Being an American, I am clearly too stupid to speak another language.
For better or worse, the only stupid person here will be me. My mother and grandparents lived in the States for almost 30 years. My mother went to school there and worked there. I grew up bilingual and 20 years ago I had a lot of American friends from the Air Force.
Was very often in Spangdahlem Air Base to visit or shopping and have always felt very, very comfortable there.
The longer I was there, the better I could speak English. At some point you even started to think in English... Wow, that might have been crazy.
When I came home, I continued to talk to my mother in English and my grandmother grinned and talked to me in English and my mother also answered me and at some point I asked totally confused if they were crazy and why they spoke English to me. After all, we are in Germany...
I hadn't noticed it myself at all.
Then, at some point, a woman comes into my life... i move away from home - in my case over 600km. Here in East Germany was Soviet Sector and you didn't learn English there but Russian at school. So no one spoke English to me anymore, I didn't speak English anymore, every now and then I watched a movie alone in English and after more than 20 years you lose so much knowledge that you can hardly imagine.
In the meantime I have picked up a few words in Russian and there are really only a handful.
but I learned a lot of other things.
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now back to the topic:
On my leakshield, the button/switch at the top right is defective. I've already talked about this with support. I don't want to send the device in because this defect doesn't bother me if I configure the device exclusively via Windows.
Now it is the case that when you press the button on the device, it gets stuck. You then have to turn the display to the right or left and back so that the button is free again to press again.
Then you have to turn the display again.
Now we come to the point where my problem was most likely to be. The button was pressed permanently because it was stuck and if the leak shield is de-energized, the button is pressed, you initialize a reset process with this button press and the device is reset to factory settings.
As soon as the device gets power again, you have the factory setting again.
This also explains why it was always reset via the internal USB port, as it is immediately de-energized.
The external USB port is still supplied with power.
If you quickly unplug and plug in external USB, the settings are also retained.
Today I had to rewire the system and for this reason I had removed the power plug for a few minutes and again had Power On factory settings again.
Now I turned the display again with the hope of getting the button free again, disconnected the system from the power supply, pulled the plug from the leak shield and reconnected everything and lo and behold = no more reset.
Now I hope that this was the solution and that the button no longer "stuck" on its own and independently initializes a reset.
I have a physical defect with the button on the leakshield, but if the system runs so error-free - and it does - and I only operate it via the software, it doesn't bother me either.
I just have to make sure that the button is not pressed and is also "free".
That's it. Very small cause but a very big effect