[Ceciliachavez75]

I have been experiencing an issue that I’ve never had on my Romeo plus DVR. For the last month , I will go to FFWD a commercial and it won’t stop when I try to stop. It will continue to FFWD, freeze then restart. I keep thinking it’s my remote , but it seems to be the DVR. Has anyone had this issue? I’m wondering if it’s time to move on to tivo stream, I’m not sure if that’s a better move at this point . Thanks in advance.


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[ThAbtO]

It might be the hard drive.

 

[justen_m]

You have rebooted your TiVo, right? I've never experienced that behavior, but I use 30-second-skip to go through commercials.
Try new batteries. What does the TiVo report as you RF Remote Battery Level? (it's on the 3rd page of the System Information screen)

 

[NorthAlabama]

batteries.

 

[Ceciliachavez75]

I actually replaced the batteries twice just to make sure.


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[Ceciliachavez75]

It might be the hard drive.

Ugh that would suck. I'm not ready to purchase a new DVR yet.

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[Ceciliachavez75]

You have rebooted your TiVo, right? I've never experienced that behavior, but I use 30-second-skip to go through commercials.
Try new batteries. What does the TiVo report as you RF Remote Battery Level? (it's on the 3rd page of the System Information screen)

Yes, when it stops ffwd it automatically starts rebooting.I haven't looked at the report to be honest.

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[ThAbtO]

Ugh that would suck. I'm not ready to purchase a new DVR yet.

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You don't have to, and that would mean to a Bolt or Edge. Drives hardly last this long on them. IMO, its not worth it to upgrade from Roamio to either Bolt or Edge, some features were removed since v21, transfers for one. Ads were also added.

You can just swap out the drive inside. WD Red Plus is the recommended, up to 3TB can be prepared by the Roamio itself without a computer hookup. Under v21, it can go larger.

 

[justen_m]

Yes, when it stops ffwd it automatically starts rebooting.I haven't looked at the report to be honest.

I did not get that from your original post! When you said it would freeze and restart, I thought you meant it would continue playing the video, not reboot the TiVo. That is a whole different issue. Yeah, that might be the hard drive. Your TiVo should not be rebooting. That is definitely a problem with your box, and not your remote.

[edit] My bad, because TiVo actually calls it restart in the help menu. Heck, Windows calls it that too.

 

[Ceciliachavez75]

I did not get that from your original post! When you said it would freeze and restart, I thought you meant it would continue playing the video, not reboot the TiVo. That is a whole different issue. Yeah, that might be the hard drive. Your TiVo should not be rebooting. That is definitely a problem with your box, and not your remote.

[edit] My bad, because TiVo actually calls it restart in the help menu. Heck, Windows calls it that too.

Hmm now it seems like I will have to replace the hard drive which terrifies me as I know nothing about doing something like that. I don't want to lose all my shows and season passes. Thank you

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[ThAbtO]

I don't want to lose all my shows and season passes.

If/when the hard drive fails, you would lose everything and no way to get it back.

 

[Ceciliachavez75]

If/when the hard drive fails, you would lose everything and no way to get it back.

So what's the solution for that to not happen ? Get a new DVR ?

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[ThAbtO]

So what's the solution for that to not happen ? Get a new DVR ?

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Get a new drive, Hook up to a computer and use MFSTools 3.3 to copy the entire drive, shows, passes, etc. A bigger drive will yield more space to record.

A drive typically last about 5-7+ years.

 

[Ceciliachavez75]

Get a new drive, Hook up to a computer and use MFSTools 3.3 to copy the entire drive, shows, passes, etc. A bigger drive will yield more space to record.

A drive typically last about 5-7+ years.

Thank you for the info. I feel like for me, it would be easier to just get a new tivo. I'm not good with doing what you're suggesting, it sounds difficult and like something I would end up messing up honestly . I don't even know what a MFS tool is. I don't ever hack my tivo's so I know nothing about doing it.

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[ThAbtO]

If you can swap out drives, that is what you can do. It would mean starting fresh again.

MFSTools is a program that does the copy, backup, but it would take a day or more to do the processes. Swapping drives alone is the fastest, about 15 minutes and its running. Then its a matter getting the passes rebuilt, cable card, etc.

 

[kpeters59]

Hard drive 'cloners' can be had for ~$30.

Then you pull out the old, put it in the Source slot, insert the replacement drive in the Target slot and start the clone.

Put the new one in the TiVo.

-KP