On my old phone I had an issue with the proximity sensor and front facing camera. This led me to holding my phone backwards to take photos and being unable to hang up phone calls.

I think I put up with this for a year and a half.

I did end up figuring out the issue with the proximity sensor but opening up my phone to reconnect the camera module was too much effort for me.

  • IDontEvenGoHere@reddthat.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    I got an HP laptop in university and someone coughed a mouthful of tea onto my keyboard a few months later. At first I kept “a” on my clipboard so I could paste it as needed while typing, but soon other keys followed. So my computer is over 6 years old and I’ve been typing for almost 6 years using:

    • The 4 on my num pad as the A key
    • The 7 on my numpad as Q
    • The 5 on my numpad as tab
    • The 2 on my numpad as Z
    • The help/F1 is ESC
    • The numpad 1 to type 1 and exclamation points

    Recently, I’ve also changed the minus on my numpad to be ` (backtick). I don’t have a capslock. Thankfully, the damage didn’t continue to spread because I would have eventually run out of keys.

    Sometimes I fantasize about someone calling me out on a weird typo so I can tell them about it.

  • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have a Tecno spark 8c and it can’t download attachments using mobile data from the Gmail app. Works when I’m on wifi. Must be some app like the Download manager having an error or some metered connection thing(I did check for that for apps like Download Manager n Downloads).
    Workaround for gmail me was logging on gmail in chrome. K-9 mail also works. So it had workarounds.

    Recently it started affecting Tachiyomi downloads too. Can’t really ignore it now when I’m not connected to wifi. Did check for it, but didn’t find a reason/solution. Been thinking about a factory reset, but not really keen on it as I would have to backup files(important ones do have copies) n app settings.

  • Lemuria@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    When I set dark mode in an app, the top of the window would remain light, in XFCE. But in early January 2024, I realized it was because XFCE had a theme setting in both Appearance and Window Manager, and they were conflicting with each other. I ignored it for quite a while but now I’m happy with my full dark mode computer

  • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    Years ago I got a second hand Sega Saturn - it was fine for a while then stopped working because it couldn’t read the disks.

    But then I discovered (not sure how) that if I turned it upside down it would work fine. So I did that for a couple of years.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    0·
    1 year ago

    I knew a woman who used an iPhone 6 up until I think 2022.

    Her secret was she never did updates. And lo and behold, the phone kept working fine and she never felt any need to get a new one. By the end, the battery lasted about 15-20 minutes.

    • PlexSheep@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is pretty horrible to hear as someone working in security. Just because it works does not mean you should do it.

      I imagine her data gets lost multiple times per year.

  • xthexder@l.sw0.com
    0·
    1 year ago

    My parents’ plasma TV (probably one of the last working ones in existence) has had HD overscan cutting off the edges of the picture for as long as I can remember. Once they started using a laptop as a media PC, they had to increase the height of the start menu to see it. Just this week I found the setting to fix it burried deep in the TV menus.

    They’ve been effectively watching 720p scaled up to 1080p this entire time…

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      probably one of the last working ones in existence

      I just decommissioned mine. I got it for free from my parents who got it for free from my aunt who got it with their house when they first moved to the area about 15 years ago. Only reason I decommissioned it is it no longer plays any audio from HDMI sources, and we wanted something a bit more power efficient. I plan on opening it up and seeing if I can repair it, then it’ll probably be put into another room to continue being used as a TV

  • Footnote2669@lemmy.zip
    0·
    1 year ago

    When I turn on my PC, it goes into BIOS and I have to Save and restart for it to boot. It doesn’t detect the boot drive at first. Sometimes it does. Been like this for the past 5 months

    • acid_falcon@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      My computer wasn’t booting properly for a month or two, I think it was saying boot drive not found or something. It would work if I went into boot options and picked my main drive.

      The cause? I used the Blu Ray drive for the first time in years, and for some dumb reason, that was listed higher in the boot options. My computer was trying to boot into a Blu Ray of Blade Runner

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    0·
    1 year ago

    Spotify would just pause. No reason, no warning. It would just pause. So I’d pull my phone out, unpause it, then it would pause again.

    I think it’s been fixed now? Maybe? Hard to tell, because it happened randomly.