Apr 22, 2024 19:00:00

It has been revealed that the mysterious bug that occurs frequently on PCs is caused by HiSense Android TVs connected to the same network

Sound designer and composer

Priscilla has reported that a mysterious bug that has been bothering her for a long time on her PC was caused by a HiSense Android TV connected to the same network as her PC, and she has warned people not to buy HiSense TVs.

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Priscilla's home PC with Windows 11 has had problems for a long time. One of the problems was that she couldn't open the display settings. Therefore, Priscilla used the NVIDIA Control Panel instead of the Windows 11 display settings to adjust the display.

Initially, Priscilla thought that the problem was caused by upgrading the OS to Windows 11. So, Priscilla said that she had reinstalled Windows 11, but it seems that the problem could not be fixed. Priscilla said, 'The display settings have been unavailable for the past two years.'

Priscilla is a sound designer and usually uses a Kontrol S-Series smart MIDI keyboard controller , which allows her to adjust settings and select instruments using the keyboard without looking at the display, but in 2023, some of the functions of this MIDI keyboard became unavailable.

In addition, Priscilla's PC had a strange bug in the Task Manager, which sometimes became unusable unless she killed it with Process Explorer .

In addition, in March 2024, Priscilla had set up an environment where she could remotely operate her PC from a tablet so that she could work from her living room. However, when she tried to connect to a remote desktop from her tablet, the connection was rejected. After that, when she tried to troubleshoot, the PC's taskbar disappeared. When she moved the mouse cursor to where the taskbar should be, a loading circle was displayed and the screen display was distorted.

There was also a bug where the system settings would not be displayed. When trying to open the system settings from the Task Manager, even though the PC was in administrator mode, it displayed 'Access Denied' and it seemed that the system settings could not be opened.

With so many bugs, Priscilla thought her PC had broken down and started backing up the important data on it, but the Windows

backup program wasn't working properly, so she had to do the backups manually.

According to Priscilla, after updating GeForce Experience and restarting it, the taskbar would sometimes return and she would be able to access system settings again, but after a few days the taskbar would disappear again and she would no longer be able to access system settings.

When searching for people who had encountered the same problem, he found a thread on Reddit reporting a problem of 'no taskbar and freezing of task manager.' Although the thread did not provide a solution to the problem, it did provide a link to the official Microsoft forum .

And from the answers posted on the forum, it becomes clear that the reason for the bug on PCs is

HiSense Android TV. The person who discovered this bug said, 'The root cause is that the TV generates a random UUID for UPnP network discovery every few minutes and pretends to be a new device. This causes Windows to add each individual UUID to the device list (Device Association Framework: DAF) as a new device, resulting in thousands of devices (the same device) filling up the device tree,' and reported that the bug occurs on Windows PCs because HiSense Android TV generates random UUIDs.

Priscilla warns, 'Don't buy a HiSense TV. At the very least, you need to keep it offline.' The TV Priscilla was using was a 50-inch 4K-compatible HiSense TV, the ' 50Q8G .'