Vu+ solo2 stuck at starting GUI

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Hello experts and friends. My Vu+ solo2 clone is boot and go as far as 'Starting GUI' only and stops there. Nothing happens after that no matter what firmwhere i flashed. It still can be flashed by front usb. It has Samsung flash chip and other than that i dont know which clone. When i bought it. China vendor said if needed update it with VU+and X Blackhole 2.0.9. Do not higher than that. I updated and worked for a while. First tuners stopped and now at Starting GUI point. Need help. Thanks in advance.
 
Hello experts and friends. My Vu+ solo2 clone is boot and go as far as 'Starting GUI' only and stops there. Nothing happens after that no matter what firmwhere i flashed. It still can be flashed by front usb. It has Samsung flash chip and other than that i dont know which clone. When i bought it. China vendor said if needed update it with VU+and X Blackhole 2.0.9. Do not higher than that. I updated and worked for a while. First tuners stopped and now at Starting GUI point. Need help. Thanks in advance.

Remove any external usb devices if that does not work then try another Power Supply.

Could also be heat related so check your fan speed and the temp your box is getting to.
 
Thanks Ferret. All usb and external things are changed. I think box is hot more than it should be. It seems fan is not working either. At the moment i do not have another power supply. I will check
 
Today i started box again and kept on for about12 minutes. But processor area was unusually hot. Fan did not start. I opened the cover and all the cables are intact.somebody please shed light into what is the cause.Thanks
 
Sounds like you need to replace the fan or get 1 of these usb coolers

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Used this in the old days..well a while ago..
put some black tape over the led lights..A good tip.but worked great at cooling and only a couple of quid.
 
Today i started box again and kept on for about12 minutes. But processor area was unusually hot. Fan did not start. I opened the cover and all the cables are intact.somebody please shed light into what is the cause.Thanks

The fan is controlled via image you need to go into settings and turn it up..if its not starting could be that its not been told too again the image so if box is not booting the fan wont start..However if you feel it is a dud fan you can not get a replacement one anywhere so you need to get the size nearest your fan as solo 2 fan is a weird size..I got one from maplins 25mm i think and fitted into one of my solo 2 as fan it had made so much noise so it is easy doable.
 
Thanks ajt,Rat and ferret. I am from Sri lanka and here in local standered Vu+ solo is very high end receiver. No spares available. My box boots and when it comes to Starting GUI it just stops there. So i cant go to menus. First tuners stopped functioning. After that i flashed several clone safe images.Friend of mine, an electronic person checked the fan for physical damage by disconnecting it and giving it power externally and it works. Once i was thinking may be flash chip damaged. If i replace flash chip, will this be solved? Thanks.
 
Thanks ajt,Rat and ferret. I am from Sri lanka and here in local standered Vu+ solo is very high end receiver. No spares available. My box boots and when it comes to Starting GUI it just stops there. So i cant go to menus. First tuners stopped functioning. After that i flashed several clone safe images.Friend of mine, an electronic person checked the fan for physical damage by disconnecting it and giving it power externally and it works. Once i was thinking may be flash chip damaged. If i replace flash chip, will this be solved? Thanks.

If the box is able to take the images your flashing then changing this flash chip will not help. The problem is elsewhere you must try another PSU before anything else.
 
Ferret is right
I had this with a DM800SE and a new PSU solved the problem
 
Have you tried seeing if you can access the box via ftp/telnet when it gets stuck? Also you could try connecting the serial cable it came with and running putty/hyerterm to see what the box thinks it's doing.
 
Thanks again experts, this evening when i switched on the solo2 nothing in the display, only the touch sensitive switch is lighting up.What is there left to do? now i cant flash any image. reciver simply is not booting .
 
I would seriously try a new power supply have you tried the suggestions by the members in this thread ?

you need to eliminate things before we can advise further tbh mate
:)
 
Sounds like it's now been time bombed so will need the flash chip replaced. When it was accepting images did you try a really old image like ViX 3.0 808?
 
I agree with @IAmATeaf, if you have a solo2 (not solo2 SE) and you're not getting anything on display screen (ie even when trying to flash a previous backed up image) then it does sound like you have a clone bombed solo2 i'm afraid.
 
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Thanks all. The last image i updated was clone safe Blackhole 2.0.1. I will try new power supply and post the results. Thanks all of you for trying hard to help me.
 
@spic,

I would try flashing that exact same image then and see if you get anything on display.

If you don't (but still get just power light on) then I would say you have bricked box and if that's the case you need a new flash chip first rather than power supply.
 
Thanks all again. My box is fitted with Samsung flash chip.K9F2G08UOC, but at the moment Aliexpress has only Toshiba chip which i can get. Will it do the job?
 
So long as it's a flash chip for Solo2 you should be okay from what i've read there are two chip manufacturers of these chips.

Did you try flashing again with a image that previously worked and are you still getting nothing on the display?
 
A good indication of your box been subject to the time bomb would be a unresponsive usb stick if you try to reflash.

So if you have a usb stick with an activity light on it and that does not flash you can pretty much be certain when coupled with just a power light that youll need to replace the flash chip or attempt to jtag it.
 
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