Phone grrs

I mentioned last night that it took me around an hour to successfully locate and install the software that allowed me to get pictures from my camera to the computer. When I connected the phone to the computer, it said in huge red letters, "Update now!" so I said yes. Afterwards, I discovered that this process had somehow wiped everything on my phone and reset it with a new style. The first thing I noticed was that the background picture had changed, which seemed innocent enough, but then I found that all the had icons moved to different places, and most of the icons that I use had vanished, replaced with things I didn't want. Then I found that it had changed my home page on the internet, wiped all my bookmarks, and lost my saved passwords. Then I found that it had erased all my contacts. Since this is a new phone, and I use it mostly for the internet, I didn't have many contacts in it, and they're all replaceable, but lots of people keep their entire address book in their phone, and losing it would be an enormous thing.

I can only assume that when I said "update now!" I was authorising all this, but, really, wouldn't you expect something to say, "this process will wipe absolutely everything you have saved on your phone! Are you sure?" before doing it?

Oh, and one more annoyance: the new system played an annoying little pingy noise for every letter typed. Trying to get rid of it, naturally I went to the "sounds" category in the settings, but couldn't find anything there that allowed me to get rid of it. Pellinor found the control eventually: in the "keyboard" section. While it can sometimes be hard to find the right category for a setting you want to change, who on earth decided that "get rid of a sound" didn't belong in the "sound" section? Grr!