u/rem1473

I have a pixel 9 pro (not xl) with dual SIMS. A Verizon eSIM and a physical T-Mobile SIM. This has been working great over a year.

Yesterday morning the cell modem started restarting every few minutes. I will see the signal bars for both SIM cards. Then both will drop to zero. It goes to "satellite / SOS" mode. Then the cell modem restarts and I have signal bars again. This repeats every few minutes and tears through the battery.

I tried shutting off each of the SIMS individually. with one SIM shut off, the other keeps restarting. I tried going to airplane mode for 1 minute. I tried leaving it in airplane mode for an hour. I tried Reset Mobile Network Settings. I tried rebooting the entire phone. I tried shutting the phone off and letting it sit 20 minutes.

If I'm connected to wifi, my network connection is stable while the cell modem reboots. Of course when I'm away from wifi, the cellular calling, SMS, and data all go down when the modem restarts.

I'm hoping for some suggestions.

Many cities in the US have people up in arms over young kids riding e-bikes and scooters and other electric propulsion vehicles on sidewalks, bike paths, and in parks. I have seen a few near miss incidents in my town. Usually involves a right turning car. The driver is looking left for vehicle traffic and pulls across the sidewalk and apron. A kid is zipping along at 25 mph, approaching from the cars right side, and the kid is usually able to panic brake before slamming into the side of the car.

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I recently saw a kid riding a small electric 4 wheeler up the sidewalk. It was about half way in between those "pow pow power wheels" and a real gas powered 4 wheeler. This one was going approximately 15 mph up the sidewalk, I don't know it's top speed. It looked mostly plastic, but definitely had rubber tires. I have no clue how far he had strayed from home. He was approximately 11.

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When we were kids, one could obtain a license for a moped at 14. We were legally permitted to ride bicycles in the street at any age. That was then, I really don't know the laws now. I grew up in a rural area without sidewalks. So I've always rode a bicycle in the street. It never occurred to me (then or now) to ride a bicycle on a sidewalk.

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What do you think the rules should be for all these electric conveyances? Age? Speed? Sidewalk? Bike path? Street?

I broke the power switch on my Seeed Wio Tracker L1 board. The 3d printed enclosure warped from sitting in the sun. In my attempt to extract the board from the warped enclosure, the switch was jammed in its cutout and broke.

I'm comfortable doing the repair. I'm decent enough at soldering to make that happen. I just can't find a parts list to figure out how to order that switch.

If I can't find the switch, I'll just solder the pads closed so it's on all the time and make it a solar node. But I'd prefer to have the switch work correctly.

I'm making this post in case it helps anyone else. I decided to install the Hamvention 2026 specific firmware into my t1000e. Upon the suggestion of the web flasher, I decided to do a device erase. When I dragged the nrf_erase_sd7_3.uf2 over to the mounted drive, I got an error from windows every time that the file was not copied. The device would reboot with the original firmware rev that was installed before I started messing with it. Multiple attempts and the device was not erasing. Every time I tried to open the serial monitor, it failed to run.

This worked for me: I put the unit into DFU mode, then I connected putty to the com port (9600 8N1). Then I dragged nrf_erase_sd7_3.uf2 to the drive letter. The putty console connection confirmed the erase, executed some command, and the device rebooted. Boom! It was now erased. Next I provisioned the device with the Hamvention 2026 firmware, following the regular instructions in the web flasher.

It appears that the serial monitor is required to complete the device erase and that was not running successfully from the web flasher.