Meltdown over new cell phone

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DANG IT

Got a new cell phone - put the sim card into this one - half the phone numbers are now gone, everythign is screwed up, and I need to use the thing. I threw it aside and have been crying - ARGH

Half of me is horrified that I'm so upset over a stupid cell phone, but the other half is just angry - I want my old phone back with all the customized stuff and the numbers in place and things worked. I get where I can't even deal with it, can't even think about starting to customize this one. And the sound quality is AWFUL - sounds like everyone is in a tin can on the other end and it's terrible.

I'm being told to "just get used to it" but I can't just get used to it. I hate it and I don't want it.

ARGH

ARGH

ARGH

I had to replace a phone I liked with a cheaper, less desirable one recently, too. It took the non-english speaking tech support people a full month to send me a new SIM card from somewhere in or near India, and port my old number into the new phone, and I swear they were working in a busy train station - the background racket alone was enough to send me into instant meltdown, and the frustration of trying to communicate - AuUuuUuGghH!! !

Why can't anything ever be @#*%!& simple?

I know that feeling, I had to chat to India, I got a new motorola phone on the perviso that it would be getting a upgrade, this issue got me chucked out of the store (my own fault, I got abit vocal), in the end I had to take a downgrade to another makers.

The motorola was sooo blooming annoying, buggy and unusable!

The thought of getting a new cell phone makes me nervous. It would have to be destroyed for me to get a new one.

I had to get a new phone recently, and I went and got the updated new version of my old phone. Same brand. Many of the features are similar, as well as all the buttons, etc. So it was an easy transition. Some of the new phones out there are so different that they would take much more time to learn.

Why would one get a new phone?
I do not mind because I never use phones.

I ordered the same updated model of my phone too - but the changes on it are big.

I almost never talk on the phone either - never answer it - but I have kids and reasons that people absolutely have to reach me at times so it's necessary.

The statement of "just get used to it" was by my husband who told me I have to give it time and get used to it, which I know is true in some things that my first reaction is very bad to the new thing but once it grows on me and I figure it all out and I get used to it, then it's okay. He wanted me to wait and just get used to this one but I'm not - it has a horrible sound to it and that's not something I want to get used to.

I ended up putting the sim card back into my old phone and it's working - thankfully - but the back doesn't fit on it quite right and there's alot of wear that make it not a great phone. The upgrade was free and mine was so old and starting to show damage so I thought it might be time to try this but I was wrong.

I'm going to stay with the old one even with it not being in such great condition, for awhile more.

Not sure if this helps, but my new cell phone has redundant memory. I can have stuff in the phone's memory and on the SIM card. If I back up stuff to the SIM card, I'll have it all if I change phones. If not, I have to program it in manually.

Maybe your old phone can back up your stuff to the SIM card and the new phone can copy from the SIM card?

Buy an iPhone - they work perfectly if you don't jailbreak them, and are very easy to use. Sorry for sounding like a spambot in this post, I assure you I'm a legit member

I hate getting new cell phones. Then I have to start all over how to use the features.

Can you take it back to the shop as it's probably still under warranty?

I got a new phone last month, I actually asked in the shop if they minded me playing about with the phones so I could get some idea of how they operate (as opposed to the dummy phones they have on display which give you no idea how it would be to actually use the phone) and I'm smitten (It's a Blackberry and I love it because I can save reminders and notes on there, plus I have a photograph of my 'I have Aspergers syndrome' card I got from the NAS, so if I ever need to whip that out I've always got it with me and being on my phone it won't get all mangled like the paper version of my card....sorry, I digress!)

Having said that I never could get used to my old Motorola, I used to lose my temper all the time trying to work it, it was a right mess, broken hinge, cracked screen, scratches, I had it for 3 years but I couldn't get it to work with me, it always seemed to have a mind of it's own and the predictive text would 'forget' words I had already entered into it which drove me bonkers!! Some phones have THE oddest operating systems.

I'm going to be sending this one back today and I am planning to go into the actual store and touch and look at the others before changing. My old one has wear and some damage but it was such a huge relief to get it working again. I don't want to change at all now. I wish you could talk on each model to hear the sound quality before you got it.

I've considered a Blackberry for 2 years - at least. I look at other people's and ask them how they like it and everyone seems to love theirs. I just keep looking and looking at them but haven't made the switch. The service is so much more expensive per month that I can't see a strong reason to pay that much. I just need the phone, really, and not very often at that so paying a hundred dollars a month is ridiculous, plus another hundred or more to get the actual phone. That's a LOT of money!

When I store a new contact on my phone it gives me the option of storing it on either the SIM card or the phone's built-in memory. I think the problem you're having is that some of the numbers are stored on the SIM card and some are stored in the phone's memory which means when you transfer the SIM card, only the ones stored on it are available.

There should be a way for you to edit each contact so that it's stored on the SIM card so that it's available when you transfer it to your new phone.