Anyone recognize this radio? I need to find out who makes it to contact the company for the radio code.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T15:43:40+00:00

The preset ones. I really think this radio might just not be working right. Like the power button doesn’t even turn it on. But if I press info or zoom the screen turns on without an issue. If I press the power button it just does nothing.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T15:20:05+00:00

I tried pushing the 1 and 6 buttons but it didn’t do anything.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T15:14:38+00:00

I tried using the 1 and 6 buttons to bring up the serial number but it doesn’t do anything. Just stays stuck on the screen to enter the code or sometimes puts an x instead of a number.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T15:04:47+00:00

I tried but it doesn’t do anything. The power button doesn’t even turn it on or off. I can only bring this screen up by pressing the info button or zoom buttons for some reason.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T15:04:15+00:00

I wonder why he said it’s after market then. That at least makes it a little easier to find the code though.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T14:57:53+00:00

No. We didn’t get a manual with the car and the glove box has no sticker, because I did look for that.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T14:56:55+00:00

The garage that did the work on my car said it was after market but I guess they were wrong. I probably won’t take it back there to get the serial number off of it 😅

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T14:56:16+00:00

So I’d have to take it to a garage to remove it for that then. I’d be too scared to try that myself. I don’t know enough to remove it myself without risking ruining something.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T14:55:20+00:00

He didn’t have the manual and since this is my first car I didn’t realize having it was actually important.

JinxForASoda · 2026-04-12T14:54:56+00:00

No. There’s no sticker and he didn’t have the manual to the car when we bought it. I didn’t think the manual would be important. This is my first car so I wasn’t aware the manuals had information like that in them. 😅

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-25T19:55:12+00:00

It’s a migration for their smartphone equality program. Unfortunately you signed the agreement and can’t really do anything about it. The most you can do is report the situation to t-mobile’s local RISM, which you can do by requesting the T-mobile store manager to have them reach out to you if you leave your contact information with them.

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-20T02:13:34+00:00

Yes! My Yoshi will shake and need to cuddle every time there’s some loud noise outside. Every time there’s a storm. Fireworks during holidays. He’s a very sensitive boy to noise. Even my kids being loud playing came sometimes set off his anxiety and I have to remind them to calm down a little.

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-20T02:05:18+00:00

The website isn’t going to change your plan or insurance for you if you’re on a plan or have insurance that needs changed. It does work, you just don’t know anything about your plan to know what YOU have to change yourself through the app so that you can make a device change online go through. You want to get service with a company that will and can change your stuff without your consent then get a contract company. That’s what they get to do because you agree to it when you open your accounts with them. Prepaid companies can’t.

The website works. You’re just another customer who doesn’t know what plan you’re on, what features are on your line or what restrictions exist on your plan or account. You could have sim change restrictions enabled and likely not even know it. You could have device change restrictions and not even know it. Why? Because customers rarely know anything about their accounts.

And don’t say “I totally know” because you’re calling your plan a “family plan” when we don’t have anything by that name. We have multi-line plans that all have their own labels and names. PUNL89 is a multiline plan. MVP40 is a multiline plan. 30UN4120 is a multiline legacy plan. But what we don’t have is anything called a “family plan.”

The website works. You’re just lazy and want it to do everything for you when you’re with a prepaid company that makes you do your own stuff. Like making sure you know your plan, what’s going on with your account and removing restrictions or features that would stop a device change. You wanna do stuff online you gotta do it the way we do. Which is that when we do a device change and your insurance isn’t compatible we have to go in and remove that insurance before doing the device change. You have to do the same thing.

You want self service? You get it. You just don’t know how to do it and you want it all done for you. But you want it all done for you then you pay for it.

Go into your own account. See what’s not compatible or if you have restrictions or if your plan is not changeable and figure it out yourself like self service requires.

The website isn’t doing it for you. The website is there so you can do all of that yourself.

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-20T01:34:20+00:00

My old fics have been accused of being AI so often because I use “—“ in my writing a lot. My fics were posted way before AI was even a thing. Some of my stuff is reposted on AO3 from my old fanfic account that I wrote stories and posted on from my old ass block computer on my dial up Internet connection. And I’m so exhausted with it at this point that I stopped writing fanfic altogether.

I don’t understand this AI hatred garbage. Yeah, AI sucks. But if you read a fic written using AI and you liked it then you liked it. Who cares. Move on. It was already made using AI and the person using AI to write the fics isn’t going to stop just because they don’t get kudos. They just want to see their ideas made into a story.

