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[fredericks]

I'm back from Boston. The Con was great and I cannot wait to go back next year. I am going to write it up soon.

BUT. I just needed to vent because I stupidly ran my smartphone through an entire spin cycle in my washer. ENTIRE SPIN CYCLE. FUCK FUCKITY FUCK.

Contacts, Kindle books, texts? gone. Phone? gone. Lots of cash that will be needed to pay for a new phone? soon to be gone.

FUCK.

eta - My brother said "stick it in rice!", so my phone and battery are currently resting in a small pot of Carolina Brown. Hopefully I'll remember to take it out before I get the urge to carb up and put the rice on to boil.

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[anogete.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember you had an Android phone. That or I've gotten my wires switched, and you can call me an idiot. Anyway, if you had an Android phone and you had your Gmail account set up on it, then all your contacts are saved in Gmail. When you get the new phone, they will automatically load back when when you input your Gmail address. Like magic. I have a phone nerd friend who talked me through hacking my Motorola Droid and I wiped the phone clean. All my contacts came back when I logged into Gmail. Also, all my downloaded apps returned when I went into the market and looked at everything my Gmail account had downloaded. It just had to download everything again, but it had a record saved. Your Kindle books should work the same way.

If you didn't have an Android phone, then oops, my bad.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

I do have a Droid. I keep forgetting about the gmail thing! Thanks for that. When I called Verizon, though, they told me the Kindle books were a lost cause. :( I guess I'll have to see when I get the new phone.

Thanks!