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I recently installed a new BBOX 3 to access Internet via Proximus and wanted to open the port 80. Once configured via “My Proximus” (via your Services), don’t forget to reboot your modem!
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From time to time, I can’t access any web page anymore on my NAS’ port 80 from the web. The solution is to reboot the my modem (BBOX2) or reset its internal firewall. It’s never an issue with my NAS (Synology DS1815+)
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When this issue occurs, I can still access web pages on specific port like Plex (e.g.: on port 32000) or my NAS’ admin console on his own port (e.g.: on port 8080). Also the “Cloud Sync” service of my NAS is still able to sync files with Google, DropBox and Hubic. Finally, JDownloader which is installed also installed on my NAS, is still able to download.
To reboot my modem takes time but solve the problem. Another option is to reset the firewall:
The problem comes from a NAT table full, most probably due to JDownloader or Cloud Sync. But I don’t know how to check which one is the culprit.
Info about B-BOX-2 of Belgacom/Proximus: http://setuprouter.com/router/belgacom/b-box-2/
Since I have my Galaxy S7, I only connected it twice with my Philips Bluetooth headphones CB8100. Once to play with an Oculus Game and once to listen music. Twice, I was surprised how bad was the reception. Sound was crackly and skipping continuously. It was due to the WiFi !!
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When I used my headphones to play an Oculus gamen I thought that the mobile was not powerful enough to stream the sound via Bluetooth while playing the video. Weird, but ok… it was also not powerful enough to mirror the video on my Samsung TV, so….
But when it failed also to stream fluently music, either from YouTube or from by DS Audio Stations (Synology), I thought there should be a reason behind this.
As it’s known that Bluetooth and WiFi are both using the frequency 2.4GHz, I tried to disable the WiFi… and it solved immediately the problem.
I never never had such a problem with my previous mobiles 🙁 Also, I am quite sure I would not have that issue if I could connect on a WiFi 5Ghz.
Support page for GS7 in Belgium is: http://www.samsung.com/be_fr/support/model/SM-G935FZDALUX
Awful support from Samsung!
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I did post a request for support to Samsung on the 2nd May and only got an answer on 20th May. I said that the noise was awful when the Wifi was on and great if it was off. I also said that I had not such issue when streaming from my 300€ OnePlus One mobile (the S7 was 799€) or from my Sony Laptop or from my Lenovo Tablets.
They answered that “Samsung does not guarantee the proper functioning of Samsung products. with other branded”
WTF Samsung! Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are standard wireless protocols. My headset works perfect with 3 other brands.
Numéro de dossier client : 2812699319
Merci pour votre courriel concernant votre Galaxy S7. Vous indiquez que vous avez un fonctionnement anormal avec votre casque Philips tout en ayant le Wifi activé.
Nous vous informons que Samsung n’assure pas le bon fonctionnement des produits de marque différente que Samsung avec des produits Samsung.
Si vous avez des questions vous pouvez toujours contacter notre centre de contact. Cela peut se faire par téléphone, par courriel, Facebook ou Twitter.
Cordialement,
EL HARIM Med
Customer Care Representative
Samsung does not support officially the “Adoptable Storage” feature available with Android 6.0. But there are many posts on the web explaining how to do it via “ADB” (Android Debug Bridge).
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Android Marshmallow has the ability to take a SD card and partition it as semi-permanent device storage. But it’s not accessible on the Samsung Galaxy S7.
I applied this recipes with success: http://www.modaco.com/news/android/heres-how-to-configure-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/
Before this, due to Oculus VR stuff, my internal storage was full although I already moved manually most Apps to the SD card. Now, after the “Migration of the Data” only 18GB are still used out of the 32GB (~13GB have been moved to the SD Card).
NB.: Since I did this, I notice that moving Apps to the SD often results in an error message : “Not enough storage space”. I usually just retry and then the move succeeds.
Sometimes, I eventually need to contact “someone” (= a Human) from eBay or Amazon if I have an unusual issue. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find the right contact page for that. Here are the ones for eBay and Amazon. Good luck (you will need it).
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Amazon
The best support is IMO provided by Amazon. I always got a response from a human within 24 hours. They even called me back once to tell me they got the “suggestion” I sent (not an issue) and were happy to take it into account.
