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warkus

Nice work Peter,

Update received a short time ago, installed and problem is gone.

8 simultaneous recordings with no issue, no audio problems or zero lengths.

I was a wooss and stopped at 8, lol but im more than happy with that...

Great work!

warkus

It would be nice to have a new 17.5 stable official I have to admit. There are a lot of issues with the current 16.1 official and the 17.5 release just prior to these recording issues occuring was certainly a huge step up, despite the subtitle issues that it had. If the subtitle fixes can be applied...

warkus

I have pulled out a T3 and tested that with latest downloadable 17.5 beta and am not seeing the issue so far.

I will have to pull out a spare T2 and test that to see if it has the issue as well.

Seems that whatever was changed is specifically affecting only the T4...

Mark

warkus

Ok, i can now duplicate BOTH issues... Zero length recordings on T4 Recordings with video and no audio on T4. Easily duplicate both. How i worked out the second issue was that apparently when i said in an above post that i had not seen any more of the no audio recordings since the 5th March, that wa...

warkus

More testing on my unit shows it isnt anything to do with occupying the physical tuners. I can do the following... Go to guide. Start instant recording on whatever show is on abc, sbs, seven - so only 3 tuners occupied And then abc2, nitv, 7mate Exit guide Go in to your recordings folder And the sho...

warkus

I can now duplicate it for you every time, without fail... Its not location based and has nothing to do with Perth. It does seem to be the number of recordings at one time, but duplicating the issue is easy as. I did this 3 times in a row and every time same result. Go to guide. Start instant record...

warkus

I just had another zero length recording this time on channel 7, so it doesnt seem to be network specific thats for sure as all 3 of mine have been on different networks. That is 3 I've had in total now, and as for the video with no audio recordings, have not seen another so far touch wood but did h...

warkus

Hi, Apologies for very vague details above.am back home now so looked into it more. I have checked all my tuners, all working fine. I have a t4 and it was on 17.5 - 20180305 not 0303 as i had said above. 2 zero recordings Highway Patrol - 7mate Completed timer shows Tue 6 Mar 19:27 ... 20:18 (51mins...

warkus

Hiya all, Just wanted to chime in and add that i have also seen zero length recordings using 20180303. Sorry i dont have specifics handy as im out n about and flat out at present so have no time to sit down and get the details but at around 2am this morning i noticed several zero length recordings a...

warkus

Well technically it was mainboard and power supply issues causing his system problems, crashing and rebooting.

But the HDD no detect on first powerup of mains was definitely the front panel firmware v20057, i downgraded him to v20038, problem gone...

Mark

warkus

Isnt it is still going to be ABC Kids from 6am to 7pm or something like that??

It only becomes the ABC Comedy channel from 7:30pm if what i read is correct on the ABC blurb...

It sounds like a funny channel, bahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahaha

Sorry, that was bad...

warkus

the 30 seconds was my bad, sorry...

warkus

Actually thinking about this now and going over your original post... This comes down to what Peter was saying in another post (prl), and it has to do with the system defaulting to recording on the internal flash memory which is likely to be what has happened to you. So this is my take on what has h...

warkus

It could be either, the jury is still out...

Every where i look, some state it as 12.5 others 15, so the next time i get one in ill measure it to be sure lol...

Either way, even if it is 15mm, it fits well in the T2 with 2-3mm spare clearance, so its all good either way.

warkus

Actually I thought it was 15mm too, but after researching a bit today it appears to be only 12.5mm, and no so far no issues, it is still below the case lid level, doesn't touch it or sit against it, and there are open vents in the top of the case directly above it anyway. I would say there is about ...

warkus

Have to agree sorry, keeping it simple is best. It's going to be rather frustrating if what others have said here is true and you have to keep formatting your shingled drive once fragmentation builds up. That's going to wear very thin very fast. It is a shame the cost is so high for non-shingled dri...

warkus

Sounds like your unit has multiple issues, which unfortunately is very common with T3 units. The reboot loop is caused by a moisture sensitive power regulator on the main-board that is prone to failing regularly. So if your unit is just reboot looping, first you will need the regulator changed out. ...

warkus

From a power perspective i am going to have to do some testing, finally have some time free today so will get onto it... All round though its sounding like a bad idea, alarm bells are ringing in my head. First off, being as 2.5" drives dont use the 12v rail, it means your unit is going to need ...

warkus

Oh, is that all...

Ill take 3...

warkus

I agree, especially about the overthinking it... I have sold several people the WD Blue 2TB drives - 15mm thick and they fit fine. Not exactly cheap compared to their 3.5" counterparts but still they work perfectly. Have had no issues... But seriously, wow how good would a 4TB SAMSUNG EVO 850 S...

warkus

Glen, Your machine is repaired so when l get some time in the next couple of hours, I will check the size of the recordings for you and email you the info... To Ian, mrquade, prl, jai and others. On the point of the remote... My opinion, whether it counts for much im not sure... it sounds to me like...

warkus

On the remote, me personally i prefer the buttons grouped but i am not sure my opinion matters much lol. On the point of the BCM7252 SOC and only supporting 3 internal DVB-T tuners... Im doing some research, and yes the jury is still out, but it does look like the BCM7252S allows more, looks like 6 ...

warkus

All the other caps appeared ok. It looks like this cap wasn't changed last year, when the T3 when back to Beyonwiz for warranty repair. Solder joints had the factory made appearance. I had the dreaded "T3 stuck on booting" issue. The fix was to replace certain caps in the PSU. I already c...

warkus

Fair enough Bigboboz... Are the T2 not $199, where is the $150 coming from, or is that after trade in??? And just making sure you are across the fact that the T2 uses a 2.5" HDD as opposed to the drive most likely to be in your T3 of 3.5". If using it for media playback you might not even ...

