Will Android apps automatically use the Maono mic instead of the in-built mic, once I connect the Maono mic and open the Maono Link app?

I installed Maono Link on my Android phone and connected my PD400X. It got recognized.

Now do I simply leave the Maono Link app in the background, and use other apps like Camera? Is that it? Will the Camera app now use the PD400X instead of the phone's inbuilt mic? Or is there anything else I should do?

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 1 day ago
▲ 17 r/chrome

I keep getting these popups when using Chrome.

Clicking Update is downloading a .vbs file. I installed Malwarebytes and did a complete system scan on the premium trial and found nothing on the PC.

Closing the popup in the first image will display the popup in second image, at the top of the browser. Clicking Later in the second pop up displays the popup in the third image. Clicking I understand the risks will stop the popup from cropping up for sometime, until it starts coming again.

I don't see any Update Available in Chrome's three dots menu.

Is it malware? Or some addon? Or normal behaviour? I am on Windows 11 by the way.

Edit: Found the extension causing the issue. It's Enable Right Click and Copy Smart Unlock + OCR. The latest reviews on the webstore have flagged the fake update.

Edit: It's the exact same extension pointed out by PurpleBeeViolet in the comments.

u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 8 days ago

I need to transfer the game progress from my old phone (OnePlus 5) to new phone (S26 Ultra). Please help.

I found there is no cloud save, so simply installing the game on the new phone doesn't sync progress. I tried Samsung Smart Switch, but it didn't work; I tried USB cable but it didn't connect so used the usual QR code scan. Any other way?

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 15 days ago

Anybody purchased the newly launched Novation Launchkey 88 MK4?

I have been waiting for its launch from some time. The rest of the lineup (25, 37, 49, 61) that has launched earlier was a pretty big hit if I am not wrong.

I felt I should wait for the reviews to come out before biting the bullet. Has anyone bought it? Is it good?

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 24 days ago

Anybody purchased the newly launched Novation Launchkey 88 MK4?

I have been waiting for its launch from some time. The rest of the lineup (25, 37, 49, 61) that has launched earlier was a pretty big hit if I am not wrong.

I felt I should wait for the reviews to come out before biting the bullet. Has anyone bought it? Is it good?

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 24 days ago

Anybody purchased the newly launched Novation Launchkey 88 MK4?

I have been waiting for its launch from some time. The rest of the lineup (25, 37, 49, 61) that has launched earlier was a pretty big hit if I am not wrong.

I felt I should wait for the reviews to come out before biting the bullet. Has anyone bought it? Is it good?

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 26 days ago

[TOMT][Advertisement][2000s] An advertisement of a chewing gum (most probably) in a DC or Marvel comics book.

I once saw an advertisement of a chewing gum (most probably as far as I can remember) in a DC or Marvel comics book. There was an amusement park in which there were kids with helmets. The chewing gum is ring shaped, and the kids were using the gums as rubber tires by stretching and pulling them on large hooks. One of the kids has pulled and stretched it very hard and is ready to fly. He was looking at the reader of the book.

Anybody knows the name of the chewing gum (or whatever it is)? I remember its name vaguely to be something like 'bubble gummers' but upon googling, it turned out to be a footwear brand.

Please help.

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 2 months ago

My ₹3.9 lakh brand new ZOTAC RTX 5090 appears to have failed completely after 4 months.

Hey friends,

I am facing issues with what appears to be a faulty brand new GPU and sharing my story here for some guidance and advice. In February, I spent nearly ₹10 lakhs on a high-end workstation and gaming rig. Unfortunately, my ZOTAC RTX 5090 AMP Extreme Infinity (which cost me ₹3,90,000 and is still in a pristine physical condition) has slowly failed over the last 4 months.

The Issues:

  • Day 1 (Feb 6): The GPU blacked out the monitor on the very first day of bringing the PC home. A restart solved the issue.
  • From then on, it worked well for around a month and then started causing serious PC crashes from time to time. It progressively got worse over the last 4 months. Now, it is stuck in a persistent Code 43 state and no longer functions normally.
  • Crashes happened at all loads — heavy gaming (RDR2, Hogwarts Legacy, etc.), light Blender work, local AI (LM Studio at 165W), and even at 14W complete desktop idle.
  • Crashes come as blue vertical lines on grey background on my monitor (when connected to GPU ports), or black screens with garbled text (when connected to motherboard HDMI). Post-crash, it even artifacts on the motherboard BIOS logo before Windows loads. After Windows loads, the UI lags heavily and text in some places turns into literal gibberish symbols; this only gets resolved after I disable the GPU in Device Manager and restart the PC.
  • Current State: Device Manager shows Code 43 and GPU-Z reports 0 MB VRAM and Unknown BIOS after crash and reboot. The GPU is recognized in Device Manager, but remains stuck in Code 43 and cannot function normally.

