Tuesday, March 26, 2019

netgear r7000 reboot loop with tomato

Situation:
Reboot loop when connected to WAN.
Disconnected WAN allows boot.

Fix:
I had this when I turned on "Check connections" under multi-wan.
Disabled that setting and didn't have a problem anymore.

Monday, March 25, 2019

Jabra 65t connected but no sound


Problem:
no sound to bluetooth headset. Headset is connected.

Hardware:
Jabra 65t bluetooth headphones
Apple iPhone 7 plus

Fix:
Remove Jabra App in my situation. There are some other fixes that might work for you that I went through below.


I recently had an issue where no sound would go to the headset. It was connected to bluetooth, and pressing the button on the right headset would control what I was listening to. I was able to open the last App I was listening too (which is a super useful feature of these, the Airpods do not do this.) and I was also able to stop it from playing using that button. I was able to bring up Siri with the button and the assistant would show what I said, however, I never heard what she had to say.

Using google searches, I tried restarting my phone, resetting my network settings, nothing seemed to work.

I was able to unpair and pair the device, and I would hear sound for about 15 seconds before sound would turn off again. It would click and sounded like white noise. This should have been my clue to the issue, but I didn't put 2 and 2 together for quite a while.

After some more fruitless googling, I starting thinking about that sound in my ear, that white noise. When I would launch a podcast the headset would click like it was getting ready to do produce audio, but then returned to white noise. And when I would stop audio it would again, make sounds like it was changing audio settings. But only white noise. The headset was connected fine, evidenced by Siri responding, the headset turning on in my ear, the phone seeing the connection etc. Then it finally clicked, HearThrough. It was the sound I would hear when HearThrough was turned on in the Jabra App. I played around with the hear through settings and it would turn it on and off in my ear, but as soon as I left that screen, the 'hear through' sound would come back.

The root problem: the Jabra App. As soon an I uninstalled that app, I could hear regular sound again. I might reinstall the App because I really liked the built in white noise tracks it had, particularly the Rain and Ocean tracks. But if the hear through issues are going to be a regular issue, I'll just have to find other white noise tracks.

If you have any good looping white noise tracks, let me know!

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