Sticking / Jumping Channels

[pistolpete]

I have a sagem 1x running commando 10 on v1rgin. It's been running fine for several months but for the last few weeks most of the channels have been sticking to the point where you can't watch anyting. I have tried swapping the ucodes but this has no affect at all. Also the SNR values for all channels is 63,000 so that appears to be in the correct range. I've ordered a signal booster just in case but can't see that this will help if the SNR values are already fairly decent?

Any ideas greatly appreciated!

[Fergal]

Whats the ber and sig readings on a problem channel.

[pistolpete]

I think this is known as "sod's law" - I've just gone to check the values and the channels are fine - no jumping at all. I'll re-check later as this sometimes happens and then they all stick again. At the moment the values are as follows:

BER: Min 0, Max 90
SIG: Min 25957, Max 26214

Just had another look at the BER and it was up around 7200...

OK - Channels are sticking and jumping all over the place.

SIG is as above.
BER is now: Max: 262143, Min: 4000

[pistolpete]

Just in case someone happens upon this post... I've now bought a signal booster but that makes things worse - when I connect it I get absolutely no channels at all.

Maybe it's the end of my dbox and I need to start with something else?

[plasterer]

Try an image wit G Bo*
Andromeda or Blade
These were made for sticky sagems
And they do exactly wot they say on the Tin
You got nothing to loose mate ...............Paul

[pistolpete]

I thought I had sorted it earlier today. I removed all the connectors from the coax cable then put them back on as carefully as possible. The BER level dropped to 3 (it was 262,000) and the picture was perfect. I did a re-scan, got loads of channels (This was on a Commando 11 1x image) so was happy days.

2 hours later the BER shot back to 262,000 and the picture is jumping all over the place again.

Would this be an indicator of a dodgy box or should I try a new coax with ready-fitted connectors?

[zeddyb]

im having the same problem mate. I have a nokia dbox2 with commando image and all of a sudden the channels have started to jump. My BER goes from 800 upto 60k. no idea why

[pistolpete]

if you have any luck finding out the cause I'd be interested to hear!

[plasterer]

im having the same problem mate. I have a nokia dbox2 with commando image and all of a sudden the channels have started to jump. My BER goes from 800 upto 60k. no idea why

These are nearly always sig probs
You gotta retrace all cables
Try the Box at another Location
Its poss a hardware Fault
Run Boot manager and lets See the Log ...............paul

[ss0000]

It could be possible your signal is too strong which may be causing the problems, maybe you can try connecting through a splitter and see what happens, just a thought!

[zeddyb]

mine seems to have fixed itself. I re flashed a new image. commando 11. the only thing is i now only have Fta channels as i didnt back up my rom files. Anyone know what i need and where i can get these from. cheers

[konatist]

mine seems to have fixed itself. I re flashed a new image. commando 11. the only thing is i now only have Fta channels as i didnt back up my rom files. Anyone know what i need and where i can get these from. cheers

You can get the stuff you need here

Tools

Hit thanks if this helps

[adnoh]

im having the same problem mate. I have a nokia dbox2 with commando image and all of a sudden the channels have started to jump. My BER goes from 800 upto 60k. no idea why

I too am having the same problem with some of the movie channels (Sky Comedy, Action, Indie etc and the +1 channels e.g. E4+1, Discovery+1)

Does anyone know what could be causing the problem? i've tried fiddling with the cables, have flashed with SoOoOo MANY different images, played around with UCodes and emu's but still no joy - it's driving me insane!!