New Cell Phone

[BlueOvalFitter]

The battery is starting to geaux bad in my current Samsung Galaxy J7 phone. So, l went to WM's online store to buy a new phone. They have the Samsung Galaxy A02 on sale for $79, so l bought one Friday evening. It arrived today. BUT, it's the upgraded A02S. I called WM and told them what happened. The CSR told me that they upgraded it FOC because the one l ordered was out of stock. She said l could return it FOC and wait on the original phone, or just keep this one. I decided to keep it. It has a few better upgrades than the A02.
Does anyone have the A02S? This is my first cell phone whereas l can't get to the battery. It came with a key to install the SIM card.
What size nano memory card should l install? I have a couple of new cards somewhere, l just cant remember what memory size they are.

 

[Skippy722]

That’ll need a microSD card, up to 1Tb.

 

[Dave9]

Judge based on how much memory capacity you needed with your old phone, then at least double that since data expands to fill the universe.

 

[AZjeff]

We bought 2 of the A42 phones for $99 each. Compared it to the A02 and seemed like a lot more for $20. One came yesterday and the other looks like it got lost or destroyed at a distribution hub. We run phones until they die, her Galaxy S6 was bought in 2014 and died of a fall last week, my iPhone 6 was bought in 2015 and I've been nursing a failing battery for months. Not crazy about the larger size but will live with it. The A02 has 32GB internal, do you need a memory card?

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

We bought 2 of the A42 phones for $99 each. Compared it to the A02 and seemed like a lot more for $20. One came yesterday and the other looks like it got lost or destroyed at a distribution hub. We run phones until they die, her Galaxy S6 was bought in 2014 and died of a fall last week, my iPhone 6 was bought in 2015 and I've been nursing a failing battery for months. Not crazy about the larger size but will live with it. The A02 has 32GB internal, do you need a memory card?

WM has these phones on sale for $99 each on their BF sale. I tried to order one but it kept on trying to get me to do a new prepaid plan. I called WM CS and they even tried to over ride the new plan offer. I am currently a Verizon prepaid customer, I just wanted the better phone.
Ah well. It might have confused me with all of its current technology.
But, I did get the upgraded A02S FOC.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Judge based on how much memory capacity you needed with your old phone, then at least double that since data expands to fill the universe.

I haven't activated it yet. My current phone has 16 GB, which 12 GB are taken up. The new one has 32/64 GB. I might as well be reading Egyptian hieroglyphics.
I don't want my current pics transferred to my new phone. How do I get around this?

 

[ZeeOSix]

I don't want my current pics transferred to my new phone. I do I get around this?

Copy them off the old phone before transfering info to new phone. Or transfere everyrhing and then copy and remove them if you want to have them, or just delete what you don't want to save.

 

[Dave9]

^^ The memory card is for large files you add, such as recording video especially, or taking a boatload of pics, or if you see it as your portable infotainment system or information repository.

For example, the memory card in my phone has several movies and TV shows on it in case I get stuck somewhere and have to pass the time, and also relevant to this forum, has data folders I've collected for info relevant to my vehicles... I can pull up any wiring diagram, owners manual, etc that I have, with them copied onto the phone mSD card.

Just don't put anything sensitive/risky on them (and I don't mean porn, lol), I mean personal information that could screw you if you lose your phone somehow and someone else with a malicious intent gets ahold of it.

Just consider it another storage device which is as handy as can be if it's with you all the time like a phone would be. It is ironic that I wrote that because I don't like the idea of being tethered to a phone as a crutch, but if you're going to have the phone with you anyway, might as well leverage it as a mobile computer for all it's worth.

Also I don't know what the features are of what you had previously but even budget phones today open up a world of possibilities. Given a Samsung with USB-C, you can hook a hub up or just single USB and have massive storage, a keyboard, mouse, many other things besides just audio or video or file exchange. They really are portable computers now even in the budget class if a modern model.

If none of that matters then I regress back to my prior statement, just budget for what you used to use from a mSD card and add enough to handle the future.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

^^ The memory card is for large files you add, such as recording video especially, or taking a boatload of pics, or if you see it as your portable infotainment system or information repository.

For example, the memory card in my phone has several movies and TV shows on it in case I get stuck somewhere and have to pass the time, and also relevant to this forum, has data folders I've collected for info relevant to my vehicles... I can pull up any wiring diagram, owners manual, etc that I have, with them copied onto the phone mSD card.

Just don't put anything sensitive/risky on them (and I don't mean porn, lol), I mean personal information that could screw you if you lose your phone somehow and someone else with a malicious intent gets ahold of it.

Just consider it another storage device which is as handy as can be if it's with you all the time like a phone would be. It is ironic that I wrote that because I don't like the idea of being tethered to a phone as a crutch, but if you're going to have the phone with you anyway, might as well leverage it as a mobile computer for all it's worth.

Any pics/videos that are currently on my phone are on my laptops Google account. How I managed to do this......

 

[Dave9]

I haven't activated it yet. My current phone has 16 GB, which 12 GB are taken up. The new one has 32/64 GB. I might as well be reading Egyptian hieroglyphics.
I don't want my current pics transferred to my new phone. How do I get around this?

Samsung has an app to do a complete transfer from an old phone to a new, that is by far the easiest way to make the switch then just delete what you don't want off the new phone. It depends on what/where it is, if that is easiest but often it may be.

I don't know exactly what you mean about the pics on your google account, i mean if you choose to sync the account that you set up on your phone they will be there, then you delete off the phone or don't sync the account in the first place since that is what google does being google.

If you only want your new phone to have access to google play, set up a different google account for it instead of using an existing one with things you don't want to have automatically transferred to your new phone, OR wade through google's beta-attempt at making things easy to try to find a way to not do what they want you to do by default (LOL!!).

It is easier to never link your google account to your new phone in the first place if you don't want to step through that landmine, and google know this and planned it in how they set up migrating your phone book, etc. Double edged sword.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Samsung has an app to do a complete transfer from an old phone to a new, that is by far the easiest way to make the switch then just delete what you don't want off the new phone. It depends on what/where it is, if that is easiest but often it may be.

I don't know exactly what you mean about the pics on your google account, i mean if you choose to sync the account that you set up on your phone they will be there, then you delete off the phone or don't sync the account in the first place since that is what google does being google.

If you only want your new phone to have access to google play, set up a different google account for it instead of using an existing one with things you don't want to have automatically transferred to your new phone.

Yeah, that's it, sync. Somehow I set up my Google account on my LT the same as my phone. The only thing I have on my phone that's important (besides family pics), same as my LT, are all of my firearms serial #'s.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Samsung has an app to do a complete transfer from an old phone to a new, that is by far the easiest way to make the switch then just delete what you don't want off the new phone. It depends on what/where it is, if that is easiest but often it may be.

I don't know exactly what you mean about the pics on your google account, i mean if you choose to sync the account that you set up on your phone they will be there, then you delete off the phone or don't sync the account in the first place since that is what google does being google.

If you only want your new phone to have access to google play, set up a different google account for it instead of using an existing one with things you don't want to have automatically transferred to your new phone, OR wade through google's beta-attempt at making things easy to try to find a way to not do what they want you to do by default (LOL!!).

It is easier to never link your google account to your new phone in the first place if you don't want to step through that landmine, and google know this and planned it in how they set up migrating your phone book, etc. Double edged sword.

I found this one in my collection of SD cards. Will this suffice my needs?

 

[Skippy722]

I found this one in my collection of SD cards. Will this suffice my needs?
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That’ll do fine. If you find yourself needing more you can always put a bigger one in.