8.6 this morning at 6 am
I blame the rise on the stressful day yesterday fighting the app I need to control the new cochlear speech processor I have. I ate rather too much chocolate and nibbles trying to get me through battling it.
The app crashes once or twice a day, resulting in my phone also crashing. Then when I start phone up again, I have to reset the settings for volume control again, because either app crashing and/or phone crashing because of this, has put the volume control back to default setting of having that yellow bit on the higher end of volume saying you are going to hurt your hearing. And the consequences of this is that the app says it cannot find my processor and tells me to attach it to magnet in my head...I feel my head again...yes it is there...my head and the speech processor. Another performance of me breaking the processor into two (yes I can do this) and reconnecting so that Bluetooth has to find it again....etc...sign into Cochlear again, enable permissions again...
Then suddenly something is up. My phone asks me if I want to pair with Jayne's watch....
Who the heck is Jayne? I am in my potting shed in the garden. no one on the roof of the potting shed...no one hiding in my garden...
Then my phone tells me it is attempting to pair my processor with another device...
What device? I only have my iPhone on. Every other device I have Bluetooth off, airplane mode on, and is shut down. By this time I have every device I own in a Faraday Cage...apart from this phone.
But phone still says on screen it is attempting to pair my processor to another device. Where? Whose device?
Then it tells me my processor cannot be connected to my phone at all in the Apple settings. This means I cannot even stream sound or music from my iPhone. The processor has to be found by Apple settings for me to be able to use Bluetooth.
By this time I am in real tears. Two hours I try. Nothing doing...
I am eating too much chocolate by now. In my defence it is the 100% black chocolate, so it shouldn't upset my diabetes too much...should it?
I have been trying my best to outwit an essential app I need which keeps divorcing itself from my Cochlear speech processor. I need the app to run and adjust it etc.
Finally I looked on reviews for both iPhone version of app and Android version of app, in general the reviews are appalling with just about every user complaining to the developers of exactly the same problems as I am encountering.
The standard response of the developers is what? “We are very sorry. Contact Cochlear...”
The Android app was first started a year ago, and those complaints have been there from the start. The iPhone app was started July 2018, and exactly the same complaints there from the start. So nothing has changed in a year.
So I clicked on the Cochlear link the developers gave. And am greeted with a photo of a distinguished looking gentleman standing in an airport terminal, with the same model of speech processor as myself, and the words were something on the lines of ...”So easy to control and adjust from your iPhone...” and more amazing promotional rubbish. He is holding his iPhone adjusting his settings....
(...would you like to insert in these brackets every word you might think I might've used....)
Finally I signed out of the app to get some peace. But this means I have to go through a rigamarole to sign in, pair etc etc all over again...
An email is being written to send to all parties Cochlear, Apple, hospital, and anyone else I can think of...
Technology is off my list today Sunday and Monday. I will enter the technological affray on Tuesday...
Have a great day, or extra long weekend if you live in the U.K. May the weather be good for you.
>^..^<
Postscript: Just tagged you
@zauberflote in case I said a bit more here than I explained earlier to you. Hope that is okay.
