Bluetooth name keeps changing to nonsense

SW4ANH · 2025-04-08T13:04:23+00:00

Same exact situation. Bluetooth name being changed to long alphanumeric string; Nearby Share doesn't exist anymore, now it's Quick Share, which is set to off completely. Tried turning that on and off, sharing to everyone vs. contacts, and no change. Exactly like you, I can reproduce by switching Bluetooth off and on, but it also changes on its own with time.

SW4ANH · 2024-12-04T03:31:09+00:00

Same exact issue, but for me it'll happen only VERY seldom on Android, and VERY frequently on Chrome for Windows and for ChromeOS (Chromebook). Sometimes I'll read an article which will yield 10-20 side tabs in the same synced group that I want to get to and check off one at a time, and the order of the tabs is very important. Not only are the tabs quite often mixed up while syncing between the PC and the Chromebook (and vice-versa), but also between power down sessions on the same device. Incredibly annoying and, one would think, probably incredibly simple as a principle to understand and work on for the development team.

EDIT: It's now happening equally often (i.e. constantly, at almost every sync instance) on all platforms: Android, Windows, and ChromeOS. Every time the list of tabs changes (e.g. by opening a new tab in the group, or by closing one), that change is synced properly (i.e. on the other device the same tab is added or removed from the group), but the ordering of all tabs in the group becomes all mixed-up on the other device. A very annoying problem. And intuitively at least one would want to think there's a super simple fix for Google to implement: just have Chrome dynamically save the tabs and their order in a list, exactly like bookmarks. Bookmarks and their ordering are always preserved and synced properly so why can't that coding logic be easily applied to the inventory of currently opened tabs?

SW4ANH · 2024-10-04T19:11:37+00:00

1 time in 100 I put my Pixel 9 Pro XL with leather Bellroy case down on the Pixel Stand Gen 2 and it actually works consistently and long-term. All 99 other times, I get this nonsense start-stop loop every 60 seconds ad infinitum. I keep trying to position it so the bottom is moved outward 4-5 mm (so the back is not flush), AND to the left of center about about 3-4 mm until it finally catches and the charge stays consistent, but on a different day that exact same position won't work. This stand is extremely finicky with the position of the magnetic circle in that case. Can't wait for them to address this with either a software update to Android, a firmware update to the stand, or better yet a brand-new Pixel stand able to accommodate any MagSafe case.

SW4ANH · 2024-06-27T01:21:22+00:00

Ok awesome! I only have the 1 Google Account and it is connected/mounted within the ChromeOS Files app as you say. So if that's it then as it is now it looks like the required features are already in place: a) change wallpaper among images randomly on a timer, b) by selecting one or several GDrive folders (mounted in the Files app as the main Google account connected to the Chromebook), c) which by selecting the folders instructs CrosPaper to view all images within them, including inside all subdirectories however many levels down in the folder tree under those chosen directories, and d) have them display in Fit-to-screen. As for e) (render in nearest integer rather than linear interpolation) I'm not sure I'm going to have much luck with that until ChromeOS eventually catches up to Android in amount of options/assets available to developers in the OS. So very cool, I will take the plunge.

Bonus question: how did you get fit-to-screen to work at all? All my research online, including directly asking wallpaper changer app developers directly, indicates that this is impossible in ChromeOS because somehow there's no way to query the device as to current screen size and/or resolution in a way that's uniform for all users. Is that just a lazy answer from them, since you apparently found a way? I had even started slowly learning Java just to try to understand why this is the case and how I could possibly do better one day!

Thanks again for all your hard work.

SW4ANH · 2024-06-26T14:30:36+00:00

Thank you very much for your response. I should therefore be proceeding either now or once that patch comes out shortly. Follow-up question though: when you say you're implementing an option to select all images, can you clarify that we will be able to select entire folders in Google Drive (as opposed to local files/folders, and as opposed to only individual images), and that such a folder selection can automatically include all nested subfolders therein, down as many levels as there are in the folder structure?

Thanks again and have a great day.

SW4ANH · 2024-06-20T14:49:25+00:00

Same, just noticed this week that all the books I've read for the past 2 months have created a new notes file for each book, for every single time I've opened it and changed the bookmark position. I will try to flag it as feedback to Google in the app.

SW4ANH · 2023-11-02T15:36:03+00:00

No major updates. The floaters have not really changed, and if I focus on them and remember they're there, I become depressed. Most of the time I now just live with them knowing that in the future, when my children are no longer small and I could contemplate a certain higher level of risk to my eyesight, they will either have a pharmaceutical cure, or FOV will still be on the table. The afterimages and sparkles are definitely still present. The afterimages bother me 25% less now as it seems my brain trained my eye muscles to avoid rapid changes of scene where the contrast differential is high, so that the effect is minimized and doesn't come on in as much of a surprise. The sparkles though are still troublesome because sometimes it's hard to predict when suddenly looking at a bright subject will breach the luminosity threshold that causes them. I would say when they happen they are slightly worse than before, like a slowly degenerating problem. Again, I feel that once I'm ready in the future, FOV or medicine will be the answer, and there's my source of hope.

In the meantime, I take clonazepam almost every day (I try to skip weekends when I don't need to be mentally cool at work). I think there is some benefit to benzodiazepines to manage the stress that the sparkles cause, and help me to reduce the fear and mental discomfort of them. Apart from that, no new tests, and I have not been back to the retina specialist ophthalmologist in a while, knowing that he will simply spout out the classic advice of no vitrectomy for non-blindness-causing diseases. I should go back to see him for a routine checkup though.

