HDR fox T2 freezes

I have a HDR fox T2 running custom firmware 2.19. Today, the box has being acting weird. At random points today, it has froze, picture goes black, remote unresponsive and pushing the standby button on the front has no effect. In the past 5 mins I've switched off the box at the back, and in under 3 mins of viewing, the box has froze again. I've managed to run a general diagnostic scan which everything passed. Can anyone offer any assistance?

Kind regards

David
 
Have you added anything on your network that run a DNLA server e.g. Twonky? This is known to cause freeze / re-boot
I've not added anything new, I do run the network shares automount but I've had that working for months now. It's now freezing after 30 secs when swithed off at the back.

Can the dlna server be switched off?

David
 
I would definitely turn off Content Sharing temporarily to see if something on your network is the problem, however turning it off permanently will stop the Humax performing as a DLNA sever and will also stop most of the decryption options in the Custom Firmware from working, See the DLNA Box HERE
 
Its hard to say with the limited information available - but if I was you I would...

1) Check for HDD errors using the webif diagnostics tab.

2) Factory reset.

3) Re-install official firmware.

4) Re-install custom firmware.


Posted on the move
 
Its hard to say with the limited information available - but if I was you I would...

1) Check for HDD errors using the webif diagnostics tab.

2) Factory reset.

3) Re-install official firmware.

4) Re-install custom firmware.


Posted on the move
I've ran the general diagnostics via the web if, is this what your talking about?
 
No, it refers to the Hard Disk button on the Diagnostics page.

Further disk checking / repair is available in the Telnet menu via Maintenance Mode. See Wiki re Telnet (click).
 
No, it refers to the Hard Disk button on the Diagnostics page.

Further disk checking / repair is available in the Telnet menu via Maintenance Mode. See Wiki re Telnet (click).

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SMART data read from device /dev/sda
Disk Information
SMART Status PASSED
Model Family Seagate Pipeline HD 5900.2
Device Model ST3500312CS
Serial Number 6VV39Y8H
LU WWN Device Id 5 000c50 027e2483c
Firmware Version SC13
User Capacity 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is 8
ATA Standard is ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is Fri Sep 20 10:56:20 2013 BST
SMART support is Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is Enabled

Attributes
IDNameFlagsRaw ValueValueWorstThreshTypeUpdatedWhen Failed
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-- 2126945 120 099 006 Pre-fail Always -
3 Spin_Up_Time PO---- 0 097 097 000 Pre-fail Always -
4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 2034 099 099 020 Old_age Always -
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 0 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always -
7 Seek_Error_Rate POSR-- 88422968 079 060 030 Pre-fail Always -
9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 5668 094 094 000 Old_age Always -
10 Spin_Retry_Count PO--C- 0 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always -
12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 1017 100 100 020 Old_age Always -
184 End-to-End_Error -O--CK 0 100 100 099 Old_age Always -
187 Reported_Uncorrect -O--CK 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
188 Command_Timeout -O--CK 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
189 High_Fly_Writes -O-RCK 115 001 001 000 Old_age Always -
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel -O---K 19 081 044 045 Old_age Always In_the_past
194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 19 019 056 000 Old_age Always -
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered -O-RC- 2126945 045 038 000 Old_age Always -
197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--C- 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----C- 0 100 100 000 Old_age Offline -
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -OSRCK 0 200 200 000 Old_age Always -
 
Checking disk sda
Unmounted /dev/sda1
Unmounted /dev/sda2
Unmounted /dev/sda3
Running short disk self test
No pending sectors found - skipping sector repair

Checking partition /dev/sda3...
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
/lost+found not found. Create? yes
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda3: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/sda3: 13/655776 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 160418/2622611 blocks
Checking partition /dev/sda1...
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
/lost+found not found. Create? yes
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/sda1: 13/65808 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 13481/263064 blocks
Creating swap file...
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1073737728 bytes
UUID=5e55f13a-c1ca-4c61-aac5-9a111d348bd8
Checking partition /dev/sda2...
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
/lost+found not found. Create? yes
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/sda2: 7350/29860704 files (0.8% non-contiguous), 6615643/119209984 blocks
Removing extra swap space.
 
Just got home to try the box out and its hanging after 20 secs, requiring a switch off at the back. I think i'll remove the custom firmware and reload everything on to see if that works.
 
The value is similar on a per power_on_hours basis to our box with a brand new drive and according to http://kb.acronis.com/content/9124 it isn't one of the more important parameters. What problems would you envisage from the reported value?
Just something to keep an eye on. I had quite a few of these (along with other bad things) on the last laptop drive I had that needed replacing under warranty.
 
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