Recorded Shows Not Playing Back (fixed)

[Teg]

Just wanted to share with everyone my experience from last night.

I switched on my HDR-FOX-T2 as usual with no issues. (Currently running 2.19 / 1.0.2.32 of the custom firmware).

Then a few minutes into being on, I noticed on the LCD display - "Rebooting in..." and an countdown from five seconds. The machine rebooted. No issue. The box rebooted and ten minutes later it started to record a show. While recording a programme, I wanted to watch another programme which had been recorded earlier over the weekend but this failed. The screen is blank and then the "This channel is scrambled" message appears. I was afraid I had lost all my recordings for the past few days. I did notice that the Red Ring package was not working as expected. The display was scrolling the name of the programme and running time, rather than the custom option I had selected of <TIME> <RUNNING TIME>.

In the end, once all the recordings for the evening had stopped, I ran the fix-flash-packages diagnostic. I then rebooted the box and all is working fine. Anybody else had similar issues?

 

[Black Hole]

That sounds like the "lost encryption keys" syndrome, nothing to do with redring or fix-flash-packages. Shame, you could have done some useful tests. See HERE (click).

 

[Teg]

Thanks Black Hole. I was thinking of going down the fix-disk route if the issue had persisted. Do you know what causes this and why it happens? Could it happen again?

 

[Black Hole]

We have no idea. It seems to be a random event.

 

[af123]

I think most of us see it occasionally - in my case not more often than a couple of times a year.