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After 4 months with the 6Plus, is anyone else bored?
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I'm so so sorry, you're so unfortunate, you poor soul. Get a hobby.
Being bored of a cellphone, god that sounds tortuous. How about being bored of being homeless or hungry or poor?
I remember you from previous discussions on the problems posed by the phone having only 1GB of Ram. Reading your post back a few pages ago I see that you have an almost identical usage pattern on the browser as I do. Apparently we both like to research and comparison shop. I agree with your frustrations with the browsing experience.
However I'm wondering if you have something else going wrong with your phone to cause your other complaints. I have the exact same model and spec IPhone 6 Plus as my husband does. Right down to the color and carrier. I have had problems similar to ones you've described in various posts. Even sometimes I get random sudden battery drains. My husband watches movies and plays games and generally does what I do on my phone plus extra things I don't bother with that pertain to his work, yet he never has any of the weird random glitches, freezes, lag I have had. They are random, meaning I can't reproduce them in order to track them down and fix them.
I did a few weeks ago purge out all apps I use rarely. I purged all apps that were no longer being supported with timely updates. The phone runs much smoother now, even though it shouldn't matter if I never used any of those programs and just had them sitting there--right? Oh well, whatever, I did notice improvement. I do still sometimes experience rapid draining of the battery. My husband never has.
I have gotten to the point I just don't care to track down the cause of the battery drainage or other oddities and I just shut down everything and reboot and charge it and just go on with life. With my AT&T plan I will upgrade just because I can do so painlessly and I do want a better experience similar to that my husband enjoys. Unlike you I don't hate my current phone. I like it quite well, but I do think there's something wonky about it. If the next phone is the same way then I'm going to have to really sit down and ferret out what I do differently to cause such strangeness (compared to my husband's phone). His phone works smoothly and it is his favorite phone yet.
I'm sorry you're not enjoying your phone and feel stuck. I've enjoyed and sympathized with your posts but I do think you and I do something or have something on our phones that tax them in ways other people do not experience with their Pluses.
Or maybe it's wrackspurts and nargles. In that case we need to sacrifice a circa 1985 pocket calculator to the gadget gods under the light of a crescent moon.PS. I Did think of something huge my husband and I do differently with our phones. He reads articles and shops on EBay and Amazon and other vendors using Apps. I use their websites. I wonder if by doing my research, shopping and browsing via web, if I am subjecting myself to code from ads doing something to slow or freeze my phone. I do sometimes get my browser hijacked by pop ups taking me to the App Store.
I remember you from previous discussions on the problems posed by the phone having only 1GB of Ram. Reading your post back a few pages ago I see that you have an almost identical usage pattern on the browser as I do. Apparently we both like to research and comparison shop. I agree with your frustrations with the browsing experience.
However I'm wondering if you have something else going wrong with your phone to cause your other complaints. I have the exact same model and spec IPhone 6 Plus as my husband does. Right down to the color and carrier. I have had problems similar to ones you've described in various posts. Even sometimes I get random sudden battery drains. My husband watches movies and plays games and generally does what I do on my phone plus extra things I don't bother with that pertain to his work, yet he never has any of the weird random glitches, freezes, lag I have had. They are random, meaning I can't reproduce them in order to track them down and fix them.
I did a few weeks ago purge out all apps I use rarely. I purged all apps that were no longer being supported with timely updates. The phone runs much smoother now, even though it shouldn't matter if I never used any of those programs and just had them sitting there--right? Oh well, whatever, I did notice improvement. I do still sometimes experience rapid draining of the battery. My husband never has.
I have gotten to the point I just don't care to track down the cause of the battery drainage or other oddities and I just shut down everything and reboot and charge it and just go on with life. With my AT&T plan I will upgrade just because I can do so painlessly and I do want a better experience similar to that my husband enjoys. Unlike you I don't hate my current phone. I like it quite well, but I do think there's something wonky about it. If the next phone is the same way then I'm going to have to really sit down and ferret out what I do differently to cause such strangeness (compared to my husband's phone). His phone works smoothly and it is his favorite phone yet.
I'm sorry you're not enjoying your phone and feel stuck. I've enjoyed and sympathized with your posts but I do think you and I do something or have something on our phones that tax them in ways other people do not experience with their Pluses.
PS. I Did think of something huge my husband and I do differently with our phones. He reads articles and shops on EBay and Amazon and other vendors using Apps. I use their websites. I wonder if by doing my research, shopping and browsing via web, if I am subjecting myself to code from ads doing something to slow or freeze my phone. I do sometimes get my browser hijacked by pop ups taking me to the App Store.
