Now I'm confused.. the good thing is I fixed my old phone. The weird thing is the Rogers data plan.
What had happened was that the old Nexus 5 had started bootlooping. I tried all types of basic things to fix it but nothing helped. Eventually I replaced the battery. No dice.
Given that I was about to start a new job in IT anyway and one of the first placements they found for me was well paying I really couldn't be without a phone. The day I started was when the Nexus died. And they kept telling me get a better phone. By which they meant my call quality over Google voice sucked and not necessarily that I needed a super duped nice phone. And that I needed to be able to keep LTE data on at all times to get calls on Google voice. That's impossible to do on a 100MBs data plan. Unfortunately the pay for the longer term contract isn't great, effectively minimum wage, so actually getting a new phone wasn't in my budget regardless. Also I didn't have data and was beating my head against Public Mobile for a reasonable plan. And then for them to send me a SIM was another shitshow.
That plan is 90 days, 6GBs. 84$. It would be up to me to ration that 6GBs out over a quarter. Not unreasonable but 2GBs isn't much. 60 megabytes per day. Without WiFi at work, it just doesn't work. Until I could get on with PMI's mobile network though, as I needed a SIM and to sign up, I tried Rogers. The agent screwed up and so I got the connection fee wave. They have an interesting offer in their Flex Rate Plans. Since I was looking at a new phone and a job where I didn't know if I'd have access to wifi (I don't). Rogers claimed that the first data tier would be 10$. 100MB per month. Which would barely enough to use Google voice. It would have to work though because I don't wanna pay 60+ a month just for data.
But to do that I needed a phone. I ordered the SIM.
Then ordered a Nexus 6P. But it wasn't shippable to Montreal. So I had to travel into the US to pick it up. No problem other than the 85$ duty. It was a good drive.
So when I picked up the phone and plugged the Rogers SIM. Thankfully I'd already learned a lesson about loading up all my apps on a new phone and shut off everything until I could get back to WiFi.
Through that month I tried not using data. At least staying in that 100MB 10$ bucket. I did 102MB. Didn't get charged extra.. Suspicious..
So the next month I expected to be on Public Mobile.. Expect they are even worse than before. I had the phone already so I ordered the SIM from PMI and told them to clear my profile with them so I could sign up again.
16 days later. No SIM. And I couldn't create an account. Their support website is essentially a public internet forum so getting help is awful. But that was Canada day weekend so I wasnt expecting support anyway. Eventually got another SIM, the next day, and got connected.
Two SIMs, One phone. Due to it being the middle of the month with Rogers I was like wtv.. Lets see what normal usage would be with them without going crazy. That would have been harder to do given I'd got attached to a couple of livestreamers on Bigo Live and there's the Duolingo.. And you know people live on their phones. 100MB is nothing. The next tier up is an outrageous 30$ for 500MB. Which is again nothing. Getting up towards 3GB for 45$ seems pretty much standard if it came with a standard calling phone plan.. Not just data :(
I didn't figure if stick with Rogers anyway.
After that second month I'm not sure.
Still 10$ but I'd used over 1GB of data..
And then a couple of days ago.. I literally breathed new life into the Nexus 5. I plugged it in and got the red blinking light saying the battery was flat. Good. Then it went back to bootlooping. Fack. Apparently the bootlooping was being caused by a stuck power button. So even though I'd played with it for weeks even opened it a few times.. It just needed the old Nintendo game cartridge fix and a few frantic smashes on the power button.
Two SIMs, Two phones.
Except the flippin SIMs are nano. I don't recall that being a problem before but it has been months without the use of the Nexus.
So I'm like fuck it. I made an Adapter out of paper and tape so that the Rogers nano SIM would fit in the micro SIM tray.
It half worked. It worked in that the phone recognized something was in the tray from Rogers but it couldn't register on their LTE network.
In like wtv. The pop out micro SIM adapter from either Rogers or Public Mobile was probably still at home somewhere.
I left it in the phone in its papercraft adapter diaper. A little later on the phone started showing notifications. I'm like dafuq.
It still said no service but was on 3G. I was able to download Bigo Live and watch a livestreamer. But suddenly the 3G stopped.
Weird.
Got a real micro SIM adapter and got it onto LTE. Checked the usage. Rogers says 126 MBs but the phone says 140. Wondering if connecting to the 3G was not detected.
Still the thing is what they will bill me.
Not that I want 2 phones on two plans, its still cheaper than one phone on a contract because they are both on Google Voice. Actually that means both will ring in the hypothetical situation that I would get a phone call. People are telling me to sell one.
Right.. But which one? Having not used the Nexus 5 for month, coming back to it feels like working with a toy. The OS is junk, the performance is junk, it runs hot.. Its a backup phone at best.
Sell the 6P? Hell no!
One of the Bigo livestreamers broke her phone recently and as usual I'm like lemme replace it bruv.. She's like no. I'm like ok I fixed my old phone.. You want it.. She's like no.
I mean it isn't a great phone but.. Free is free.. Sigh.