My brand new Humax HDR-Fox T2 has started exhibiting the following symptoms:
1. Freezing up so that it fails to respond to commands from the remote or front panel buttons, so has to be power cycled.
2. Not recording some programmes or only recording part of them.
3. Showing 'no signal' on the attached TV during times when it is frozen.
The background is that I bought this new Humax from Electronic Bargain World via eBay and it arrived last Tuesday 4th November. Due to concerns on this forum about the automatic tuning of Humaxs, I manually tuned the channels from the Craigkelly transmitter. I installed custom firmware v. 1.03.12 and the packages: disable-dsa, disable-ota, poweron-channel, redring and rs, and ffmpeg and webif were installed for me. The Humax has successfully recorded a number of programmes with no problems, including some from Freeview 20 and 704.
But yesterday morning (Sat 8th) things started to go wrong. I had set up timers for 3 consecutive 60 mins programmes on Freeview 20 from 8.00 followed by 2 consecutive Freeview 704 programmes from 11.30. Due to problems recording from Freeview 20 on a recently returned Humax T2000 (reported to this forum), around 10.30 I checked progress. I found that I was getting 'no signal' on the TV, although the bright red ring on the front panel indicated that the Humax was recording. I got no response to signals from the handset. I tried again around 13.00, when recording should have completed, with the same result. I then powercycled the Humax and examined the recordings. The first Freeview 20 recording had terminated prematurely after 28 mins, although it displayed fine. The other two Freeview 20 recordings were showing 0 mins. The two Freeview 704 showed no sign of being recorded at all. I set up a timer on Freeview 20 for a few minutes later, and it recorded fine with no adverse symptoms.
This morning (Sun 9th), I tried again with an 8.00 Freeview 20 timer, with similar bad symptoms as yesterday morning. This time it took 3 powercycles to bring the Humax back to life. During the 2 unsuccessful attempts, the Humax appeared to start rebooting with "System starting" then "Custom FW 3.00" on the front panel and the initial Humax message on the TV, but immediately after this it switched to the time on the front panel but a blue ring, and 'no signal' on the TV. On the third attempt I was able to see the recording. It had terminated after only 16 mins this time, but what was recorded seemed to be fine.
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Could it be the custom firmware or one of the packages, or is the Humax itself broken? Any suggestions of further experiments to try before I attempt to return it to the seller would be welcome.
1. Freezing up so that it fails to respond to commands from the remote or front panel buttons, so has to be power cycled.
2. Not recording some programmes or only recording part of them.
3. Showing 'no signal' on the attached TV during times when it is frozen.
The background is that I bought this new Humax from Electronic Bargain World via eBay and it arrived last Tuesday 4th November. Due to concerns on this forum about the automatic tuning of Humaxs, I manually tuned the channels from the Craigkelly transmitter. I installed custom firmware v. 1.03.12 and the packages: disable-dsa, disable-ota, poweron-channel, redring and rs, and ffmpeg and webif were installed for me. The Humax has successfully recorded a number of programmes with no problems, including some from Freeview 20 and 704.
But yesterday morning (Sat 8th) things started to go wrong. I had set up timers for 3 consecutive 60 mins programmes on Freeview 20 from 8.00 followed by 2 consecutive Freeview 704 programmes from 11.30. Due to problems recording from Freeview 20 on a recently returned Humax T2000 (reported to this forum), around 10.30 I checked progress. I found that I was getting 'no signal' on the TV, although the bright red ring on the front panel indicated that the Humax was recording. I got no response to signals from the handset. I tried again around 13.00, when recording should have completed, with the same result. I then powercycled the Humax and examined the recordings. The first Freeview 20 recording had terminated prematurely after 28 mins, although it displayed fine. The other two Freeview 20 recordings were showing 0 mins. The two Freeview 704 showed no sign of being recorded at all. I set up a timer on Freeview 20 for a few minutes later, and it recorded fine with no adverse symptoms.
This morning (Sun 9th), I tried again with an 8.00 Freeview 20 timer, with similar bad symptoms as yesterday morning. This time it took 3 powercycles to bring the Humax back to life. During the 2 unsuccessful attempts, the Humax appeared to start rebooting with "System starting" then "Custom FW 3.00" on the front panel and the initial Humax message on the TV, but immediately after this it switched to the time on the front panel but a blue ring, and 'no signal' on the TV. On the third attempt I was able to see the recording. It had terminated after only 16 mins this time, but what was recorded seemed to be fine.
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Could it be the custom firmware or one of the packages, or is the Humax itself broken? Any suggestions of further experiments to try before I attempt to return it to the seller would be welcome.