Need a Guru for this one...

[MrPink]

Hi, guys:

Okay, this is really odd. I have an HDVR2 that until today was sitting at 6.2. It had developed an odd problem, which was that it would hang when retrieving messages. Now, it's not connected to a phone line, because it's very inconvenient. I would usually clear out the nag messages about once a month, and everything was fine.

Then, about 8 months ago, the poor little guy would hang when I would try to go to messages and read/clear them out. So I quit reading messages.

Well, as you can imagine, messages kept building up. So today, I decided to mess with it.

Tested it again... yup. hang. Tried a 58 at boot (fix file system). No evidence that it did anything. Tried again... still busted. Did NOT want to do a Clear and Delete!

Forced a call. Now it's at 6.3E. Still.... busted.

Reboot. Now, all the messages are gone, and no more hang. Huh!

Can someone please explain (old Duran Duran lyrics!) the reason for this strange behavior? I'm terribly curious.

-Pink

[Billy Bob Boy]

I belive the hang you described happens when there are too many messages. They all do that. Nothing strange. Dont let them build up;) Probably when the new software version loaded it deleted the old messages. (That part I dont know for sure)

[Dkerr24]

Never go to the messages screen is the easiest fix. It won't hang if you don't go there.

[MrPink]

LOL!

It's just so odd, because it wasn't like it had THAT many messages in it. I only let the thing call in once a year or so, and there might have been 60 messages stored ( I DO clear it out) before this behavior started. What perplexes me is that it never did this before, with zillions of nag messages in that inbox.

Oh, well. Gone now. :)

-Pink

[Da Goon]

One of the bug fixes in 6.3e was better handling of an overload of messages.

[Dkerr24]

One of the bug fixes in 6.3e was better handling of an overload of messages.


Lol! after reading all the 6.3 bitch posts, you'd think they fixed nothing with 6.3.

[Billy Bob Boy]

Lol! after reading all the 6.3 bitch posts, you'd think they fixed nothing with 6.3.Keep in mind that for every bitch post here there is 10,000 with no problems:up:.(perhaps more mabye 100,000 with no problems:up::up:) Its easy to get a bad opinion about upgrades from this sub forum.:rolleyes: Most people only post here when they have issues.

When was the last time someone started a thread titled " My TiVo is fine No problems here":p