Last night I was facing a dilemma. My Samsung Galaxy S+ has a very power-hungry MP3 player, and since I listen to music all the time, the battery doesn’t last long.
The MP3 player alone uses 2x more battery power than on the Galaxy Y, and on top of that there is some “Media server” running, which takes about 2x more power than the MP3 player process itself on the S+ and which cannot be stopped permanently.
So I wanted to dust off my older phone, a Samsung Galaxy Y, and use it as an MP3 player, with the Galaxy S+ for everything else. The problem was that I absolutely wanted to send my played songs to last.fm over the internet…
Maybe it can also be done retroactively, the way the iPod can, but I didn’t look into it. I checked the VF plans for internet and found that nothing at all had changed over the years, and the cheapest one still cost CZK 177, which seemed like a lot to me.
I started looking for a way to save money while staying with VF no matter what, because most of the people I talk to are on VF, and I remembered my In-Karta and the special VF plans that come with it. I found the page where you activate it online and did just that.
Unfortunately, I was confused that I only entered a contact phone number, but when I chose the option “I want to activate this plan on my existing VF number”, it didn’t ask me for that phone number. So this morning I headed to a VF store to have them check how the plan transfer was going, because it was fairly urgent).
But all they did there was print me a leaflet with a free phone number and information about this plan:
So I called them and, together with the lady on the phone, chose and set everything up again. Then text messages started coming in, specifically these (first is the phone number they came from):
777 – 10:43 – Hello, your request to set up the Flexistrop service has been received. Your limit is 500. Have a nice day, Vodafone.
608 – 10:53 – Hello, we have just removed your Roaming Services Block. Have a nice day, Vodafone
608 – 10:53 – Hello, we have just removed your Roaming Services Block. Have a nice day, Vodafone
608 – 11:34 – Hello, we have just cancelled your Custom Plan. Have a nice day, Vodafone
608 – 11:34 – Hello, we have just cancelled your Custom Plan. Have a nice day, Vodafone
608 – 11:34 – Hello, we have just cancelled your Mobile Internet for a Day. Have a nice day, Vodafone
608 – 11:49 – Hello, we have just cancelled your Your Way. Have a nice day, Vodafone
608 – 11:49 – Hello, we have just cancelled your Your Way. Have a nice day, Vodafone
777 – 11:50 – Hello, you have reached 50% of your Calling limit. Vodafone
608 – 11:52 – Hello, we have just activated Nabito 119 and Discount 75% for 36 until 2015-09-04. Have a nice day Vodafone
608 – 12:01 – Hello, we have just activated Mobile Connection – STANDARD and a 25% discount for 36 months until 2015-09-04. Have a nice day Vodafone
So those are all the text messages I received. Some of them are duplicated, but that’s how they arrived. That is unfortunately fairly common with VF. The Flexistrop is raised to CZK 500 because last month I went over it. What?! I spent on a single mobile number last month CZK 300? I don’t get it. But I look in the self-service portal and it says CZK 200 for calls and CZK 100 for extra data?!
Unheard of, unprecedented – for me, anyway. The self-service portal didn’t tell me anything more, so I will wait for the itemized bill with the services I used, and if needed I will sort it out with them. Above all, the calls seem completely “crazy” to me, and so does the extra data – CZK 100 is exactly the price of extra data, but I thought that this data had to be ordered somehow, either by text message or in the self-service portal. The whole thing is kind of strange .. I will probably also leave Your Way cancelled, at least until I call the hotline of VF.