Comment on Phone UI Always Crashes in the Same Store
lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
try entering with all communications turned off (bluetooth, location, wifi, nfc, flight mode on)
do you have wireless charging?
maybe it’s anti-theft tag detectors near the door.
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The last time it happened, I turned off WiFi and BT as well as doing a reboot and it still happened.
I will go and try turning off cell connectivity and if that works, I’ll cycle through 2g/3g/4g/5g and see if it happens with all of them.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The only possibility, although I doubt it really but it’s worth checking for, is they might have a microwave link in the store for some reason, and your phone just kind of gets overwhelmed by all the unshielded energy.
I have no idea how you would even test for that since I don’t think phones can really receive microwave signals so they have no way to detect them but the energy would still mess with them.
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Might tie in with what people were thinking about the wireless charging coils.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You could try and get in one of those RF shielding cases and see if that helps.
They are usually sold because people are concerned about contactless somehow being used to steal their money, but since that doesn’t work unless you unlock your phone it’s a bit of an unfounded concern. The cases do actually block RF, so while they’re a kind of con, they do also work.