Help! Channels Won't Go Away

This was a problem a few revs ago. I wonder if it is back? I could have swore I've recently unchecked a couple channels myself that are back again. When survivor is over, I'll have to check it out.

 

Yes this and a couple of other old bugs (related to OTA + cable lineup) have crept back into this release - I guess Tivo doesn't learn from past mistakes... I too have channels coming back that I took out of the lineup and I have season passes the To Do List claims will record on OTA channels even though those are already out of my lineup, but they do end up recording on the cable channel. Annoying, but I guess I'll consider myself lucky compared to the people having the freezing problems.

 

Problem is definately back. I've unchecked these Starz channels a few times now I'm sure and there they are again.

 

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they are probably merging the S3 and TiVo HD branch codes as they get them all on the same code base/revision finally.

Sounds like you came across something that was missed out on in the merge

 

I'm having the issue as well with OTA channels. I have about 6 times as many OTA channels in my guide than I actually receive. It shows all the channels from the 5 surrounding states... I just reset up my S3 as I have come home form College, and since I set it up a couple of days ago I thought I had been going nuts, as I could have sworn I had unchecked all those extra channels a few times but they keep coming back.

I guess I now know what the issue is=) I guess I'll have to deal with it for now.

In addition to the fun of having all the extra channels. I'm missing a few form the guide. I'm surprised since all the channels from the other states show up in the guide, that PBS from New Hampshire, wish I'm just south of the boarder of does not show up in my guide listing. That channel comes in with the best quality and highest signal strength of all the channels I get, but I'm stuck with To Be Announced in the guide listing as I could only get this channel by typing in the channel number, or adding it by doing an antenna scan. I send in a support request hopping to get this channel added.

 

Whew! I thought I was losing my mind there. Glad y'all mentioned this. I have been unchecking the non-HD channels from my lineup because I want to ensure I only record from the HD channel numbers. Yet, the non-HD channels keep re-selecting themselves!

I'm on a Series 3 HD with the latest updates. I hope they fix this soon!

Cheers,
Rob

 

That's the price of progress, sadly.

If you're interested in doing something other than complaining on an internet forum, why not sign up to be a beta tester and help find the bugs before they make it out?

 

Same problem for me also. The useless channels I've taken out simply won't die.

What I do is use 'Favorite Channels' on Guide instead.

 

Neato. We could eliminate much of the field of contract law if we could sell consumers on this cool notion that they should accept the fact products are buggy and fixing them is partially the consumer's duty.

 

And the world would be a much better place if people would step up and do something to fix what bothers them, rather than just bemoan the fact that woe is them.

 

Same problem here, my changes stick for only a short time and then the channels come back.

SBT

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I've tried this, and they re-select themselves as Favorite Channels. This is extremely annoying, but I'm glad I'm not alone.

 

I've had this problem since day one on my S3.

TiVo seems to think I can get multiple instances of channel 4 (just an example).
One from Salt Lake City, one from Idaho Falls Idaho, and yet another from Grand Junction Colorado.
One is an ABC affiliate, one a CBS affiliate and the other a NBC affiliate.
(basing this on memory, might be different network affiliations)

I remove the Idaho and Colorado stations from channels I receive as well as favorites.
The only one I can actually receive with a rooftop antenna, the ABC affiliate in Salt Lake remains in CIR and is a favorite.

The incorrect stations remain off my list until the TiVo tunes to channel 4 to record something from ABC, then BAM, the Idaho and Colorado stations are back.

This is repeated for channels 2, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13, with two other channels each, each with a different network affiliation.
I even get a couple channel 3's, which have never existed in Salt Lake City.
I can't even remember how many UHF channels TiVo thinks I can get.

Throw in the HD versions of each channel, and I get a huge guide list for a TiVo only connected to an antenna.

I've submitted the correct lineup to TiVo, but nothing has happened.


phox

 

ugh im experiencing this problem too. i just spent an hour last night figuring out all the channels i wanted listed and removing them from the channel list...and they're back today! ugh!

 

<aol>Me too.</aol>

In my case, some bogus lineup changes from TiVo got the box to where I couldn't scroll up past 801, or down past 699, in the guide, or in the channel list in the settings menu. To get rid of this effect, I re-ran guided setup. (I'd just done that for my Series 2 when switching from the analog Fios lineup to the digital, and I noticed it didn't have the 699/801 problem.)

That worked, but of course it brought in all the channels I'd previously deselected... and now I couldn't get rid of them. Deselect, exit the menu, BAM, they were back. Eventually I found that I could sometimes make the changes stick by rebooting -- even though the channels I'd just deselected showed as selected, they became deselected after reboot. But I couldn't nail down exactly what it took to make this work.

Finally, I did get everything the way I wanted it, and for the most part it's stayed that way. (All the channels in the 500's have stayed off, for example.) But a few channels came back again later. Two of these were bogus duplicates of other channels, such that I have two channels 14 cbl, and two 92 cbl. Previously, I'd been unable to deselect only the bogus channel from each pair; now, I can, but apparently the change can still come undone later. The other two that came back were HBO Latino East and West... I have no idea what makes them special, except I guess they were the only two premiums that I deselected (that I had a subscription for).

 

I'm going to add my name to the list of people having this problem with their S3. My company had been complaining of me having so many channels, many of them not working. I tried deleting the ones I don't received anymore only to have them come back within moments. Hopefully a fix is at hand.

 

Sigh, put me down as well for this one. Happens all the time, though it was bad enough today that I went searching for a thread--it added back *every* channel. I can't even imagine how this could be happening. If changes aren't being written to disk in real time, is some thread somewhere crashing before it gets the chance?

Yeah, really. I'm growing increasingly frustrated with my new TiVo HD. TiVo's putting these boxes out with some pretty ridiculous bugs. All the ads work great, though.

 

I have the same problem that crops up every now and then. When I cut the cable and went only OTA I had exed out the cable channels and the OTA analog leaving the digital channel counterpart. Well, a few analogs channels would somehow put themselves back into the channel guide.

I thought it was happening when I would scan up and down on the channel control on the nifty Tivo remote. Or, I thought it was when I hit 2-9 for Fox 29 in Philly and it would mean the Tivo tunes to analog Fox 29. Boom! There is analog 29 with digital 29 in the guide.

It is my personal opinion and also a friend who bought a series 3 that the Tivo box has a mind of it's own and does what it damn well pleases when it pleases.

I have not tried to reboot the Tivo after clearing out the analog channels to see if that fixes the small quirky problem. The upside to this that the cable channels in the list do not reappear and remind me that I once had Comcast terrible service.