iPhone Angst

Well, this isn’t exactly where I expected to be. I’m at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, rather than much farther down the coast. As I was driving along this morning, my iPhone completely died. Yesterday I’d noticed it doing this a couple of times — it would suddenly “fuzz out” with green video artifacts over the whole display, and then freeze completely. Sometimes it’d suddenly come back, sometimes not. Sometimes it would just plain freeze, hard; usually this happened when I tried to enter my passcode, but sometimes in other applications, too.

I’m a bit worried, because it sure “smells” like a hardware problem, not a software problem…I’ve just finished restoring the iPhone’s software via iTunes, which means I lost the few photos I took this morning and any text messages I received since the last backup (which iTunes helpfully tells me was Tuesday evening). The issue is that, since the phone appears to be working at the moment, I highly suspect they’re not going to be able to do anything for me unless it decides to freak out right here and right now. I’m a bit worried it’s going to appear to work, then die completely anywhere from a few hours to a few days from now.

Summary: Don’t be surprised if suddenly I vanish from the Internet and cell-phone network completely. Sigh. It’s going to be touch-and-go from here.

(And, yes, I can have an absolutely wonderful trip without my gadgets, too…it’s not the gadget aspect of things that I’d miss — it’s the communications with my friends, who matter a great deal to me. Still, I’m going to have a good time no matter what happens.)


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  1. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Hey, Palo Alto is practically a road trip. When I was interviewing there it took me at least 2.5 hours to get there. Then again it did involve some convoluted public transit, so what do you expect.

    Good luck with your phone, though. It sounds like you have (maybe) as much luck as I do when it comes to technology. I swear, everything I touch I break. Crap! You didn’t let me touch your phone did you? ;)

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