It's dead as a dodo.
Got new phone. Now I could write a few pages about buying the darn phone. Like them not having the phone I wanted (none in stock anywhere in the company), but offering me another, going through endless options, then realising that that phone was out of stock at that particular branch. But there's another branch across the road, they have them.
So I pop over, and guess what they have the phone that's not in stock anywhere. Go through the deal again, go to set it up, but they can't do it, cos like a lot of folks I don't know my bank account no. So I'm wasting a lot of time and getting pissed off, and I need a phone like now.
But then they tell me there is a pay as you go on offer on the phone I want. It turns out to be, as far as I am concerned the best deal I've been offered. So I got a Samsung S4 mini for 144 quid. That includes the vodaphone sim card with the 20 quid top up that I may never use. Popped my orange 3G sim in and away I go.
To set it all up and recover data from my old phone they wanted 15 quid, but if I sign up for 7.99 a month and I can cancel after the first payment. Well that shit pisses me off. So I stuck the sim card in in the shop, booted it up and off I went.
Now tearing my hair out getting it set up the way I want, but getting there.
I took out a new google account cos I can't get into my old one! No idea why. But yeah I ticked the back up option. Hopefully I'll be able to get into the new account next time my phone blows up.