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What I really need to do is find out how to hack the bloody phone. . It only has a jm2e environment for java apps. No fancy stuff. I know it's a firmware glitch, I just don't know how to rectify it. .
Still looking for another phone though. It's hard to choose a phone when all the ID10T behind the counter will show you is a plastic mockup of a phone that costs almost as much as a car. .

Of course, I've used the factory reset before. But that doesn't update the firmware. That's what It needs but LG stopped issuing firmware updates the day after they stopped making these things. .

What bugs me about mobile phone sales in South Africa is this tendency to try and coerce the customer into buying and overpriced yuppie toy. There is no option to test drive the device before purchase and no after sales support. Most of the 'must have' features are redundant for me and don't make any sense anyway. For example, why would you need a built in FM reciever in a phone? Any decent phone is capable of audio streaming and most decent FM radio stations have a media streaming site. The same thing holds for built in tv reciever phones. Video streaming is way more usefull. My current phone has two memo pads, a calender, a to do list and a host of other features that I don't use. The features, such as video streaming, that are supposedly supported by my phone, are not compatible with South African networks as they only support thier own custom video streaming via the vlive proxy. (for Vodacom, aka vodafone.)
Thus, in order to recieve video streams, you need a vodafone handset. Vodacom's customer support is worse than pathetic. Thier staff don't even know what an apn is. Now I don't expect the ordinary man (or woman) in the street to know that, but if it's your job to give technicall support to people that use a device that requires an apn, surely you should at least know what one is?
Yeah, I realise that I'm ranting, but it's frustrating to know the potentiall of current technology just to be blocked by corporate bureaucracy. .
They argue that they are merely selling what the customer wants. But I am the customer. I know what I want and it's not the load of BS that they're trying to cram down my throat! . The average customer would want much the same things that I want if it was marketed to them. But as the saying goes, "Ignorance is bliss but it's folly to be wise!"
So in the words of Charlie Brown, "Aaaargh!":

To wake up at 4am?

Alarm clocks and I don't get along. They are unreliable. Besides, this is just a wierd new trick that my phone has learnt. It still does what it's meant to do, it just seems to have learn't that I only use it to Blog with. .
I didn't know that mobiles were capable of learning by themselves now.
Wait, . Maybe that's why LG discontinued this model! . I hope my phone doesn't pull a Steven King on me! .

I'm thinking about the murderous car. (I can't seem to remember her name? ).
Yes, that shop does have some interesting goods. .
His best book though, has got to be, "Through The Eyes Of The Dragon"

You don't happen to have copy to send to of do ya?
Not many bookshops in the middle of a sugarcane field.

You don't know what a small town is yet. .
When your next door neighbour is a sugarcane field then you live in a small town.

It's an autumn/winter harvest. But send you address and remind me next year.