Why isn't my (your) Mobile Phone working? Podcast Part 1 feat. Challenge The Road
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Part 1 of a 3 part podcast chat with Richard from @Challengetheroad
1... Why is my phone always rubbish? What was the best mobile phone?
• Why isn't my (your) Mo...
2... Richard sold his EV, lost weight and got depressed. What's this about?
• My EV made me FAT, and...
3... Supercar values... Do we really need million pound cars?
• SUPERCAR VALUES... And...
Part 1 of a 3 part podcast chat with Richard from
1... Why is my phone always rubbish? What was the best mobile phone?
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2... Richard sold his EV, lost weight and got depressed. What's this about?
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3... Supercar values... Do we really need million pound cars?
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Ah so I think you just explained why my 5G phone can't a signal... they haven't put enough masts up eh?
Maybe I should try to use my old Startec.. I found it the other day after many years.
Geoff... Can you post the settings Richard sent you to optimise sim only phone deals..? Thanks
Its a simple answer... 5G is faster but the signal strength is depleted far more easily with walls trees and distance... Some wifi modems have a selection of local speeds of 2.4ghz or 5ghz... even in a house the lower speed works better as the signal is stronger..
I'd rather just scrap mobile phones altogether, and go back to having a red phone box on every street corner. That way, we can all stay connected when we need to, and retain our privacy when we don't.
It will be short band radio my crystal bar says
That what I’ve got red box .n home phone never owned moby phone
@@The.Toaster If you do this, go airplane mode (or power off), otherwise your phone battery will die super quick as it increases power usage as it tries to connect to a comms mast.
when i was a teen, i had to go to the end of the road to the phone box😂
I was just in the time where I had to sit next to a box and sat twisting the curly cable round ya fingers whilst chatting
The phone companies make their phones with super duper features, but the one thing your fancy phone can't do is make a nice clear phone call
They don't want you talking to each other the aim is to divide & isolate
Every smartphone ive had is hopeless at calls
@@Janet-v7vCorrect. Just as the ostensible purpose of a modern car is to allow you to move around. The real reason for the way they’re made is to make it harder to move around.
@@Janet-v7v a lot easier scan text message than voice call? it can be done, but resources needed are , substantial , to next nothing, required 10 year old PC fine and up for the job, of reading every message text message for norty words? the UK, but doing voice calls your going big data centre stuff full big mainframe servers, to come even close doing every, voice phone calls
@GT380man but in south korea you don't have any problems. It our network
My next phone will be a tin can on the end of a piece of string. Remember when we did that as kids. Can't be any worse. Seriously, my next phone will be a dumb phone, just need to talk and text.
I'm getting no signal most times .
It comes when you tell the Truth.
For those who see their phone as a 'comfort blanket' the poor connections will play on their anxieties....
It is all about control, they want to know where you are all the time.
If you have a mobile phone, they already do.
Who wants to know?? unless you are a high profile person, nobody is interested where you are, you are just another sheep.🤣
@@GaryB007 Break out the kitchen foil.
@@GaryB007 If you really want a conspriacy, go look at what most people injected themselves with in 2022. Its possible many people are now walking antennas
@@YUDNSAY I tend to keep mine on airplane mode most of the time, whether or not they can still track and listen in to me once that's been activated, I really don't know.
I'm guessing no because the whole idea of airplane mode is safety, to cut any chance of interference via radio waves basically so why wouldn't it work?
If it doesn't then I'd like to see some evidence to prove otherwise, not just hearsay or what maybe possible.
Vodafone told customers they are switching 3g off 🤷 my signal with vodafone has been crap for years and now virtually non-existent at home. Ive kept my landline for this reason, especially to keep in contact with elderly family members
they are coming for the landlines next
The landlines are now connected to the router, no power no phone, the copper connected phones worked on a battery system, always available unless the cable was cut.
landlines gone 2025
I just dumped Voda. Uttercrap coñnectivity and data stream.
Walk away from voda.
They need it for all the new cameras and ev data that needs fast real time in order for autonomous driving and ai systems.
I PHONES ARE SHIT AND A LOT OF MONEY
All the new phones are seriously overpriced.
