After the mess that was the House of Commons this afternoon, let's talk about something that is IMPORTANT, when you lose your phone or to be more precise, when you manage to block your self out of it by accident. My mobile was VERY old, most of the memory was taken up by a internet provided firewall, the problem is when I tried to get rid of it, the phone blocked me out. The phone would send a new PIN number but it would only send it to my gmail account on the mobile, when I could not access because the phone was blocked. The old mobile, yes we are talking the early 1980s here was a brick, of course since then the mobile has developed, now its like your third hand, you only realise you have lost something when you can not access the d-m thing.
Thus last night I tried to access my gmail account via my laptop, the problem was that I had forgotten the password to it, thus had to get my email account to send a recover key from my other email account. Then I tried to manually restore my phone from the site of my firewall and virus checker, the problem was it did not work, every time I reset my pin for my phone it did not work. My the end I was totally confused. Thus I had hope this morning that if I went to my local computer shop they could fix it, well after nearly an hour I was give the telephone numbers for BT ( free call ) to get the number I wanted, my reaction was thanks a lot.
As will all things my mother came up with a solution, why not go the mobile providers shop and see if they could so something, and YES they could, it cost me £170 pounds, but it solved it, got a new phone with new memory and got my phone back with my number. I have left the hours travelling from my home to the shop. just to get a new phone. Thus lesson, if you are going to play with you phone, better leave to it to an expert, so if it goes wrong, it is their problem.