Hi,
I recently had trouble with my HDR-Fox T2 Humax box, whereby it went in to continuous "deleting *" mode, whilst not actually deleting anything. I found on this website the solution was to downgrade the firmare, format the disk then upgrade the firmware again. Since the harddisk was about half full, I didn't want to lose all the recordings. I found the option to connect via FTP, which allowed me to copy the stuff off, but the directories were read-only so I could copy them back on. I tried phoning humax for help, asking for a root password for the FTP to allow access beyond the "My Videos" area, to allow me to remove the background deletion .dat file, explaining the problem I was having and that I'm a software engineer so I know about accessing and using the Linux O/S., but they were no help stating they don't give out that information, and said their fix was to downgrade/format/upgrade the firmware, they were supposed to send me the instructions, but they never did - useless!
Anyway, to make a long story even longer, I decided to install the custom firmware over the installed firmware (1.03.12), in order to give me telnet access to the box, thus allowing me to delete the background deleting .dat file, and restore the humax to be working again. Whilst logged in I performed a harddisk check, which showed many errors on the harddisk, for which I then decided to bit the bullet and format it - with the diskcheck options, which again continued to show many errors, resulting in me ordering a new harddisk for replacement.
In the mean time I've just been using it from empty, with a little bit of playing with the Web/If installed using the custom firmware, and reading about all the extra facilities available.
Now comes to the problem, since having the custom firmware installed, I have had the Humax box lock up on me a number of times, where it seems to be stuck on a particular channel, showing the picture and sound fine, but I cannot interact with it using the remote control at all, and cannot turn it off into standby mode. I can still access it via telnet and the Web I/F, but even installing the Web I/F remote control software, I could not control it.
It happened again last night, and when I went to the Web I/F to see what was happening it stated that there were currently two programmes playing, even though no programmes where playing, it was showing the live picture. On the schedule events list it stated that it was recording a programme, so when that finished I rebooted via telnet.
On return, it only recorded 1 minute of the half hour programme that was supposed to be recording, but full control had returned.
I believe the lock up has something to do with the fact that it throught two programmes were currently playing - one that was stopped earlier in the evening, and the other stated it was the programme that was supposed to be recording, which I had not selected to play at all.
One thing that I wondered was, quite often I don't press "Stop" to stop a programme playing, I often press "Back" or "Exit" to go straight to the Media page or the Live TV picture. This is something that I have done many times over the 2 years of owning the box, and it has never been a problem. The box itself normally runs for many months without problem, only ever locking up (requiring turn-off/turn-on) on a handful of occasions. Since the custom software has been installed this has happened 4 or 5 times in the past week, so I wondered if there is some problem/conflict going on - perhaps with regard to the business of thumbnail file generation in recent custom firmware updates (which I've been reading about).
I've tried to look at what was going on, in a telnet session, to see what processes were running, but I couldn't see anything obvious. I don't know what process controls the programme playback. I wondered if I just killed off the playback process that perhaps did not exit correctly when pressing "Back" or "Exit" instead of "Stop", that it would spring back into life, but it seems it doesn't quite work like that!
Of course it could be all down to harddisk problems, but it seems strange that the current status indicated two programmes being played at the same time, which may indicate a problem perhaps others have seen?
Anyway, sorry for the long post, I just wanted to get everything into context before describing the problem.
Any help or feedback would be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Phd.
I recently had trouble with my HDR-Fox T2 Humax box, whereby it went in to continuous "deleting *" mode, whilst not actually deleting anything. I found on this website the solution was to downgrade the firmare, format the disk then upgrade the firmware again. Since the harddisk was about half full, I didn't want to lose all the recordings. I found the option to connect via FTP, which allowed me to copy the stuff off, but the directories were read-only so I could copy them back on. I tried phoning humax for help, asking for a root password for the FTP to allow access beyond the "My Videos" area, to allow me to remove the background deletion .dat file, explaining the problem I was having and that I'm a software engineer so I know about accessing and using the Linux O/S., but they were no help stating they don't give out that information, and said their fix was to downgrade/format/upgrade the firmware, they were supposed to send me the instructions, but they never did - useless!
Anyway, to make a long story even longer, I decided to install the custom firmware over the installed firmware (1.03.12), in order to give me telnet access to the box, thus allowing me to delete the background deleting .dat file, and restore the humax to be working again. Whilst logged in I performed a harddisk check, which showed many errors on the harddisk, for which I then decided to bit the bullet and format it - with the diskcheck options, which again continued to show many errors, resulting in me ordering a new harddisk for replacement.
In the mean time I've just been using it from empty, with a little bit of playing with the Web/If installed using the custom firmware, and reading about all the extra facilities available.
Now comes to the problem, since having the custom firmware installed, I have had the Humax box lock up on me a number of times, where it seems to be stuck on a particular channel, showing the picture and sound fine, but I cannot interact with it using the remote control at all, and cannot turn it off into standby mode. I can still access it via telnet and the Web I/F, but even installing the Web I/F remote control software, I could not control it.
It happened again last night, and when I went to the Web I/F to see what was happening it stated that there were currently two programmes playing, even though no programmes where playing, it was showing the live picture. On the schedule events list it stated that it was recording a programme, so when that finished I rebooted via telnet.
On return, it only recorded 1 minute of the half hour programme that was supposed to be recording, but full control had returned.
I believe the lock up has something to do with the fact that it throught two programmes were currently playing - one that was stopped earlier in the evening, and the other stated it was the programme that was supposed to be recording, which I had not selected to play at all.
One thing that I wondered was, quite often I don't press "Stop" to stop a programme playing, I often press "Back" or "Exit" to go straight to the Media page or the Live TV picture. This is something that I have done many times over the 2 years of owning the box, and it has never been a problem. The box itself normally runs for many months without problem, only ever locking up (requiring turn-off/turn-on) on a handful of occasions. Since the custom software has been installed this has happened 4 or 5 times in the past week, so I wondered if there is some problem/conflict going on - perhaps with regard to the business of thumbnail file generation in recent custom firmware updates (which I've been reading about).
I've tried to look at what was going on, in a telnet session, to see what processes were running, but I couldn't see anything obvious. I don't know what process controls the programme playback. I wondered if I just killed off the playback process that perhaps did not exit correctly when pressing "Back" or "Exit" instead of "Stop", that it would spring back into life, but it seems it doesn't quite work like that!
Of course it could be all down to harddisk problems, but it seems strange that the current status indicated two programmes being played at the same time, which may indicate a problem perhaps others have seen?
Anyway, sorry for the long post, I just wanted to get everything into context before describing the problem.
Any help or feedback would be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Phd.
