Difficulties with Smart Phones

Problem Of Motivation

I'm writing with experiences of iPhones in mind, which I hear are the worst, but I'm sure the same goes for all smart phones.

Am I to presume that everyone else out there, at some point in time, has sat for several hours at a PC trying to figure out some problem with an iPhone? I've been there! As you try to solve the problem, the directions you follow seem to take you around in a circle. You call apple care but they just tell you it's because you've old software, and don't seem to understand the problem. You then try to type the problem into google and end up following the instructions of some fella on youtube. And what he says sounds too good to be true, but you follow his instructions for about an hour, all to realise that the problem you have is a bit different to the one he is describing.

We never had these problems with the phones of the 00s. You could just take someone elses phone and put your sim in, and work away. I did this with an iPhone I got off somebody last year. It was all fine until I wanted to set up a Whatsapp account. Then I realised that I was forced to erase the phone, and that everything I done with it since I'd owned it. Another thing was that I could never even back up my phone... because I had old software, iTunes would display a notification saying "estimated restoring time is 90 minutes". The connection would always time out during this time so I could never back it up!

The last problem I remember having wasn't so bad. For some reason when I would go to send texts, I would only have the option of sending an iMessage. So if I wanted to keep my data turned off it meant that I couldn't send a text. What I would have to do instead, would be try to send an iMessage, knowing that it would fail, wait around for about 20 minutes for it show up as "message failed". And only then could I tap the screen to select the drop down option of "send as text message instead", and thereby re-send it as a text. I eventually ended up finding some switch inside in settings that had been selected to choose iMessages or something. Think it might have been something to do with the fact that I restored my phone recently. But the bottom line is that it's yet another example of an unanticipated problem caused by an iPhone.

Unlocking my phone was another issue. Everyone seemed to tell me a different way of doing it. One person told me that I needed to await an email from apple that would give me a code, and that I'd have to enter that code to unlock it. Another person told me that the phone unlocks itself when connected to iTunes. I got it unlocked in the end somehow! I've no idea how!

I can only wonder what the next problem my iPhone will give me!

Mrcaramelchoc

ANDROID FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sullivlo

Fascinating thread OP.