Canadutch
Today I went to get a remote for my new phone so that I could use normal headphones, the ones that came with it are garbage. It’s not like a remote you use for the TV but a thing that plugs into the phone that you can plug your headphones into and it has all the buttons you need for answering a call, playing music and stuff. Handy for when the phone is in my bag and I want to answer a call or something like that.
Got it home, set it all up… damn thing didn’t work. I called customer support for the place I bought it and they told me to take it back to the shop to have them look at it.
Got to the shop, the guy checked a bunch of things, tried using it on his phone (he has the same kind, guy obviously has great taste) and it didn’t work.
$&$@&!!!@
Then suddenly he says OH, look! I figured it out!!
Turns out there’s a button (see the bottom one in the side on the pic) that says ‘HOLD’ and when you move it, it locks all the buttons on the remote. He giggled a little and I could tell he didn’t want to appear to be making fun of me. Unlike my husband who started laughing and yelling RTFM NEWB!!! HAHAHA (for those of you who aren’t massive geeks like he is, RTFM means Read The Fucking Manual)
Uhhh, yeah… HOLD? What does hold tell you on a device for a phone? It means HOLD, like… hey hold on Brad Pitt is on the other line…. hold. Why on earth would I think the hold button means LOCK.
RTFM my ass. He didn’t figure it out, the guy on the phone didn’t know and the guy at the shop took about 15 minutes to figure it out. I refused to be embarrassed about this.
Hrmph.
Hi Canadutch!
We are moving to Holland this summer from the Michigan. I read from one of your posts that you’re a gadget person, and I hope that I can pick your brain a little.
What electronic items are must brings from North America items? I understand that things are really expensive there. I’m understand about PAL. What do you think about one of those multisystem TV. We’ll be there for 3 years. We have a Slingbox and are considering Sky Satellite. You wrote about various US TV shows do you get them on Dutch cable? I use Vonage Voip service have you used Voip through the NL broadband ISP systems. How does it work?
Thanks in advance for your shares.
Muchas Gracias (Thank a LOT!)
Aldo
I agree Monica, it should be marked more clearly.
Now that I’m using the thing I love it, so I guess I’ll forgive them.
No, no, if they can’t make it more intuitive and user friendly than that THEY’RE THE NOOBS! You only assumed it would be logical and sensible.
LOL!! That’s love right there.
Omg.. proof!! Do you SEE the abuse I put up with?! :P
You’re still a noob. If you can’t work the technology, you shouldn’t be allowed to have it. The remote has 9 (nine) buttons in total, 8 (eight) press buttons and 1 (one) sliding button. How many different combos can you make with those, considering most of them are mutually exclusive? :P
Next time you need something from the top shelf, lern2stepladder :) Oh and the rubbish needs to be taken out, too. Kthx.
Of course it is, it’s in the contract! Right under the part where it says that they must reach the stuff on the top shelf. :P
LOL yeah probably. and yeah, it’s perfectly ok for wives to blame husbands, even if they were nowhere near the problem. LOL
I know, right? I mean you’d think they’d know that this button locks the remote and if I call up and say ‘hey none of the buttons work’ they’d know to say ‘did you unlock it using the HOLD button?’
Retards.
In all fairness to hubby though, he’d just woken up from a nap and didn’t even look at it so he had no chance to figure it out. I still blame him though, because I’m a wife and that’s what we do! If he’d checked it out he probably would have figured it out!
You shouldn’t be. That’s the lamest thing in the world. Everyone should have asked you if that button was set first. That’s like asking “did you plug it in?” and should be like the first question they asked you.
Don’t be embarrassed, instead be frustrated that they didn’t know it already!