Grandpa Richard Speaks

I own a Samsung Galaxy S smart phone. I love it. I use it as a phone, text messenger, email send/receive, web surfing, photo and video display, alarm, calendar, and more.

I do a little photo and video work on the side, and have used my phone to show potential clients samples of my work.

Sadly, my ability to surf the web stopped working last Friday. I checked and discovered that my bill was a bit overdue. Seemed strange though that all the other features still worked. So, I paid the bill.

Now it is Wednesday, and it was still not working. I phoned support and got a really friendly lady on the phone. She checked my account and all was proper. Bill paid, and no bad marks. She suggested a battery reset, which involved taking the battery out of the phone for a minute.

OK. A hard reset.

Hmmmmm.

I’m a computer guy. I understand hard resets.

My brain starts pondering life, and asks me a question.

“When was the last time my phone was turned off?”

The answer came back, “About 2 weeks ago.”

Ever heard me preach about how you should not leave a home computer running constantly? Smart phones have small computers in them.

Duh!