Okay, my fellow bloggers around the world, especially Mary Kirkland from the United States, Irina from Russia, and Ananka from Scotland. How's it going, you guys? I hope you are doing great. As for me here, I'm doing just fine.
Today is Friday, November 13th, 2026.
I started writing my blog at 19:04, or 7:04 p.m. It's evening time, and actually, I would like to begin with my dinner, but I'd like to have it later, really in the next few hours. But I would like to start writing a simple blog post for you tonight.
The topic is about a week without a cell phone. I think it's quite weird because nowadays people always have a cell phone in their hand for any kind of business, for personal interest, for coffee, updating social media posts, or anything. They are always guided by their cell phone. Even children right now are using cell phones for their own interests.
And this is supposed to be my own experience of having no cell phone at all for a week, and I would like to let you know about my experience of having no cell phone for a week. Are you ready?
My first encounter
My first encounter was when I found out that my cell phone was not working properly since last Friday. Last Friday, yeah, one week from now. Now it's Friday, November 13th, and it started from last Friday.
What happened last Friday? Okay, that day, last Friday, I found out that my cell phone was not working properly because the percentage of the battery was low, about 10%. It's okay. I had to charge it with the charger and data cable plugged into my cell phone to get the battery further loaded until it became 100%.
And what happened? Something weird happened that day, last Friday. My cell phone was not charging at all, even though I had already plugged in the data cable and charger into the port of the cell phone.
The cell phone was not increasing the charging percentage from 10%, 30%, 70%, and 100% as usual.
The cell phone at that moment was not working anymore, and the phone was not charging at all That's the first encounter when I found that my cell phone was not working properly.
Okay, my friends, thanks for keeping an eye on my article today.
And when I found at that moment, last Friday, that my cell phone had stopped working properly, I decided to hand over my cell phone because it was completely broken at certain points.
Yeah, my cell phone was working normally, actually, but the problem was with the port. The port could not become a bridge to connect the charger, the outlet, and the device itself. The phone was not charging at all.
That was the first problem. The second problem that I found out was actually that the cell phone did not have a working on-off button. Every cell phone always has an on-off button on the left or right side, and my cell phone, which is a Samsung A10s that I purchased at the beginning of the COVID-19 spread in Indonesia, did not have a working on-off button on the left or right side.
Actually, it did have an on-off button, but it was completely broken.
So, when I wanted to turn on my cell phone, I used a needle to turn it on, or I asked my friend to call me and make a little missed call. When the missed call was made, the screen of my cell phone would open. That was the moment when I could use my cell phone normally.
And when I found that the cell phone was not doing anything for about 15 minutes, the screen would automatically shut down. When I wanted to turn it on, I did the same thing again and again. That was either using the needle to turn it on or asking my friend to give me a missed call. When the missed call happened, the screen would open perfectly.
That happened again and again.
It made me feel uncomfortable and made me feel so upset.
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Repairing My cell phone
Okay. At the same day, last Friday, a few hours from the reality that my phone was not working properly. So I go to the service center, very close to my area. Actually, I would like to hand it over to official Samsung service point, but the distance from my residence, from my home to Samsung service point is quite far away.
So I decided to visit local Samsung service point nearby, very close to my home. And I found it. There was a lot of service points in my surrounding. So I choose randomly, and I found it one. I gave it to them to fix everything that I have mentioned to you before: the problem is port connection, data charging is not working properly, the on-off button is not exist anymore, and so on, including the screen.
And when everything had been checked by the technician, and the fee, the costing repairing fee, is about 300,000 rupiah, Indonesian currency. So for those who are from outside of Indonesia, from the United States or any point country, you can count it by your own currency, how does it cost in your currency. But in Indonesia, the repairing fees of my cell phone is about 300,000 rupiah.
And the hilarious fact that even though that the technician told me that repairing moment is not too long, I could have wait for the phone being fixed for about one or two hours, and the reality that... I might be able to pay the repairing fee and also take the phone back to my home to be used as normal another one week, about seven days. It's quite hilarious, right?
Actually, the phone can be fixed only a few hours. I as a customer can be wait until the phone already being fixed. But unfortunately, I told them that even though my phone could be have already being fixed, but I pay the fee or take the phone with me again in the next seven days. You know why?
I do not have money at the moment
The reality is that I do not have money at the moment. So I have to wait another seven days because my salary will be paid for the next seven days. And today, Friday, Friday, November 13, is the moment that I got the salary. So I think it is the best moment for me to go to service center to take my phone back and pay all the fees that have been mentioned before, and I can use my phone again normally.==o
Okay, my friend, thank you for keeping an eye with my article. And I'd like to let you know a little story and funny story instead of the saying that I have mentioned to you before. But the question might be pop up in your mind: what do I have to do to communicate with friends, to update my work, to my cell phone, to update anything to all my social media platform? Everything should be used by phone, right?
You know why?
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Because the phone is very simple, do not have taken much space, is very small, can be saved in a pocket, in a purse, or something. The problem is that the cell phone is being fixed. This is a story about what I'm going to do without cell phone for one week. This is the general idea of this topic: a week without cell phone.
This is the real story of everything. And while waiting for my cell phone being fixed by a technician in the service point nearby, I have opportunity. I still be able to communicate, contact with my friends, updating my work, or maybe writing, or maybe updating all my social media platform.
Everything can be done normally through laptop.
This is one of the best solution to finish everything, to complete everything by using laptop. Because, yeah, this could quite be one of the... Good advantages of using laptop. That by using laptop, it has wide screen. It can load everything with perfect picture. Because the screen is very wide, that is one of the biggest advantages of using laptop. I can do almost everything, dealing with social media platform, updating my Facebook account, Twitter, ads, blogs, or maybe Facebook, or maybe reading some articles through official website. Everything can be done perfectly with laptop.
The problem now is the size of the laptop.
It's quite big.
So it is really impossible to take laptop with me everywhere I go, especially to work, because the size is very big, yeah, quite big, 12 inch or more. That could not make me feel comfortable to take laptop with me to replace the function of cell phone. That is why a cell phone is still number one communication device that should be accompany with me and with me wherever I go. And that is the general, the whole idea of this article
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