Chromecast fix lasted only for one day!!!

[Rfk]

Hi - yesterday my dead Chromecast seemed to upload the fix and all was good. Today, nothing works again. How frustrating. What is going on??

[MumTheMightyGod]

So I followed advice from another community member and it's worked...

I( did factory reset my device a week ago )

I changed date on my phone to 7th march and the Chromecast recognised my phone and sent an update to the cast ,after a few back and forth moments I rebooted my phone ,or hard reset ,whatever you call it (android) and set the time and date back to automatic and it seems to be working! Am so happy I've missed my Chromecast more than I expected to 

Hope this helps ! 

[virnab]

Hi Rfk,

Thanks for reaching out to our community.
I appreciate you taking the time to let us know that your Chromecast seemed to upload the fix, and all was well. But I’m sorry that it stopped working. It is my pleasure to assist you with this concern.
In order to further investigate this, let me ask you a few questions:

• Could you please let me know what the Chromecast firmware version is?
• Are you using an Android or iPhone device to set it up?
• Is your Google Home app updated?
• How far from the router is your Chromecast?
• What Wi-Fi frequency band do you try to connect to (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz)?
• Did you receive any error messages in the Google Home app?
• Have there been any recent changes to your environment, such as a change in Wi-Fi network or recent outages? 

Thank you for your kind attention; I will be looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Virna

[MumTheMightyGod]

Hi there 

I recently posted a repair solution for the Chromecast Gen2 on this forum . It seems to have helped quite a few people . It involves putting the clock and date back to before the cast device stopped functioning . It said it was a certificate issue . 

I hope I've helped some people ,I was one of the ones that did a factory reset immediately before being warned not to so was very happy to find a solution! 

[MumTheMightyGod]

This is what I've posted 

I hope this helps ..I followed advice from previous community member 

I had already factory reset my chrome before being warned not to .

So this is what I did ...

I changed date on my android phone to 7th March .

I searched for cast device through home again and it connected to it easily again. 

Had a little weird back and forth where it said it hadn't connected yet it had on the TV .

The Chromecast started an update which also stopped and started but I let it do it's thing and it completed and restarted itself.

I did a hard reset/reboot on my phone (you know,where you hold the on/off button for ages and then reset)

I set the time and date back to automatic in settings on my phone.

This seems to have fixed the cast problems and am very happy to have my chrome cast back again ,I didn't know how much I would miss it .

Hope this helps