I've got your number written on the back of my hand

[venta]

My phone's gone off to be Looked At (and, with luck, Seen To) by the nice phone shop people. I have a borrowed Nokia to tide me over til it comes back, and so I am temporarily bereft of numbers.

So: Please can anyone who sends me an sms sign their name to it ? Even if you *know* I've got your number ? Otherwise there's a strong chance I won't know who you are.

And no, I haven't broken my own phone. Well, only a little bit. It had a bizarre intermittent fault, which I have no doubt they won't be able to reproduce. So, they'll probably just flash it, and send it back to me with all my numbers wiped :(

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think their main agenda is to sort the texts in your inbox by date

Yeah, I thought that for a while, too :) Sort by date, with unread at the top would at least be coherent, if not what I'd prefer. But it seems to be:

Unread messages.
Messages stored on the SIM (when the SIM was put in from my old phone), in whatever damn order it feels like.
Messages which arrived to this phone and have been read, in whatever damn order it feels like.

It certainly isn't date order, or reverse date, or alphabetical-by-sender, or anything useful.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I never had the stored on SIM vs. sent to phone issue, as my Nokia was my first phone, so there were no texts to import from an old SIM. That means all my messages were covered by your 1st and 3rd categories. But I still feel the third category was sorted according to some kind of principle, and it seemed like reverse date order to me. Maybe it'll get more logical once you only have messages on there which were sent to the current phone? Or maybe your old one will be mended by then, so you won't have to suffer the Nokia's peculiarities any more? ;)