Brick

So just as I was bragging and feeling awed about my phone's camera being able to capture the beautiful night sky, it decided to turn into a brick last night! Okay so I was just charging my phone and unplugged it after it's fully charged. It then went to restart on its own so I was like okay maybe it's just a normal restart. But it just stayed on its "LG" start screen and it didn't turn into the home screen.

I tried taking off the battery and putting it back again. It still did the same as before. So I was okay maybe let me just leave it without battery for hours and... It's still the same. I searched online and apparently lots of LG G4 users are experiencing this too. I saw YouTube videos and people who commented that they are experiencing the same thing, commented within this month (or May).

After doing more research online, apparently it is indeed a product glitch and LG has announced it. So it's "officially" a product defect. Damn! People in the US are experiencing it and thankfully they can get replacements by their providers. However I saw some people commenting that even though they actually have a replacement, the same thing happened to their replacement phone after a few months!

There are some temporary solutions to the problems, but not many permanent ones. Unless you send it to LG to fix it once and for all. However some people were even denied warranty because apparently the phones are not made in their own country and they don't have international warranty or something.

I feel... Really upset. I'm not upset because my phone is spoilt but I'm upset because it's less than a year old! I bought in in early October last year and now this has to happen. And the worst part is I really really love this phone. It is literally the best phone I've ever used in terms of everything. Camera, battery life, performance and so on. And I'm so sad that this has to happen. I really hope that LG can fix this issue and it won't repeat again in future phones. Because I will gladly use LG again.

But as of now, I'm feeling kind of paranoid of using LG heh. I'll use you again in the future.

Don't judge me... But I've decided to go for an iPhone mwahaha. Okay lots of reasons to why I decided to jump ship. I've been an Android fanboy all my life (although I have an iPad and iPod). But oh well at the end of the day it's just...  A phone. Let's not make a big deal out of it.

My sister is currently in Jakarta so she called me just now if I want her to help me get one. With a heavy heart, I bought it. Because this is such an unexpected unnecessary purchase. If only all of this didn't happen. Thankful to my mum who decided to help me financially as an early birthday gift haha. 

Anyway the reason why I quickly bought a new phone is.. I feel really crippled without one. Not because of social media or stuff like that - but because I can't communicate with my customers and workers! Which is very very crucial to me. Thankfully we didn't do a lot of delivery today so everything was sorted rather easily. But still, I feel very crippled heh. I've decided to get a cheap phone as an emergency backup. It was rather chaotic last night, trying all my ideas and ways to communicate.

Well I suppose everything happens for a reason. I'm kind of thankful that this happened last night, on this day, on that moment. Can you imagine if my phone decided to die when I'm stranded in the forest or something haha. Or when I was in Tibet! That would be quite devastating. And I'm thankful to backup my files on my memory card. Although I'm still trying to find ways to import my contacts to my new iPhone later. Kinda found a way and I hope it'll really work.

Sometimes I just have no luck with technology. It's kinda funny how I always try my best to stay off-grid. But this incident just kinda shows how much crippled I can get without a phone. Although yes, I'm "crippled" in a sense that I can't communicate with the people I have to communicate with. 

Okay once I got my new phone, I'll tell you why I decided to jump ship.

Technology

So earlier just now, I joined in Oh Wonder's live Q&A session. I've joined in several Q&A held by several artists and bands, and I thought it's a session where we post our questions on the comment section and they will reply us with the answers. And I was wrong! I didn't know that it's really a live session where they are actually live through a webcam, and we post our questions on the comment section, and they will read our questions and give the answers directly, LIVE! I'm so amazed really.

Oh Wonder is definitely one of the most inspiring singers and songwriters I've discovered. They have been releasing one song every month for a year now. And I've been following them since the beginning! I remembered discovering them in Soundcloud and after doing a bit of research, I found their Facebook and Instagram and the journey begins then. I am very happy for their debut album which was released 3 days ago. I'm still waiting for mine to arrive! Probably gonna take another 2 weeks.

I didn't want to miss this chance to ask them some questions I have for them. My first question was where do they get their inspiration from. Because seriously the lyrics of their songs are so awesome! And they actually read out my name and question and answered it! This is the first time in my life that a band has answered me during a Q&A session haha. Thank you so much! So I found out that they got their inspiration from traveling and meeting people. No wonder really, traveling is an awesome way to get inspiration from! And also from the things that they encountered with.

And of course I wanna see them live so bad so I asked if there's any plans to tour to Asia (in fact a few Asian fans asked them the same question) and so they said yes they have plans to tour Asia. But I asked them specifically if they are touring Southeast Asia and Josephine said "We're coming for you Southeast Asia!" oh my goodness yay!! Haha. Come to Indonesia pleassseeee.

I am pretty amazed by technology from today's Oh Wonder live Q&A session. How all of this is possible. It feels like they are in front of us, listening to our questions and answering them! And I love how the fans seem to interact with each other too. Like for example when someone asks a question, another fan will add on another comment to the answer/question. And how this fan dropped her phone in milk and another fan told her to put her phone in rice. Such awesome feels really! It feels like we are all sitting together during the session - when in fact we are all around the world.

I really love Oh Wonder more now. They are such a sweet sweet couple and well, I'm more inspired by them now. They're friendly and just simply awesome people! I really really can't wait to receive their album. I wish I live in Europe sometimes - delivery won't take this long hah.

Alright that's all for me now. Still feeling all warm and fuzzy inside realising Josephine and Anthony replied my question just now hah. Wishing you all an awesome week ahead! It's the second week of September, have a great week people! And dear Oh Wonder CD, please come quickly! :P