In English:
In French:
Notice: not being logged in, you could be missing the option to chat with someone.
eBay
It has always been much less obvious for me to contact eBay. They are much more pushing the customers towards automatic answers, making impossible for us to report an issue not foreseen in advance (like recurrent delivery issue with their shipping carrier not able to take not correctly of “long” addresses). However, in French, it’s still assumed to be possible to contact an employee via this form:
French: http://ocsnext.ebay.fr/ocs/cuhome (Select a topic and you will have the opportunity to write a message to an employee or give him a phone call. Authentication required). Ex. or direct link for an undelivered item: http://ocsnext.ebay.fr/ocs/cusr?query=1479
ONCE submitted, you will get an automatic answer with standard tips to solve your problem. REPLY on this email if you really want a human to read and react on your question!
In English, you will only be able to give a phone call or you will be suggested to contact the eBay community.
English: http://ocsnext.ebay.com/ocs/cuhome (much much less straightforward, you have to do the right choices and won’t always be able to write a message to an employee. It sucks !)
How Amazing is Amazon’s support.
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Amazon provided me the very best level of support when I submitted an issue I got with an undelivered item bought on.. eBay (I buy so much on Amazon.de and Amazon.fr that I didn’t pay attention when I sent them my complain, instead of contacting eBay). As I immediately noticed my mistake, I resubmitted the problem to eBay. But an employee of Amazon answered within 24h, being sorry about that issue and trying to find among my orders the item mentioned in my complain (asking if I bought this item via a subcontractor, or…)…. On eBay side, I have been waiting for an answer during a whole week and they were unable to help!!! I had to figure out myself that my address being too long for the system of their carrier (the carrier available “out of the box” for sellers of ebay.uk). My address had been truncated! I told eBay that I this was the issue but they didn’t handle the problem. I was unable to contact the carrier as this one refused any contact with end-users. I only got my order after about 2 months 🙁
Yet another example:
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Again excellent and quick support from an Amazon’s employee: DHL regularly fails to deliver my orders because they use deprecated GPS and don’t find my address (I am in a new residential area built in 2011). DHL neither tries to call me nor try to check my address on Google Map (One kind employee did it once. I saw he had a google map printed next to him). They simply set “Unknown Address” on the delivery and contact the expediter. As I am a customer, they don’t allow me to provide them a new address (or explanations) by phone. And as my address is correct, the expediter can’t give them any additional information. I hate DHL!
I did submit this issue to Amazon.de as I recently missed 4 of their deliveries. I got an answer 2 hours later (on Friday 23:23!). Amazing Amazon !
Hello!
I didn’t get my lasts orders yet… The carrier, DHL, pretends that my addess is unknown. I am very dissatisfied by DHL. I have very regular issues with their deliveries (not only with those sent by Amazon!). They use deprecated GPS and always pretend that they don’t find my address (it exists since 5 years now). The worst is that they don’t even try to call me to check. And next, they don’t want me to provide details to deliver as I am a “customer” and only the “expediter” may provide new delivery information.
My address as known by Amazon is 200% correct. Can you do something to help me?
Dear Customer,
We are sorry to hear that your order has not yet reached you. Please accept our apologies for any disappointment caused.
I understand very well that this is very annoying for you now when you wait for the order so long and still have not received!
I will be sure to pass your message on to the appropriate department in our company for consideration. We always want to know how our customers react to all aspects of shopping at Amazon.de as this helps us to continue to improve the selection and service we provide.
Of course Shipping within Germany usually does not take such a long time. We understand your impatience.
In order to provide you a satisfactory solution, I have called DHL and asked to deliver the item as soon as possible.
You will receive the item soon.
If your package has not arrived within next few days , please contact us using the link below and confirm the shipping address we have on file for this order:”
At the opposite the Amazon’s support, Samsung is really not taking care of the customers. It’s IMO not a good strategy. I really buy more and more stuff only if I know there will be a good support behind.
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See here.
Looking for a really mini camera, I recently bought a GoPro Hero4 Session.
What a disappointment when I discovered that the GoPro App was not compatible with my Android mobile Oneplus One. Fortunately, it’s possible to google for the APK and install it manually!
