What order to update the 9200t?
I bought on of these for my mum the day they went on sale in Comet.
She now tells me that it locks up about 4 times a day! So, on looking in here it would seem that she has old firmware.
THe loader is a 4.07 and the firmware is PGXTF 1.00.00
so I need to upgrade it! I have all the cables etc, but do I install the loader to 4.09 or the firmware to 1.00.06 first? Or does it not really matter
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She now tells me that it locks up about 4 times a day! So, on looking in here it would seem that she has old firmware.
THe loader is a 4.07 and the firmware is PGXTF 1.00.00
so I need to upgrade it! I have all the cables etc, but do I install the loader to 4.09 or the firmware to 1.00.06 first? Or does it not really matter
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I'm surprised the box you have is only at 1.00.00. I bought mine in Feb with 1.00.01 already installed. 1.00.04 came out in April.
bought it in october 2005 as a house warming present for my mum. She was too embarrassed to tell me about its lockups until today.
I've never used it as I have sky HD i my home.
Strange how it has never been updated OTA. Since october there must have been at least 2 ota updates repeated many times.
Perhaps it is turned off at night rather than being in standby?
You can set the unit to go into standby at a set time and to trun back on at a set time.
If I were you I'd set it to turn off into standby at 3am, check for updates at 4am (the default value) and back on at 5am. Unless your mum is a night owl she wont see anything different.
I've always found this a really strange quirk with the Humax, the concept that if you leave it switched on you miss the updates, what upside down logic. The problem is that most people who are replacing a VCR will follow the same bahaviour of just leaving it switched on.
Well it's about 6 years since I last used a VCR, but ISTR that's what I used to do, and it's certainly what I do with the Hummy - at least until they fix the ridiculous problem of not saving the EPG.
Any VCR I've used automatically unthreads the tape after it's done nothing for a few minutes for that very reason.
(I had a friend who used his VCR as a NICAM decoder before he had a stereo TV. The machine would switch itself off after a few moments if it wasn't playing or recording and he had to set it to record just to listen to the sound!)
However, the Humax is constantly recording the buffer to its hard drive when it's "on", so it's never "doing nothing".
Presumably that's why it can't download the updates unless in standby.
I'm with you on this, i have always turned all my devices off when i'm not using them. It is particularly important i think to turn off pvr's because they are always working the hd when they are on,
My mum never turns the pvr off or puts it in standby. Very odd that it needs to be in standby to update. Is that correct?