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HTP99

22,641 posts

141 months

Thursday 9th May
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bmwmike said:
I like the new circle to search thing. Might be new as in I've only just discovered it, aka old news.
Yep, been available for a few months now.

Gren

1,954 posts

253 months

Thursday 9th May
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HTP99 said:
Yep, been available for a few months now.
It's nice when you need it but I must accidentally trigger it 7 or 8 times a day

TotalControl

8,096 posts

199 months

Thursday 9th May
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Head a little forced update last night. What's new?

Mammasaid

3,899 posts

98 months

Thursday 9th May
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TotalControl said:
Head a little forced update last night. What's new?
Just security updates I believe.

the-norseman

12,537 posts

172 months

Thursday 9th May
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.Adam. said:
Has anyone joined the Pixel Superfan thing?
Joined it last year nothing decent has come of it yet. I've applied to test their latest stuff as I can get into London in about 40 minutes.

I think their latest email was to win a footballs shirt from either England Women or Arsenal Men/Women or Liverpool Men/Women.

As a West Ham fan, dont really want any of them.

C5_Steve

3,299 posts

104 months

Friday 10th May
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the-norseman said:
Joined it last year nothing decent has come of it yet. I've applied to test their latest stuff as I can get into London in about 40 minutes.

I think their latest email was to win a footballs shirt from either England Women or Arsenal Men/Women or Liverpool Men/Women.

As a West Ham fan, dont really want any of them.
Yeah that did kind of read like they found some stuff lying about the office no one wanted didn't it..... rofl

I also put my name down for the testing thing, I'm sure thousands would do as well so let's see if anything comes of it.

Captain Answer

1,355 posts

188 months

Friday 10th May
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Aloe coloured 8a is on the way, with the boosted trade in it came to £300 traded using my lads old 3a that's in the draw as a spare - will put my 6 away as a spare now and then probably hang on till the 10 comes out hopefully - seemed a good deal and get some value out the old 3a

fathomfive

9,958 posts

191 months

Friday 10th May
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Picked up a 6 Pro a couple of weeks back to replace a Huawei P20 Pro.

Are there any recommendations for a wireless charging stand for it?

CharlieCrocodile

1,203 posts

154 months

Friday 10th May
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fathomfive said:
Picked up a 6 Pro a couple of weeks back to replace a Huawei P20 Pro.

Are there any recommendations for a wireless charging stand for it?
I got the pixel stand which is very good, pricey but if you've got any Google store credit to use then it's a good option.

smithyithy

7,265 posts

119 months

Tuesday 14th May
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Has anyone's Pixel ever randomly stopped connecting to their mobile network?

I've been without it for 24 hours now - I'm with EE through 1P mobile, it's showing the 4G or 5G symbol (depending where I am), but the little signal bar has a '!' in it and I can't get any mobile network.

WiFi works fine. There's no reported EE issues in the area (parents are both on EE with no issue), I've restarted the phone half a dozen times, removed and reinserted the SIM, reset network settings (which didn't seem to do anything)...

Any suggestions? I'm away next week for work so need a working phone laugh

Dave.

7,395 posts

254 months

Tuesday 14th May
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You could try resetting your network connections, but you'll lose your saved WiFi and Bluetooth pairings.

oakdale

1,811 posts

203 months

Tuesday 14th May
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If you go to sim and network settings on your 1p account, does it show the sim as being live?

smithyithy

7,265 posts

119 months

Tuesday 14th May
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Dave. said:
You could try resetting your network connections, but you'll lose your saved WiFi and Bluetooth pairings.
This is what I tried initially, although it seemed to still remember my WiFi settings as it automatically reconnected to our home WiFi after a restart

oakdale said:
If you go to sim and network settings on your 1p account, does it show the sim as being live?
It does. However I managed to get through to their online chat and they confirmed they've had lots of reports over the past 48 hours about the issue so they're looking into it..

So seems to be a network issue rather than a phone issue, which I suppose is preferable although they don't have an ETA on getting the issue sorted..

Funk

26,335 posts

210 months

Tuesday 14th May
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CharlieCrocodile said:
fathomfive said:
Picked up a 6 Pro a couple of weeks back to replace a Huawei P20 Pro.

Are there any recommendations for a wireless charging stand for it?
I got the pixel stand which is very good, pricey but if you've got any Google store credit to use then it's a good option.
I have a couple of them and can't fault them.

21st Century Man

41,028 posts

249 months

Tuesday
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I've downloaded various photo and video files from my 6 Pro today, saved to my pc and to an external hd, but the MP4 video files are problematic. On playback the video is laggy, like slow motion, it freezes up, pixelates etc, but the audio is fine. It's the same when opened up with a selection of media players. I've not had this problem before.

Could this be a problem with my phones recording or my players? Previous older saved videos from this phone are fine. The current batch play fine on the phone too, just not when saved.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Edited by 21st Century Man on Tuesday 21st May 17:49

Corso Marche

1,726 posts

202 months

Tuesday
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First instinct is that its codecs missing from your players.
MP4 is just a file format or "container", and the video content is contained within that but encoded/compressed using any number of possible codecs.
It seems this specific codec is likely not installed on your computer with any of your existing media players.

Do a search on adding codecs to your chosen media players.

Or if you sync G Photos from your phone to your online account open G Photos in the browser and download the video from there. See if your players support that downloaded version.
Or upload it to YouTube on your phone using your account and download it on your computer in the browser. That'll be another common codec for video.

That's just a few options.

21st Century Man

41,028 posts

249 months

Tuesday
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Thanks CM. I thought it might be codec related.

Strange that it's just this last round of downloads affected and not previous ones.