, something they can't be without, which is understandable in some cases, but my question is what would you do if you lost it, have people taken the numbers/info on their phone to paper..? or do they think, no I'll never lose it.

Your phone could also be robbed, which in this case you'll never see it again.

How would you feel losing it...?

Is it that people will say ah well I'll get another one, or will feel you heartbroken...?

Just thought i'd gauge the general opinion.

Dave!

BobbyD10 wrote: »

what would you do if you lost it, have people taken the numbers/info on their phone to paper..? or do they think, no I'll never lose it.

No I haven't taken the info to paper... I'm sure I will lose it at some stage (although I've never lost a phone in my life so far!), but I'm just not arsed backing the info up. I don't think I have any numbers in it that can't be reacquired.

BobbyD10 wrote: »

How would you feel losing it...?

I would feel majorly sh*tty, and would be p*ssed off that I have to go and get all the numbers again.

BobbyD10 wrote: »

Is it that people will say ah well I'll get another one, or will feel you heartbroken...?

I certainly wouldn't feel heartbroken... it's just a phone. I've had many. I don't feel any bond with it, it's just a handy device to have.

star-pants

I wouldn't like to lose mine... gots lotsa numbers & messages & pictures that I'd like to keep. And wouldn't like someone having that kind of access to my information -- in the sense of if they thought it funny to contact people I knew via my phone.

But at the end of the day -- it IS just a phone.. not your kidney -- pain to replace all the numbers but good point BobbyD10 - should really have them written somewhere...

mikemac

It wouldn't be a big deal.
Get a replacement and if you've lost an extremly important number you'll manage to get it again.
And if you lost numbers to casual friends, if they're important to you then you'll get again and if not, then who cares?

Sure I have people on my sim card and I can't even remember who they are. Random people from nights out mainly

As for heartbreak :rolleyes:

BobbyD10

micmclo wrote: »

As for heartbreak :rolleyes:

May have used the wrong word there.....;)

Random

Backup my info using www.zyb.com or my PC.

Also if I have important files or photos, they won't be on my phone! Or they'll be backed up via data cable.

Job done. I've had my say. Lock the thread!

you back it up,simple as

leninbenjamin

I must be one of the rare few then who can actually still remember the most important numbers in my phone number off by heart by the sounds of it?

whenever i lost my phone i just put in all the numbers i can remember. from that small network i can usually replace all the numbers I have.

Time Magazine

I gave my old SIM card to my mam a few years. She was having trouble sending texts so I called up the network. "Mr. Ibid, the problem is that you haven't lost your phone in at least five years. Your SIM card is too old."

Yer man was basically saying "It's extremely rare for someone not to have lost their phone in this length of time." I lolled.

Random

leninbenjamin wrote: »

I must be one of the rare few then who can actually still remember the most important numbers in my phone number off by heart by the sounds of it?

whenever i lost my phone i just put in all the numbers i can remember. from that small network i can usually replace all the numbers I have.

Yah ... you people are insane! I can remember a couple of numbers, but never the ones I want to!

KTRIC

When I arrived in my new home , Munich a couple of months ago the company I work (a big big big phone company) gave me a really nice phone because I had the competitors top end model. I lost it within 5 days and haven't lived it down since.

thebman

I synced my address book onto my computer so I can access the numbers so I have them if I need them.

I lost a number once from my phone because I didn't back it up and I won't do it again.

Creamy Goodness

i'd be bummed for a bit, but i've nothing important on my phone and would know all the important numbers in my head anyways.

mikemac

Ibid wrote: »

I gave my old SIM card to my mam a few years. She was having trouble sending texts so I called up the network. "Mr. Ibid, the problem is that you haven't lost your phone in at least five years. Your SIM card is too old."

Yer man was basically saying "It's extremely rare for someone not to have lost their phone in this length of time." I lolled.

lol

My Dad's phone still shows Eircell on the screen.
Now that's classy! The sim card is that old.

