IT’S VERY UNCOMFORTABLE!

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Hello 👋! to Hivers in Rant,complain and talk community. I hope you are all doing fine.
Before I proceed, I’ll like to say that there’s no motivational words here, no encouraging phrases, just in case you’re looking for one, so you won’t feel disappointed.🌝
It’s full of complains…

This is my first post in this community; I didn’t imagined it to be about something as small, simple, silly and important as handset.
Yes? I call it ‘handset’because it’s no longer a smartphone.
To what use is a phone that is typing on its own, charge very slowly but seems to run down more quickly, if you’re using power bank you need to stand bent and raise one leg up before it’ll charge,drinks data like sharks; two weeks data plan will get finished in three days.

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Wait,is there anyone in the house ?having the same issues or am I just the only one?

You’re not even allowed to use borrowed airtime for calls, so what did I borrowed it for? just for flashing?

Yes, I have been using this phone for about four good years now but shoo?! Will it be a crime if I use one phone for six years?
Cos like this a new phone is not even in my 2023 budget!
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Sometimes I prefer using my phone to laptop especially when it comes to socials, mainly because I’m the king of girl that wakes up to write whatever is in her head. I don’t have a particular time for writing, it comes at anytime–the main reason why my phone should behave!!!

I didn’t even notice all these until last week when I ran out of cash, my ATM is expired, I’ve been to the bank thrice, no network. The crowd there reminds me the latest economic issue Nigeria is facing. Cashless policy. As in, you have money but you’re broke because you don’t have cash, lol. You can’t shop comfortably.
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As I said earlier, I didn’t know my phone is this data consuming maybe because my subscription was always on auto renewal.

Now,all these were bearable until last night. Aiit, see what happened.

I first went to settings and turned off data for all the apps in my phone except Chrome and WhatsApp . I then subscribed for three days data plan. I really hoped to use it for that three days but after replying to few chats on WhatsApp , I got a message from MTN,notifying that I don’t have any active data left, I couldn’t believe my eyes .3-day plan gone in 20min!
I became very angry and sent MTN a message.🥺

My cousin opened my phone this morning and was shocked to see the unsent message,she couldn’t help it; she burst out laughing hysterically. She was laughing so hard that everybody at home were eager to see this message, and they had their own kg of laughing gas tank.
I laughed too because I wrote that message out of frustration, normally I don’t use cuss words.

But on a very serious note, I told them, smart phone is meant for browsing, calls, chatting, etc.It was meant to ease the boredom at home where you’re not allowed to go out. So it pissed me off whenever it’s misbehaving.

Anyways, you’ll only understand if you’ve had issues with your phone before.

And I think I am really complaining because I’m experiencing it for the first time.

Thanks if you’ve read to this point, I was really here to rant and complain 😌.



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One of the things you could and should do is to reset your phones data usage statistics on the beginning day of next month, April, and then see how long the data lasts. Once you get the notification that it’s used up, go into the usage statistics and see which app is using the most. From there you can tweak the settings in the app to use less data for example turn off microphone access, location access and other things for the different apps if it makes sense. Fakebook usually requests access to the microphone which makes no sense because you’re not talking to it. They monitor conversations and sell the data to advertisers but that means it’s consuming a lot of data.

You should also turn off background app refresh on some of the apps and that should help too!

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I value the help you’ve given me, it means a lot to me.
Thank you!

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