I bought a Moto 32g cost £160 and it's better than mates I phones and Samsung junk that costs £1000+ 🤔
Full of DRM 👊🏻
Fun fact
4G Mobile phone coverage is INCREDIBLE in Hungary (compared to the UK)
I have been all over rural Hungary and never not had a signal, even on the underground metro or up a mountain, they seem to have coverage everywhere.
In the UK, I can't get a signal in my local town centre 🤷♂ Hungary's tax budget is 1% of the UK's by the way
Same in Romania. Almost always a good 4G signal. I live in a fairly remote rural village in a valley! I travel 90kms by train once or twice a month from the nearest station (6kms away) to Sibiu. The railway follows valleys because it's a very hilly area but there's only part of the journey with no mobile signal for about 5kms in an area where the hills are much closer to the railway.
I've had my phone off ALL day! I'm gonna get a CB radio, remember how much fun they were talking to someone many miles away. Oh and years ago kids walky talkies were even better than the adult ones....I'm off to scout the vintage toy section on ebay lol
Don't forget the tax disc, or licence if you prefer.
It's a thing now that a lot of long distance walkers in USA,the ones who do those hundreds of miles long trails are now using walkie talkie radios. The reason they give is that in some of those wild places there is no signal. Now,the ones I heard on the radio were VERY SENSIBLE not to SAY the real reason but reading between the lines I think the real reason is they want to free themselves from surveillance. And not for sinister or criminal reasons. The fact is,as I understand it,no matter how remote you are you can use GPS from space to identify your location,and that was how it was "sold" to us. No one ever need to be lost again. The emergency services can find you even in the middle of the Gobi desert. So these walkers want to go back to that earlier time,in our lifetimes when you relied on your own courage,skill and wits. And not have Googlespy following your every movement.
I still use my old 3g Nokia - battery last 5 days. No smart stuff, just basic texting and calls .
I’d like one of them buy the time I wanted a moby they where to spyey,
Same here I have a dumb phone and I only need to charge it once a week. My wife and kids have smartphones and they are never off the charger.
3G will be gone soon.
My signal (in Switzerland) is always excellent. Which is quite incredible given the amount of mountains we have... Wait, there aren't any mountains in Worcestershire! Go figure🤷🏻♂️
Switzerland is the global hub of the deepstate, (along with Israel) I guess they want good coverage.
they use Welsh mountains as an excuse for poor signal, no bloody mountain in the way across local neighbours! And back in England down south ain't no mountains at all!
It's to format a grid system.
Thank you Geoff for highlighting and bringing such important conversation and information to your audience!! Amazing work as per
It’s like this. If we can’t get a signal,stop buying mobile phones. Then they,if they want our money will have to improve.
Not really when you consider your phone can connect to a 3 or 5g network, but also WIFI? Why fix the old Hutchinson network when you got the tech of WiFiSirTesla to bumfuck??
They took all the money. Now they want more.
I like the way RUclips when breaking to an advert shows the advert with the dog called Geoff sat on the sofa watching tv while his owner is checking in on him using a home camera from work. “Just checking on Geoff, yes he’s fine” 🤣
I have an iPhone but never use it for banking never download music only use CD's always have CD player in car only use phone for calls, texting, utube videos and when I go out for a good drive phone off CD's playing, just the way it used to be and always will be for me...
I always play CD's in my car and i'm only 19, I don't care to feed the streaming services money, I rather own a piece of phyiscal media however the car companies in all their intelligence have decided no more CD players in new cars 'cause they got to be new modern smooth touch screens without any physical buttons or holes in them.
I turned off news notifications on my phone about 3 years ago. Life is much nicer when you access news in small doses.
I agree, I turned all news off about 7 years around britexit, and all social media, and life became bliss.
But my stupidity got myself into RUclips, but I have a plan to leave RUclips and all as much digital trace when my wife and I make our next move.
I'm with O2 for years and a couple of years ago I bought a 2nd hand phone from someone who was on EE.
Soon after I started using it I received a bill from EE, who I've never used, in an E-mail on my desktop at home??
That fried my brain a little, of course I ignored it.
I have a Nokia E66 slide..2006 on 02 pay as you go..its working fine!..i dont want a smart phone until i have no option!
