Today I noticed that my HDR T2 was not responding to the remote and the picture was frozen although sound continued - nothing that unusual - just switch off and on at the back, something that I have done many times before.
I haven't given any remedies for "completely dead", this would have to come under Hardware Investigation. Are you handy with a meter?I will have to spend some time over the next few day reading the repair guides and seeing whether the failure is fatal
One of mine does (or did) something similar. Leaving it off for 10 minutes to fully discharge the PSU seemed to make it work again, whereas a quick off and on never did.
That's a little worrying. Hope it's not permanent.
EXCEPT this time when I switched on nothing - no sign of lights or disk activity
I will have to spend some time over the next few day reading the repair guides and seeing whether the failure is fatal
That sounds promising, or at least a temporary fix
Alas leaving it off, for several days, has done nothing to improve the situation
If you can't get power up without the HDD connected, there's not likely to be anything wrong with it – don't (until absolutely forced to) postulate two separate faults occurring simultaneously unless there is a possible chain of causality. It's a side issue, but out of interest how did you power the HDD while connected to your Android box? You also have no idea whether the drive format is appropriate for the Android box.
Did you not read my previous post??
It has a remarkably precise specification: 3.15A.
Classic cause of a mains SMPSU being fine until it's switched off is the startup power supply, the one that supplies just enough power from the mains to the controller to get it going - after that it's obtained from the switching action.
I could, but let's get some voltage info first!
Checking at the socket I do get voltages matching BH's list so the the PCB fuse must be OK and we need to widen the the search
I wasn't postulating a fault with the HDD but with the cable, a cheap affair from China like https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254603628082 but reading the description more thoroughly it only claims to support 2.5" SATA with USB power, those that support 3.5" SATA also have an 12.V external power so I have the wrong cable type
That's what I expected, which is why I asked about how you powered the HDD (answer: you didn't).
Excellent (or not, according to your point of view). The unit won't power up if the front panel is buggered (or disconnected).
Or not, The front panel has never been removed for filter removal so unlikely to have been physically damaged or become disconnected.
I'm not sure. Should I encourage people who might have little experience with this kind of thing to get a cheap meter and start poking around with mains circuits? Best done under guidance, I reckon.
Depends.
Just thought I'd ask if you left the Humax drive with default/standard partition structure? Because in one of mine I used the custom fw utilities to convert drive to gpt and forgot about it. This means that when I flash to standard Humax fw it can't see the drive (doh!)