Thanks for taking the time to post. I too notice the intermittent heavy battery drain and can see no reason for it. I will take your advice and purge some apps that I never use - there are quite a few of them.
people bored with phones probably don't have enough fun things that theyre doing in life.
phones are tools.
saying youre bored with your phone is like a carpenter saying i'm bored with my hammer....maybe if you go out there and build stuff, the hammer wont be so boring cause youll be using it, doing fun stuff with it.
phones are tools.
saying youre bored with your phone is like a carpenter saying i'm bored with my hammer....maybe if you go out there and build stuff, the hammer wont be so boring cause youll be using it, doing fun stuff with it.
I trust you've been driving the same car for the past 10 years, you're in the same job and you eat the same food for dinner every day?
sticking with the analogy...
If I was a carpenter and found a better hammer than one im using right now... then of course I would get the better hammer. But it's a bit silly isnt it, for a carpenter to sit around twiddling their thumbs and look at their hammer thinking it's boring.
A smartphone is a tool, granted, but if your tool is bugging you then your work isn't quite so good. Maybe you cut corners, maybe you finish it as quickly as you can, and perhaps you plain hate doing the job because your tools suck...
True for the native iPhone Mail app. But, this functionality can be easily emulated using the free Outlook app. It lets you "attach" any file from a storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive. Just store the file in one of those services first (can be done from the iPhone) and "attach" it to the Outlook email. Outlook creates a direct-download link in the email for immediate access by the recipient.
To confirm, I stored a Windows executable file in my Dropbox account (which Gmail doesn't let you email at all!) and then used Outlook on my iPhone to "attach" and email it to my wife's Gmail account. After receiving the email, she was then able to click the attachment link and immediately download the executable file without either of us being signed into Dropbox, and without Gmail blocking it.
So yes, iPhones do have the ability to send any file by email, even normally "banned" files, in that the receiver of the email can get the file immediately.
So it's not really attaching, just linking to an attachment that is somewhere else.
Actually, I'd argue the opposite. I'd say this person enjoys the journey more then the car he/she is driving. He/she looks at the scenery, and in this case enjoys the content readily available to him/her. The phone does what he/she needs, and that's good enough. Life is about doing and seeing. Technology exists for us, we don't exist for technology.
I agree about tools etc but that doesn't stop someone from becoming bored or frustrated with an operating system, its limitations and poor hardware specs etc. if iPhones are just a tool then why do people upgrade? Why aren't we all walking around with an iPhone 4? You can still use apps, access the internet and make calls etc. The perfect tool!
Use Documents 5 as a file depository and Cloud Magic for the mail app. You can attach any file from the Documents app.
You sound like the type of person that will never be happy no matter the product.
You never explained what you "can't" do with it......
Yes, that's why I said "emulating" and not "attaching".
Anyway, the end result is the same: the recipient gets an email with a link to download a file. Both methods require clicking said link to download the attachment, so functionally they're equal (aside from the fact that the Outlook method allows mailing of "banned" files, which actually makes it superior to native attachments).
I have flipped phones more than most of you folks over the years. It is not boredom, new tech and design happen frequently especially with android devices.
Of course there is the issue of dollars spent but if you just be patient good deals do come about, even with iPhones. I do not necessarily have to have a new device, preowned is fine.
Of course there is the issue of dollars spent but if you just be patient good deals do come about, even with iPhones. I do not necessarily have to have a new device, preowned is fine.
Yes, that's why I said "emulating" and not "attaching".
Anyway, the end result is the same: the recipient gets an email with a link to download a file. Both methods require clicking said link to download the attachment, so functionally they're equal (aside from the fact that the Outlook method allows mailing of "banned" files, which actually makes it superior to native attachments).
Well, it's not the same end result actually. In one case the attachment is downloaded as part of the email and is there as part of it in the future. In the other case either initially or later you need to separately go somewhere else to access it and explicitly save it if you want to have a local copy for future use.
"Apple: It just works."
You do realize that campaign was meant for Macs as opposed to how Windows "didn't work" at a time.
You do realize that campaign was meant for Macs as opposed to how Windows "didn't work" at a time.
People say it all the time, still.
Well, when it actually does just work.
You do realize that campaign was meant for Macs as opposed to how Windows "didn't work" at a time.
And now it's darn near the opposite. At least in the Yosemite world.
"Apple: It just works."
Actually at what it does, it does it very well, so yeah, it just works