Kaleidoscope

Sorry, no time today because I was awake all night..
I've got an email from a friend and she says there's a problem with the pixel 4a battery. And that is my phone.

And she said it basically wrecked the 4a phone. She gave me details too lengthy to explain here. Apparently this update wrecks the particular battery in the 4a pixel phones. She warned me in case I got that update. And I did about the time of midnight and it wrecked my battery on my pixel 4a.

It is a good job she told me otherwise I would not have known what was going on. The battery level information does not work anymore. It appears not to be charging and it appears not to be going down in battery life. There are no figures... I'm going to settings and it says change your battery. Your battery needs replacing.

It did not need replacing yesterday. It worked, and gave me all the figures for charging and how long it would take , and where the battery level was at any point of time. This update has taken all that away, and apparently the update according to the Google site causes  the phone battery level to drop dramatically and very quickly. This is terrible how the phone companies can hold you to ransom, just to make you buy a more recent phone. Be very aware and be very careful.

I Google and the Google site tells me that this update will wreck the particular battery in the pixel 4a. WTF. The Google site say they will make an appeasement for this. So I go and look it up and I am not impressed at all.. you have to send your pixel 4a to one of their centres for a battery change. This is bl**dy useless to me because I need my phone for my hospital pre-op eye appointment on Tuesday. I need it for the remote to sort out my Cochlear processor at the very least. And more. The other option they gave is they would give you a small sum of money which was $50 and I clicked on the link to find out how much they would actually give me in English money and it was £41 but the only way you could get it was to register an account with this strange site. Give this strange site your bank details and then that £41 will be paid in. Excuse me if I come up with a whole pile of naughty words at this point.

Okay, naughty words have been said and the cat has vanished.

The pixel 4a as it is currently is one useless piece of junk.

I do not need any more crises in my life at this particular point of time...

I must've had psychic abilities because a short while ago I saw a pixel 8 Phone online, which was a fraction of the price of the new one, it was not advertised as new but in excellent condition. So I took a chance and bought it.  Then I was terrified when I received it because when I checked online for the same thing because I wanted to see the specifications in its place was another one, but £100 more and it was locked into T-Mobile. I was pretty certain that when I read the details that mine was unlocked. But I was not sure and so I was terrified I'd wasted my money..

So last night in the early hours, I've got this pixel 8 phone out. I did not know if the battery on my pixel 4 a was going to run down into nothing because I had no information on it. And then I started setting up this pixel 8 which happened to be a brand-new phone, but without the paraphernalia with it. I was terrified the whole way through because I wasn't sure what it was asking and I was tired and I wanted to go to sleep. And asked for me to put my SIM card in which I did and thank goodness it was unlocked.

Then I had to do all the rest of what was associated with that.
I didn't have the time to prepare the pixel 4a for the transfer, and literally prayed that WhatsApp was fully backed up and would later transfer. Fortunately, I have been efficient in setting up WhatsApp on the 4a, so it transferred effortlessly.

I now have to set up and register again with Cochlear, to pair my processor with the pixel 8 so I can program it and use it as a remote. I need all this for Tuesday....

So much more I need. I have been working the last few hours registering some of the apps again and signing in et cetera, et cetera.. and I still have a pile to do.

I had wanted to chill out today and tomorrow, so there are any tests I would have on Tuesday would be as good as possible... no chance of chilling out now.

I'm going to cook some breakfast... it might just be eggy bread... I know I shouldn't have the bread with my diabetes, but I feel like carbs at the moment.... I could eat a whole blooming loaf of crusty sourdough bread, but I've only got a little bit left....

Creative..... that's the moon the other night popped in a kaleidoscope App, and that's all you're getting.

Have your best day if you possibly can...

I wonder how many people who still have a pixel 4 a as their working phone, well wake up this morning thinking what the heck has happened to their phone...

EDIT: this is taking hours and hours logging into all my apps again,  finding the passwords, logging into accounts I have paid for, logging into tunnel and toll fees, the cochlear remote control app took me two hours to set up because it kept playing up on me and it would not go to the next step, and more and more problematic signings in because they are so much more security conscious now and I had to set up far more security. 
And I am not even halfway through and it's 2:30 p.m. I have a literally lost a whole day doing this when I needed to get ready for the pre-op on Tuesday....and I started this at midnight...

 I am going for my lunch now.... Well only into my kitchen... I want to get this done today so I have tomorrow to myself and don't anything dare disturb me tomorrow....