Mint day

[bill_schubert]

We got Dana's new phone very late yesterday, so late it was basically today.  I didn't even look at it.  And I'm putting it off setting it up but I did put it on charge.  It came with 66% which on a new phone is probably a day or two but I'm going to start it off with 100%.

I've got to move my wife from Samsung to Pixel and set up Mint Mobile on it.  That latter is, hopefully, going to be easier than I'm anticipating.  Mint is ridiculously cheap but a little glitchy and has its own way of doing things so I actually have to read the directions which is annoying.

This phone comes with an insert talking about 'SIM free setup' so now I have to read directions twice AND make decisions.  Yuck.

On the bright side I suspect it will load quickly and I won't have all the crapware to take off of it.  And since I've got Dana on all Google stuff but for FB it should be easy for the sign ins.  They will all work as one which is good as I've got a fairly complex password for her as with most of our stuff.

Since it is 30 degrees outside I'll be doing that instead of a walk first thing this morning.  

Comments

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! Not R-ing TFM! :). I hope they have better technical writers than the company that made the fan I assembled this week. It listed all the parts by name and number, then ignored all the numbers and called the parts by different names.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I put in the sim and added the Mint set up and it went OK. Still something weird with the wireless/Mint transition -- I want the phone working off our wifi all the time it can. It may be working now.

Meanwhile, Google did its thing. Loaded everything of consequence automatically and then said "restore the backup?" I deselected all the Samsung crap and hit 'Do it' and maybe three minutes later all the rest was there. A lovely piece of software engineering.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Nice ! I wish I could divorce myself from Samsung crap too but I'm too in love with the shiny Galaxies and too lazy to learn a new phone as Galaxies are the only smartphones I've owned.