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

[Andy in Germany]

Paper tickets aren't much use for making phone calls...

Well, no, I use a paper ticket so I don't get a fine because my phone randomly refuses to work. I use the phone to make phone calls.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Really? I have a couple of hundred books with me. I'm pretty sure that if they were paper ones they would weigh a lot more than my ipad.
Plus digital tickets don't stop working when the magnetic strip stops working.

I wonder what the ratio of Magnetic strip not working to phone refusing to work is?

When I'm carrying a ticket on a train, I don't want on a temperamental piece of electronics that may or may not work when the inspector comes along: suspected fare dodging can have some pretty expensive and criminal consequences.

 

[Andy in Germany]

You must have a contacts app, unless you only ever use "recents" or type in phone numbers when calling people. I doubt you can remove that app even if you wanted to.

And in the UK, all the Samsung phones I have owned have had the export option somewhere in the contact app menus.

What I gave above was what is needed on my Samsung.

You have to remember Andy is in Germany. It may be different there.

I have a contact's app, just not the three bars or the menu described that makes it easy to transfer numbers.

We have a similar situation at work where the IT department is telling us that if we click on that tab there this menu will come up, so we do and it doesn't.

Apparently the IT department doesn't answer our calls any more.

 

[CXRAndy]

I had this a couple times in the early days of android. I used memory card models to increase storage. But newer phones don't use additional memory storage.

So my last phone and current. I bought the biggest storage possible.

My Samsung S22 Ultra has 1tb of storage. With all my photos WhatsApp stuff I'm still under 20% of full capacity

 

[wiggydiggy]

Well, no, I use a paper ticket so I don't get a fine because my phone randomly refuses to work. I use the phone to make phone calls.

Obligatory "I know your in Germany" first

A lot of UK train stations don't have manned offices anymore to print tickets, there are machines on the platform that allow people to buy a ticket there are still stations without one and I don't see that many people use the machines I do see. At least there is the option to collect tickets bought online at a machine if people don't want to use their phones though.

I'd say most regular users of rail travel here do use their phones, or a travel card, so I'd say thats become the norm over paper tickets here.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Obligatory "I know your in Germany" first

A lot of UK train stations don't have manned offices anymore to print tickets, there are machines on the platform that allow people to buy a ticket there are still stations without one and I don't see that many people use the machines I do see. At least there is the option to collect tickets bought online at a machine if people don't want to use their phones though.

I'd say most regular users of rail travel here do use their phones, or a travel card, so I'd say thats become the norm over paper tickets here.

I probably should have said Railcard. I use my "Deutschland Ticket" 99% of the time, but it took a bit of time to get a physical copy, and I think a campaign by users groups.

But if I'm travelling by Intercity train, I will get a ticket either from a machine or online. I regularly see people getting removed from the train, either for fare dodging or because their phone doesn't work/the battery is flat.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I probably should have said Railcard. I use my "Deutschland Ticket" 99% of the time, but it took a bit of time to get a physical copy, and I think a campaign by users groups.

But if I'm travelling by Intercity train, I will get a ticket either from a machine or online. I regularly see people getting removed from the train, either for fare dodging or because their phone doesn't work/the battery is flat.

No one gets removed here, or at least I've not seen it. What will happen is the person asking for the ticket will take details, and pictures, of whomever is travelling and a penalty fare is then later issued (£100 + cost of a full price single). Having a ticket, but being unable to show it (phone dead/lost/whatever) won't prevent the penalty either - I've seen tales of appeals lost despite the person showing they had a valid ticket but their phone let them down.