T-Mobile, Motorola And BlueTooth

03-21-05_1911, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Well, I came home last Monday round ten-ish. So I figure I'd transfer the pics I took during the day and write a short blog. Well, to my suprise, my phone kept saying "Service Not Supported".

I called T-Mobile immediately and talked to a Rep named 'Shane', who couldn't do squat so then I was transferred over a level up.

Next guy was named Preston. He put me on hold.

Preston then proceeded to give me Motorola's CS number and claimed they were open 24hrs since no closing time was annotated on the Phone Number Sheet. Motorola is open 8AM-10PM Central Time mind you.

So I called T-Mobile back and asked for Preston. I was told I would be transferred to his department but not directly to Preston.

After about 15-20 minutes (watching anime while I waited), I find out I reached the Data somethingorthudder Center.

Rep's number was 2744615. He seemed rather irritaded that I was calling. I calmed him down and told him my only reason for calling was so they could write down the times for Motorola's Live Customer Service.

-=The Next Day=-

I called Motorola at 2:33pm PST
Wait Time: ~2 minutes

Got a rep named Cecilia #351035. Talked with an Indian accent.

She transferred me to the Tech Department.

Rep Name: Aida
Rep Number: 4737

Reffered me to a place nearby that could help me out.

Place was called Cell-U-Phone. Their number is 323.727.9131.

Called them up and was told by them that they no longer do the Level 3 Tech Support for Motorola. The Tech then proceeded to advise me to call Motorola back and ask for the Level 3 Tech Support up in Sacramento.

Called Motorola again,
Rep name: Marcelo
Rep #: 351176

I BSed for a bit and he sent me over to Data Support.

I got disconnected at 3:12

3:14 I was back on queue

3:23 still on queue

3:24 they picked up
Rep Name: [did not catch name]
Rep #: 4725

Halfway through, at 3:28 I got hanged up on again. At this point I began to think it was the phone. I was using my mom's.


I called back.
Rep Name: Mary
Rep #: 351190

She was nice. She got me numbers

#1. 916 441 4668 Radio Shack
#2. 922 9347 Changed 916 928
6111 another radio shack
#3. 363 2300 Racho Cordba's Wireless Toys. Nice guy
#4. 649 9900 Circuit City...
#5. 922 4703 radio shack..


3:47 back to dealing with motorola
3:49 on queue

3:50 called back, I went for a different menu option.

3:53
Rep Name: Victoria
Rep #: 351140

3:55 Transfered to Software Support
expected wait time 8 minutes

Rep Name:Christian
Rep #:1026

He was nice. Slight tang of spanish accent in his voice

He gave me his direct line incase I got disconected.
877 331 6456
x2237

He advised reflashing the phone and then gave me the numbers to two places. One of which I already had.

Cellular Phone Reaper (repair?) Services
626 796 6446

I called them up and got their address.

150 E. Colorado Blvd #101
Pasadena, California.

--Today--
I decided to so the Security Updates and I saw that one had a BT update.

So I tried transferring a pic.

It worked.

I wasted 2 hours of my life. But then again, this could help someone else. So far noone has had this problem. I though it might have been T-Mobile's fault since they rolled out a voicemail update over the weekend and thought maybe that could have had something to do with it.

Meh, so I made a mistake.

HD?!? - I'm Not Talking About Video

*Click-whirr*

That's how my session in front of Neko-kun, my XP-Pro powered tower, started off.

Gah.

I never thought that would happen to me.

I really didn't imagine it ever happening at all.

My 8GB HD, the original HD from my Pac-Bell tower I scrapped a few years back, chugged along for 4.5 years before I stopped using it everyday. Not to mention the fact that it is currently loaded with Red Hat 9 and sitting unplugged in one of Neko-kun's drive bays as a somewhat failed server side-project. It still works.

Well, the drive I had named Otohime, after the sea princess in the Japanese folktale of Urashima Taro died after three days of hearing the *click*whirr*. I played a slight word game with the name. At first though, the Love Hina character Otohime Mutsumi comes to mind, since she is one of my favorite characters, whose last name is written 乙姫. But since I used it to store my music, among other things, I wrote it 音姫, i.e. "sound-princess"

But yeah. I will name its successor the same. I plan to buy a SATA drive. Preferably one over 200GB like my 250GB SATA named Urashima since I like the smallness of the cables. So much easier to handle than the IDEs.

Funny thing is that I had bought Otohime to temporarily replace my current main system drive (20GB) that had suffered a freak accident and locked the system out. I lost all of my high school work due to my idiot-ness of not being able to get the stuff decrypted. So it got reformated and its now my system drive.

But first I have to buy new tires. With this sudden rainy weather, I find that my tires do not have the grip necessary for taking the turns I normally take. My current tires are 14" Falken Ziex 512s. Mighty good tires I might add, but I've worn the outer section down to the point of no grip.

I was considering buying Kumhos maybe the ECSTA 711. Oh well. Only time will tell.

03-15-05_1615 - So Clean

03-15-05_1615 - So Clean, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I decided to clean my room after I kept getting invaded by ants.

Well, I was reorganizing the plugs for the different devices that I have when I decided to see how it would look if I only had my PowerBook Nami.

I have an Apple keyboard that I use for my tower and plugged that in along with my Logitech mouse (really should get a new one), and here is the result.

*Sigh*

Saddly I'll have to put the CRT back in its place since I can't place it in any other place or position. And I can't afford a new monitor at the moment.

Em just got a 17" Apple FlatScreen on the cheap. Maybe if I save up my money and ask real nice he can hook me up.

It should hold me until I have enough to buy the 23" Apple Cinema Display I've been wanting for the past year.

But then again, I really need new tires.

03-02-05_1508 - Stüssy

03-02-05_1508, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Saw this as I was walking to lunch after dropping some books into my car.

Em, this one's for you.

On a side note, I went to go pick up my sweater that I left at Em's the night of the photoshoot. Well, John showed up. A conversation was had. We parted ways. And as soon as I got home I remebered that I had left my sweater at Em's again. Well, at least I left it on a different couch this time.

Tired~

Gosh, I'm just so tired. Tired of all the work I have to do. Tired of the stuff I don't.

I can't even get a decent night's rest, let alone a decent hour of sleep.

I really dislike headaches. Especially the ones that cause the front side of your head to hurt when you read.

On a side note, Underpowered did a little something in response to Something Positive's post about cat-girls in webcomics.

02-27-05_2236 - The Trump

02-27-05_2236, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Pic of The Trump.

Damn Sociology paper has me by the ringer, therefore no long update tonight.

Oh, and to whoever cares, should I adjust the levels of the pics before I post them?

Kinda want to know before I start putting time into it.