Note: this is not a request for troubleshooting help.
For the past few years my 10ish year old “smart” TV will maybe once a week or so completely lose the ability to play sound in the Youtube app, and only in the Youtube app. Sound works just fine everywhere else. Bizarrely this is always triggered by an ad and never a video. Restarting the app doesn’t fix it, and neither does clearing the cache. Fortunately doing a full restart of the TV fixes it, it’s just irritating to have to restart because an ad somehow broke the sound.
What technological gremlins haunt you?
My phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra) will only partially pair with my car’s (2018 Camery) Bluetooth.
It pairs for media just fine, so I can listen to music and podcasts no problem, but it refuses to sync phone calls and texts. It just goes into a loop of pairing/connected/disconnected/pairing.
I’ve reset the phone and cleared the cache on both ends.
It’s something I’ve been meaning to do a deeper dive into for literal years at this point and just haven’t. Need to check other devices to see if it’s specific to my phone, and I should see if I can’t do some monitoring on the Bluetooth comms directly. It’s just low enough priority that I haven’t gotten around to it.
My 9 year old LG smart TV (WebOS, but never connected to the network) will occasionally “overlay” RGB colour artifacts over the entire screen. There’s no pattern of time, day, on duration, HDMI source, etc.
It just occasionally happens, probably once every month or two. Putting it into standby and back on again fixes it every time. 🤷🏻♂️
Small world. My 47LM8600 LG TV (which is 3D, from 2015!) occasionally fails to pop up its pop up menu when asked, the one that has the input list and so forth in it. Instead it shows a vague error about “memory problem” and prompts the user to factory reset the TV.
Turning it fully off and back on again fixes it, and the issue won’t reoccur for usually several months.
Wow. Nice group of people with old LG WebOS TVs! I have an 42LBsomething with 3D. Works fine. Sometimes the YouTube App crashes because it’s out of memory. But nowadays with all the ADs it’s barely usable anyways.
2017 Audi Q7. Keeps alerting that the “Front side marker lights” are defective. Right and Left.
Both lights work fine. Alert comes back every time the headlights are on.
Apparently a super common problem.
Check the fluid level. Wife had the same issue and the guys at the shop just said needed a top off on the fluid.
The headlight fluid? ;)
Not sure about this specific model, but in older cars things like this are almost always caused by either too high or too low resistance in the wiring harness or headlight assembly itself because that’s how the car detects when a light is out.
Reconnecting ARC on my sound system. I literally unplugged the HDMI from my receiver once with all components turned off completely and cannot for the life of me get it back.
Sounds like my Sony Bravia
