Good stuff, thanks.Originally Posted by Boydy
Good stuff, thanks.
You can also get the Pixel 2 XL for £9.99 up front and £37.99 a month, with 15GB data on EE.
Seems a cracking deal.
@Samadini did you order yet?
I just realised there's a refer a friend option
Nah, turns out her contract isn't actually up until March, so we're a way off yet. Thanks though.
I made sure I backed up all my photos to Google photos before factory reset last night, took about 2 days to complete the backup. Looked all good so I went for the factory reset and formatted my SD card.
I've just lost over 5000 holiday and family photos. Close to crying.
Very strange. Are you sure they're not there somewhere under a messed up date and time stamp or anything?
Yeah just scrolled through the entire thing. It looks like the only thing that's recovered are WhatsApp photos. I am properly devastated.
Can't think what happened there as normally camera uploads is uploading by default and you have to select yes/no for other photos like downloads, WhatsApp, or Twitter. Maybe didn't have the required permissions to access the SD card or something. I can't check as the few phones I have here at the moment don't have SD slots.
Check this on your phone (photos, settings, backup & sync) and see if there's a slider for SD or something. Though unfortunately it's probably no good for what you've lost
You don't have anything else backing up do you? I have OneDrive on my phone uploading them too.
No Dropbox or anything? Shambles.
Won't help you much now, but when doing anything like that I'd check the desktop version of the Google Photos site to make sure it all matches what you see on your phone. Like in Giggles' screen I've got a few folders deselected to avoid duplication.
Don't know whether something like this would work but have you tried a program like Recuva to see if it can restore the files? Should be able to use it to scan the SD card.
https://www.piriform.com/recuva
Hurry up new phone.
Was going to ask if you had it yet.
Nah, thought it would be here today. According to the tracking, it's not even arrived in NI yet. I'm hoping that's just slow to update and it'll be here tomorrow.
According to DPD's tracker, it was at their distribution centre in Athlone in the early hours of this morning. What the fuck is it doing down there? That's well out of the way to here.
Central sorting hub I'd say. Most of my DPD stuff ends up there first too, unless I use their Parcel Wizard service and it goes to Newtownabbey.
Is there only one central sorting hub for all of Ireland then? I'd have thought they'd have it closer to whatever port it comes into. Or that there might even be one in the north.
I'd imagine to cut down on costs they have one that covers us and you. No point in paying two sets of facilities and wages.
It's being delivered today. Just got the text.
I saw some thing on Google's pixel 2 site about it being easy to transfer all your stuff from your old phone across? Is it easy?
It is, there's an A to C adapter in the box. Do it during setup as you can't do it after if you say No at that stage though.
You'll have unlimited photo uploads at original quality until the end of 2020 with the phone too.
Get it?
Yeah. Not got round to setting it up yet as the old one needed to charge before transferring shit and then I was watching the match. Gonna do it now.
Did it come with the A to C dongle? I couldn't find my box to check for sure and I was thinking after that I may have had the S8 in mind
Yeah, it did. It's got a headphone jack adapter too which is nice. Thought I'd have to buy one separately.
It's copying my stuff over now so I've not actually used it yet but it looks lovely. It is noticeably narrower than my S5 though which might take a bit of getting used to.
I'm not sure how well the switch thing does as I set up from scratch myself. The texture of the back is nice and not too slippy, though I've one of the fabric cases on it at the moment.
Screw you, Craig.
What's happened?
Mobiles.co.uk hadn't informed EE properly to have the contract set up. So it wasn't properly registered on their network. It is now. But as he said, I had a phone and no contract so if I'd not told them to get it registered I'd have had a Google Pixel 2 for the £15 I paid up front.
Although I'm sure they'd probably have noticed at some point.
Shit. Ah well, you'd need a plan anyway so in the bigger scheme it's not a huge difference.
Craig sounds like a titanic bellend.
He sounds a bit too perky to be in a help centre for my tastes.
People seem to be selling Samsung S5s for about £70-80 on ebay. Ones with cracked screens are listed for about £70. I should probably sell mine.
Would it be worth buying a replacement battery and bumping the price up a bit? If so, where could I get one? The ones on ebay seem to be a load of cheap Chinese shite.
I'd always keep a backup for the sake of that much. Back before I got so many phones I always kept a decent one because you never know. But even if you do sell I wouldn't bother with a new battery. People will always look it cheaper and you'll make no extra on it.
Definitely keep it. My Moto Z is off being repaired at the moment and I'm back on my LG G3. What a beast of a phone that was.
Yeah I was glad I kept my old one when I had to send my Oneplus to be fixed.
Didn't think about that, actually. Good point.
Fully switched over to the new phone now. Keyboard's a bit different so is taking a bit of getting used to but everything else is very good.
The fingerprint scanner is brilliant. Never thought it'd be something I'd want to use but it's so quick and easy.
Seriously? Did you not have a passcode on your phone before, or did you not think it was much hassle having to put it in?
Had a passcode yeah. I tried using the fingerprint scanner on the S5 once but it was shit and in a bad place.
He probably had to use the passcode or pattern as the Galaxy S5's fingerprint scanner was worse than shit. If I remember right you had to swipe down on it instead of just resting on it.
Urge to switch from S8 to Pixel 2 XL rising.
I've never used the fingerprint scanner on my S7. Are they worth it?
I thought that print and iris scanning would be some kind of useless gimmick but I'm spoilt by it now, can't imagine typing in a passcode manually any more like they had to in the war.
I can't see why anyone that has one wouldn't use it. It works perfectly on the S7.
Giving your fingerprints to THE SYSTEM mate.
Dunno, just thought it was a bit gimmicky is all.
Touch the home button and it unlocks. No gimmick.
Unless you've a tinfoil hat (see above).
I just tell Alexa to unlock it for me.
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