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My fiancee's car doesn't like my phone. Sometimes it pairs just fine and gives no issues, other times it will disconnect every 30 seconds. Literally will be working fine, playing music, and then bam, no connection, and sometimes it will be a struggle getting it to reconnect. Doesn't happen with anyone else's phone. My phone also never has issues connecting to my car.

Our smart TV (Vizio) sometimes randomly has the video apps crash. In the middle of an episode it will just randomly kick us back to the main menu screen. Seen it happen with multiple apps, so it's not just a problem with one app's coding. Happens rarely enough that it's not a big issue, but still weird.

Reddit chat, need I say more?

My PC just won't turn on if he is cold. No, it is not "humidity is high" or too low temperature. It just doesn't turn on if he cold start. A little of heat on the mb and he turns on like nothing ever happened. Already replaced PSU, CPU, GPU, HDD, fans. So surely it is just a feature of my mb.

2016 ish asus vivobook, the bluetooth module will just randomly start spewing garbage into the USB controller, turning it and whatever is in the left port off. The wifi part of the card works great, restarting doesn't fix it, the duration it does this is random, disconnecting the laptops battery doesn't fix it. The only thing that fixes it is taking the card out and putting it back in place, probably a broke solder joint or something but this laptop is hot garbage so I'll get a new one before trying to take the whole mobo out.

Also my phone the other day shut itself off for 30 minutes, when it turned back on it was stuck on the Motorola Blue and Yellow boot screen for another 15 minutes, until it finally booted and was just fine. Still dont know what that's about.

On my car, a 99 subaru forester, When changing the battery or disconnecting the terminal, the Transmission controller will scream that the fluid is too hot and reaching like over 200 degrees, even though the transmission hasn't been engaged for a month. You have to just keep reconnecting the terminal until it correctly communicates with the ECU and stops freaking.

Technology is fun.

Sounds like my Sony Bravia

Reconnecting ARC on my sound system. I literally unplugged the HDMI from my receiver once with all components turned off completely and cannot for the life of me get it back.

2017 Audi Q7. Keeps alerting that the "Front side marker lights" are defective. Right and Left.

Both lights work fine. Alert comes back every time the headlights are on.

Apparently a super common problem.

https://www.audiworld.com/forums/q7-mkii-discussion-211/location-front-side-marker-light-2981577/page3/

My 9 year old LG smart TV (WebOS, but never connected to the network) will occasionally "overlay" RGB colour artifacts over the entire screen. There's no pattern of time, day, on duration, HDMI source, etc.

It just occasionally happens, probably once every month or two. Putting it into standby and back on again fixes it every time. 🤷🏻‍♂️

My phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra) will only partially pair with my car's (2018 Camery) Bluetooth.

It pairs for media just fine, so I can listen to music and podcasts no problem, but it refuses to sync phone calls and texts. It just goes into a loop of pairing/connected/disconnected/pairing.

I've reset the phone and cleared the cache on both ends.

It's something I've been meaning to do a deeper dive into for literal years at this point and just haven't. Need to check other devices to see if it's specific to my phone, and I should see if I can't do some monitoring on the Bluetooth comms directly. It's just low enough priority that I haven't gotten around to it.