6.3e

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newsposter

Discussion Starter · Aug 12, 2007

For those, like me, that don't visit the other forum regularly:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=361919

The software update is to address:

* System lockups when there are more then 200 messages
* Improvements on season passes

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JimSpence

· #2 · Aug 12, 2007

You really need to get out more.

Lots of good stuff happening on the other forums.

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TyroneShoes

· #3 · Aug 14, 2007

newsposter said:
...The software update is to address:

* System lockups when there are more then 200 messages...

Hmmm.

If 6.3a/b/c/d had worked, I would have left my phone line plugged in and wouldn't HAVE OVER 200 MESSAGES!!

(nearing the magic 365, BTW).

I guess this means I should go ahead and delete them (grrrrr!)

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Todd

· #4 · Aug 14, 2007

So has anyone actually got 6.3e installed yet? My HR10 locked up again overnight and I don't have 200 messages on it!

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LlamaLarry

· #5 · Aug 14, 2007

I installed it manually on 2 of my 3 HR10-250s, no particular problems. I'll do the 3rd as soon as I get some of this rumored "free time" as it is not on the network at the moment.

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newsposter

Discussion Starter · #6 · Aug 14, 2007

plugged in phone line over weekend and nothing

however for the fun of it i rebooted and it locked up so i had to pull the plug. It was receiving but not responding to commands

I just want the ToDo list jump to stop. flipping thru the pages and having it jump back to page one or bonging and refusing to move at all sucks

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whsbuss

· #7 · Aug 24, 2007

Todd said:
So has anyone actually got 6.3e installed yet? My HR10 locked up again overnight and I don't have 200 messages on it!

Got 6.3e installed on 8/22/07. Seems to be operating fine.

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Maniacal1

· #8 · Aug 24, 2007

6.3e installed for me last night (8/23). All seems fine.

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JimSpence

· #9 · Aug 24, 2007

All is well with mine.

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Jon J

· #10 · Aug 24, 2007

I must be the odd man out. I caked a drive with 3.1f and it worked perfectly. I left the phone line attached and 6.3e installed. Freezing problems ever since. I intend to recake back to 3.1f over the weekend and ignore the message threats.

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JimSpence

· #11 · Aug 24, 2007

I doubt it is 6.3e itself, but the fact that the install uses the secondary partition. That partition may have some bad sectors which created a corrupted 6.3e image. Thus a bad install.

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kimsan

· #12 · Aug 24, 2007

I'm with LlamaLarry on results. Sliced to 6.3e, patched tivoapp, all previous hacks are working fine on both machines. Between TySuiteJ, mfs_ftp, MovieLoader, TiVoWebPlus, EndPadPlus and GoToMyDVR, I'd say I've got all the announced TiVo enhancements offer and more.

Oh yeah, normal TiVo functionality is fine as well.

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Jon J

· #13 · Aug 24, 2007

JimSpence said:
I doubt it is 6.3e itself, but the fact that the install uses the secondary partition. That partition may have some bad sectors which created a corrupted 6.3e image. Thus a bad install.

Any solution other than back to 3.1f?

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jvessey

· #14 · Aug 24, 2007

JimSpence said:
I doubt it is 6.3e itself, but the fact that the install uses the secondary partition. That partition may have some bad sectors which created a corrupted 6.3e image. Thus a bad install.

If this is true, what is the remedy?

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newsposter

Discussion Starter · #15 · Aug 24, 2007

i finally got it..hope it fixes my 8 second skip problem

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temp357

· #16 · Aug 24, 2007

Here we go again. NOT EVERYTHING IS A BAD HARD DRIVE SECTOR. 10 bucks says that if you image the same drive with 3.1.5f you won't have the lockups anymore. I can't speak for 6.3e but I had nothing but repeated problems and lockups with 6.3a//b/c and even listened to bad advice and bought a new drive. The problems went away only after going back to 3.1.5f.

Anyone having lockups with 6.3c still having lockups with 6.3e?

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JimSpence

· #17 · Aug 25, 2007

Okay, but could it be that the re-image gets put on the good partition? Let's leave this for others that have more experience answer this partition situation.

I have not had any problems with any for the 6.x versions. How do you explain that?

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temp357

· #18 · Aug 25, 2007

Must we go through this again?

You may not be in the same geography or have the same ota channels or maybe you don't flip through channels the same way others do. Or maybe you have suggestiosn turned off. My direct experience is extreme stuttering, lockups, and reboots with 6.3a/b/c with OTA in SoCal.

I will even concede that there is a chance (although small) that it could even be a bad hard drive sector. Without proper troubleshooting however, just saying that it's a bad hard drive sector is just plain bad advice.

Here's what i did in sequence,

Old drive with 3.1.5f - no problems
Old drive with 6.3a/b/c - constant, stuttering, lockups, reboots
New Drive with 6.3a/b/c - stuttering, lockups, reboots
Old drive back to 3.1.5f - no problems

I could keep troubleshooting, but I got tired of imaging my drives over and over to find the the problem and 3.1.5f seems to work like a champ.

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Todd

· #19 · Aug 26, 2007

I forced a call yesterday and got the pending restart, rebooted, and now have 6.3e. All was well until last night I tried changing the channel and the screen went black for a little while then came back and it then rebooted in the middle of a recording. Argh!

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JimSpence

· #20 · Aug 26, 2007

Were you changing to an OTA channel or from one?

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