A mysterious bug is affecting many old chromecast devices, according to a long thread on the redit, the second generation of Chromecast and Chromecast audio, which were both launched in September 2015. If you are affected, you are trying to reset your device, because Google is now getting a fixed.
In the last five days, without appearing without appearing, the affected equipment has been made very unusable. One of the reported error messages reads as follows: “The incredible device: [name] cannot be verified. This may be due to the old device firmware.”
Further investigation from users suggests that this is a server-side problem-hence the problem is at the end of Google. It seems that there are complications with finished safety certificates, so the hits are being identified as unsafe to wrongly connect the hits.
Because of this, nothing has been done for the Chromecast owners to wait for the issue and wait for it, meanwhile without any streaming audio or video to entertain them. Various troubleshooting steps have been taken, including re -adding WiFi and running a factory reset, but no easy workarounds have been found.
In fact, Google clearly stated that the factory is to reset your device that you should not do – even if it is a clear first fix to try with such a problem. It is still not clear what has happened, but Google has a fix on the way, as well as steps for users who would have tried to reset their equipment without any profit.
A fix is here (for some users)
The first announcement of Google about this issue was as follows: “We know about an emerging issue affecting Kromecast 2-Jen and Chromecast audio devices and are working on a fix. Do not reset your device to the factory-we are instructed to update your device when you already return your device, Will provide
This was a little lighter on the details, but at least acknowledgment. Then, on Thursday, Google posted an announcement on its support page, in which users were informed that it was “a fixed roll” in the next few days “. Seriously, Google says that your device needs to be connected to get updates. Hopefully, that timeline means that, until Sunday, problems are all solved.
If you reset the factory your device, Google accepts that you may not be able to setup your device as new. The company’s official solution is to just wait, as they are working to fix this new issue even at their end. There is a rather complex work -round that you can try to expand on reddit, but until it is especially necessary for you that you go back and run, I will advise to sit tight sitting for now and wait for Google to release a fix for Google.
Given that the bug has not hit the recent Chromecast, including Chromecast Ultra, there was some concern that Google may have quietly killed his old equipment, now they are getting closer to their 10th birthday – but now it doesn’t look like that.
The Chromecast device line has now been closed as a whole, so we will not find any other streaming dongle in the future, but Google has not yet said anything about pulling support for the existing hardware. Chromecast functionality is available in Google TV, as well as Google TV streammer television.