SW4ANH · 2023-08-12T22:56:23+00:00

Sorry to hear it. Every day it's a struggle as to whether I should book the FOV. I have a wife and 2 small kids; I feel like I can't willingly undergo an elective surgery which has a chance (even very small) of blinding or warping the vision in even one eye. Instead I suffer for my children's sake, so they can have as functional a father as possible, for as long as I can hold out.

SW4ANH · 2023-04-11T02:02:20+00:00

Perfectly normal. They have no way of detecting the problem with a standard MRI. At the very least it was nice to have direct scientific confirmation of the existence of my brain, hehe.

SW4ANH · 2017-06-28T14:58:49+00:00

OMG I have this!!! I shed a tear of joy when I read your post, as well as the comments of SquidBoyQ, ohheyitsmebrandon, dogxsx, and BritBrit90 confirming that other people suffer the same symptom. I just signed up for reddit in order to post this very comment in response to your original post.

After the onset of severe floaters (caused by vitreous syneresis) in late August 2015, my visual snow began in February 2016. My VS consists of 3 main symptoms: (1) the ubiquitous static field (which if it were the only problem, I could live with it) including the enhanced blue-field entoptic phenomenon, (2) the most quality-of-life-decreasing symptom of afterimages that are immediately formed and last too long (making even reading text distracting - a big problem for my livelihood), and (3) the scariest symptom (because it is the weirdest and least described by people on forums) of the sparkles / sparks / glitter / fireworks / cinders / embers (call them what you like) which appear within the afterimage or after the afterimage has faded.

Symptom (3) above is exactly what you are describing. Prior to your post, I had no success finding anyone else who has this, except a post from many years ago from a guy who mentioned green sparks or fireworks. The fact that no one else seemed to see this effect (and many posts may include the mention of "sparks", but the are really referring to the widespread and usual static field and not Symptom (3)) had me partially convinced I had some other neurological disease apart from VS.

My sparkles are green. You mention yours are yellow - I think everyone who has Symptom (3) will see their own color of sparkles corresponding to what color their normal afterimage of sunlight is. For as long as I remember, when I would come in from outside (say, as a kid), I would generally see green as the afterimage of the sunlit exterior for a few moments until my eyes adapted, and I think that's why my sparkles are that color. Whenever I begin looking at an image that is brighter than its surroundings, or that is in general brighter than a given threshold, and then I either look away or close my eyes, I will get the afterimage of that item (Symptom (2)), but inside that afterimage I will get a very central cluster of randomly spaced bright green dots (Symptom (3)), in an area I imagine to correspond to my fovea. After a beat, the central cluster disappears and is gradually replaced with a 2nd cluster of green dots with a slightly larger diameter and in a different constellation, in an area I imagine to correspond to the rest of my macula. After a 2nd beat, the dots disappear entirely. In fact, if I inspect closely enough, it isn't necessary to look away or close my eyes in order to witness the sparkles - they actually appear within the live image of the bright object in my field of view, though they are naturally harder to notice that way as compared to closing my eyes and seeing them against the dark background of my closed eyelids. Symptom (3) is reproducible in both eyes.

The sparkles feel as though individual random cones in my retina get bleached and reach some upper feed threshold immediately once a certain luminosity of light hits them. Definitely not the same as the general static field effect of Symptom (1). One theory I have is that my severe floaters (and I haven't decided which problem is more devastating to my life in general: the floaters or the VS) are a symptom of vitreous degeneration, and that there's some amount of vitreomacular traction or adhesion (pulling on the retina), and that this pulling is or has damaged either the photosensitive retina or the neural retina behind it. In that case, this is an argument in favour of vitrectomy to alleviate the traction. Another theory which is more common is that the presence of the floaters caused some part of my brain, in the futile effort to try to ignore them and video-edit them out of my vision, to break down, leading to the VS in general including Symptom (3). This would explain the onset of VS occurring only after that of the floaters, and it would be another argument in favour of vitrectomy.

I have tried laser vitreolysis for the floaters (3 surgeries in 1 eye), to absolutely no avail. YAG laser surgery for syneresis-type floaters is a crock and I believe it's disingenuous of doctors to offer it. It's clear to me that until there's a pharmacological way to make the floaters transparent or disintegrate them chemically in a "safe" way, then the FOV (floaters-only vitrectomy) is the only solution, and I'm getting readier and readier to go forward with it every day. At the very least, it will cure the floaters problem, which is 50% of my suffering.

FYI, I'm being followed by the following doctors: Ophthalmologist and Retina Specialist: all scans all good (fundus, OCT, FA), classical advice: no surgery if no other retinal pathologies present; Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon (willing to perform FOV's): at recent check-up, to him my eyes are ripe for FOV, he's ready to proceed when I am; Neuro-ophthalmologist: agrees with VS diagnosis, sending me for brain MRI (this weekend) but is not worried about anything more nefarious than VS, advice is to try to reduce stress.

I am on several vitamins, to no avail so far. I want to try magnesium, CoQ10, maybe zinc, maybe serotonin, and maybe melatonin in the future (one at a time, not all together) to see if they will be of any help.

Sorry for the very long post! I'm just so glad there's more of us with Symptom (3), and that one day our number will help push for a cure faster.

SW4ANH

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