LG TV, YouTube app and Chinese characters
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Apologies if this is the wrong forum to ask this but does anyone have an LG TV and use YouTube on it? In recent days I have a bit of an oddity where the options down the side of the YouTube app for search, subscriptions, games, movies etc all have appeared as Chinese symbols. Anyone else seen this?
It doesn’t seem to affect anything else, so video titles etc are all in English. Language on YouTube and TV is correctly set as is my location. I’ve tried resetting YouTube, uninstalling it and reinstalling, powering off TV but the issue is still there.
Bit of an odd one, anyone else have the same?
It doesn’t seem to affect anything else, so video titles etc are all in English. Language on YouTube and TV is correctly set as is my location. I’ve tried resetting YouTube, uninstalling it and reinstalling, powering off TV but the issue is still there.
Bit of an odd one, anyone else have the same?
ParanoidAndroid said:
Apologies if this is the wrong forum to ask this but does anyone have an LG TV and use YouTube on it? In recent days I have a bit of an oddity where the options down the side of the YouTube app for search, subscriptions, games, movies etc all have appeared as Chinese symbols. Anyone else seen this?
It doesn’t seem to affect anything else, so video titles etc are all in English. Language on YouTube and TV is correctly set as is my location. I’ve tried resetting YouTube, uninstalling it and reinstalling, powering off TV but the issue is still there.
Bit of an odd one, anyone else have the same?
Yep, I have Chinese symbols too. Never noticed until you mentioned it!
It doesn’t seem to affect anything else, so video titles etc are all in English. Language on YouTube and TV is correctly set as is my location. I’ve tried resetting YouTube, uninstalling it and reinstalling, powering off TV but the issue is still there.
Bit of an odd one, anyone else have the same?
Yep, I have Chinese symbols too. Never noticed until you mentioned it!
I had this problem about 6-7 months ago, was very frustrating. Also around the same time that the TV kept disconnecting my Bluetooth headphones on a regular basis and also doing other strange things.
I assumed it had been hacked or had a virus or similar - was close to changing the TV it was that frustrating.
Updated both the TV software and the YouTube app (numerous times) but still did it.
Weirdly found the only way to (temporarily) solve the problem was to unplug the TV from the wall for half hour but even then the problems would return a week or two later.
I have since moved house and never had any issues whatsoever with either issue - strange.
I assumed it had been hacked or had a virus or similar - was close to changing the TV it was that frustrating.
Updated both the TV software and the YouTube app (numerous times) but still did it.
Weirdly found the only way to (temporarily) solve the problem was to unplug the TV from the wall for half hour but even then the problems would return a week or two later.
I have since moved house and never had any issues whatsoever with either issue - strange.
ParanoidAndroid said:
Apologies if this is the wrong forum to ask this but does anyone have an LG TV and use YouTube on it? In recent days I have a bit of an oddity where the options down the side of the YouTube app for search, subscriptions, games, movies etc all have appeared as Chinese symbols. Anyone else seen this?
It doesn’t seem to affect anything else, so video titles etc are all in English. Language on YouTube and TV is correctly set as is my location. I’ve tried resetting YouTube, uninstalling it and reinstalling, powering off TV but the issue is still there.
Bit of an odd one, anyone else have the same?
Mine has just done this as well, 2016 oled.It doesn’t seem to affect anything else, so video titles etc are all in English. Language on YouTube and TV is correctly set as is my location. I’ve tried resetting YouTube, uninstalling it and reinstalling, powering off TV but the issue is still there.
Bit of an odd one, anyone else have the same?
journeymanpro said:
Had some issues with the YouTube app on nvidia shield and firestick. Couldn't log in and the left hand menu wouldn't display correctly. Seems to have fixed itself now.
That was a partial interruption to the YouTube service itself during the week.Not sure if that could be in some way related or connected to the WebOS app used on LG TVs. Both the android TV app (Shield & Fire Stick) and the WebOS app are effectively just web wrappers for YouTube, so maybe there might be a connection?
Corso Marche said:
That was a partial interruption to the YouTube service itself during the week.
Not sure if that could be in some way related or connected to the WebOS app used on LG TVs. Both the android TV app (Shield & Fire Stick) and the WebOS app are effectively just web wrappers for YouTube, so maybe there might be a connection?
Ah OK. Not sure if that could be in some way related or connected to the WebOS app used on LG TVs. Both the android TV app (Shield & Fire Stick) and the WebOS app are effectively just web wrappers for YouTube, so maybe there might be a connection?
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