Yes I have something similar ready to go phone or text only
No such things as the Prom when I grew up you left school & went out to work to contribute to the home we even had rotas for housework and we never had pocket money so it was getting a job in the evenings & weekends no time for homework far to busy
Years ago I had a Motorola mobile, it was a company flip phone and the flip was just a plate that covered the keypad. Best phone ever, it came with a book that gave dialling codes for everywhere even oceans. That phone had full signal everywhere and I charged it twice a week. Wish I had one now.
I remembered them . I had one in the late 90s lol. Never let me down and only needed charging every week !
I’m in a rural area, used to get a solid 4g signal, now it’s very intermittent. If it gets any worse I will just ditch the mobile all together. I only use it for phone calls and texts anyway
Digital means on or off. Analogue could be anywhere from off to on and all the levels inbetween. A low power signal just meant a 'noisy' call whereas with digital it means ZERO call.
It has been digital since second gen that is GSM...
@@_Ekaros I know - I'm a comms engineer..... Do you know what word is the most used between mobile phone users?
"Hello?"
batteries in phones that cant be removed always have power whether its on or off....its always watching, listening and reporting home
Pretty much nobody in the UK used analogue mobile phones. They were the preserve of the yuppies and posers. Analogue phone calls could be monitored and recorded by anyone with a scanner.
5G gives the speeds necessary for mass surveillance, it is that simple. It takes many more masts for 5G and instead of using the money they fleece out of people, to cover those costs, they would sooner switch off other masts. This is the sort of thing that should have Ofcom hopping, they aren't because they no longer serve the consumer.
4G is fast enough. The only possible reason for 5 is WBAN networking.
Maybe we are not supposed to talk together over phone, like we are not supposed to travel, drive, move around.
it's so they keep control of their power. monitoring of all comms, helps them to find disidents before they get to be a threat to that power. Think about it, why else would they really want this ability?
Another brilliantly informative video. ❤ But I won't change to an iPhone. Android seems to have less issues with communication (even when I'm in the Uk) and all services are free.
Don't change to an iPhone. My friend did that and it's unreliable and horrible.
Android everytime 👍
You know what the government mean when they say "Take care of somebody"!
GEOFF ,I drove manchester to bristol to pick my daughter up. I arrived then i went to a lloyds cash machine in bristol ,i swear it ate my card ,I went in and said your machine just ate my card She said yes its been doing that all day ,arrrr mad . So i went to my branch nationwide at 3,15pm ,can i have £100 she said have you got your card sir .No its in lloyds machine ,Ok Sir the best we can do is £40 after an hour they upped it to £80 for fuel to get home i drove at 56mph all way home . now i have 3 cards and cash always .
I'm on three, service is appalling. Worst Ive known since owning a mobile in 1997
Stop giving three your money, they are the ones fraudulently fitting these antennas
Run up an bill and use the letters for getting the woodburner going if youre feeling bold
Three has never been any good.
@@DAVIDE-bk8by I thought three was pretty good when I lived in the UK. And was awesome being able to travel Europe and no pay any extra to use your phone.
Edit: not many people had a mobile in 1997! What were you up to? Sellin a bit of this and a bit of..... that?!? Was around then I had a pager, now they were sh!t for making calls on!!
@@ragndroneman What was I up to? Selling stuff? , No! I was made production manager of a company and they issued me with one
2G is what is used for phone calls and texts. I rarely use mobile data, only really for live traffic / sat nav. I would never stream a film on a handheld device. 4G has plenty of speed. 5G isn't really so your twitter loads 1 second faster, it is for all the surveillance stuff to communicate, all the cameras , smart devices, things that track our movements. It can't be healthy to live in a soup of digital electromagnetic radiation.
We are a WBAN device.
Signal has been crap since they have been spraying aluminium oxide in the sky
Not spraying as such.... Since they re designed jet fuel to include many toxic metals.... That and it doesn't evaporate like condensation should/would
I live in a village between Bedford and Northampton, We get one bar in the morning and no hope in the afternoon on. Calling debt collectors or hospitals or what ever where you have to wait for hours to be answered you dont have a hope as the signal drops out completely and cuts you off. Its disconnection hell. Even connected to the houses wifi One bars the max. Yet they keep demanding we pay them full wack. I had to call my Mum the other day, She lives in Sunny spain, I have to drive 8 miles towards town before i can keep a call going.
