Tucker's Old Journal

So, yesterday I helped a camper install the iPhone 2.0 software on his iPhone. All was going according to plan. I was going to give him some of my music in the process (since all of his would get deleted). All the other settings were preserved and everything was fine. Photos, text messages, contacts were all saved from the backup.

One snafu. We installed the iPhone Pandora app and I logged in with my account so I could show him the awesomeness of Pandora. After that, however, we couldn’t figure out how to log my account out of his phone! I jumped through a lot of hoops to try to figure out how to log out of his Pandora app. I even sent a message to the Pandora tech support asking for their help.

Today, I was rushing to get it logged out, so I restored his iPhone with my computer again. Only this time, there was no backup of the phone’s settings so he lost all his contacts, text messages, and photos he took. I felt SO bad at this point. I was just trying to log out of Pandora. I ended up deleting his texts, photos, and contacts. Luckily, he had backed up on his computer last Sunday so almost everything will be restored when he syncs again.

After this, I was fed up. I just offered to transfer my Pandora account to him, delete all my music stations and change the login info to his email address; so, I did. The real kicker is that right after this, I get a reply from Pandora telling me that all I have to do is go to the “Settings” panel on the iPhone and select “Pandora” to change the login account. WHAAAAAA??? After I went to all this trouble? Oh well, what’s done is done.

After THIS, I realized that I had bookmarked songs and artists on my account that I transferred to him. Plus, I now had his name on my profile page and vice versa (which cannot be changed). Bleh. I was really growing weary at this point and I was mad at myself. I asked him to switch accounts one more time and log into his account on his iPhone.

So, I have lost all my stations and I have to recreate every one. Doesn’t sound like a big task, but trust me. It’s pretty annoying. I emailed Pandora support one more time to ask if they can restore my account to the way it was before.

I’m so mad at myself for rushing into this situation and hurrying to find a solution! If I had simply waited and kept a cool head, this would have never happened.

Wow, what a rant.

EDIT (20:38): WHY DO I CARE SO MUCH ABOUT MATERIAL THINGS?!?!?!???