Shortly after day one, I learned how to send an individual snap from the new phone to gmail. Not quite the same as synchronising, but it was a start. The snap in question being the position at the end of my striking victory at Scrabble over BH yesterday afternoon, in large part because of my masterful placing of 'Quivers', scoring both the double letter for the 'Q' and the bonus of 50 for using all seven tiles. I would have won without out the 87, but by a much smaller margin. As it is, I am only a touch uneasy about 'canny', bottom right, not challenged at the time, but at least it is present in Webster's, so it might well be all present, correct and untainted in OED.
Today, I have been getting better acquainted with the new phone - and the manual. Which like many manuals, gets a fair bit of the detail wrong. Just too expensive to update it every time something changes.
There was a large wasp in the study this morning, something over an inch long. But his (or her) snaps did not turn out very well using default settings, so maybe I need to work out the meaning of the line-up of three lenses on the back of the new phone. The wasp is presently missing.
Curiously, while the wasps have not turned up in OneDrive, at least some snaps still seem to be moving between the old phone (the one with no SIM card) and OneDrive. Maybe the light will dawn.
Discovered Samsung Notes, comparable to Microsoft's OneNote, which I used a fair bit, albeit in a fairly simple minded way, without ever having got to the bottom of its filing arrangements. Samsung rather simpler, which might suit me better.
I shared my Windows calendar with my new gmail account, which has made it visible on the new phone. But in Outlook in gmail, rather than in the new Samsung calendar, which is not the same thing at all. I also find that I can print my Windows calendar to a pdf file, albeit only a month at a time, which will help if I am reduced to moving it by hand.
Along the way, finding that I can still send email from the old phone to the new gmail account, even though the old phone no longer has a SIM card.
I created an appointment on the new phone.
I created a few contacts on the new phone.
I found my old phone contacts on my laptop. Can't see a way to get them across, but it will be much easier to copy them to the new phone from there than from the old phone. So I started copying them. And a short while later they turned up in the new gmail account too.
I think I have worked out how to turn the sound off and on, useful, inter alia, when one is at the theatre or seeing the doctor.
Quite by chance, at the end of the day, I was prompted to complete installation of the new phone. Maybe I have sorted out the muddle with the Samsung account - having forgotten that I already had one of these for the new television. Maybe synchronisation of snaps on the new phone with OneDrive will now spring into life. I have just taken three snaps of a bottle of water, and we will see what we have on OneDrive in the morning.
Along the way I have been asked to give all kinds of permissions. One which I refused, was Microsoft Outlook asking for more or less full rights over my regular gmail account. This seemed a bit rich, with my feeling a bit uneasy about all these permissions as it is. I am also getting the impression that the new phone is going to be more intrusive than the old one, more into telling me stuff the whole time, more into trying to sell me stuff the whole time.
Getting there. Hopefully it will all be up and running by the end of the week, without having had any serious accidents on the way. Hopefully I will never have to go through all this palaver again.
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