TBC
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i finally agreed to have a look at a few friends 4001's today that for one reason or another seem to be stuck on tune or virgin loading blah blah. (i really hate these boxes now lmao)
there seem to be an array of various problems with them.
the first is the symbol rate says 6.887 but it isn't set properly - i think michael1 mentioned this a time back. nice and easy fix, just reset it regardless of what it says in eng menu.
another;
failing to update from 3.3 to 3.5 pull jumper box sets its own netid when in eng menu and signal seems ok ish. it isn't that is why it is failig to take the update but it does know there is one available so its sits in tune forever and to get back intot eng menu you got to erase the update flag by pulling red jumper.... a less simple fix - change all the stuck in tune caps ect and leave in stream for as long as it takes to update!!
the real sneaky one;
virgin loading screen forever!!!!
this is quite possibly corrupted nvram that has cuased the box to loose the netid. no big deal is it - unless of course the box can't set its own netid????
i tested one of these today, 3.5l firmware pull jumper as peeps do to change pin ect the reboot to eng menu - no signal fook all infact and no netid setting automatically!!!!!! without the netid the box will not be able to look for a signal.
the only way i could get the netid on the box was with a card(netid setter)
as soon as the netid was on the box it got good locks and booted fine..
i connected libby to see if oi could force the netid (didn't work any more , it used to lol), i tried the funcard it seemed to work but the box booted to tune so i couldn't tell if it was actually done. my solution to this was to insert the netid funcard, connect libby, then power up with cable feed in. this stopped the boot to tune after the netid had been set. then i disconnected and rebooted to eng menu. netid was set and all signals were present.
it is beginnning to look like the 3.5l won't autoset netid (seems to now be a cc function call, could be to target hacking of this POPULAR box lmao), try it yourselves and post what happens!!
just notes from a few fixes i did today, have a go at these and with any luck it may sort a few of your 4001 problems for you..
TBC
there seem to be an array of various problems with them.
the first is the symbol rate says 6.887 but it isn't set properly - i think michael1 mentioned this a time back. nice and easy fix, just reset it regardless of what it says in eng menu.
another;
failing to update from 3.3 to 3.5 pull jumper box sets its own netid when in eng menu and signal seems ok ish. it isn't that is why it is failig to take the update but it does know there is one available so its sits in tune forever and to get back intot eng menu you got to erase the update flag by pulling red jumper.... a less simple fix - change all the stuck in tune caps ect and leave in stream for as long as it takes to update!!
the real sneaky one;
virgin loading screen forever!!!!
this is quite possibly corrupted nvram that has cuased the box to loose the netid. no big deal is it - unless of course the box can't set its own netid????
i tested one of these today, 3.5l firmware pull jumper as peeps do to change pin ect the reboot to eng menu - no signal fook all infact and no netid setting automatically!!!!!! without the netid the box will not be able to look for a signal.
the only way i could get the netid on the box was with a card(netid setter)
as soon as the netid was on the box it got good locks and booted fine..
i connected libby to see if oi could force the netid (didn't work any more , it used to lol), i tried the funcard it seemed to work but the box booted to tune so i couldn't tell if it was actually done. my solution to this was to insert the netid funcard, connect libby, then power up with cable feed in. this stopped the boot to tune after the netid had been set. then i disconnected and rebooted to eng menu. netid was set and all signals were present.
it is beginnning to look like the 3.5l won't autoset netid (seems to now be a cc function call, could be to target hacking of this POPULAR box lmao), try it yourselves and post what happens!!
just notes from a few fixes i did today, have a go at these and with any luck it may sort a few of your 4001 problems for you..
TBC