No record 4000t

[S.N HENDRY]

Have a 4000t that was acting up. Dis full factory reset, seemingly successfully.
But is showing no recordings. ( I had set it a test of a detective series on ch 46(uk) of 6 consecutive episodes).
What's up with it?

 

[EEPhil]

If the 6 recordings were made before you did a factory reset then you've probably re-formatted the disk and lost the recordings.

If the recordings have vanished or can't be made after the reset then you've real problems. Sometimes the recordings list is blank on boot, but populates a short while later. I did once appear to lose all recordings and a complete power-down cured the problem. (Turn off at remote, wait for disk access to stop [can take a long time], turn power off at mains, leave for a few minutes and then power-up)

I'll assume that you made the recordings before the reset. Has the "acting up" been cured? (How was the Humax acting up?) Can you make and watch recordings now?

 

[S.N HENDRY]

If the 6 recordings were made before you did a factory reset then you've probably re-formatted the disk and lost the recordings.

If the recordings have vanished or can't be made after the reset then you've real problems. Sometimes the recordings list is blank on boot, but populates a short while later. I did once appear to lose all recordings and a complete power-down cured the problem. (Turn off at remote, wait for disk access to stop [can take a long time], turn power off at mains, leave for a few minutes and then power-up)

I'll assume that you made the recordings before the reset. Has the "acting up" been cured? (How was the Humax acting up?) Can you make and watch recordings now?

The acting up was 1) missing recordings. 2) loosing 'lock' on doing selections, the zoomies.
No, I put in the recordings after the full reset, as a test.
Checked today. It's showing no recordings. Hdd empty.

 

[EEPhil]

Have you tried channels other than 5Select (46)? (Don't try HD channels/U&Eden/Legend Xtra/TBN as these are on the same multiplex).
What are the signal strengths/quality on the channels you've tried to record?
Can you watch 5Select live on the Humax? What happens if you press record as you are watching? Does it record or do you get an error?
Do you have duplicates of channels at 800+?

'lock' on doing selections, the zoomies.

No idea what you mean.

 

[S.N HENDRY]

Update. At c13:00 it showed 2 recordings, of the 7, I set it yesterday. At 14:00 3 recordings from yesterday plus one ongoing on bbc1.
So I tried to play them, one by one, all had the same message at top of page, 'cannot playback invalid format '.
I had also tried to initiate a recording from the remote in real time.it wouldn't do it.
It plays so far all channels I have tested from 1 to 84.
I am going shortly to do a power cycle. Then do a test record.
If these measures fail I will redo the full factory reset including hdd format.
Will update as to progress.

 

[EEPhil]

I had also tried to initiate a recording from the remote in real time.it wouldn't do it.

Did it give any error message?
It makes me wonder whether the HDD has gone read-only. Unless reset, format and a power cycle ( including complete disconnect from mains) improves matters you may be looking at disk repair or replacement - which is beyond my knowledge. I'm sure there are others on here who can help with that.