Don’t tell everyone.
My cb radio in the 80s had more signal than my phone
That's a big 10-4! I'm off for a 10-100...
banks, police, supermarkets, same business
Safe working distance from a 5g mast is 400m.
To improve internet service, 5g mast need to be 150 to 230m.
So when your in a smart city with mast approx 200m apart. You will never be in a safe area.
People that have implants, pacemakers etc are screwed.
People will be screwed because of the insane radiation they're emitting..
As a regular visitor to Spain, I have noticed that it has markedly superior mobile coverage - from the Madrid Metro to the mountainous areas in the north. We're miles behind.
Not one phonecall works properly. We’re genuinely thinking about using cbs
Hi great and interesting video, 5g my 4g where I am in Kent on 3 is not that great , that’s why I got 02 phone as well as 4g on a cheaper contract as back up, we always had better service when we had phone in a cradle with external car aerial. And yes old Nokia phones were great . Regards mark
Hello Geoff,
Someone elsa may have already said this, but I don't have time to go look.
I'm not an RF engineer but I've more than a passing interest and bit of knowledge on the subject.
If you want to cram more data accross the airwaves, generally speaking, you're going to use a higher carrier frequency. Those higher frequencies do not have as much "punch" though. They're more readily attenuated by environmental factors, they don't carry as far. Hence the need for base stations that are much closer together.
Also, radio waves are generally polarised, they travel vertically and or horizontally (there's more to it than that) and when you're trying to eek out the best perfornance, the orientation of the phone itself becomes more critical.
More data means faster processors, more power, less battery life.
Gold is an excellent conductor. It's factor in greater RF efficiency I'm not sure about. Someone else can speak to that.
The radio spectrum is getting more and more crowded, it's efficient use is therefor of considerable importance.
I make phone calls and alot of the time the call drops and i have to ring them back, sometimes while on the phone people can't suddenly hear me so then i have to ring back. Very annoying
Why did they bring in contactless cards? Where's the security?
Best they can do is make you enter pin after using the card for x amount.
My bank makes me do that after 150 is spent
Lets go back to CB radio's in vehicles.
I remember taking calls on the beach at Harlech on my Nokia 6310i
What I'm suspicious of is:
Why does my Canon Printer App insist that I have high resolution location switched on, before permitting me to pass a document to using it to my printer 🤔
Both me and the printer are both on the same WiFi ( in fact I can physically touch the printer )
Odd. Odd .odd 🤔
You cannot get an ambulance so no need for faster data! 🤔
My signal has dropped from 4g to E. Its been like thay a year or more, making a call is dam near impossible.
*Re-Boot it and go into settings and ✅ 5 g !*
Considering I've just obliterated my Google Pixel after tripping over ive been looking at my box of old handsets for ages, i so badly want to experiment with ancient mobiles in the modern age
Yes the phone signals are bad and they want to turn off the analogue phone. I had video call recently both of us on actual WiFi and still the signal kept breaking up.
Mobile signals are sh**,
So much better in Europe 🎉
I’ve lived in my house in the middle of a city for nearly 30years and the mobile signal has always been good, except for the last few years or so.
It is now so bad i regularly have to walk to a window or go outside or go upstairs when the person at the other end can’t hear me.
[it’s weird though because sometimes it fine, but then the next day you are back to walking around the house trying get find a better signal]
Hey Geoff, the bum bots are in again, two of them have the same profile picture 🤣🤣
I had an Ericsson with a rubber shark fin ariel on top and rubber gaskets all round so you didn't get muck in the charging hole and it was solid and heavy and reliable and I don't think it had snake but you could make your own ringtones on it and I loved it. But then I got talked into joining the new, wonderful 3 network and they flogged me an NEC videophone and I could only send really grainy photos to one bloke that I knew, usually when we were in the same pub anyway. But I loved that Ericsson
Great Video Geoff
Was told 3g being switched off at the end of the year. Was told 3g phone 📱 was a waste of money!!!!!!
Richard is right when he mentions the focus is on data, I find calling is defiantly less reliable but data streaming on the move is pretty good. Just done 1000 miles fro UK to south of France and streamed UK radio pretty much all the way...
