S3 stuck in guided setup loop

To correct error S03, you must run "Clear Program info & ToDo List" and this may take many hours. Guided Setup does not fix errors, only does channels.

This is a common and wrong method to fix S03s.

 

Can you select zip 00000?

Another thing you could try is after it gives you the S03 error, I think it gives you an opportunity to retry. Once I was stuck in guide setup loop and I let it sit there for 1hr while I got distracted, then I came back and hit retry (actually by accident) and to my surprise, it got further in the loading before it gave me S03 error. I repeated this over and over and it got a little further every time. Eventually it was able to complete the whole thing.

After that whenever I get S03 I always to Clear Program Info and ToDo List. I always get S03 upon the 2nd instance of full loss of guide (this is after Comcast added the 1xxx channels that seems to overload the garbage collection), so I try and make sure it never gets that far out of whack.

Worse case, you can get an image and reinstall, but I would do it on a fresh drive first (leaving your current one in tact, stuck in reboot loop). I think a lot of the images are before the Rovi guide format change, and some people have had issues getting their TiVo's to update to the latest OS when using an older OS. Once you are sure the image you got can work on the test drive, then I would use it on your real drive. The thinking being if it doesn't work on the test drive, you have the opportunity to try more esoteric things with your existing drive.

 

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With the latest update 20.7.2, Almost all of these are moved under Help.

Since you already started GS, you have to let it finish. As the previous post explained.

 

S3s didn't get a 20.7.2 update.

 

BTW I'm assuming you don't care about shows that might be on this S3?

On newer TiVos, if you put a different drive in, that makes the shows on the original drive inaccessible.

I don't *think* it does that on older TiVos, but I don't know for sure as I haven't swapped drives in a long time.

 

Drats! Foiled again!

 

OP, does your cable system use a tuning adapter?
If so, make sure the usb cable is disconnected.

In the end I believe you will need a new hdd or at the very least a clean image for TiVo Model 648 VERISON 11m

There are several members here that have links for downloading the image your TiVo needs.

 

In my limited experience with this sort of problem. Unless the distressed hdd heals, the recordings are lost.
TiVo made sure that digital to digital transfer was impossible, outside the box; exception being cloning a current working drive to another drive of same size.

 

Does your S3 have a phone connection. I'm thinking if you have a local # that still works, you can try it. They may break up the guide data into different chunks over phone that might get by.

Also when it goes to loading data, does it fail right away with S03, or does it get to some percentage, then fail?

 

You can also see if this post is still relevant. Even if you can't telnet in, you might try removing the CableCARD and choosing the simplest cable setup (check tvguide.com for your zip code and find the guide with fewest channels)

Stuck in Guided Setup with SO3 error

Stuck in Guided Setup with SO3 error