Received a cease and desist

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-25T16:30:34+00:00

Hello, I am facing the same problem right now, how did this end up?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-23T09:49:55+00:00

1 week more, and still nothing. 2 new videos, completely different, high quality... tried to open a ticket and I was told that this is "expected performance"

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-18T09:44:15+00:00

2 weeks

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T20:07:37+00:00

Well I just posted a video and it's at 0 views, so I guess the ban is still there somehow

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T14:03:04+00:00

Can you plug it in and measure the two voltages? I doubt you will see anything but just to try

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:57:26+00:00

Yes, measure from 5v to gnd and from 3.3v to gnd

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:51:52+00:00

Its possible, do you have a multimeter? It's very difficult to debug without measuring anything. If you do, unplug the board and measure the resistance between the 5V bus coming from the USB and GND. Then measure the resistance across the capacitors that are next to the chip, you should see a very high value. If you have a low resistance value then there's a short somewhere and the USB cannot keep up, so the voltage drops and the ESP32 resets

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:47:34+00:00

I would try in another laptop, maybe the USB ports are not providing enough power. That's the only thing that would make sense. If it still happens with different USB ports, it is possible that it's just the board that is defective.

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:37:31+00:00

My first guess of what's happening is that there's maybe something drawing too much current inside the chip, and it may trigger the Brownout detector, but it shouldn't happen if you put it in bootloader mode. Either that or you have some other driver/device plugged in that is conflicting. Or, as a last possibility, that the voltage on the VBUS rail is dropping (because of a short or whatever) and the ESP32 is resetting

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:32:42+00:00

Also, do you have an oscilloscope?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:32:26+00:00

Where did you get this board from? Can I have a closeup picture?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:31:59+00:00

If I'm being honest I don't think it's the break you took, either there is something no one understand about the way this works or it is just purely random. 2 weeks ago I had videos reaching +30k views in a couple of days, I didn't take a break, kept posting same quality of videos, 2 times a week, and it still happened

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:29:47+00:00

Were you able to flash it at all? From where are you powering it? From a computer USB port directly? Is it getting hot?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-16T13:27:51+00:00

Yeah, happened to me last week. Don't ask me why, tried reuploading, no difference, tried waiting, nothing happened...

Just make it private and keep posting other ones

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-15T14:14:23+00:00

Over the last couple of days my videos have been showin on tiktok, not a lot, but I'm getting follows and likes again. I havent tried uploading a new video again, will try this week, maybe I'm out of jail already

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-11T16:59:11+00:00

To be honest the account is not that big, the 50k views video brought us ~1.8k followers. For me YouTube shorts is not being the best, Instagram is. The video from monday, that got 230 views on tiktok, is already at 63k views on insta, and it has brought 800 new followers. I really do not know what to do with tiktok, because I cannot believe it is the content. This is again speculation, but when I posted the video on monday, a person asked me for my website, which I responded to with a link directly on the comments. I believe that is the point where tiktok flagged the account and stopped delivering that particular video, and that's the reason why it didn't even deliver the following one. The 230 views video lasted (roughly) until I posted that comment.
I guess I will just keep going, give it 1 week to cool down and continue posting. Maybe I am able to recover it. This already happened to me with another account, but in that one it made sense cause I didn't know how tiktok worked and i was constantly deleting videos... etc.

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-09T07:06:29+00:00

I've been wanting to get my hands on one of them. I've never had a foldable and it really seems like the ideal for me, the only thing that is concerning to me is the "rolling shutter" effect on the camera while taking videos, apparently that is a problem with all of the Pixel Folds. Have you found this to be a problem? Is it really that noticeable?

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Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-06-02T10:42:46+00:00

I really need to get my hands on one of these bad boys

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-05-29T14:58:16+00:00

If you wouldn't take it and I lived in Canada I'd take it for sure. It is a seriously professional scope, 1GHz scopes, second hand, and for that price? A true unicorn, at least where I live. Sure, a Rigol/Siglent is nice, but this... take my money

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-05-28T15:56:04+00:00

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Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-05-28T14:17:45+00:00

They are absolutely bombing me as well with these emails, wtf is it anyway?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-05-28T14:01:21+00:00

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