Update from android 9 to 14 - problem

[trog]

I read it as a sarcastic swipe at anyone who thinks disconnecting power for an extended period has any benefit, not just Aura owners.

But is there a correlation between Aura owners and such comments? Anyway you should not also be reading anything into my comment it was just meant to be flippant.

 

[Owen Smith]

I am starting to get the feeling that prpr does not have much empathy for Aura owners and their multiple issues

Nor do I. The Aura is a cursed product, just buy an older Humax PVR on ebay and a streamer (if you need one) to replace this pile of garbage.

 

[EEPhil]

I read it as a sarcastic swipe at anyone who thinks disconnecting power for an extended period has any benefit, not just Aura owners.

That'll include Humax itself. I'm sure I've seen it mentioned - but as luck would have it, I can't find the quote. Of course that also depends on  your definition of extended in this context. My experience of the various Humaxes is that a 10-30 minute shutdown is enough.

 

[EEPhil]

Nor do I. The Aura is a cursed product, just buy an older Humax PVR on ebay and a streamer (if you need one) to replace this pile of garbage.

The Aura EZ is the cursed product. Freely and no ability to move files around.

At least the original Aura works, for some of us, most of the time. At the moment, before update, mine does the things I want - even if it sometimes requires a workaround.

 

[Goober]

I haven't checked yet to see if the update is available to me, but after reading this lot I am going to hold fire I think.

Someone please tell me when it is safe to pull the trigger on the new update/s.

 

[Black Hole]

My experience of the various Humaxes is that a 10-30 minute shutdown is enough.

Explain why even 10 minutes is better than a few seconds. All that is needed is for the PSU capacitors to discharge sufficiently that the system receives a hardware reset when power is restored. We're not talking about putting the system into standby without interrupting power.

It would be possible to design a system that held onto its state without power, but it is a fundamental principle that restoring power sends a hard reset across the system, so that everything re-initialises in case it was in an unknown state.

The exceptions to this are:

• The PSU is designed to run the system off-power for a period, to dodge brown-outs, but once the "light have gone out" that should be enough;
• The fault is temperature related;
• The fault is influenced by external factors with a time element;
• Firmware bugs or oversights fail to reinitialise all memory and registers;
• Somebody's crap design fails to reinitialise al hardware from a power-on reset.