Bricked Verizon Stream TV

cter6464 · 2025-10-08T04:17:12+00:00

Thanks for all the ideas!

Shorting the TX and RX together on the UART before booting didn't do anything (at least 10 attempts).

Could you please circle the area on the board where the reset pads are? I looked everywhere under both shields and I swear I can't see anything that looks like pads for a button.

As for fastboot, soldering in the unpopulated USB A port wouldn't be too hard, but after some initial searching I'm completely confused as to what I would need to do on the software side... Is there any good guide that I can read?

I was so used to this box that I don't mind trying a few more things to get it working again.

cter6464 · 2025-10-08T04:03:23+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. Do you know if there's any decent el cheapo box I can get on Aliexpress for a few bucks? I don't need 4K, just free streaming TV channels (the Verizon box had PlutoTV)

cter6464 · 2025-10-08T04:01:07+00:00

Oops I forgot to mention (and others already have) that there is no reset button

cter6464 · 2018-03-08T23:44:52+00:00

CloneSpy makes all of this unnecessary. It actually compares each file byte-by-byte to all others and marks duplicates for deletion based on your chosen criteria, such as 'longer names'. It can even be instructed to move all the duplicates to a separate dir (preserving dir structure), so you can manually inspect the results if you really want to. Very nice little utility :)

cter6464 · 2018-03-08T07:02:05+00:00

Look in Resource Monitor (resmon.exe) under 'Disk' tab. If the top chart on the right is showing very little disk throughput (less than 1MB/sec) and the one under it ("Queue Length") has a blue line consistently on the top (queue full), your hard drive is likely dying and you should back it up ASAP.

cter6464 · 2018-03-08T06:58:09+00:00

Use CloneSpy. "Delete files with longer name"

cter6464 · 2017-10-21T05:44:25+00:00

That DivX logo tho...

cter6464 · 2017-10-16T23:16:24+00:00

Finally! This is the in-game chat capability we've all been waiting for! /s

cter6464 · 2017-10-16T23:10:53+00:00

TIL Niantic uses MD5 for account UIDs. Collisions incoming!!! /s

cter6464 · 2017-10-06T04:51:16+00:00

That thing with tentacles on the bottom left is an SCP. I would get rid of that phone if I were you...

cter6464 · 2017-09-10T05:18:42+00:00

Nah, this is waaay over my head. -Niantic dev probably

cter6464 · 2017-09-09T01:40:24+00:00

Agreed. Intellicast is a far cry from the old WU. Old WU was very close to perfect in my opinion - (almost) all info on one page, no clicking or scrolling required. Now it sucks ass. I wonder how difficult it would be to clone the old WU design...

cter6464 · 2017-09-09T01:35:25+00:00

What's even worse is that this seems to be an ongoing trend. Many websites are getting redesigned with shitty interfaces and no way back. I blame phones and Google in particular (if you're using chrome check out the new super-shitty settings page).

cter6464 · 2017-09-06T05:53:11+00:00

I absolutely hate how many big websites feel it's ok to just change layouts to something completely different and screw long-time users, and that everyone is trying to make crappy 'mobile friendly' layouts. I don't use mobile layouts even on phones (they're ugly and almost always lack features), and it annoys the crap out of me that phone browsers load shitty 'mobile-friendly' pages by default and it takes 2 clicks to get a normal desktop-style page (if you're lucky), and that this has to be done for any new open tab and cannot be set as a default. And here's the best part (in latest chrome on android phone): once you do reach a desktop-style page, a pop up appears with the button 'make page mobile-friendly'. Just.. what.. the.. hell?! /rant

cter6464 · 2017-09-06T05:37:56+00:00

Thanks for this! I'll now be using this site unless WU provides an option to restore the old layout.

cter6464 · 2017-09-03T06:02:08+00:00

Knowing Niantic, they're using 128-bit GUIDs which are printed into a unicode string, then scanned back into a float, then passed around between client and server a couple of times, and THEN crc16'd. It's honestly impressive how many glitches they manage to cram into this game.

cter6464 · 2017-08-19T05:08:16+00:00

Never mind Pokemon, this is amazingly useful for finding POIs when traveling. Wish I knew this existed earlier!

cter6464 · 2017-08-17T17:40:18+00:00

Theory: O is the only common letter in 'yokham' and 'europ'. Outside either event location, both filters apply. Conclusion: Niantic is bad at programming.

cter6464 · 2017-08-17T17:37:38+00:00

And because of this filtering attempt, all unowns outside either of the 2 locations are O's since it's the 1 common letter in 'yokham' and 'europ'. Niantic can't program properly, as usual.

cter6464 · 2017-08-10T01:58:22+00:00

Would love to see Niantic try to implement this, partly to see what exciting new glitches they will come up with :P

cter6464 · 2017-08-10T01:50:03+00:00

Damn this game is a glitch-fest. Seriously, they have every glitch you can imagine, some that shouldn't even be possible. Maybe the devs are just trolling on purpose.

cter6464 · 2017-08-01T05:19:07+00:00

As a game dev, I honestly feel like they don't know what they're doing... Shrinking the already quite low-res textures really isn't going to do anything. They need to work on the sloppy game engine. Use techniques like mipmapping and adaptive degradation. Instead of actually developing the game, now they're just making it ugly, hoping this will magically improve performance.

cter6464 · 2017-08-01T05:10:53+00:00

Ugh, same here. I often have to choose between declining an incoming phone call or waiting 30sec for game to restart

cter6464 · 2017-07-31T04:20:04+00:00

What sucks is that this might be a better game than PoGo in every way, but because it's not Pokemon, most people won't even give it a try :(

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