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As I didn’t find it in the Play Store with my Mobile, I looked for it within a browser on https://play.google.com/store/apps/
It was clearly indicated as non-compatible. So, I googled for: GoPro APK Download.
I found various sites offering the APK :
I did download and install manually the version 2.11.1716 and it works very fine :p
I was able to use that version of the App among others to:
Et voilà.
When converting a video with Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate on my PC, I was always getting a crash report. The video under processing was well converted but Video Converter didn’t proceed with the next one in the queue. The problem was due to NVidia drivers more recent than 337.88 not supporting a required encoding feature anymore. To fix this, I am using an older version of nvcuvid.dll and nvcuvenc.dll
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I discovered that it was related to nvcuvid.dll by analysing the dump via http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=Analyze
FAULTING_IP:
nvcuvid+dcba9
1062cba9 8b01 mov eax,dword ptr [ecx]MODULE_NAME: nvcuvid
IMAGE_NAME: nvcuvid.dll
NB.: The dump is available in C:\Users\<Your Account>\AppData\Local\Temp\ while the crash report is displayed (in order to be submitted). It’s deleted once you close the report.
This is a know issue and people post explanations on the web as well as older versions of the dll to be used to fix the problem:
NB.: I am running a Windows 10 x64, reason why you can see a SysWOW64 folder in the zip.
NB.: Don’t forget to reboot your PC after copying the dll to be sure those are used (or renamed the old dll before copying the new ones and kill all hidden instances of your converter with the Task Manager).
I never spent time trying to run JDownloader and Filebot on my Synology. It’s however a must-have for those who download e.g. series, so I decided to give it a try. And it rocks !
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First, you need Java installed on your NAS. Currently Jave SE 7 for JDownloader and Java SE 8 for Filebot. [EDIT 2017] Both JDownloader and Filebot are now using Java SE 8.
Java 7
Java 8
Filebot
It comes with several packages, such as those for its web interface, Filebot node and node.js, and Filebot itself. Install and configure them as explained here. Do not forget to Trust “Any Publisher” in the Package Center > Settings > General Tab.
My.JDownloader.Org
You need a free account on my.jdownloader.org to be configured in jdownloader (see here after).
JDownloader 2.0
The idea is basically very simple:
Very useful detailed information (in Italian) are also available here: http://www.synologyitalia.com/guide-tips/installare-jdownloader-2-0-beta-su-nas-synology-t5796.html)
Trick:
I did change a bit the file S99jdownloader.sh to get more info:
[shell] #!/bin/sh # # Startup script for jdownloader2 # # Stop myself if running PIDFILE=/volume1/<some log share>/S99jdownloader.pid # start() { sleep 1 if [ -f ${PIDFILE} ]; then echo "JDownloader is already running" exit 1 else nohup java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar /volume1/@appstore/jdownloader/JDownloader.jar > /dev/null & # write pidfile echo $! > $PIDFILE echo "JDownloader started within process" `cat ${PIDFILE}` fi } # stop() { if [ -f ${PIDFILE} ]; then kill `cat ${PIDFILE}` echo "JDownloader running within process" `cat ${PIDFILE}` "has been stopped" # remove pidfile rm -f $PIDFILE else echo "JDownloader is not running" exit 1 fi } # case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) stop sleep 1 start ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 (start|stop|restart)" exit 1 ;; esac # End [/shell]
To troubleshot filebot, look at the “log” file in “/usr/local/filebot-node/data”
Think about configuring your OpenSubtitles account by executing as root (in a Putty console with sudo -i): filebot -script fn:configure
[Updated on 25/09/2017]
Although a French audio track was available for my movie, in Netflix, on my mobile (Android), it was not anymore once I started to cast that movie on my chromecast.
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NB: French audio track are available here in Belgium as in France.
The really weird thing is that this issue wasn’t occuring for all the movies and series. I noticed it for the serie “Merlin”, season 5. At the same time it was running fine for the serie “The 4400” for example (French audio track was well available in Netflix both on my mobile and on Chromecast for those).
To fix it, I started the App Chromecast and went into the tab Devices. In the Settings of my Chromecast, I set French as language.
If the problem comes back, using the same App Chromecast, reboot the device. It’s a command available in the menu of the device’s Settings. Next, start the movie with the right audio track on your mobile and then cast it to your Chromecast.
Et voilà.
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