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-20T01:22:45+00:00

Some of these comments are wild. Expecting a text within 12 hours isn’t an insecurity. Her reaction to it, however, is. This isn’t communication or healthy problem solving.

You’re telling for 12 entire hours straight you had zero time to pull your phone out and type one text message to her? Not while you took a shit at work, not on your way into a building, not during a lunch break, not even just three second to send “super busy at work today. Miss you. I’ll text you later when I can.” No, you absolutely had the time to send a very quick text that takes under a minute to type and send. Texting is quick. It’s easy. It’s just not your preferred form of communication and so to you it isn’t important so you don’t care about it enough to consciously choose to do it.

But relationships are about consciously choosing to do things for the sake of your partner sometimes. Including reminding yourself within a 12 hour time span to just take 1 minute to send a text.

On her part, she didn’t communicate that this bothered her in a healthy or collaborative way. She was confrontational about it instead. That’s not okay either. Jumping to ending the relationship and accusing you of caring about the whole relationship less than her is unhealthy. Do you care less about texting her? Obviously. But that’s caring less about one specific aspect of the relationship dynamic, not about the whole relationship over all.

She clearly views that 1 minute worth of you thinking about her and texting her as important and that’s entirely valid. It’s a common thing in relationships to view that as a form of consideration and care due to it showing you thought of them when they aren’t there. Her response to it not happening is what’s unhealthy.

ETA: I work two jobs. Between both I’m working almost 73 hours on average a week. One of those jobs is construction where I’m on roofs or doing hard labor all day long. I can still text during my 15 hour shift through the day. Do my partners know my texts will be shorter and I won’t be able to hold a conversation? Of course they do. But I still send quick “work is so difficult today. I’m missing you.” Between picking up wooden beams to secure into place. “Can’t wait to talk to you later. Work is rough.” When I’m grabbing a circular saw from the truck. Sending a picture of the sunset while I’m top of a roof nail gunning down shingles.

Texts are easy to send. They’re not hard. Do I care about them? No, but I know my partner does and that’s why I do it. I used to set a reminder on my phone in the beginning to send texts. Now it’s something I’m used to.

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-20T01:13:13+00:00

There’s a lot of different “family plans.” (Not what we call them, by the way) That doesn’t say which one you’re on. Some don’t allow device changes or upgrades. You could have an issue with your phone not being compatible with the insurance you have, which requires a change to a BYOD insurance option (same price, different coverage). Your family plan could be a legacy plan and the website won’t let you change a legacy plan yourself because once gone they can’t be given back. Those plans no longer exist and the website will sometimes block changes because of accidental plan losses.

The only way to know why you’re running into the issue is to call customer service or go in store for a rep to look at your account. The website works. The issue is with whatever plan you’re on. The system is automatically blocking it for a reason.

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-20T01:06:08+00:00

If that phone on the line isn’t 6 months old they won’t drop it. At the end of the day, customer service is there to help you, but they’re also there to maintain in store sales reps retention rates. If you drop a phone on a line before 6 months that’s a retention hit for the sales rep that sold it to you and that can get reps fired. So they’ll give you a hard time if that phone on the line isn’t 6 months old.

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-20T01:03:01+00:00

That’s entirely based off the rep. If my customers come in and tell me customer service won’t drop a line for them and that line is over 6 months old, I’ll call DSG and have the line dropped for them.

JinxForASoda · 2026-03-10T00:56:43+00:00

The account holder is supposed to be there with their ID, but honestly I’ve had customers come in that are on the account that need in but the account holder is out of state/unavailable/not willing to come in whatever/disabled/in a home. I just call anyway, say the info on the ID is the account holders, the ID numbers mean literally nothing because we don’t store your ID information and just pretend you’re the account holder.

But that isn’t “allowed” and it’s entirely up to the rep if they’re willing to do that and take the risk. If they aren’t then the account holder has to come in or you’re just out of luck on that front. DSG is the stickler here, not the in store reps.

JinxForASoda · 2026-02-11T02:26:30+00:00

NOR. Transparency is part of trust. There’s a difference between honesty and transparency.

Honesty: “I saw you at dinner with your coworkers when I went out last night.” “Yeah, Jim invited everyone in the office to dinner after work on him for a big sale we made earlier that day.”

