Mobile phone number changing
Looks like Tantek’s getting a new mobile phone, and along with it a new number. Why? Why not just transfer your old number?
Well, you might find out what I did when you try and do that. I had, for some considerable time, a pay-as-you-go-along mobile. One number. I spent a lot of time teaching that number to people; almost as much time as I spent whining that the Sagem MW930 was lame and oh, by the way, could I have a new one, please, you know it makes sense. On a contract, ideally, so I didn’t run out of minutes at the end of the month, and so calls were cheaper. Mainly, though, so I had a phone that I could receive a call on in public without one of the two bad things happening: the first bad thing was dying of embarrassment when people looked over. I exaggerate slightly; it didn’t look that bad, I suppose; slightly curved and an iridescentish blue — how is it best to describe that metallic-colour-trapped-under-glass sort of look, I wonder? I imagine that the marketing people probably refer to it as “pearlescent” or something.
Where was I? Oh, yes, bad things that happened when I received a call. The second bad thing — and this is the one that made me want to get rid of the phone, ideally by smashing it down into a tiny pile of electronics dust and shattered components with a lump hammer — was that, when it received calls, it would sometimes turn off. Not immediately, though, and even if it claimed that the battery was full. Unless you ran the battery right down to the minimum by just not charging it at all for a few days (assuming that you didn’t get a phone call), it would never turn off randomly. If a call was accepted properly, it wouldn’t turn off randomly. But, one time in three, when a call came in, it would ring once — which is just enough time to sit bolt upright and start fumbling in your jacket pocket, either annoying the person sitting next to you or spilling your cup of tea in your lap — and then go dead. Naturally, since it had turned off, you had no idea who called. Find the phone in said jacket pocket, turn it back on, and the battery level indicator would merrily flash its three insolent bars at you. Smash, smash, smashsmashsmash. Hammer.
So, I got a new phone. An Ericsson T68, which seems to be rather nice, although it does sometimes take a while to recognise that you’ve pressed a button. (Remember when computers used to take ages, when they were even slightly busy, to respond to user input, and so you’d do the same thing a few times, only to find that all your keypresses took effect when the machine caught up and turned it into a blistering frenzy of wrong and potentially data-damaging activity? Just like that.) That aside, however, I quite like it. I wanted to like it when people rang, too, and I didn’t want to spend lots of time finding the email addresses and phone numbers of everyone I’ve ever met to tell them about a number change, not to mention the legions (well, er, small number) of people who had my number in some sort of professional capacity. So, I hassled my old mobile company (who ran the pay-as-you-go phone) to let me transfer the number to my new (different company, contract rather than pay-as-you-go) phone. And it all worked. I had to get something called a PAC code (which might be like PIN number, I don’t know), and I had to do the usual thing of running interference between the two firms (why is it that you can’t point one big firm at another and say: sort it out and tell me what happens? If you ever try that, and I have, then nothing happens. Sure would be nice to have work done without having to repeatedly kick people’s arses about it), but my number was transferred. About the same time, we moved house. Since the move was in the same town, I transferred the phone number from the old house to the new one, for all the same reasons as above.
And, you know what? (I’m sure you can guess.) No-one rang. No-one. Tumbleweeds blowing across the face of both mobile and landline receivers. And everyone I chased about it, everyone, said: well, you moved, and we didn’t know your new number! The populace has become so inured, so expectant of poor service from conglomerates and BigCos that, even when they pull out the stops, make a transition easy, and generally make my life and my contacts’ lives more pleasant, everyone expects to have to go through pain. All the way through the number transferral processes I was metaphorically gritting my teeth in anticipation of the denial or the refusal or the vast administrative hoop to jump through, and it never came. The lady at my original phone company seemed shocked that I was so surprised at how easy the process purported (and actually!) was. Your firm needs better PR, dear; they should be publicising this to the high heavens.
