Friday, September 30, 2016

Technical Difficulties

I hate technology! Well, at least I have a love hate relationship with it.

I got a new phone. Something I've been wanting for at least a year, since the power button on my old phone stopped working.

Hazzah! Right?

Except not.

Because the new phone isn't working right. For whatever reason, it thinks it's my new phone, my old phone, and Aaron's phone all rolled into one. Bad.

My texts are getting messed up. I've lost all my notes. I'm having to redownload everything I originally had which was supposedly saved on the cloud. And the biggest pet peeve of all. I cannot get my pictures off my phone. I have tried everything from hell to breakfast, but no. If I plug the phone into the computer to remove pictures manually, the computer doesn't recognize my device. If I try to do it online through icloud, or google photos etc, only a selection of my pics show up, and it's a different selection every time, and they STILL won't download onto the computer. And of course, they are supposed to automatically photo stream onto my computer, but that hasn't been working right for years now, so I don't know why the new phone would be any different.

And no, I can't blog from my phone. Blogger doesn't support my phone. Or me. Apparently.

They've done away with the Blogger App. And if I just do the web version, it crashes every time I try to upload pictures to a post.

Ugh! Don't they know I've got almost a month's worth of baby pictures to document!

I am so incredibly, utterly, completely, thoroughly, altogether frustrated.

I guess I need to go into a Sprint store...with six kids...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! (That's my maniacal laughter.) Right, so....

I'm sort of, kind of, maybe, potentially toying with the idea of switching over to Wordpress....that won't solve any of my phone problems....BUT, they have a mobile app, and I could at least blog from my phone. Which would at least put my pictures somewhere other than on the phone, so that when I can stand it no more and chuck my phone directly out the window, all will not be lost. :)

Anyone have any experience with Wordpress? Do you prefer it to Blogger? Why or why not?


3 comments:

Bethany C. said...

Wordpress is very beautiful, though, not quite as user-friendly in some ways. Mindy blogs with Wordpress. I'm sure she'd have some helpful advice.
Technology can be sooo frustrating at times! Have you tried changing USB options? Sometimes only certain photos will show up when I connect my phone and laptop, unless I connect it as a Media file transfer, rather than as a camera, or image file.
Good luck -- I really wanna see those baby photos!

With The Westons said...

Does Live Writer have an app??

Inspiration Station said...

I have liked using wordpress, but have never used blogger so I can't compare. I've always blogged from a computer, so I'm sorry I am not much help at all. I hope you can get it straightened out soon. So sorry!