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I hate my phone
Nov. 7th, 2010 12:55 pmI hate my phone. And "hate" is such a strong word, usually reserved for things like Piers Morgan, the Microsoft paperclip and people who spell the word with an "8" in it.
But this little device has woken me up more times than I can remember. It usually does it at that stage of the night around 3am where you're in a deep sleep, most mental functions are switched off, and the only immediate solution that the brain presents for something that disturbs you is to murder it. (NB. If it turns out that this is not a phase of sleep most people experience I will make sure to contact a psychiatrist immediately.) "I suddenly find myself running out of batteries", it says to itself (in hexadecimal or Taiwanese). "So I have to alert everyone in the surrounding area. BOODLEYBOOP!"
Now that I am doing my utmost to remember and onomatopoeiaieieioificate it, I honestly cannot recall the actual noise that this device makes when it's running out of batteries. Though I've heard it so many times, it's been 99% in the dead of night, and I must have developed a mental block against bringing it out of my memory in case my brain discovers it while it's defragmenting itself at night and the memory jolts me awake. You can't ignore it, either - if you pull the covers over your head it'll just go "Nobody's coming - BOODLODOBOOPBOOP!" and drain its battery slightly further until you eventually drag yourself up, stumble over to wherever you left your trousers, find the pocket, take it out, open it (which shines a light in your face in the darkness like you've just been dragged into a van and are being interrogated by the Gestapo) and finally turn it off and return to sleep.
I've checked through all the menus - there is no way to turn this warning off. Unless the phone is on silent mode, that is - so I really should get into the habit of turning that on or turning the whole thing off before going to bed, but I've been unable to so far. I'm certain that my older phone had some sort of sense in that it wouldn't play the low battery noise if it was night time, but it may have been that I had to send that one back because the call alert broke well before the battery had a chance to decay sufficiently.
I think I might graduate to doing this eventually.
But this little device has woken me up more times than I can remember. It usually does it at that stage of the night around 3am where you're in a deep sleep, most mental functions are switched off, and the only immediate solution that the brain presents for something that disturbs you is to murder it. (NB. If it turns out that this is not a phase of sleep most people experience I will make sure to contact a psychiatrist immediately.) "I suddenly find myself running out of batteries", it says to itself (in hexadecimal or Taiwanese). "So I have to alert everyone in the surrounding area. BOODLEYBOOP!"
Now that I am doing my utmost to remember and onomatopoeiaieieioificate it, I honestly cannot recall the actual noise that this device makes when it's running out of batteries. Though I've heard it so many times, it's been 99% in the dead of night, and I must have developed a mental block against bringing it out of my memory in case my brain discovers it while it's defragmenting itself at night and the memory jolts me awake. You can't ignore it, either - if you pull the covers over your head it'll just go "Nobody's coming - BOODLODOBOOPBOOP!" and drain its battery slightly further until you eventually drag yourself up, stumble over to wherever you left your trousers, find the pocket, take it out, open it (which shines a light in your face in the darkness like you've just been dragged into a van and are being interrogated by the Gestapo) and finally turn it off and return to sleep.
I've checked through all the menus - there is no way to turn this warning off. Unless the phone is on silent mode, that is - so I really should get into the habit of turning that on or turning the whole thing off before going to bed, but I've been unable to so far. I'm certain that my older phone had some sort of sense in that it wouldn't play the low battery noise if it was night time, but it may have been that I had to send that one back because the call alert broke well before the battery had a chance to decay sufficiently.
I think I might graduate to doing this eventually.
