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- Mar 13, 2006
So I got laid off earlier this week, started tossing my resume out there hardcore and posted it on Monster and Dice.
Yesterday I notice my phone is just clicking but nothing else, well I ignore it as I figured it would ring if there was a call coming through.
*note phone is a Verizon Moto Q9m*
Well after a few hours of putzing around the house I go to check the phone to see if I missed any calls.
WTF THREE missed calls?? ACK! Odd!? Unknown number listed!? No voicemail left? Ok go back to the main screen now.. umm anytime, no really its ok! .....
Phone is completely locked up. No biggie, its WinMo, Im used to that, reboot time! Hold the power button, continue holding the power button, STILL holding the power button...
Not powering off!
GAHHH stupid WinMo, fine, Ill show you, Ill take the battery out. Umm except. that. the. cover. is. stuck. on. Ok screw driver time! AND A KNIFE!
ok cover off, Ill just pop that battery out and umm wtf.. ok, battery come out!
5 minutes later I have gouged holes THROUGH the casing of the battery to get it out, and the phone is rebooted. And I have ZERO ring but audio plays loudly.
*sigh*
reboot again
*bang phone on desk cursing Motorola for having ever realeased a piece of garbage phone*
phone comes on and ringer works. kind of.
gahhhhhhhhhh
So today after a quasi business lunch I go to Verizon to look at new phones, I REALLY want an Android but Verizon is evidently terrified of anything NOT WINMO...
Put my name in the queue and wander around mashing different phones and tossing my Q9m on the ground "accidently" repeatedly.
Get called up and turn around to respond, and damn near trip over my jaw. Verizon got a SMOKING HOT CSR. WOO HOO.
Who was also blunt and really friendly. "Oh I see you have the Q9m, let me guess, it kinda works, if it wants, sort of, sometimes, but only on dates and times that it chooses?"
"Well excluding the battery welding itself to the phone? That's about right!"
"ok what do you use your phone for?" *evidently it had gotten cold in the store by this point, I was TRYING to look her in the eyes I promise!*
*conversation goes on for a few and I am left with the knowledge that I am going to have to go to a crackberry*
"Really? No other phones are decent enough and can handle more then one email account at the same time that ARENT WinMo?"
"Yarly"
*sigh*
"Ok So which Crackberry?"
"NOT THE STORM"
*Boggle*
"Get the curve, its the best phone we have in the store hands down"
*boggle*
"Ya, umm its pink, Im not really a huge pink phone fan"
"Silver it is then, oh and you arent REALLY at the free upgrade point but Ill do the sale price plus 50 bucks off and toss in a car charger, screen protector, and case"
45 minutes later, the Q9m is sitting on my floor as a very small footstool, the crackberry is charging and I am wondering why I didnt get a crackberry a year and a half ago instead.
Anyone got any decent hacks, tips, cracks for crackberrys?
Yesterday I notice my phone is just clicking but nothing else, well I ignore it as I figured it would ring if there was a call coming through.
*note phone is a Verizon Moto Q9m*
Well after a few hours of putzing around the house I go to check the phone to see if I missed any calls.
WTF THREE missed calls?? ACK! Odd!? Unknown number listed!? No voicemail left? Ok go back to the main screen now.. umm anytime, no really its ok! .....
Phone is completely locked up. No biggie, its WinMo, Im used to that, reboot time! Hold the power button, continue holding the power button, STILL holding the power button...
Not powering off!
GAHHH stupid WinMo, fine, Ill show you, Ill take the battery out. Umm except. that. the. cover. is. stuck. on. Ok screw driver time! AND A KNIFE!
ok cover off, Ill just pop that battery out and umm wtf.. ok, battery come out!
5 minutes later I have gouged holes THROUGH the casing of the battery to get it out, and the phone is rebooted. And I have ZERO ring but audio plays loudly.
*sigh*
reboot again
*bang phone on desk cursing Motorola for having ever realeased a piece of garbage phone*
phone comes on and ringer works. kind of.
gahhhhhhhhhh
So today after a quasi business lunch I go to Verizon to look at new phones, I REALLY want an Android but Verizon is evidently terrified of anything NOT WINMO...
Put my name in the queue and wander around mashing different phones and tossing my Q9m on the ground "accidently" repeatedly.
Get called up and turn around to respond, and damn near trip over my jaw. Verizon got a SMOKING HOT CSR. WOO HOO.
Who was also blunt and really friendly. "Oh I see you have the Q9m, let me guess, it kinda works, if it wants, sort of, sometimes, but only on dates and times that it chooses?"
"Well excluding the battery welding itself to the phone? That's about right!"
"ok what do you use your phone for?" *evidently it had gotten cold in the store by this point, I was TRYING to look her in the eyes I promise!*
*conversation goes on for a few and I am left with the knowledge that I am going to have to go to a crackberry*
"Really? No other phones are decent enough and can handle more then one email account at the same time that ARENT WinMo?"
"Yarly"
*sigh*
"Ok So which Crackberry?"
"NOT THE STORM"
*Boggle*
"Get the curve, its the best phone we have in the store hands down"
*boggle*
"Ya, umm its pink, Im not really a huge pink phone fan"
"Silver it is then, oh and you arent REALLY at the free upgrade point but Ill do the sale price plus 50 bucks off and toss in a car charger, screen protector, and case"
45 minutes later, the Q9m is sitting on my floor as a very small footstool, the crackberry is charging and I am wondering why I didnt get a crackberry a year and a half ago instead.
Anyone got any decent hacks, tips, cracks for crackberrys?