There are plenty of reasons to factory reset a phone. Perhaps the time has come to sell or give it away, or maybe you got bitten by some nasty malware. Regardless of the reason, you'd reasonably ...

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Following last week’s fix for most users, Google is rolling out a Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio fix for those that factory reset their Cast streaming devices. The fix for those that ...

Owners faced a massive problem with the entire Pixel 6 lineup when factory resetting their devices, which led to bricking, but Google now detailed a way to avoid it. This problem has been plaguing ...

Last week, the Chromecast (2nd Gen) and Chromecast Audio found themselves a part of a global outage that caused multiple days worth of frustrations for their owners. Google was at least quick to ...

Earlier this month, a serious error broke streaming on older Chromecast hardware. While Google developed a fix that started going out last week, it wouldn’t work if ...

This has been a frustrating week for many Google Chromecast users, who have found that an outage has rendered their devices temporarily useless. Google has now shared an update that it has identified ...

At the beginning of the week, owners of the Chromecast 2nd Gen and Chromecast Audio were presented with a message that suggested their devices had “outdated device firmware” and could not be used.

A mysterious bug is affecting numerous older Chromecast devices, as per a lengthy thread on Reddit—specifically, the second-generation Chromecast and the Chromecast Audio, which both launched in ...