Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 My mother recently bought a new touchscreen fancyshmancy phone and gave me her crappy old one. Thanks mom. And then she has the nerve to ask me to sync her music from iTunes to it. Well, I hooked up the USB and tried to sync, only to find out that sync wasn't highlighted. Knowing almost nothing about technology and stuffz, I googled. And only found how to sync it from Windows Media Player. So, without any info, I plunged straight in and started screwing around with files and stuff for about an hour or two, hoping to trigger something. No such luck. I'm trying to find a name here. All I can find is Net10, which I am unsure is the name of the actual phone, or a type of phone. I have no Idea what I'm trying to do, unlike you tech savvy people. HELP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 NET10 appears to be a phone service provider, not a model of phone. Did the phone come in a box with an instruction manual or anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Yes. But in the manual, it just keeps on saying NET10 PHONE. Nothing about a model or anything. I'm still looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 You could always call up NET10's tech support line and see if they can help you. Or you could look through this list and see which phone looks like yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 The nerve, giving you a free phone. She should be ashamed of herself. in related news, if you take out the battery, 98.6% of phones have the model number back there. A less presumptuous name., Actaeon, Goldengirl and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast *i Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 My mother recently bought a new touchscreen fancyshmancy phone and gave me her crappy old one. Thanks mom. And then she has the nerve to ... While this won't solve your technical problem, if you find your new "crappy" phone inadequate for your standards, might I suggest donating it to someone who will actually appreciate it. http://www.ncadv.org/takeaction/DonateaPhone.php http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/ keira, Tyranicus and Triumph 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt BMA Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Oh. I thought this topic's title was "I hate you pony". nikki. and Triumph 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I'm mystified by the thread title. Is this genericization of the term iPhone? Do you hate iPhones for being more user-friendly than what you have to deal with? I don't follow. —Alorael, whose usual solution to this is Google. Since Google was apparently unhelpful, he'll go to his fallback: drivers. Did the phone come with any CDs or links to software that needed to be downloaded before it could talk to the computer properly? That seems like a likely culprit for inability to sync. It's still possible that it won't be able to work with iTunes, though, so your mom may be forced to switch to Windows Media Player or another piece of music software to set things up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 This is what my mom says the model number is: ZTE/Z990G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 If you google 'net10 phone zte' you can discover that this phone's operating system is Android 2.3. So then googling 'sync itunes android 2.3' seems to reveal that there is no official way to sync from within iTunes (since Apple hates Android), but there are third-party apps available that claim to be able to do it. Once you know you're dealing with an Android 2 phone, there are probably a lot of people who can help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Thanks SoT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Jerakeen Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I ended up just dragging songs from my Mac's iTunes folder to my Android phone's music folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I'm mystified by the thread title. Is this genericization of the term iPhone? Do you hate iPhones for being more user-friendly than what you have to deal with? I don't follow. This has bothered me every time I've seen the topic title, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Indeed, in light of SoT's investigations, it would appear that iPhones have nothing to do with Trenton's...issues. I really want to use my modly powers to change the title to "I HATE YOU UNIDENTIFIED SMARTPHONE" but that would be uncouth, so I shan't. I will rise above the temptation...and post snarky comments instead. Harehunter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 how is it that i am the least sassy person in this thread, did i step through a portal into bizarro world Tyranicus and nikki. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 how is it that i am the least sassy person in this thread, did i step through a portal into bizarro world If everyone else has unexpectedly gained a goatee, beware! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 If everyone else has unexpectedly gained a goatee, beware! What if the goatee unexpectedly gained a Rowen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 how is it that i am the least sassy person in this thread, did i step through a portal into bizarro world It's pretty small-minded of you to talk about it that way. As far as i'm concerned you stepped through a portal from bizarro world. —Alorael, who will have you know that this world is much like yours, but left-right reversed. Oh, and purple is a slightly different color here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 how is it that i am the least sassy person in this thread, did i step through a portal into bizarro world The Law of Averages has finally caught up with you in that you have lived long enough to be the least sassy person at a moment in time. It will pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Xaiya Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 how is it that i am the least sassy person in this thread, did i step through a portal into bizarro world Maybe. Does this look green to you? Triumph 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 "Bizarro world" is a total misnomer, of course. The term suggests that there is exactly one bizarre world. In fact, there are many. So many, that the set of non-bizarro worlds is of zero measure. Every time you step through a portal, it's essentially inevitable that you will enter a world more bizarro than the one you left. This is a well-known corollary of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You can never step through the same portal twice. The world is never going to get less weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 If everyone else has unexpectedly gained a goatee, beware! This is definitely the darkest timeline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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