Hi all,
I've been letting my TiVo "bed in" past it's latest update to 3 tuners, and on the whole I'm happy.
However I do have some gripes with my TiVo. So far it's crashed on me twice with a circle image spinning round just by pressing the "My Shows" button. Also I missed the Royal Wedding, for some reason (I still havn't figured out why) my TiVo stopped recording about 1 hour 30 minutes into the coverage.
I can forgive a single blip in recording, but the hanging at the circle annoys me the most, once I had to take the power lead out of the back of the box (I wasn't happy to do this, I could hear the hard drive heads crash when I did it) and the other time I decided to leave it, which it eventually clicked back in (not to the My Shows screen though) to the main menu.
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It's often the user interface that hangs and shows the donut. If it does, try:
ReplyDeleteThumb Down - Thumb Up - Play - Play
It's a little sequence to reset the GUI.
Mike
that should come in very useful thanks Mike! Can you confirm it works when the donut is spinning?
ReplyDeleteI've had a few random crashes as well. Next time I will try @ashpole's suggestion.
ReplyDeleteI've also had a recording blip - failing to record an episode Dr Who - for new apparent reason. I have a suspicion that it looks for HD showings by preference so will not record the obvious showing but instead record a HD repeat four weeks in the future.
Mine was weird, I had nothing else set to record on the day of the Royal wedding, I had over 60% free disk space, but it just cut off the recording (just as the Princes were on the way to the Abbey!) after a seemingly random time (1:32:15 or something). Quite frustrating!
ReplyDeleteYep, spinning donut is generally a frozen UI and that sequence works fine.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it realised the Royal Wedding was moronic? Clever little Tivo ;-)
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