New phone needed to meet work security requirements
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Like most at work, I use my personal phone to access work emails, work Teams meetings, etc.
Had to get a new personal phone to meet the updated security requirements for work.
Seems my older phone was unable to support the firmware updates required, so I got a new 5G Samsung phone yesterday afternoon which meets the new standards.
During the transition from old phone to new phone, I was locked out of LinkedIn for many hours, finally got access again this morning, and changed my password for good measure.
Took me hours to get access to my Gmail, going round in circles with authentications. Lost some of my Gmail folders too, apparently.
Lost *all* of my WhatsApp messages, and almost all of my WhatsApp contacts.
< sigh >
The phone transition has not gone well.
Just letting my connections and followers here know why I will likely be unusually quite here until at least next week, as I try to finish the transition to a new 5G phone.
The 5G phone compatibility with older 4G phones sucks. Android 11 data and software do not transition well into a new Android 13 phone.