Everything else in my PC appears stable based on the testing performed:

  • Power: Tier-A Corsair HX1500i ATX 3.1 PSU + a dedicated 16A line running on a heavy-duty commercial Hitachi 3KVA/96V Double Conversion Online UPS.
  • RAM: 192GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo completely stable at full EXPO 6000 MT/s CL30, verified by a flawless 11.5-hour, 4-pass MemTest86 run (0 errors).
  • The Proof: The exact second I disable the 5090, the PC runs flawlessly, smoothly, and fast on the Ryzen 9950X3D’s integrated graphics at Dual-4K. The issues come back when I enable the card.

The Hardware Error Logs (Event Viewer):

  • Event 13 nvlddmkm — Graphics FECS Exception: UCODE Fatal Error.
  • Event 14 nvlddmkm — Error status 0x65 while polling for FSP boot complete.
  • Event 14 nvlddmkm — GPU Reset Required.
  • Event 549 & 457 DxgKrnl — Adapter / Miniport driver failed to start device.
  • Event 15 HAL — IOMMU Error.

I have tried many solutions suggested online and none of them solved the issue permanently:

  1. DDU clean driver reinstalls
  2. Multiple NVIDIA driver versions
  3. Reseating the GPU
  4. PCIe Gen3 / Gen4 testing
  5. CMOS resets
  6. BIOS updates
  7. Different display outputs and cables

Current Status:

I officially emailed ZOTAC at technical@zotac.com yesterday (thanks to the official Zotac rep on this sub, he responded promptly and is a nice person) with my invoice, screenshots, and video logs, and am awaiting his response. I will write further updates on this issue, here in this post.

If anyone has any experience with Zotac RMA in India, please share them here.

UPDATE: Received mail from technical@zotac.com with RMA guidelines and address of collection center today (8-June-2026) morning. Submitted the GPU successfully in the afternoon, same day. Thank you ZOTAC. Thank you r/IndianGaming community for the support❤️.

u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 2 months ago
▲ 18 r/ZOTAC

RTX 5090 AMP Extreme: FECS UCODE Fatal Error, FSP boot failures, persistent Code 43, GPU-Z reports 0 MB VRAM — would you RMA?

My Build

This is my PC build, a workstation used for Coding, Art, Music, 3D Modeling, Gaming, and Game Development:

  • AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
  • Zotac RTX 5090 AMP Extreme Infinity
  • MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi
  • G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 192GB DDR5-6000 CL30 EXPO
  • Corsair HX1500i Platinum 1500W ATX 3.1
  • Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 57 inch
  • Hitachi IP11 3KVA/96V double-conversion online UPS
  • Windows 11 Pro

The RTX 5090 was purchased new and has never been overclocked, modified, disassembled, or flashed with a custom BIOS.

The Problem

The first display blackout occurred on 6 February 2026, the same day I brought the PC home. After that, the card worked and crashed intermittently until it eventually failed completely.

The GPU keeps crashing the PC. When monitor is connected to the GPU outputs, crashes often appear as a grey screen with blue vertical lines. When using the motherboard HDMI output, crashes appear as a black screen with garbled text and lines. When the PC reboots after the crash, there is severe lag and unknown symbols in place of text, which goes away only when I disable the GPU and restart.

The GPU repeatedly alternated between working and failing states until reaching its current state.

Over the last four months I have tried:

  • DDU clean driver reinstalls
  • Multiple NVIDIA driver versions
  • Reseating the GPU
  • PCIe Gen3 / Gen4 testing
  • CMOS resets
  • BIOS updates
  • Uninstalling NVIDIA HD Audio
  • Uninstalling NVIDIA App
  • Different display outputs and cables

Some of these appeared to help temporarily, but none provided a permanent fix.

Key recurring Event Viewer errors

nvlddmkm

  • Event 13 — Graphics FECS Exception: UCODE Fatal Error
  • Event 14 — Error status 0x65 while polling for FSP boot complete
  • Event 14 — GPU recovery action changed from 0x0 (None) to 0x1 (GPU Reset Required)
  • Event 153 — UCodeReset / Reset / Restarting TDR occurred on GPUID:100

DxgKrnl

  • Event 549 — Adapter start failed for VendorId (0x10DE)
  • Event 457 — Miniport driver failed to start device

HAL

  • Event 15 — The IOMMU has detected an error

NVIDIA OpenGL Driver

  • The GPU has been disconnected and this application may become unresponsive
  • Ran out of memory

Additional symptoms

  • GPU-Z sometimes reports 0 MB VRAM and Unknown BIOS Version after a crash.
  • Device Manager currently shows persistent Code 43.
  • NVIDIA driver installation sometimes fails to detect the GPU.

Attached images show:

  1. Grey screen with blue vertical lines from GPU output

  2. Garbled crash screen while using motherboard HDMI

  3. Artifacting on the MSI boot logo

  4. Device Manager Code 43

  5. GPU-Z reporting 0 MB VRAM and Unknown BIOS Version

6-10. Representative Event Viewer errors

Current status

  • Disabling the GPU in Device Manager and rebooting makes the system stable. Re-enabling the GPU and rebooting causes the crashes and Event Viewer errors to return.
  • The GPU enters a persistent Code 43 state when enabled.
  • RAM has passed 4 full passes of MemTest86 with zero errors at EXPO 6000 MT/s CL30. The same GPU failures occurred when the RAM was running at 3600 MT/s, 5600 MT/s, and 6000 MT/s, making system memory an unlikely cause.
  • The system is stable when the RTX 5090 is disabled and the monitor is driven solely by the Ryzen 9950X3D integrated graphics at 7680×2160 120 Hz.

