yonmei

11:18 pm: I WIN!
The last time I tried to recredit my Vodafone Pay As You Go account, I was told my card had expired.

I checked with my bank, and discovered to my unsurprise that Vodafone had got it wrong; my card was still perfectly valid.

So I tried to check with Vodafone what the problem was. I found that Vodafone had no means to let me do that:

( for length )

So that was the end of Vodafone for me. Well, at least until next time. I mean, all phone companies are garbage. But oh, the joy of PAYGO: to be able to just decide "screw you!" and go. (I transferred all my contacts across on Sunday in an Orange shop, before I rang Orange to port my number.)

And then I had a problem. I got a Nokia 1600 with a Vodafone SIM card last year in the aftermath of the 3 thing. And the Nokia turned out to be locked to Vodafone only: which I found when I inserted my Orange SIM card and got "SIM CARD NOT VALID".

But, solo put me on to a site called www.moneysavingexpert.com, and there was a subsection for unlocking mobile phones for free, so I tried a couple of the websites from there (unlock.nokiafree.org and www.unlockitfree.com) and found the second one had the clearer explanation so I went with the number one code from that website...
...and WHEE. It worked. My phone was unlocked. My Orange SIM card works.

I am wizard of my own phone. :-D



Tags: *bounce*, 3 are bastards, cool things people do with software, evil phone company plots, mobile phone blues

03:32 pm: In the Forest
Currently, in the Forest cafe, the soup is mine: a red lentil soup with onion and cabbage (and a bit of tomato, and turmeric, thyme, and rosemary) that I put together on the 27th. Also, the chilli is mine - the fabulous one I made on the 23rd.

All I need to do is figure out how to get them to take my bread, and I can rule the universe!

Yay.

In other news: I bought a new phone before Christmas, or rather I took an 18-month contract with 3 (£15 a month, 300 minutes or 300 texts - that is, for every text I send, I get a minute less talk time, which just suits me) and got a free phone. Unfortunately, it was a Sony Ericsson piece of shit, and first of all I couldn't get the SIM card in (it was complicated, and no diagram was provided or any detailed instructions beyond "insert SIM card") and then after I'd complained AT LENGTH someone put it in for me and I felt like an idiot and also possibly a sucky customer (will go into more detail in another post, perhaps do a poll, as one does). Now the battery has completely run down and either the charger or the battery is faulty because it won't CHARGE, dammit.

I should need to get another phone some time after July 2009. Do not under any circumstances let me get another Sony Ericsson. I was tempted by this one because it doubles as a Walkman, but oh lord what a piece of crap.

Tags: 3 are bastards, mobile phone blues

11:53 am: What should I do about my mobile phone?
( buying a new phone ) ( attempting to ring O2 )

( ringing Orange )

( e-mailing O2 )

( O2 has wrong e-mail address )

( So what should I do? )

Tags: mobile phone blues