Ballerina

ugh i hate to admit it but the few times when i have lost my phone i was so annoyed,its sad really!i need it on me all the time,im addicted to it i suppose,you feel like its your only connection to the world when its really not......sure thats what bebos for...ha

luckily i always got it back :cool:

Sir Oxman

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robinph

micmclo wrote: »

lol

My Dad's phone still shows Eircell on the screen.
Now that's classy! The sim card is that old.

My previous phone still said that until a year ago when they finnaly gave me a new sim to go with the new phone.

I did loose my phone a couple of weeks ago though and did feel a bit lost without it. Didn't loose any numbers as that was all backed up but due to the insurance company being crap and not paying out I was without a handset for a couple of weeks. Once I'd given up with the insurance company and went direct to the network they sorted me out with a new handset in a day.

A racy brainrot

My phone is for calls and the time... and the alarm clock. I've only started thinking this way recently though. I went through a phase of constantly loosing my phone -I don't bring that many things out at the weekend anymore-. perhaps a blessing in disguise as I don't have as much value in it as I used to.
When I was without a phone I was only lost as I didn't have a clock anymore.

Terry

I lost one last March and the only thing that bothered me was that it had an mp3 player on it, which is sadly missed.

I went about 5 months without a mobile phone and it didn't bother me one bit.

The only reason I have one now is that my friends were pissed off about not being able to contact me without calling to my house, so one of them gave me a sim card and another gave me a phone.
I'm forever leaving it at home or letting the battery die. I don't like phones.

Mr. CooL ICE

I really don't understand how some people lose their phones so often. I am on my 4th phone (a few weeks old), and only changed phones to update them. Every time I changed phone, I backed my numbers up onto my previous phone and kept that safe.

Rhiannon14

Personally I keep my numbers backed up on paper. I've been on the receiving end of technical mishaps too often, both my own and those of others. Losing a phone is a different matter, but I chose to go without one the first time I was abroad. What was a nice return to awareness of my surroundings at first became a bit of a hindrance once I'd made friends and wanted to contact them. Breaks from technology have their benefits though. If I lost the phone I have now it'd probably just be a bit of a headache for a while.

Doctor DooM

Having been employd by a network, the amount of distraught people I have seen defies belief. I would always love to offer the following advice:

1) Like any other data device, everything on your phone should be backed up if it is of any worth. Pictures, numbers, and texts. If you do not do this, you have no one to blame but yourself.

2) Mobile phones are delicate pieces of equipment. They easily get damaged like any other pieces of electronice equipment, by moisture, liquid, or even a single drop. Don't be suprised if this happens if you mistreat your phone. Using your phone when it is raining IS misusing your phone, no matter what you think. Its the same as watching the television outdoors in the rain.

3) If you get an expensive mobile phone and don't get insurance, it's your fault when it gets nicked.

Mobile phones have become extra important to people, and I have seen people in tears over them. If the above were observed by them, they would never have lost anything... but you cant tell people they're acting a lil stupid

AlmightyCushion

I lost my phone about two years ago and it turned out someone had found it went through my phone book and noticed they knew one of my friends and I eventually got it back. I already had bought a new phone at this stage though but at least I had all my numbers back.

Ruu_Old

Never lost a phone and have been through at least 20 phones over the last 5-7 years until I gave up all that carry on.. FS Mobiles. I always backed up my numbers and have an el cheapo Nokia right now from T-Mobile that does the trick for me. I wouldn't be sad if I lost it, no one rings me on it much unless meeting the wife for dinner somewhere,etc.

Terry

LordChessington wrote: »

I really don't understand how some people lose their phones so often.

Alcohol.
I lost three or four over the years. Got them all back except for the last one, which is the only one I wanted.

SDooM wrote: »

2) Mobile phones are delicate pieces of equipment. They easily get damaged like any other pieces of electronice equipment, by moisture, liquid, or even a single drop. Don't be suprised if this happens if you mistreat your phone. Using your phone when it is raining IS misusing your phone, no matter what you think. Its the same as watching the television outdoors in the rain.

Bring back the Nokia 5110.
My friend dropped his in a toilet one night. I went into the cubicle after him, took a leak, flushed the toilet and then told him where his phone was.
He fished it out and it worked fine after a couple of days.

Merrick

Meh, I wouldn't be that bothered about losing my phone, I have all my important numbers backed up - those I wouldn't remember off the top of my head anyway.