warkus

You definitely need to know what you are doing before attempting a repair on a PSU like this, especially with the glued caps to the heat sink. No there is no way you can adapt a power supply, it is custom and has 6 different voltage rails on it. The cost to get it repaired is only about $50 as Beyon...

warkus

FYI, we are talking front panel firmware not system firmware. Testing on this issue on my part has been extensive, and recently linked to V20057 FP firmware, machines with earlier versions of FP firmware such as V20037 or V20038 dont seem to show this problem. We are currently looking at ways to sor...

warkus

Hi Madmax, Definitely a hardware fault, have had to do several unfortunately. There are 2 groups - of 2 power regulators under heatsinks on the board. One is a 1.2v and the other a 3.3v under each heatsink if memory serves. The heat sinks are thermal adhesive glued onto the regulators. In the older ...

warkus

yes definitely possible...

But the re-repairs that I'm getting unfortunately suggest that isn't the case.

They all have a single, non factory cap replaced in them.

Mark

warkus

It is very frustrating to read the comments on here about the immediate turn around - while you wait service provided by NASA Electronics. I get that everyone needs to make a $, but this level of service is substandard and SHOULD NOT be something that Jai is allowing to happen. To repair the units i...

warkus

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS IS A GUIDE ON REPAIRING YOUR BEYONWIZ T3 RHS-700 MODEL POWER SUPPLY UNIT WARNING – IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER MODEL – DO NOT FOLLOW THIS GUIDE - EMAIL ME FOR FURTHER ...

warkus

Some pictures after replacement of just the minimum caps replaced...

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warkus

At a minimum if repairing your T3 power supply yourself, replace the following and preferably the optional extras below too. And as always a word of warning POWER SUPPLIES ARE DANGEROUS, DO NOT ATTEMPT SUCH REPAIRS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING - NO REPAIR INFO SHOULD EVER BE GIVEN BY ANYONE WI...

warkus

Dranrabekim,

It isn't c3, it's c34... please don't quote incorrect part numbers, that has potential to cause bigger issues.

Mark

warkus

Please oh please DO NOT use Jaycar capacitors, they are crap, literally. Haven't my previous guides taught people anything? (Sighhhhh guess not). Buy Panasonic FR series caps, and that's not the only cap you need to replace either, so expect problems to continue soon if you don't do about 5 in total...

warkus

Most of the time it's just the caps in the power supply that cause these issues, with some also apparently having Mainboard issues too. C34 seems to be the main cap that fails, but it's not the only one. The problem is the absolute total rubbish grade of caps they used in the PSU and as most would k...

warkus

Yep still kicking on and am around, just haven't been on the forum a lot unfortunately.

But I am around.

Mark

warkus

Yep we repair all of the models including the T3 and T4. The T4 have done a few of those too, but not for poor design of the power supply, rather it seems they have a dodgy 1kva ceramic capacitor in them that seems to fry itself to an unrecognisable point, done about 5 now. The first one I did, bein...

warkus

Hmmm, Well, not sure if this post will survive long without being deleted, but here goes... Whilst I have only repaired a very small number of T3 units so far in my time (<50 as opposed to >7000 DP series)... so far I have not come across a single unit that has had a regulator fault to cause this is...

warkus

Lol, or when I actually get a confirmation email from the forum to say that I have a message waiting to read... I haven't been getting those for a very long time unfortunately, despite the settings being correct. So if I don't log on for a while I don't know there is a message to read, sorry about t...

warkus

Never mind... Found your private message...

On whirlpool using a different username.

You messaged me on Friday, I have it and will reply to you now...

Mark

warkus

Sorry I didn't see this thread sooner. I'm ok, thanks for all the concern... I didn't reply to you yellowbird, because I don't have a PM from you, just checked, nothing... Whoever you sent it to, it wasn't me... Or did you send it at all? Never mind, as has been said yes I'm in WA so obviously not m...

warkus

Hello, Please accept my apologies. I have just wrangled the t4 off the kids and tested the custom offset as above and thought I'd double check the "guess existing timer" option and sadly it was enabled! I turned that off a long long time ago as it was causing issues for me, that's why I th...

warkus

Ok will try it shortly...

warkus

Padding is disabled by custom offset only for those 2 shows but to be honest this is ABC3 we are talking about and it's generally a lot more accurate than most channels...

Nope that guess e siting timer is definitely turned off...

Mark

warkus

Hi everyone, Well a long time back I posted about issues with auto timers doing like ghost recordings, and basically recording the same show over and over. Well I think I just worked out why it occurs... The previous issues were with the show Octonauts on ABC2, which is a very short show, like 10min...

warkus

Smoogus, You pm'd me In April and I replied the next day to advise I would email you shortly, but before I got the chance you replied back and told me you had found my guide and ordered the parts and you said you would fit them when they arrived. Thus I assumed you no longer needed my help so I didn...

warkus

Hello,

The intermittent error 0000 is most likely power supply but the reception issue is mainboard related.

Both are pretty easy to sort out, contact me via pm and I'll help.

Mark

warkus

I haven't had the F/W yet I can record, FF/FR, trim OK so maybe I would not need the F/W update especially if it meant loosing the DVD playing facility which my wife often uses for the grand kids. Updated firmware hasn't got anything to do with FF/RR! It is to do with the audio on the new channels ...

warkus

It's hard to say if you will loose recordings or not, based on how bad your power supply sounds from your fault description. If I was repairing your unit I would rebuild the power supply, and rework some components on the mainboard too thus ensuring your unit was back to full operation. I usually re...

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