Google’s Chromecast fix is finally ready and rolling out to devices right now

TL;DR A few days ago, legacy Chromecast and Chromecast Audio devices stopped working for many users. Google advised against factory resetting affected devices, but did not immediately have a solution available. That fix is now finally ready, and should be hitting Chromecast devices over the next couple days. If your old Chromecast stopped working a few days back, you were far from alone, as unexpected failure seemed to hit second-generation Chromecast and Chromecast Audio devices en masse. Google acknowledged the problem, and announced it was developing a fix, but did not have much in the way of mitigation steps to offer at the time; really, all we knew is that you shouldn’t try factory resetting your Chromecast. It’s taken a little longer than some of you might have liked, but Google now shares that a fix is ready and on its way out now. Google says that its fix solves the problems for both the Chromecast Audio and 2nd-gen Chromecast, and that users should receive this patch over ... Read full article.