When you started talking about old favourite phones, I thought.. "I miss my old Star Tac" then a minute later, you guys both bring up the Star Tac! And I had an OG Razor 1st gen. Good times back when they were still amazing things to have, not links in the chains of our quiet enslavement like today.
Loved the older phones as they looked different.
Full 3G signal cant seem to handle internet data anymore from my experience, it’s 4g minimum or 5g now. Am unsure of what’s going on in the background but I imagine they are trying to get rid of the 3G networks as quickly as possible now.
Vodafone completed its 3G switch-off in early 2024. EE completed its switch-off in early 2024. Three expects to switch-off by the end of 2024. O2 is planning to switch-off in 2025. It's old technology. There's no need to keep it going.
Where I used to live up until last year it's still all 3g. Internet works fine just a little bit slow. But then again a lot of people in the same area use dial up for home Internet still, just because nothing else is available.
I live in Ombersley. I have had sod all service for the last 4 days.
As I’ve said before the phone signal in Finland is so good. Even in the far North here I get 5G and 4G in remote areas. Speeds are very fast and phone calls rarely ever drop out along roads.
The signal is generally awful. The phone networks have got an effing cheek putting up the prices every year under the guise of RPI plus 4%. You pay more and more every year but seemingly get less and less and sh*t customer service
Do you not think the phone networks also have increased expenditure each year and need to pay more for things and increase staff wages each year etc.
@@givman2004 you wouldn't mind so much if they provided you with the service you contracted for and their networks were reliable and you could actually use a phone to make a feckin phone call. I hate paying more for less
Keep with 3 g
If you do, you'll be stuffed soon.
Trying to silence us
Good man Geoff, we all need to back away from digital dominance. Cash is king. Motorola razr was my very very fave
Been with 3 near 20 years. Last couple years it’s been so bad it’s ridiculous. In places where there was signal before, there is now nothing 🤷
Im in Taiwan and the signal is amazing here... 4g even works on the underground trains. I pay 300NTD a month, about £7.50 for unlimited data. I use Samsung A21s phone.
I have a 2G phone in my hand and it's working fine! Portugal
I think this is a problem in England. I live in Norway, and I have no problems use my tlf. even in my summerhouse in the middle of nowhere 800m over sealevel with only sunpanels, batteries and a little petrol generator. I have 5g everywhere here. Only 4g in the summerhouse, but it works all the time. (PS: I love your beautiul Volvo!!) 🙂
The actual reason for the difefrence is power... Think audio, Bass travels further than treble, Why does bass travel further than treble?
Because low-frequency tones have larger wavelengths, they penetrate different materials better than high-frequency ones. That's why you hear the bass from your neighbour's speakers but not the treble.
5G is a higher frequency and travels less distance, simple physics.
5G will make no difefrence to the emergency services, they use a custom mesh network called Tetra...
Had this convo recently. It’s been 40 plus years of mobile phones. Why can’t I drive between Glasgow and Edinburgh without dropping a call along the M8. I’ve got 5G turned off and use a cradle with a view straight up and out the windscreen. Still doesn’t work.
I live in a small seaside town and there is no 5G anywhere and when its busy my data speed drops from 10meg to 1meg. I have a tablet which I only use for steaming it has no social media apps of any sort and the battery last for days which shows how power hungry they are
Because the service area for each 5G phone cell mast is so much smaller they need many more to give the same coverage, using AI and servers it is so much easier to locate people of interest. Also, it is easier for them to accommodate more users at the higher frequencies.
Love the vids Geoff 👍
I liked it a lot in the 90s -
If you were avoiding people, you could tell your family to tell them you went out. 😆
The phones are trackers and they listen to everything and everywhere we go to harrass us with adverts at the bare minimum (the least sinister conspiracy)
Have you seen that conspiracy about the iphones taking photos of your face without you knowing?
That emergency app was a load of bollocks too. I'd love to be able to transform into a 🐦 and listen in to these meetings that go on behind our backs 😞
I loved my Nokia 8210 - wish I could go back to that!!
This was very, very amusing this morning listening to Naga Munchetty trying to communictae with a multitude of journalists across the country following the party battle buses and every single person she was trying to communicate with was having terrible issues with their connections. Yoy couldn't make it up! The part of the show with heavy issues was around 12.10pm onwards where there was silence on many ocassions and she thought she was being pranked it was so bad.