Oh, then when the landline company put cable into the new house we bought, on the day we moved in, their engineer drilled through my ring main and we had to eat dinner, fish and chips still in the paper, in darkness and surrounded by boxes while trying to block out the inward whistling and arguments between the hapless cable guy and his now-at-the-scene-of-the-crime boss. But we’ll ignore that. Besides, it makes a good end to a story. I must remember that.
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There are several firmware updates for the T68 to bring the firmware up to and beyond the T68i, these solve the speed issues. This page might help…http://www.semuser.com/DirectoryItemView.asp?did=29&c=7
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….and BREATH! :)
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1. Download the latest Yahoo Messenger Beta version. (Not sure whether it works with previous version of YM, but it should, theoretically)
2. Sign in
3. Go to Messenger -> Preferences
4. In the “General” section, you can see “Edit mobile device”
5. Select the country (now this is obvious), and you’ll see Tmtouch and Maxis. (TM subscribers have had this feature for a year)
6. Key in your phone number, and you’ll receive a validation code via SMS in less than a minute.
7. Key in the validation code, and you are done!
127 weeks later
How do I change my mobile number in yahoo messenger? please help me out.
130 weeks later
http://mobile.yahoo.com/messenger
this should work if you want to change your mobile no. on yahoo
133 weeks later
i tried a lot, but cant change my cell nos in yahoo mesenger
136 weeks later
I want to chat in my mobile, but i dont know how to chat in my mobile, pls clarify my doubt.
137 weeks later
Pl. provide the link, which will help edit my mobile number.
138 weeks later
Pl. provide the link, which will help edit my mobile number. ………….
138 weeks later
the link is already up there. i have done it n number of times. if you cannot change the no., then jus delete it. then do the whole procedure again as u did the first time in yahoo messenger.
139 weeks later
provde the link which help me to edit my mbile number
141 weeks later
i want to change my mobile no in yahoo messenger whenever i go to change it the link page is not available tell me any alternative
142 weeks later
i want to change my mobile no in yahoo messenger whenever i go to change it the link page is not available tell me any alternative plz help me out
142 weeks later
Pl. provide the link, which will help edit my mobile number.
143 weeks later
hi sonia,
u can call me on 9869509739
143 weeks later
i need to change my mobile number of the mobile device i have attached to the yahoo messenger
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hi
143 weeks later
If any has a mobile phone contract with 02 please e-mail back.thaks
144 weeks later
i liked the solution provided by rahul to how to change the mobile number on yahoo messanger thanks rahul uve been a angel for me i was trying it for so many months thanks.
144 weeks later
I want to update my mobile number.But unfortunately, there is no option to change my mobile number…Ohhh yahoo software professionals It’s my humble request to update the software and include the new feature. As so many people are avaiting to update there mobile numbers….
Looking forward to update my number……
144 weeks later
sir i want change my mobile number bez i changed my SIM recently waht should i do now ?
145 weeks later
sir i want to change my mobile number what should i do?
145 weeks later
Please give me detail steps to edit my mobile number in yahoomessanger
145 weeks later
i have done all but i cant change my mobile number in yahoo messenger i click on preference and the on general and then edit my mobile device but nothing open and i can do please solve my problem
145 weeks later
please also explain how to see others profile i can se the others profile in yahoo messenger
145 weeks later
i have done all but i cant change my mobile number in yahoo messenger i click on preference and the on general and then edit my mobile device but nothing open and i can do please solve my problem
145 weeks later
iam trying to change my mobile number for somany days but i cant discoverplz help me
146 weeks later
i have got a new mobile but unable to find the option to change so plz help in this regard as early as possible
146 weeks later
You should delete your previous mobile info so you can start and use your new mobile number. That’s what i did when i changed my number. You can’t change your mobile number unless you delete your previous mobile info.