At this point, does this look like a defective RTX 5090 that should be RMAed, or is there another component or test I should investigate before starting the RMA process?

u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 3 months ago

Doubt regarding Samsung Notes sync between S26 Ultra and Tab S7+.

I have been using the Samsung Tab S7+ from a long time and I intend to use it for a few more years. I have many notes and annotated PDFs in my Samsung Notes app on my Tab S7+.

I am planning to get a new phone now and my eyes are on the S26 Ultra. I am looking forward to the seamless integration between my tab and the phone, with this purchase. I especially want this on the Samsung Notes app.

But I have a doubt. Does the Samsung Notes app on S26 ultra and the one on the Tab S7+ sync well with each other? I am asking this because the notes app on Tab S7+ has no AI features in it as it's an older device, while the notes app on S26 Ultra has some additional AI features built into it. Will this cause any trouble and break the sync between these two devices?

Please throw some light on this issue. Thanks in advance🙏.

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 3 months ago

Doubt regarding Samsung Notes sync between S26 Ultra and Tab S7+.

I have been using the Samsung Tab S7+ from a long time and I intend to use it for a few more years. I have many notes and annotated PDFs in my Samsung Notes app on my Tab S7+.

I am planning to get a new phone now and my eyes are on the S26 Ultra. I am looking forward to the seamless integration between my tab and the phone, with this purchase. I especially want this on the Samsung Notes app.

But I have a doubt. Does the Samsung Notes app on S26 ultra and the one on the Tab S7+ sync well with each other? I am asking this because the notes app on Tab S7+ has no AI features in it as it's an older device, while the notes app on S26 Ultra has some additional AI features built into it. Will this cause any trouble and break the sync between these two devices?

Please throw some light on this issue. Thanks in advance🙏.

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 3 months ago

I have been trying to find this theme from a long time. I installed Go Launcher (I think Go Launcher EX) on my Dad's then newly bought Nokia XL Android phone, in 2014 (I was 17 years old then). This theme was one of the themes that appeared first as I opened the launcher. I used the theme for a long time before the phone got into issues and had to be formatted. Then I got my own phone for college and used the theme in mine too. Slowly I changed phones and launchers and forgot about it.

The main color of the theme is blue, or say sky blue to be precise. The wallpaper, icons, etc., all had various shades of blue in them. The wallpaper was wider than the phone's screen width so it would move when I swiped the homescreen left or right.

The wallpaper is some magical fantasy cave like place with a blue orb at one place. A glowing blue butterfly was present, and it moved to wherever we tap on the wallpaper while on home screen.

I tried googling using various keywords but it was of no use. I even installed Go Launcher recently specifically to look at the theme but couldn't find it.

Please help me find the theme.

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 4 months ago

I have been trying to find this theme from a long time. I installed Go Launcher (I think Go Launcher EX) on my Dad's then newly bought Nokia XL Android phone, in 2014 (I was 17 years old then). This theme was one of the themes that appeared first as I opened the launcher. I used the theme for a long time before the phone got into issues and had to be formatted. Then I got my own phone for college and used the theme in mine too. Slowly I changed phones and launchers and forgot about it.

The main color of the theme is blue, or say sky blue to be precise. The wallpaper, icons, etc., all had various shades of blue in them. The wallpaper was wider than the phone's screen width so it would move when I swiped the homescreen left or right.

The wallpaper is some magical fantasy cave like place with a blue orb at one place. A glowing blue butterfly was present, and it moved to wherever we tap on the wallpaper while on home screen.

I tried googling using various keywords but it was of no use. I even installed Go Launcher recently specifically to look at the theme but couldn't find it.

Please help me find the theme.

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 4 months ago

I have been trying to find this theme from a long time. I installed Go Launcher (I think Go Launcher EX) on my Dad's then newly bought Nokia XL Android phone, in 2014 (I was 17 years old then). This theme was one of the themes that appeared first as I opened the launcher. I used the theme for a long time before the phone got into issues and had to be formatted. Then I got my own phone for college and used the theme in mine too. Slowly I changed phones and launchers and forgot about it.

The main color of the theme is blue, or say sky blue to be precise. The wallpaper, icons, etc., all had various shades of blue in them. The wallpaper was wider than the phone's screen width so it would move when I swiped the homescreen left or right.

The wallpaper is some magical fantasy cave like place with a blue orb at one place. A glowing blue butterfly was present, and it moved to wherever we tap on the wallpaper while on home screen.

I tried googling using various keywords but it was of no use. I even installed Go Launcher recently specifically to look at the theme but couldn't find it.

Please help me find the theme.

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u/Spiritual_Date3457 — 4 months ago