Listening to your conversation on the diffrences in 3G and 5G - here's the TL:DR of it. 3G has good coverage and range and lower data rates - 5G is the oppostite - and the reason is the frequency of the carrier wave used. Higher band frequencies of 5G (ie: 16 - 24GHz ) are more suceptible to interference by things like trees than 3G frequencies were. And, the shear increase in the number of devices connecting to the network means more people sharing the bandwidth.
The WBAN items use the most data.
Satellites ROFL. Google LOON, or wait; YOU're the LOON! Strength! GODsp33d!
Got a clear picture there Geoff. Very crisp.
I have kept my old android and that still has the options for 2G !! That gives me a signal anywhere for voice and SMS, Ok no internet services but then there is public Wi-Fi for that :-)
When my wife asks what did you blokes talk about all night? Errmmm phones. 😂
I think the mobile network is rubbish outside big cities in the UK!, I think a lot was bad in the UK "Deterioration" there were nice places but a lot was rubbish big change in 15 years between my visits.
Is it UK infrastructure? What is the signal situation in other countries?
The United States of America discontinued 3G service in July 2022. I have what would be considered a dinasour smartphone being a Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus that is around 5 years old that is 4G not 5G.
The new mega data centres popping up everywhere (and using all the grid energy) are there to process all our metadata, however that metadata is primarily 24hour phone surveillance using every sensor in the device. Sound, image, location and motion every minute of the day is processed, screened and stored forever.
Nokia 8110 & i still have 3 + the data kit or the Nokia communicator's thay could even send a fax directly from the phone not through a 3 party & play games download programmes like the rubbish alleged smart phones. These are the best phones
I phone owners when your battery starts to fail and the phone just gets slower. It is apple doing it to make you buy the newer model.
Geoff A I scares me all this giving computers the ability to think for themselves really is Skynet from Terminator
It's really deep pattern matching only.
Mobiles now are really terrible.
Mobile phone masts were originally only given temporary planning as all phones were supposed to eventually get signals from satellite. However, this all changed when governments were involved in selling aerial space. Several of my customers sold mast space to mobile phone companies on lease. Also in certain places there is so much military electronics monitoring systems and these upset signals but these are only for small distances.
It's a great conspiracy theory. Slightly lacking in fact, though
More complete nonsense.
No
My Galaxy s23 ultra battery lasts all day.. I watch youtube on it all day and it's in constant use... keep your iphones
O2 keep saying they’re doing work to improve the network but data doesn’t work a lot of the time and it’s often 3G
A quick question is it a Google Pixel or iPhone? both these companies jettisoned Qualcomm because of various licencing reasons and 2 year maximum support. But Qualcomm's modem chips (the bit that handles the data connection) were robust and mature, the ones from Google are rubbish and I can't comment on iPhone modems but I imagine theirs are rubbish too.
canada here, and i"ve seen a decrease in phone call quality and connectivity this year. Could be phone company lowering power of non 5g network to force people to buy new phones
Geoff Everytime I visit the UK I am appalled by the poor signal quality. Here in Canada our towers are way higher than yours and we have less of them and the signal strength is mostly very good, even in the rural areas. Maybe it's the height of the towers that are the problem in UK.
Also what isn’t being talked about is that for years they have been installing smart meters in houses that run off of 2G,
so when they shut 2G down none of the smart meters will link up [if they ever worked in the 1st place that is] [because a lot of them don’t through lack of signal]
Not sure what yr on about. My android is generally ok. Anything to do wtth the intense solar activity that is expected to knock out power grids?
That signal issue you both experienced with your phone call at the 16:12 mark in the video, were it went all weird sounding, seems to me exactly like the signal being attenuated - a momentary weaking of the signal strength leading to a reduction in the signal quality, which reduces data throughput, means dropped data packs and transmission errors. The odd noise effects are also reminiscient of signal distortion and reflections, leading to the data packets arriving out of sequence. Likely this is caused by something interrupting the signal between the mast and your device. Birds, plane, large vehicles, trees blowing the wind etc. And also atmospheric phenomenon.
5310, 8310 they were the best, small radio battery last ages and easy to change and super easy to repair
Yep, I've noticed distinct lack of connection lately. Aren't mobiles wonderful?