146 weeks later
if you are confuse and u dont know how to change ur mobile number just delete it first then after that u could enter a new mobile number(sigh ti mobile service) in ur messenger! its simple ryt? hehe
146 weeks later
i have got a new mobile but unable to find the option to change so plz help in this regard as early as possible
147 weeks later
hey i had a mopbile number on my yahoo msngr how do i change it to my new number
i tried all ways no use .can any suggest me that
147 weeks later
hi i changed my mobile no os i want to replase the new no in yahoo mesemger
please do the neady
147 weeks later
salam.
i have a mobile No on yahoo messenger .now i want to changer it .please tell me method that how to change it
148 weeks later
I want to change my mobile number in yahoo messenger . Please send procedure so that i am very thankful to you
149 weeks later
hello,
actually i want to change my mob number i.e i want to assign my new mob number in messanger by which i may get message through my online friends when they become online.
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[...] I’ve got a new phone, a SonyEricsson K700i, like Andy Budd and Ross Burton. Ross is a nutcase: he had a T68, just like I did, and he transferred his contact details by multisyncing them from T68 to PC and then from PC to K700i. Me, I just beamed them all directly from one phone to the other via infrared. (I’d have done it via Bluetooth if I’d have thought of it, but I’m old-school and haven’t really got on the Bluetooth vibe yet. I’m going to, though.) Anyway, it’s really superbly cool. New trick, which I picked up off a guy; when you get someone’s mobile number from them, take a picture of them as well and associate the picture with their addressbook entry. That way, when they ring you, you’ll get a picture of them and it’ll help you remember who they are. This applies more if you’re a sales rep or something, admittedly; if you need a picture of your mum to remind you who she is then you are doing something wrong. I shall be syncing it with my online calendar and contact details at Mobical too, but I’m holiding off on that until my proper number propagates to it in a week or so (I switched providers, so I needed to transfer my number—it was even easier than it was last time!) and everything works right. It’s cool. Looks really nice, works really well. Plays mp3s, which you can add as ringtones. The only complaint I have so far is that I tried posting here using MIDlog and it didn’t work. Said “Error” but didn’t tell me what the error was, so I shall investigate further. Pretty cool that it runs Java applications; it’d be cooler if it ran Jython, but it seems that a mobile phone with J2ME is too poor an environment to run Jython. Lots of fun times ahead fiddling with this! [...]
149 weeks later
please help me out to edit my mobile number on my yahoo messenger
150 weeks later
please help me out to edit my mobile number on my yahoo messenger .
I have followed the instructions given up there. by choosing the edit mobile device in perference in messenger leads to page not found the following links is uptainted http://uk.mobile.yahoo.com/wireless/mymobile
One another freind has said that to delete the old profile for mobile, that friend could u explain it how it could be there ?
waiting for your reply guys
150 weeks later
hey its just simple..dont worry guys…see
1)sign in the yahoo messenger
2)go to preference
3)In general bottom u will see “edit mobile device”
4)click there and u will get a new window and u will see three options “add a device”,”change”,and “delete”
5)click on “delete”..then u will get another page….in that page u just click the “delete the device” which is at the bottom of the page…What this does is this will delete the old number which u have registered and now u can register the new number through the messenger itself….hope u guys r happy now..enjoy….bye.
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pls do contact me in this id..binoyb22@yahoo.com..ready to help u guys anytime…
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plz help me i want to my mobile no who add yahoo messenger
152 weeks later
please mobile number change .
152 weeks later
How to change my new mobile number as I change my service provider and got new number and location.
152 weeks later
i have problem in my pc+ can u slove it, i like connect the modem but it cant, its driver is properly instaled, i f u call me i thanking, looking forward for girls comments on it.
154 weeks later
How to change my new mobile number
155 weeks later
hi!
i was using idea,gujrat service be4. now i am using airtel service. so i want to change my mobile number in messenger. but i am not finding my mobile service provider’s name. i am living in gujrat, india. please help me in this. i need it urgently.
waiting 4 your reply.
155 weeks later
FINAL……GO TO YAHOO MOBILE PAGE,…..DELETE UR DEVICE………NOW GO TO YAHOO MSGR…AND CLICK SIGN INTO A MOBILE DEVICE AND FOLLOW ONCSCREEN INSTRUCTIONS…….
156 weeks later
Well It is Not difficult,as saying,do that..:D
well good to see here..
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