End of the phone saga
2025-Mar-09, Sunday 11:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
It ended in the best possible way it could, honestly.
I brought my phone in to the Apple Store and left it there for a couple hours--they said they would take it "downstairs" even though the building only seemed to have a single floor and no backroom, so I guess they were bringing it down to secret chambers where the dwarves might work their spells on it to the sound of pounding hammers--and when I came back at the appointed time, they said it was done. They brought it up, I logged into my iCloud account and, after a bit of difficulty, got my phone number back. Most systems seemed to be designed for copying everything from one phone to a physically distinct phone, which I didn't have, so I had to use my iPad, go into the carrier app, and told them to send a new eSIM to my phone. I downloaded it, my father called to verify the number worked, and off I went.
Since the internals were failing and this was Apple, they decided to just use a hammer instead of a scalpel to solve the problem. They tore out everything that wasn't the screen, camera, or casing and just replaced it all. I have a new motherboard, new battery, new everything. They even fixed the USB hookup, which was being pretty twitchy, so now the physical headphones I use only at work (since I listen to podcasts for eight hours a day and my AirPods won't last that long) have no trouble and I don't have to jiggle the plug back and forth six times to get an audio connection. My phone, which I had been thinking of replacing this year when the new iPhones come out because I was having so many performance problems, is now running exactly like a new phone, because it basically is a new phone. And thanks to AppleCare I paid $0 instead of the $650 on the bill that entirely new internals would have cost, so I'm very satisfied.
Now I just need to do something about my device storage. I have 800 gb out of 1000 gb and 700 gb of it is podcasts. Need to do more podcast listening!
I had a lovely (from my perspective, anyway) interaction with the person who checked me in, too. She noticed that my phone was in Japanese and asked me I spoke Japanese, so I told her that I used to live in Japan. It turned out she was a Korean adoptee in America who had taken several trips to Japan and Korea for tourism reasons and to visit birth family relatives, so we had a nice conversation about language-learning and traveling in Japan while we were trying to get my phone booted up and successfully primed for work by the dwarf-smiths downstairs. It was actually a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon, considering I was there because my exocortex broke.
I brought my phone in to the Apple Store and left it there for a couple hours--they said they would take it "downstairs" even though the building only seemed to have a single floor and no backroom, so I guess they were bringing it down to secret chambers where the dwarves might work their spells on it to the sound of pounding hammers--and when I came back at the appointed time, they said it was done. They brought it up, I logged into my iCloud account and, after a bit of difficulty, got my phone number back. Most systems seemed to be designed for copying everything from one phone to a physically distinct phone, which I didn't have, so I had to use my iPad, go into the carrier app, and told them to send a new eSIM to my phone. I downloaded it, my father called to verify the number worked, and off I went.
Since the internals were failing and this was Apple, they decided to just use a hammer instead of a scalpel to solve the problem. They tore out everything that wasn't the screen, camera, or casing and just replaced it all. I have a new motherboard, new battery, new everything. They even fixed the USB hookup, which was being pretty twitchy, so now the physical headphones I use only at work (since I listen to podcasts for eight hours a day and my AirPods won't last that long) have no trouble and I don't have to jiggle the plug back and forth six times to get an audio connection. My phone, which I had been thinking of replacing this year when the new iPhones come out because I was having so many performance problems, is now running exactly like a new phone, because it basically is a new phone. And thanks to AppleCare I paid $0 instead of the $650 on the bill that entirely new internals would have cost, so I'm very satisfied.
Now I just need to do something about my device storage. I have 800 gb out of 1000 gb and 700 gb of it is podcasts. Need to do more podcast listening!
I had a lovely (from my perspective, anyway) interaction with the person who checked me in, too. She noticed that my phone was in Japanese and asked me I spoke Japanese, so I told her that I used to live in Japan. It turned out she was a Korean adoptee in America who had taken several trips to Japan and Korea for tourism reasons and to visit birth family relatives, so we had a nice conversation about language-learning and traveling in Japan while we were trying to get my phone booted up and successfully primed for work by the dwarf-smiths downstairs. It was actually a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon, considering I was there because my exocortex broke.
