To much of a coincidence!

[jambo862]

Fine.... A few questions..
Do you know if the box is a clone or not? if clone then I dont knwo what to suggest, if not then its hopeful
Where are you downloading the firmware from? I recommend download the latest from skybox.cc... the latest being the date.

Freshly format a usb stick (fat32) and flash the box. Also before flashing remove the RJ45 Lan cable.

Hi, thanks for getting involved with this, but I'm honestly at the point of giving up.

My box is an original and not a clone. To make sure of this I have installed the clone firmware as well to see if it does anything.

With that installed I was only able to get to L097 on boot and it froze at that.

I have installed firmware from skybox.cc and also from http://www.yojiatech.com/

There is absolutly no difference in outcome.

I have tried images for the F5s, the F5 and also the Scooby Snax image for the F3.

The one I get most success with is the Scooby Snax image which will work on the channel it defaults to (CBBC) but then freezes when anything else is tried.

I appreciate anyone's feedback on this, but I'm totally out of ideas.

I know it not a feed issue, and with the number of firmwares I've now flashed on it I'm getting very close to ruling out any software issue. But if any one has further suggestions I'm willing to try.

But failing that I will be buying a new box on payday.

If thats the case can anyone recommend a reliable box for someone on a budget.

Cheers

Jambo862

[ismail]

Fine.... A few questions..
Do you know if the box is a clone or not? if clone then I dont knwo what to suggest, if not then its hopeful
Where are you downloading the firmware from? I recommend download the latest from skybox.cc... the latest being the date.

Freshly format a usb stick (fat32) and flash the box. Also before flashing remove the RJ45 Lan cable.

[sailsy]

Well in sorting our problem out would be a start thats the idea of the post not to tell us that yours works fine pointless! !!!!

[ismail]

Hello,

I have an F5S, approx a 1 month old and it is not a clone. I have updated the firmware to the latest from skybox.cc. I have also download the LAN tool. I can connect to the box no problem at all and just today I have sent over a new channels list (AJSat). It all works as expected. I do not have any crashes or hangs or anything of the sort.
I keep a USB stick permanatly connected to the box for the EPG (which is crap coz its XMLTV and not Crossepg which you need for 28.2) I have picons custom nack logo.. and my network is hard wired.

Infact I cant beleive how easy this box is, but I do come from Linux Boxes..

if I can be of help to anyone let me know.

[jambo862]

load the f3 image,do a factory reset,then load the correct firmware for the receiver.

Thanks for the advice, but it does exactly the same again.

I don't know if it means anything, but there is a solid green light in the display when it freezes.

I don't remember that being there when it was working.

Any more ideas gratefully appreciated. I'm getting close to chucking this thing away.

[slugworth]

load the f3 image,do a factory reset,then load the correct firmware for the receiver.

[jambo862]

Right, I have been experimenting and got somewhere (just about).

Having read up I decided to try and flash a F5 image instead of a F5S image and got exactly the same results.

I then decided to flash an old F3 image (the Scooby_Snax 091112 version), I wasn't sure what to expect on this one as it was old. However the box booted up and loaded on to CBBC Channel. It was showing BBC 3 given the time of day but the box did not freeze (the menus, channel lists and everything else was working fine).

I switched to BBC 4 and it worked fine. I then tried going to ITV 1 HD and the box locked up, I tried it with some scrambled channels, and the box locked straight away.

Does this give any one any ideas?

[jambo862]

If you find a way I'd appreciate it if you let me know how. If tried everything and I'm at a loss?

In response to DJ1978, maybe there's just a bad batch of these boxes around? Maybe it is something that people are doing wrong (but if it is I have no idea what I did)?

A lot of people use these boxes and have no issues. So I'm not going to say to not get one, but in my opinion if you do have the extra cash it maybe worth while spending the extra on a better built box.
When working my box was fine at what it did, but you can tell that it's not a premium item and has been made as cheaply as possible.

I still wouldn't mind getting the damn thing working again though!

[sailsy]

Yeah done all that the box never seems to completely go back to its virgin state so whatever causing it is still there I believe!

I will fix this I'm determined to .

[dj1978]

he was me thinking of selling my f3 to get a f5s just because of the 7 day epg' after seeing these comments i dont fink i will bother.what do you think

[DW190]

If there is I haven't found it yet. If anyone knows of a way I'd love to hear it.

You could try reflashing by nul modem using the original firmware.

[jambo862]

If there is I haven't found it yet. If anyone knows of a way I'd love to hear it.

[sailsy]

There's got to be a way unbelievable, there must be a way to completely erase whatever causing this problem a d start again????

[jambo862]

My F5S died on me when updating my channel list (so I could get Boxnation HD).

Fine before hand, box just keeps crashing all the time now as soon as I add my LNB connection.

I've tried three separate cables, and all of them crash the box, everything works absolutely fine until I plug the LNB.

I've flashed the software god knows how many times now, and it keeps doing it.

Has anyone got any other ideas as to how to solve it?

[gc1966]

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