Hi guys,
I spent a lot of time (~60 hours) setting up my TM8000HD so thought I would make a quick guide as to how to do it.
It was actually quite easy in the end but I was fairly new and was not sure what I was doing fully, and the support for it was zero.
A couple of members suggested I wrote a guide to aid others, so I have.
I have written it for the benefit of someone who has never had much experience before.
Admin - If this is in the wrong section please move it.
Easiest method
The easiest method to set up is via USB pen formatted to Fat32.
The firmware is available here, and is unusual for most firmware as it is a .tbn file which confused a few people when I was asking about setting it up.
The firmware is the phantompatch file.
I Copied PHANTOMPATCH_TM8000_20Aug2010.tbn onto the root of the USB pen and stuck it in the USB port on the front of the TM-8000HD.
I Pressed Menu on the handset - then selected USB and finally USB DOWNLOAD & UPLOAD.
At this point I hadn't put an internall HDD in so there was only one drive called DISK 1.
I clicked this, then clicked on the Phantompatch and it asked me if I wanted to "Download."
Click yes and it flashes the firmware. This took a minute or so.
To check this has worked go to a normal TV channel and press 8281
I clicked on "Server 1" and typed in the info from my premium site.
I then pressed green on it to turn it to "active"
This is where I had the issue - it still said disconnected.
At this point hold down MUTE and press EXIT.
This hidden menu was the one that took me longest to find as it had not been mentioned anywhere else I had seen.
You can now change from none to XCAS, NewCAMD or CCCam obviously based on the premium server you have paid from.
Later I repeated the flashing process with the updated PHATHOM_TM8000_ExtraInfo_30Sep2010.tbn file also found here.
I was unsure it was the HD version at first, but it turned out that it was.
I guess you could miss out the previous patch, but thought that I would write down my exact method - then it would definitely work.
Incidentally I then had to change the satellite to Astra/Freesat 28.2E as it had changed itself to something bizarre after flashing.
Hope this helps, and saves you a lot more time than it took me!
Enjoy,
Guin
I spent a lot of time (~60 hours) setting up my TM8000HD so thought I would make a quick guide as to how to do it.
It was actually quite easy in the end but I was fairly new and was not sure what I was doing fully, and the support for it was zero.
A couple of members suggested I wrote a guide to aid others, so I have.
I have written it for the benefit of someone who has never had much experience before.
Admin - If this is in the wrong section please move it.
Easiest method
The easiest method to set up is via USB pen formatted to Fat32.
The firmware is available here, and is unusual for most firmware as it is a .tbn file which confused a few people when I was asking about setting it up.
The firmware is the phantompatch file.
I Copied PHANTOMPATCH_TM8000_20Aug2010.tbn onto the root of the USB pen and stuck it in the USB port on the front of the TM-8000HD.
I Pressed Menu on the handset - then selected USB and finally USB DOWNLOAD & UPLOAD.
At this point I hadn't put an internall HDD in so there was only one drive called DISK 1.
I clicked this, then clicked on the Phantompatch and it asked me if I wanted to "Download."
Click yes and it flashes the firmware. This took a minute or so.
To check this has worked go to a normal TV channel and press 8281
I clicked on "Server 1" and typed in the info from my premium site.
I then pressed green on it to turn it to "active"
This is where I had the issue - it still said disconnected.
At this point hold down MUTE and press EXIT.
This hidden menu was the one that took me longest to find as it had not been mentioned anywhere else I had seen.
You can now change from none to XCAS, NewCAMD or CCCam obviously based on the premium server you have paid from.
Later I repeated the flashing process with the updated PHATHOM_TM8000_ExtraInfo_30Sep2010.tbn file also found here.
I was unsure it was the HD version at first, but it turned out that it was.
I guess you could miss out the previous patch, but thought that I would write down my exact method - then it would definitely work.
Incidentally I then had to change the satellite to Astra/Freesat 28.2E as it had changed itself to something bizarre after flashing.
Hope this helps, and saves you a lot more time than it took me!
Enjoy,
Guin
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