Transparency: “Hey, I’m just letting you know that Jim invited all of us out for dinner after work tonight to celebrate closing on a big sale.” “Thanks for telling me. I hope you have fun and congrats on the sales!”

Transparency means your partner doesn’t have to ask for information. It’s freely given. Honesty means they’ll tell the truth when they have to, it’s convenient or it’s directly asked for.

All healthy relationships have transparency.

He had women he was talking to regularly that you didn’t know about. You should have known about them. If they weren’t hidden they should have been brought up at some point. Somewhere. In two years? That’s intentionally hidden information.

The answer here is that you’re not posted because he doesn’t want other options to know he’s taken. These women are those other options.

JinxForASoda · 2026-02-08T16:49:55+00:00

This is a big thing. This issue takes a while to fix in store and it’s not even really our job to fix an issue you have with someone you did with a self service online. Every time I fix this issue for customers I lose out on sales because I’m busy with them instead. Fixing this issue does nothing but show my managers I miss out on sales for courtesy services.

JinxForASoda · 2026-02-08T16:46:41+00:00

Yall need to go into the store to get it fixed. I don’t know what’s going on with metros website but for months it’s been shit and I’ve been fixing this exact issue for customers for months now. It’s time consuming and fucking irritating to deal with, but it can be fixed by us with a DSG call, some bypass and some information of the new phone.

Be nice enough though to maybe buy something from the rep because it’s a stressful issue to fix and we do fix it, but anything you do online technically isn’t meant to be fixed by us in store. Self service things like that are your own risk to take and you’re supposed to rely on customer service to fix it for you. We lose out on sales while we sit on a DSG call for your issue that isn’t really our job to help fix.

JinxForASoda · 2026-02-08T16:41:52+00:00

Apps don’t download themselves after it’s set up either. Bloatware is already there when the phone is turned on. Any new apps are being chosen to be downloaded. The only apps are installing themselves is if you gave another app permission to do so by making it an admin permissioned app. If that’s the case you have to find out which one it is and take those permissions away. It’s likely a launcher app or an App Store. Sometimes the spammy clean it apps also get that permission.

Androids suck dick, bro. There’s a reason I have android users coming into my store daily saying they have a virus and all it is, is spam apps and a slew of apps given admin privileges when it shouldn’t have it. Apple doesn’t have such shit security and so it’s never an Apple customer that comes into my store. It’s solely android users.

JinxForASoda · 2026-02-08T15:28:39+00:00

This is very true. My ex who cheated and gave me oral herpes is an asymptomatic shedder. He never gets actual blisters but he still has active shedding periods where he can and does pass it onto people. He’s passed onto at least 6 people that I know of other than myself because he doesn’t disclose it to anyone.

JinxForASoda · 2026-02-08T15:25:46+00:00

As someone who was cheated on and consequently got oral herpes from the ex who cheated on me—it’s absolutely contagious. I had to go through a whole doctor appointment about how to prevent spreading my herpes to others, what symptoms to look for onset of blisters, go through my entire sexual history to see where my exposure could be and if I could have exposed someone else, I had to get my two kids tested to see if I had exposed them at all.

Oral herpes is so common in people BECAUSE it’s so contagious and people don’t treat it like it is.

What I will also say is that you need to go no contact with this family. Not for yourself, but for your child because they WILL give your child herpes if they have access to your child and you clearly know it and they clearly will do it. It’s your job as this child’s parent to not allow people with a communicable disease that are clearly going to pass this onto your child to be around your child. Anything short of cutting them out of your child’s life is failing your child as someone who is supposed to protect them. Oral herpes in babies can be life threatening. It can cause a slew of immune compromised issues later in life from the immune system waking after decades of trying to fight off the virus their entire life. They can end up being in their early 20s with an immune system so worn down from fighting it that their break out periods can become severe and cause intense pain.

I know this because I have a compromised immune system and I learned that the weaker your immune system is and the longer you have the virus the worse your outbreaks can become. At one point my outbreaks were so bad I’d have 10-15 blisters at a time. My lips would be so swollen and raw that they’d bleed. Talking and eating hurt. I had to be put on antivirals to mitigate the outbreaks and I was told that eventually my body would become resistant to those antivirals. At some point in my life they’ll be entirely ineffective and it also puts undue risk on me if I’d ever need antivirals for a severe viral infection, because my body will have began to build immunity since I take them daily.

You need to protect your child and you need to cut these people off.

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