Phone Problems

I wouldn’t consider myself to be particularly lucky when it comes to phones. I destroyed the very first phone that I used to very small pieces (it was long back and I swear it was an experiment, sorry, I mean accident!). Lately, I have got robbed off my phone. But never before had something like this happened before (more on this in the next paragraph).

Since a few days my phone (a redmi device) kept on rebooting randomly. I read about it and found out that it was a perfectly normal thing (probably some software issue) that would be solved once I updated my firmware. Yesterday night, all of a sudden, my phone rebooted again. I expected it to be like the other random reboots, but to my surprise and disappointment, it started my initial setup for phone again.

I should have tried to restart or do something else probably, or rather stopped at that point and thought about what I was doing. But no, I had to be the expert and I had to go on with it. I went on and restored my backups and setup my device properly. Thus, I did all the hard work and restored my data from all the cloud backups that I had (honestly, just mi and google). It went smoothly, I had to spend about 4 GB of data and redownload a lot of apps and stuff, but it was smooth. Till I noticed it. Yep, these things don’t go as smooth as you think they should. Anyways, everything was restored except my notes. Mi Notes. Ya that one.

I remembered that I had turned on sync and I had in fact backed up things. I restored my recordings too from the backups right. But when I logged in and checked, there were no backups for Notes after 11 Mar. Which is really frustrating. It bummed me out for the whole night and even for a major part of today. I write a lot of stuff on notes, little ideas that I have for the blog, anything that I have to buy/get, story ideas (they all sound so well in my mind I promise) and other stuff (a bit personal too ).

So anyways, I am currently done with all the sadness and I have decided not to use the app anymore. I’ll probably use some other replacement or rather write stuff on real paper! The latter sounds pretty great to be honest. It really reminds me of The Office and particularly Michael’s advertisement.

But yeah, all the Office reference aside, I highly urge you people to create backups (both cloud and local) of all the data on your devices and test with restoring them from time to time. That’s all I had to say, anyways, I’m still working on the simulation a bit and I’ll write a nice article when it’s all done.