What I really hate is people losing/breaking their phone and then asking 'What am I supposed to do without it for days/weeks/whatever?' I just feel like slapping them and telling them to do what they always did before they had the phone, ie use another one.
Seriously, we could all get along perfectly well a few years ago without them!

Nehpets

SDooM wrote: »

2) Mobile phones are delicate pieces of equipment. They easily get damaged like any other pieces of electronice equipment, by moisture, liquid, or even a single drop. Don't be suprised if this happens if you mistreat your phone. Using your phone when it is raining IS misusing your phone, no matter what you think. Its the same as watching the television outdoors in the rain.

People need to stop buying ****e phones! I have had lots of phones which I drop, they get wet from rain, steam from shower, etc and that's never been a cause of getting a new one

Tar.Aldarion

I have mine for five years now. Ohh the memories. It has survived several trips underwater(It has evolved and no longer goes off under water.), fallen off a rollercoaster, been thrown at a wall a lot etc.
Still haven't bothered to back it up. i must do soon, on meteor's page maybe. i don't want to lose all those numbers. I wouldn't mind losing my phone, I'd just get another.

tampopo

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Still haven't bothered to back it up. i must do soon, on meteor's page maybe. .

you can do that?

hmmm...

Tar.Aldarion

Well, just put people in your contacts list for the webtexts.

Wossack

I love getting to lock my little plastic ball and chain in the reception safe when I go on holidays, even if its just for a few weeks - bliss

biko

I never lost a phone yet but have put the most important numbers on Vodafone webtexts, just in case

phasers

I'd just tell meteor then buy a better one

keen

Have lost two phones in my life, have all numbers backed up to my phonebook on mymeteor which is handy.

Wouldn't bother me that much losing one just be a bit pissed off that I'd have to spend money on a new one.

Hrududu

My Dad's phone still shows Eircell on the screen.
Now that's classy! The sim card is that old.

After thinking that was funny I just checked mine. Mine still says Eircell, woo hoo. Years ago i wrote all my numbers down, must update that. I wouldnt like to lose some of the pics etc on my phone. I also wouldnt like someone having access to all my numbers etc for some reason.

MOH

Mine got pickpocketed a year ago. I'd started backing up all the numbers a few weeks earlier but only got to L

Cancelled it when I realised it was gone, got a new number with same sim. Weird thing was, got a fairly aggressive call a couple of days later from some guy who said I'd been ringing and hassling his sister (or girlfriend?). Rang back a few times before I got really p*ssed off at him and eventually he stopped. Don't know if it was just a wrong number and a coincidence since there were no unexplained calls showing up on my account.

Naos

I lost my phone once.

It's an amazing sense of freedom if you just don't let yourself get too p1ssed off over it, as no one can contact you.

With regards to numbers, I've got my close friends whom I speak to often, so there would be no problem aquiring their numbers. If others are meant to be my 'friends' but don't contact me, then they probably weren't and thus good riddance to them.

onechewy

In 10 years I've gone through roughly @14 - 18 phones, not sure of the exact number... I have lost count. Not once have I ever backed up my info, and each time I lose my phone and get a new one I think 'Noooo.....! Cursed empty phonebook...!' But I never do write them down.. It helps that I do have about 20 - 25 numbers in my head so I'm not too bad off from the start.

The worst is when I get a text from someone who I'd only hear from once or twice a year either just saying hello or with an invite or something to whatever and I always have to explain that I've lost my phone and would they kindly tell me who they are... the replys are always very short as the last time they texted me, I had just lost my phone too..

I'm a bit cursed with phones. I don't throw them around willy nilly, I'm just unfortunate I think (and also a bit clumsy truth be told).. but I've lost phones in mud, portaloos, down the back of couches (was found 6 months later..), in a field, I've had them nicked, and sometimes they just vamoose...

I've always bought decent enough replacements, but I was devastasted after losing my last phone (that was in a field, I waded through foot long grass for about half an hour trying to find it..battery had gone dead too - typical!) which was very cool, so now I've got the bog standard Nokia, and this one will probably last me forever!