Humax freesat freeze up

Yogibear

judderman62 wrote: »

I have a Humax 9200 and get this and all manner of other issues on a very regular basis ... fed up and gonna look for a new box and I won't be looking at Humax again :mad::mad::mad:

It was great at 1st but now it's just problems all the time - even did the reset from the menu thing last night but still problems. Humax are Junk

I bought a Humax freesat + last week it was great at first now I can`t turn it on or off by the remote control,changed the batteries too I turned it off at the back, at the plug, just a pain in the *rse:mad::mad::mad: bought this because the Humax Freeview box is the dugs b*ws.

ps sorry if I haven`t put full stops in the proper places, this message is to the `smart *rse who picked me up before:rolleyes:you know who you are.

buglawton

Looks like Humax Sat boxes freeze up just like my Humax Freeview PVR does. So what is reliable in this world? Pay a subscription to Murdoch for Sky+ ?

judderman62

I have a tv onics box now - £179 from John Lewis - 500gb drive. Not as highly featured as Humax and few little irritants but nothing too drastic and up to now no issues - had it about 3/4 weeks now:

http://www.johnlewis.com/230504836/Product.aspx

review here:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/20/review_dvr_freeview_tvonics_dtr_z500/

if anyone is considering it let me know and I'll let you know what I like and dislike about it - might help you make up your mind

judderman62

oh yeah all the reviews I read of topfield had them down as very unreliable and pretty cr*p all round

lfc321

buglawton wrote: »

Looks like Humax Sat boxes freeze up just like my Humax Freeview PVR does. So what is reliable in this world? Pay a subscription to Murdoch for Sky+ ?

Sounds like some people are having probs, but not everyone. We've had out Foxsat HDR for just under a year. Has never frozen once. Great piece of kit IMO.

Oneday77

All digi boxes, that being satellite or terrestrial based now are digital. The signal that they receive supplies the program guide, picture, time and everything else. If the signal breaks up, is corrupted or disturbed in anyway it can cause a crash just like a computer. So turning off an on generally works. This is irrelevant of the brand, yes some higher spec ones cope better than others.
The real issue is at the moment until the full digital switch over happens in any given area the digital signal is toned down as it causes interference with the old analogue signal. Once you area is fully digital the analogue is switched off and the digital signal is turned up in volume if you like. So problems will become rarer and more slight.
Sattelite is slightly different as it relies on a smal sensor at the pointy end of you dish that is prone to being disrupted by snow & rain. Terrestrial TV has a full wide band arial to pick up the signal, more so after the switch over.
Basically it will improve over the next few years but until then problems will occur.
( I have tried Thomson, Humax, Supermarket own Brands, Sony, Panasonic and various other brands. In each case they have all suffered problems in various locations and at differnet distances and height in relation to transmitters.)

Leopard

In ten months, our heavily-used Humax FoxSat-HDR box has only frozen once – and that was towards the end of a long session of file name-changing and archiving-off to an external drive by USB, which probably got it a bit confused alphabetically.

A hard shut-down and re-boot fixed it immediately.

Like our Sky+ box before it, we run ours off a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) device to protect it from surges and to keep it unaffected by power-cuts - important when recording!

Basically, we have found it to be totally reliable and a brilliant piece of kit. Far less flaky than the Sky+ box.

bigglesbj1

Humax foxsat-hdr freesat box freezing issue!
I had this problem I updated firmware and that was that,
So easy to do look in the menu and its there hope this helps
you peeps out there.
:money:

Inner_Zone

bigglesbj1 wrote: »

Humax foxsat-hdr freesat box freezing issue!
I had this problem I updated firmware and that was that,
So easy to do look in the menu and its there hope this helps
you peeps out there.
:money:

Do you realise you have replied to a two year old thread? Would imagine the issues have been sorted by now.

For others with Humax boxes:

For the Freesat boxes there has been an update available since 13-10-2011 and for the Freeview boxes updates from 12-12-2011 to 23-12-2011 depending on model:

http://www.dtg.org.uk/industry/download_schedule.php

frmarcus

An old thread, I know - but I have the same problem. Despite the latest over-air software update, freezes in the programme guide happen fairly frequently; and I find movement between the programmes in the guide sluggish and inaccurate. A web search shows that there is some discontent with this.

Humax needs to do better.