Arsed is right. My phone even allows pictures and webpages to be attached to each contact. Which could be useful the next time you go with the tequila, I guess. You could at least determine if the hot chick was really hot, or looks more like Jose Cuervo. Ya know, just in case you got drunk again and thought calling might be a good idea.
But who’s got time to maintain all that crap anyway. It’s just a damn telephone after all.
WTF indeed. Let’s see, how’s this for an analogy: This rant would be like me complaining to Ford that they won’t replace the content of my car’s trunk after it has been stolen. Not only that, but they don’t even know what I had in there. Fuckers!
Actually, to be more precise, I should be complaining to whoever fuels my car.
Even this is misplaced:
Hmm, I don’t know, maybe, call them from a different phone? Do you expect them to divine which calls are legit or not too? Otherwise they would be flooded by claims of stolen or lost phones to avoid paying bills.
With a list, you can use Google™ to recover the names of 60% - 80% of them (fewer if most of them were cell phones).
Just type the number into the Google™ search bar and it will come back with various pages from on-line look-up services and such that have the numbers.
Enter them in the format 248-xxx-xxxx.
I agree. I would be somewhat shocked and disturbed if I discovered that Verizon DID transmit my personal information on my phone to their servers without warning me. It had never even occurred to me that they might do that.
Also, once logging into your online verizon account there is a link to program any phone. By simply removing the battery and typing in the codes on the back of the new phone and hitting the submit button, this new phone will work.
I’ve done it a couple times with old phones after jumping into the pool with my main phone still in my shorts :smack:
Numbers stored in phone memory on SIM card. Lose phone, lose contacts. Happens all the time. Backup numbers via bluetooth or SIM copy machine. Not Verizon’s fault.
I did that for all my contacts and all I got was a bunch of people over in Michigan!
I’ll second this. When my phone was stolen, I got the incoming/outgoing calls from T-Mobile.com and then Googled the numbers I didn’t know offhand.
I’ve lost my phone several times over the years. That’s why, as others have said, you write down contact information. If the number is of any importance at all (ie FIL as opposed to Papa John’s) it gets stored in the phone, in the computer, and in the wife’s address book. Stuff like this happens to me all the time…I’ve learned to be prepared.
See, I saw the thread title and figured it was about the NSA. Then I see it’s the OP wishing Verizon did what they are basically being sued for. So now I’m confused.
With the newest OnStar they can do all that and more.
Your call records from after the phone was stolen will show the numbers called after the phone was stolen. Why not call those numbers and see if the parents or kids will fess up to who called and you can probably trace back who has the phone… or at least who made the calls that night. Whoever stole it may have ditched the phone by now, but it seems like it is worth a shot.
wankers! All of them!
It is my fault that I lost my phone.
Being that I’ve never lost keys or glasses, credit cards, ID, purse, dog or child. I am one of those annoyingly responsible types. I’m a bit peeved with myself and decided to blame Verizon because I can’t kick the crap out of the kid who found and failed to turn in my cell phone.
I’ve thought about that. Not sure if I have the courage to confront a teenager over the phone without the temptation of screaming at them like the boat scene in Tommy Boy.
A gal can dream.
I had a Nextel phone stolen a couple of years ago, put in a claim to the insurance company, and received a replacement, which came with all my stored numbers neatly transferred and ready to use. I guess I’ll have to go quietly when the security folks come to take me away.
Nah. They just found your old phone and gave it back to you.
It does suck about the phone’s loss. Might I suggest getting one of these to keep in your house as a backup? If those don’t suit you, this or this might. Here is one that fits in your purse as well. Surely writing the information down takes about the same amount of time as typing it into your phone?
I have a Samsung phone, and I downloaded this spiffy little program called EasyGPRS which allows me to backup my SIM card info onto my computer. The only problem is that my new laptop doesn’t have infrared and I don’t have a USB cable to fit my phone, so my ass is in the wind if my SIM card bites the bag or my phone gets lost. I need BlueTooth in my next phone, 'cuz I can get a USB BT adapter for the lappie for a very reasonable price.
GSM phones are better than CDMA/TDMA just because of the SIM card–I dropped my old Verizon phone and the screen got messed up, and my contact information was lost, lost, lost… with my current phone it doesn’t matter if the phone itself gets fucked, as long as I have the SIM I’m good to go.
But you know what? Fuck Verizon anyway, pack of wankers! Fuck them in every pain producing orifice they own, with a barbed wire wrapped dildo dragged backwards through an overbeshat cat box! Turd burglars…
Send me the numbers. Sounds like a good way to vent some stress.
Found? More likely it was the insurance company who stole it in the first place.