Losing your mobile phone - dud or totally dud?

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So I've lost my phone. I've got places to go and people to meet today and the logistics without a phone are staggeringly horrible. I can't contact people to let them know my new number if they don't have email. I can't call them because I don't have their number because it's in my phone which I don't have any more. Also, I had some nice text messages saved which I liked reading to cheer me up and make me feel better. All gone :(

Relate your tales of mobile grief here, please.

(And, more importantly to me, email me your number please if you're someone I text/phone from time to time and you don't want me to stop doing so - hahaha, way to find out who my friends are!). I shall, of course, text you or email you back with my new number)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 4 March 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

(on the plus side, I have a shiny new phone)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 4 March 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

mobile woe? well, upgrading my mac to 10.4 in order to get my shiny new L6 to sync properly is one of the worst things i've ever done.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

i struggle to comprehend why there isn't a service with which you can back up your sim card in case of incidents much like this. if this happened to me essentially i'd have to start my life over again; shivering as i exit the womb, struggling through birth gunk, looking for just one friend.

― [apal maple, Saturday, 4 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I have never lost my cellphone, only dropped it in the loo once. Actually it just bounced against the wall or something and then into the loo. Pretty funny.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 4 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

some mobile shop chain was doing a sim backup service i think, can't remember which tho

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Saturday, 4 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think most phone shops will do this now, but I seem to remember it being the Carphone Warehouse.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 4 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

orange do it, i think. i've got my address book synced across a phone and two computers: i'm that paranoid ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 4 March 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

i struggle to comprehend why there isn't a service with which you can back up your sim card in case of incidents much like this

Me and Onimo were discussing this yesterday. We agreed there is a service for retaining your numbers. It's called a pen and paper.

(Madchen, Ally C, Aldo, you don't have to tell me your numbers because I have them written down elsewhere)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 5 March 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

SIM backup devices are quite cheap, a quick google produces this one and I'm sure you can get them cheaper than this.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 5 March 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

And yeah, the Orange shop does it for free. Don't know about other companies.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 5 March 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

It has happened to me twice, and SIM backups didn´t work yet first time around, about 2 years and a half ago. A friend gave some sort of zen advice: "It would be sane that this happened to you every two / three years as people whose numbers you won´t remember or recover by any other means, or who will contact you anyway should be out of your life by now"

― olenska (olenska), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Hey! I lost that shiny new phone I mentioned upthread! Two phones in a month! I am teh stupid (or teh drunk)est person in the world!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

You're the worst phone owner ever tbh.

I was sending crap jokes to whoever found/stole your phone yesterday morning.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 7 April 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm.. my niece has little pacifier clips to attach her pacifier to her shirt. Maybe you could get a phone clip that does the same thing?? ;-)
My friend's phone died yesterday, and T-Mobile was giving him a run around over a loaner phone while he waits for the replacement one he ordered to arrive. So I just let him borrow my ANCIENT nokia 5190. I had forgotten how brick like it was until he arrived an hour ago & we pulled it out of my kitchen drawer.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 8 April 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

No-one's using my phone, I checked my on-line account thingie, and there haven't been any calls made on it since I lost it. So your crap jokes will be going to waste.

My mum suggested a belt clip/neck chain etc. I suggest not getting stupid mad drunk and jumping about hugging people in the street after the football.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 8 April 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, do not do cartwheels in the street with cellphone in pocket. Or duct tape your pockets shut first.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

your a loser call me i am to

― delona francespot, Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

this is the best phone evah!

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularScience/7-1964/med_video_phone.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing that the horror of waking up the next morning and realising that you left your phone on a table in the pub is nothing compared to the horror of waking up and remembering that you dumped it in a hedge a mile from home because it was too bloody heavy.

Anyway, my favourite mobile story involves a friend who fell in a hole on the way home and lost his phone up a pipe.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Sunday, 16 April 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm on my third phone in just over a month now. All bets are off as to how long before I lose this one. (Same number as before, people who know me).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 16 April 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh ails! ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 16 April 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa, you make me feel a lot better about losing my stupid phone only once.

― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 16 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

In case this isn't clear, I've only lost it twice. Old phone, lost it. Got a new phone, lost it. Now on the third phone. I'm not intending losing this one. I am now stupid mad paranoid that I'm going to though. I think I patted my pocket about 800 times at the football this afternoon just to make sure.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 16 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

I'm sure I had it yesterday afternoon. I'm almost positive it is either in the apartment or car. But it is HIDING.

― Oilyrags, Monday, 28 July 2008 13:58 (sixteen years ago)

I still have the phone I got to replace the ones I lost. I am quite proud of this.

― ailsa, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago)

Found a neighbor who was home/awake and she called it. It was in the car, under some fast food wrappers. Now I owe her big time.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago)

And my phone smells like old french fry grease.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago)

My brother lost his phone at the Glade festival the weekend before last. Along with an assortment of recreational materials, silly boy. So now I can only contact him via his mate because our parents (who he lives with when not at uni) are on holiday and he's never home. Bit of a hassle. Supposed to be playing football with him tonight, but my battery has gone because I forgot to charge last night. *sigh*

― Chris in Belfast, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago)

you know, if you lose your sellphone you can buy a new one.

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago)

"sellphone" goes in my list of phonetic typos

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:05 (sixteen years ago)

life's lessons I have learned

if lose phone, ring phone soon before battery goes.

― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:17 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

I managed to hang onto that one for over three years! So, er, aye, I lost it again at the weekend.

I just got my new phone, and I have kept the same number. However, I don't have everyone's numbers. I've got a few of the ones I use most frequently written down, and I've snaffled a few off facebook. This is just advance warning that some people might text me and I'll have to text you back to ask who you are.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago)

I have yet to lose one. Hopefully I won't cause I would hate to replace my iphone. hah.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

Even though I've lived in the Bay Area for 6 years, I took a GoCar ride with the girlfriend this weekend for her birthday - you know, those yellow go-karts that lead you around San Francisco with a guided tour. At some point I took a sharp turn and my iphone fell out of my jacket pocket. Later when I realized that I lost it, we retraced our route and I eventually ran over my own iPhone at the entrance to Fort Mason. It had probably been run over by several other cars, but the screen is smashed to bits now. Options are:

1) Use my friend's first gen iphone that he since replaced. I'll have to jailbreak it.
2) Buy a new one for $400 (I only had mine for 3 months and don't qualify for the subsidized price again yet)
3) Buy a $30 Nokia cheapo on Craigslist.

― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

4) buy a time machine and go back and insure it (or put it in a safer pocket)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, it's deadeasy losing your iphone. I lost mine but thankfully just fell out of my pockt in the living room.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

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