FORCE a Reboot of your iPhone

SO something is not working on your iPhone. Maybe it's as simple as a FORCED Reboot of your iPhone.
Simply hold in your POWER BUTTON (located on the top right side) and your HOME BUTTON (located in the middle front bottom of the phone). This will force your iPhone to Reboot which is not the same as powering off and powering it back on. Try this the next time you need to connect to a Bluetooth and it won't pair, or when an application has hung up. This is also called a SOFT Reset but it truly will REBOOT your iPhone and fixes many issues.

Fixed the Bad Humm when hooking my LAPTOP to MY TV

Well I bought the Ground Loop Isolator at Radio Shack for $17.69 with tax it was about $18.50 or so. It worked perfectly. It removed 100% of the HUM and FEEDBACK generated by the connection and I was able to watch HULU.com and other online content with NO feedback. Excellent Quick and easy fix. The only thing about this that was NOT good was It comes with a Y-Adapter that splits from 3.5mm to two RCA plugs HOWEVER if you already have this in place you need to have to female RCA adapters  as seen on the left, which is what I ended up doing.It works great and couldn't be happier.

My Review of Ground Loop Isolator

Originally submitted at RadioShack

Eliminate the electrical noise and hum caused by ground loops with this ground loop isolator.

Ground Loop Isolator

BAD HUMM Fixed

By TBFTREV from TAMPA, FL on 12/23/2011

 

5out of 5

Pros: Easy to Install, Easy To Use, Durable

Cons: NEED male to male adaptor

Best Uses: PC to TV Audio Hum

Describe Yourself: IT Geek, Practical

Was this a gift?: No

Used this to STOP a bad Feedback Hum when connecting a 3.5mm headphone Jack to RCA to my 55" Sony. SOUND was very bad HOWEVER once this was Hooked in-line it removed it 100%

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Bad Humming or Buzzing when PC connected to TV

This is one of the first posts and hopefully it will help others. I have my laptop connected to my TV (55" Sony) and a Alienware Laptop. I used a headphone to RCA connection cable (25") bought online and this is how I hooked up the AUDIO. The Video was hooked up using a standard 20" VGA cable and went from the back of the LAPTOP "monitor" connection to the "PC" input on my TV. I then used the "FUNCTION + LCD" button on my laptop which many have so that you can do this exact thing except with a larger monitor. In essence the TV is just a larger monitor SO using the "FUNCTION + LCD" transfers the video signal to the monitor and vice versa. Sometimes the "LCD" is up in the F button areas of the Laptop and may just contain a picture of a Screen or Open laptop like mine does.
Now for the issue. when watching TV like HULU or Youtube the sound coming from the Laptop to the TV has a distortion that I can only call a humming or buzzing. Truly it is a Distortion of the sound when the PC is hooked to the TV. It is annoying and it is hard to watch anything SO I started researching it and found that it is probably a Ground Loop  here is the definition of a Ground Loop.  Some of the recommendations to correct this are as follows and at the end I will give you what I did to fix it.

• Buy and Install a Ground Loop Isolator
• Attempt to GROUND your Computer better. Which typically there is no way to do...but some people try by pluggin in an adaptor at the plug with a connection to wire to a ground directly
• Deal with it

My solution was to buy a Ground Loop Isolator from the local Radio Shack. for around $20.00 OR off Ebay for about the same amount.  I will post pictures and the results later.