Like millions of others last weekend, I was like a kid at Christmas with my new iPhone. Due to my complete lack of patience, I started a new number, abandoning my previous number of several years. I'd only just stopped getting phone calls for someone named Pete! From what I could gather from my many conversations he was an electrician who worked in and around the South Yorkshire area.
So I get my new phone up and running, and I start using my email app to find I'm prompted for my email password to my Gmail account. I enter it. Nothing. I go online and try to log in from the website, and I'm informed that a verification code has been text to my old number.
Oh yeah, I set up 2 step verification.....bugger.
Not a problem, I'll just put my old sim into my new phone, and....ah....nano sim, not micro sim.
Still no problem, 6 years in the mobile industry, sim cards are easy to change. Go into the shop, buy a sim, and I'm told all it takes is a phone call to connect it. That seems reasonable, no sense in the advisor wasting their time when I can make the phone call myself. 15 minutes on hold, give them all my details, and....we can't change your sim like that. We have to send you a sim in the post, ok, I'll roll with it. Get them sim in the post, now it's time to rock and roll. Nope, I have to activate online....then wait up to 48 hours.
2 step verification....removed.
I wouldn't mind so much, but during this time, I've seen Dredd and by god do I want to blog about it!
So now I'm back in the land of the technological living, I think it goes without saying that my next post will be about Dredd.
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