Sunday, October 08, 2006

my (fried?) new phone

ok after much consideration and bugging my mummy, we finally went out to get my SE K610i. braved the haze and the heat and walked arnd amk centre, which interestingly didn't have many singtel authorised shops. out of 4 we went, 2 didn't have the colour i wanted, the other one didn't wanna chup us, so finally at the 4th shop i found my phone, the hpman was like v longwinded etc, explaining to my mum tons of stuff, and 2 hrs later i walked out happily w my new phone after spending SGD294 (phone: 138, SE stereo headset + extra batt + desktop charger + useless hp pouch 68, 512 M2 card 88) hmm now tt i think abt it, the extra batt desktop charger set thing was abit ex. oh well...

so i was happily charging my phone and loading songs onto my 512 card, then put in my new card and opened the file manager to test the sound quality and everything. alas, it HUNG on me. as in totally didn't work. then the screen was just flashing, super irritating, for a few minutes can? and i tried to switch the damn phone off, and no it didn't switch off, just flashed. so tj came up with the idea of pulling out the battery, i tot why not right? so i pulled it out, with the charger still in. then i realised oops, and i pulled the charger out like 2 seconds after the battery. and after tt... no matter wat i did, the phone wouldn't turn on. i got v upset, thinking tt i prob fried the damn phone... and jkaiser concurred... damn...

but then i was thinking, it wasn't tt long, and at least when i press the "power" button there's still this red light tt flashes, so shdn't be tt bad rite? maybe phones got this built in function to prevent power surges and wat not? i hope so lah...

so this morn, i went to SE service centre, and explained to them, tt i was loading my M2 card, then tried to open, then it hanged, then switched off, and can't be turned on ever again, emphasising tt i only bought the damn phone yesterday, and totally neglecting to mention tt i erm pulled out the batt. so the techies THINK it's a software problem, which i mean it's true! if it didn't hang, y the hell would i try to pull out the battery? so i'm supposed to go collect on wednesday.

and so the waiting continues. i'm feeling quite bummed by this... oh wellz... hp for the best.... thanks mich and jkaiser for saying i'm a noob... arghz... u think i want meh? sighz... i'll update once wednesday comes... fingers crossed!

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