coripc33
03-13-2007, 07:45 PM
First of all, if this is not the right forum to post this in, please let me know and I'll move it. It doesn't have that much to do with hacking, other than the fact that it happens on a zippered DTiVo. Here it goes...
I purchased a used DTiVo from eBay - Phillips DSR704, just like my first one. I had gotten the first one zippered successfully, and I thought I would love to have a second one. So I got it. The unit was not hacked (still had the warranty label on it, original HD. I know the label can be fake, but it seemed OK. Whatever...). The unit worked fine. I bought a larger hard drive - Seagate DB35, 80GB. I zippered it, used BTU's DST update (thank you, by the way :)), everything is good, worked fine. Not only that, but now my TiVo's see each other in NPL, I can transfer shows between the two - everything is swell.
Problem though on this new(er) DTiVo: when I go to NPL by pressing the List button on the remote, first time around everything shows up. If I move to another screen, and then I try to get back in NPL, the list shows empty, the selection bar is somewhere at the bottom but no recordings are displayed, sometimes part of the list is displayed, and any random combination of these options. I sometimes can't get out of it, I sometimes can. When I say I can't get out of it sometimes, I just mean that I press other buttons, nothing happens (and I hear that low-tone beep like TiVo thinks I'm trying to do something stupid :)), but eventually it will jump to live TV, or Guide or whatever else. It just seems that the unit responds with a huge delay, or not at all. This is how my first HD was acting when I decided to change it - it got a lot worse at the end though. This is only when I get to NPL screen - all other menu sequences work just fine.
Since I had to rezipper it quite a few times (this is how I learn what NOT to do), I had the chance to see this every time I installed the drive. Plus, I went through the same hacking process with my first one, and that one does not have this problem.
I thought it could be from the remote, so I used my other one. Same thing happens.
Its first HD did not have this problem. I know, because it came with a few recorded shows, and I watched a few before I replaced the HD. Everything was smooth sailing with the old drive.
Does it sound like a software/firmware problem? Could I have done something wrong during the process of hacking it? Does this sound like a HD issue? Or some other hardware problem? Also, can I just pull the HD from my first TiVo and put it in the second one to see if it's a HD issue? Does this even happen - like a bad new HD that allows everything else to work but navigating to and from NPL screen? I am baffled at this point.
Any help/ideas/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much.
Corina
I purchased a used DTiVo from eBay - Phillips DSR704, just like my first one. I had gotten the first one zippered successfully, and I thought I would love to have a second one. So I got it. The unit was not hacked (still had the warranty label on it, original HD. I know the label can be fake, but it seemed OK. Whatever...). The unit worked fine. I bought a larger hard drive - Seagate DB35, 80GB. I zippered it, used BTU's DST update (thank you, by the way :)), everything is good, worked fine. Not only that, but now my TiVo's see each other in NPL, I can transfer shows between the two - everything is swell.
Problem though on this new(er) DTiVo: when I go to NPL by pressing the List button on the remote, first time around everything shows up. If I move to another screen, and then I try to get back in NPL, the list shows empty, the selection bar is somewhere at the bottom but no recordings are displayed, sometimes part of the list is displayed, and any random combination of these options. I sometimes can't get out of it, I sometimes can. When I say I can't get out of it sometimes, I just mean that I press other buttons, nothing happens (and I hear that low-tone beep like TiVo thinks I'm trying to do something stupid :)), but eventually it will jump to live TV, or Guide or whatever else. It just seems that the unit responds with a huge delay, or not at all. This is how my first HD was acting when I decided to change it - it got a lot worse at the end though. This is only when I get to NPL screen - all other menu sequences work just fine.
Since I had to rezipper it quite a few times (this is how I learn what NOT to do), I had the chance to see this every time I installed the drive. Plus, I went through the same hacking process with my first one, and that one does not have this problem.
I thought it could be from the remote, so I used my other one. Same thing happens.
Its first HD did not have this problem. I know, because it came with a few recorded shows, and I watched a few before I replaced the HD. Everything was smooth sailing with the old drive.
Does it sound like a software/firmware problem? Could I have done something wrong during the process of hacking it? Does this sound like a HD issue? Or some other hardware problem? Also, can I just pull the HD from my first TiVo and put it in the second one to see if it's a HD issue? Does this even happen - like a bad new HD that allows everything else to work but navigating to and from NPL screen? I am baffled at this point.
Any help/ideas/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much.
Corina