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Stardate: 20211202.1449 | |
Location: Some cafe | |
Input Device: Gemini PDA | |
Audio: Some cafe muzak | |
Visual: Xmas decor, automotive and pedestrian traffic | |
Emotional State: OK, I guess | |
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The mobile phone company has been giving me a hard time again with | |
the damn 3G sunset thing and saying that my phone will not work on | |
their network, etc. I woke up yesterday to my phone only having | |
emergency service. So I headed on over to one of their stores and | |
had another talk with them. | |
Timing was bad since I was waiting to hear back from some jobs. | |
After about an hour with dealing with them and their support people, | |
they got me back up and running. Later on, they disco'd my phone | |
again when I tried to make a phone call and was immediately directed | |
to their support center instead of completing my call. The tech was | |
able to remove the "blocks" on my phone and was back in business. | |
This time around, my phone showed "HD 4G" by the signal bars, rather | |
than the 3G or 4G that I usually see. Technically, my phone works on | |
their network. They just don't want to authorize it. Maybe because | |
I didn't get the phone from them and they don't want phones that | |
don't have their brand of spyware baked in. Well, whatever it is, I | |
am looking into other options since this is not the first time they | |
have not liked my phone. I didn't usually take their phones when | |
they were giving them out before...the last phone I got from a cell | |
provider was probably the Treo 680. Back then, you could just swap | |
the SIM cards with different phones with no problems. Not so easy | |
these days. | |
Enought about that. | |
Lately, I have been doing more stuff on my test network in the lab. | |
I have been messing around with old wireless routers and updating | |
their firmware with more recent custom firmware. | |
20211223 UPDATE: This is an old phost I didn't finish, but gonna | |
upload anyways. I have too many of these. | |
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