Phone "dangerously full", but how do I deal with it?

[Andy in Germany]

To be honest literally any smart phone will do that.

And knowing this, people will use it for important and/or sensitive information?

It also seems that I can't transfer phone numbers from phone to SIM card, so it's basically a choice of what you want to lose when the phone expires, vs. when the sim card expires.

You might want to consider moving to the cloud - it makes life a lot easier.

Until that is unavailable for some reason. No, I'll stick to keepiong information where I can get it, and making sure my railcard or bank card isn't on a delicate and apparently highly unreliable piece of electronics that needs constant charging and internet connection.

 

[Gwylan]

+1 for Motorola. The G series are very good value. Look on eBay.
G34 very nice.

 

[Alex321]

And knowing this, people will use it for important and/or sensitive information?

It also seems that I can't transfer phone numbers from phone to SIM card, so it's basically a choice of what you want to lose when the phone expires, vs. when the sim card expires.

It is very easy to transfer contacts from the phone to the sim card (and contacts is what you use when phoning normally).

Open the Contacts App, click on the menu (three horizontal lines top left), choose Manage Contacts, then Export Contacts, and choose the SIM.


Though when you change from one Android phone to another, it is generally easy to just transfer everything from the odl to the new. I've done that a few times over the years.

Until that is unavailable for some reason. No, I'll stick to keepiong information where I can get it, and making sure my railcard or bank card isn't on a delicate and apparently highly unreliable piece of electronics that needs constant charging and internet connection.

While I still have the physical cards, I very rarely use them, because I always have my phone with me. I much prefer to just use the phone, but the physical cards are usually there as a backup (but not usually when I'm on the bike).

 

[icowden]

And knowing this, people will use it for important and/or sensitive information?
It also seems that I can't transfer phone numbers from phone to SIM card, so it's basically a choice of what you want to lose when the phone expires, vs. when the sim card expires.

Again - a regular backup to the cloud will keep numbers safe. Mine are stored in my google cloud. Google own all of my sensitive information :-)
Sim cards are very last year and have been replaced with e-sims.

Until that is unavailable for some reason. No, I'll stick to keepiong information where I can get it, and making sure my railcard or bank card isn't on a delicate and apparently highly unreliable piece of electronics that needs constant charging and internet connection.

I can only speak of my own experience with Pixels, but short of dropping them and breaking the screen (fixed by now always getting a folio style case), I have never had a pixel stop working. My Pixel 4 XL is still in great condition and my Pixel 7 Pro is doing well. I suspect my Pixel 2 will also work if I charge it up.

 

[ColinJ]

I can only speak of my own experience with Pixels, but short of dropping them and breaking the screen (fixed by now always getting a folio style case), I have never had a pixel stop working. My Pixel 4 XL is still in great condition and my Pixel 7 Pro is doing well. I suspect my Pixel 2 will also work if I charge it up.

I have only had good experiences with my Pixels too (5 and now 8). I normally trust the phone but am more cautious on my long rail journeys to Devon. If my phone played up/broke/was stolen/lost preventing me showing my e-tickets and e-railcard, I could be charged a lot for a replacement single ticket. On long (expensive!) journeys I carry my tablet which acts as a backup device.

 

[rogerzilla]

Today I transferred all the camera photos from my phone to my computer and now my phone is happy again.

 

[Gwylan]

I have only had good experiences with my Pixels too (5 and now 8). I normally trust the phone but am more cautious on my long rail journeys to Devon. If my phone played up/broke/was stolen/lost preventing me showing my e-tickets and e-railcard, I could be charged a lot for a replacement single ticket. On long (expensive!) journeys I carry my tablet which acts as a backup device.

Paper is lighter and doesn't need a charger.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It is very easy to transfer contacts from the phone to the sim card (and contacts is what you use when phoning normally).

Open the Contacts App, click on the menu (three horizontal lines top left), choose Manage Contacts, then Export Contacts, and choose the SIM.

As is often the case with instructions claiming something is "very easy", my phone doesn't seem to have any of the features described.

It's like these robust non-breaking Pixel phones people seem to have: apparently they exist, but I've never found any.

Until I discover otherwise I'll be sticking to paper tickets and bank cards, and it looks like I'll be writing my contacts on a piece of paper so I can put them all in my new phone (Samsung A8 reconditioned).

 

[Andy in Germany]

As an aside, my colleague spent a frustrating hour last week trying to access documents she'd created so she could update them for use with the apprentices; the system won't let her access them on the internal cloud storage, because apparently she has the "wrong licence". I'll keep using my memory stick.