I start texting friends and family and Mel starts ringing me on my home phone. Merv's community service provider rings me but there is no point in answering I hope they leave a message but they just try again later.
Dustin has a damaged iPhone 5s. It works well but he dropped it and the screen is smashed. It is no longer used as he has a super new iPhone 6.
I weigh up the cost of replacing the screen or buying a new phone. I am grateful when Dustin hands me the phone.
Then the fun begins. He has all his information and apps still on the phone. When I bought his iPad from him a couple of years ago it was the same. I changed his information to mine but iTunes still thinks he owns it. One day I will wipe it and start again, one day.
Back to the iPhone 5s. I plug it in with the charger to my home computer and tell iTunes I want to wipe it and restore the factory settings. It at first appears helpful and I download the data to achieve this. Half way through the download it times out. I try it again and again. This happens four or five times. That was five hours ago. I try a different tack. I check Google and find I need to disable my firewall. I de-friend Norton for the rest of the day! Three hours later I am the proud owner of a download.
The download then spits out the data and Dustin’s data is erased. It is only then I realise iTunes is no longer partying with me. It doesn't want to download my data from my iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5s. Back to my friend Google. It suggests the latest iTunes download. Ok, another coffee break and a download later and the apple icon appears as by magic on my screen-shattered phone. After thirteen hours I am finally ecstatic!
Then the fun begins. It asks me to put in the sim card. Easy I think and I take out the sim from my no voice iPhone 4. I then take out the sim tray from the iPhone 5s and I squeal in disbelief. It is tiny, so much smaller than my sim card, which is micro. Now I know what a nano looks like!
It's after 8pm and there aren't any service providers open. I resort to my own devices and hopeful good luck. My trusty iPad finds a You Tube video on how to cut my sim card to size with the aid of a printed template. I find the template on my home computer but I know my Brother printer is a perfectionist. It doesn't like to print unless the colour cartridges are full. I am empty of cyan and magenta but I am full of black and yellow. I tease the printer and it balks at me. It doesn't want to work with me. Finally I trick it into a greyscale copy and it spits it out.
The moment of truth comes and I arm myself with pencil, ruler and sharp scissors. I execute surgery on my sim card and realise I don't have a corner. Back to the template and the corner is created. I forget to read the bit about filing the edges and shove it into the sim card tray and then bung it inside the iPhone. I need a drink but I have nothing to drink but herbal tea and water. The five year old brandy is for life and death situations only.
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| Shattered Screen but it works! |
I follow the commands of the phone and eventually I have all my apps, photos and phone contacts on the shattered phone. I even have a recognised thumbprint to access my phone.
I give Merv the home phone and go to the other end of the house to see if after all this the damn thing will work. My phone rings and I talk to Merv. Yes he can hear me and vice versa! I am happy.
Tomorrow I am going to the repair shop and have the screen replaced.
I wonder if it would have been easier just to buy a new phone and save the frustration. It has been a long day of techno stuff but I am delighted I have a working phone!
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