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Shr3k1989
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14. June 2011 @ 09:49 |
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Originally posted by gerrard08:
this statement bellow is from another forum...
"mine says 23 may 2011 but mine is still working wots going on there then"
Shr3k1989...try powering off both your ROUTER and SV....then 2 mins later, power on your Router 1st, then 5 mins later power on SV.
sorry for double post...im nuts
Many thanks, tried resetting router and box ect, even left both off for an hour with no luck. Decided to backup my router and restore to factory, worked a treat and back online.
Expiry October 2011 so most likely to lose the server before I reach expiry lol!
So a tip for anyone with not connected, factory restore your router if none of the other options work :)
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gerrard08
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15. June 2011 @ 04:38 |
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many of the boxes that had 15 June expiry dates, have actually gone off today, its not connecting to the server no longer and the expiry dates on those boxes are now 1 JAN 1970...so dont be shocked people when you see this today on your box, as it was expected i suppose.
some people have tried reloading the SMGO221 file again, but its no good any longer on those boxes...so dont stress yourself out, cos nothing you can do, just sit tight and see what happens.
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Kingfix
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15. June 2011 @ 06:02 |
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Yep it's started "login message" and as gerrard08 stated not connected to server.I'm not suprised to be honest as it's just consistent with the last 5 month's worth of rollercoaster viewing.well done sv you'll never sell another unit again at least not under the brand SV,who's gonna take you as a serious,reliable,honest manufacturer now????
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15. June 2011 @ 06:15 |
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The havent been a reliable, serious, honest manufacuturer in a long long while mate, they have been doing people over since the SV - The box came out, changing boxs every 5 months, not updating older boxs with firmware, what do people do? Buy a bloody new one, then they do it again, Sv3, SV4, SV5, SV6, DDIGITAL, COMBO, EUROVIEW, screw over the Irish punters, which leads us right up the SV7 and its on and off service, what to people do? Keep buying the bloody things,
Even though they have and had been warned over the last year or two by countless people, but choose to listen to others, where are those others now, to offer advise? Gone, not a word out of them, whats left? The folk now holding boxs and out of pocket for their troubles.
Have said it before, for those on cable still, go with a Krypt, those thinking of going sat and dont have linux experience, go with a Blade box, Do not buy another piece of crap SV item again or you will be back here with the same problems, cut yer loss's now, dont spend another penny or buy into the rubbish they are gonna start doing next, getting you to pay for it. You have been warned, if you yis dont want to listen, on your own heads be it.
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gerrard08
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15. June 2011 @ 06:44 |
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got this bellow from another forum, dont know if theres any truth in it or all just garbage, something to ponder over anyway;
"What I have read on other forums it states that kiddy is going to be starting his own subs from 6moths - 12 months subs.... In these guys opinion going down the s_y route is alot better"
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probably another way of ripping off sv users, i wonder how many will fall for it AGAIN, if that is the case.
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mick094m
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15. June 2011 @ 06:45 |
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Originally posted by MICKAH:
The havent been a reliable, serious, honest manufacuturer in a long long while mate, they have been doing people over since the SV - The box came out, changing boxs every 5 months, not updating older boxs with firmware, what do people do? Buy a bloody new one, then they do it again, Sv3, SV4, SV5, SV6, DDIGITAL, COMBO, EUROVIEW, screw over the Irish punters, which leads us right up the SV7 and its on and off service, what to people do? Keep buying the bloody things,
Even though they have and had been warned over the last year or two by countless people, but choose to listen to others, where are those others now, to offer advise? Gone, not a word out of them, whats left? The folk now holding boxs and out of pocket for their troubles.
Have said it before, for those on cable still, go with a Krypt, those thinking of going sat and dont have linux experience, go with a Blade box, Do not buy another piece of crap SV item again or you will be back here with the same problems, cut yer loss's now, dont spend another penny or buy into the rubbish they are gonna start doing next, getting you to pay for it. You have been warned, if you yis dont want to listen, on your own heads be it.
MICKAH.....VERY GOOD ADVICE
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Shr3k1989
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15. June 2011 @ 06:56 |
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Has anyone tried looking into where the date is stored? I mean I'm not going to take my box apart or hook it to the pc until October but someone who has a brick at the moment and doesn't want it could hand it over to a programmer to look into it? If it's done by mac's then there must be a way of mac spoofing?
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gerrard08
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15. June 2011 @ 08:31 |
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HOW TO FIND EXPIRY DATE:
MENU>UTILITIES>SYSTEM INFO
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15. June 2011 @ 08:47 |
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The firmware is closed firmware, all firmwares for boxs like this are, it aint the box that is doing it, you wont be able to do anything with it, same way they aint got their hands on the combo/ddigital/euroview firmware, whats left is the SV6/Sv7 boxs, the rest are gone,
Now you have handed over good money already for a total shite service and product and now they want to you to pay to use an already shite product and service again, Am I missing something here??
If you were paying a legit service you would actually cancel your sub due to the poor quality of it, but some will pay for a sub standard one, the mind actually boggles, it really does and thats why these folk will happily take your hard earned and give you more crap in return
Seriously, anyone who use's or pays to use this "Service" (I use the term very loosely) after their expiry date or box has gone off, is off their heads and need to be checked out by a medical examiner, When ure box is gone, dump it and get a Krypt, no running costs etc, up time is way better and you wont be paying for the damn thing in 6 months time either.
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dave0763
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15. June 2011 @ 08:56 |
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sv cant be that stupid to leave every1 in the lurch like this coz they will never sell any producs like this agian they will be finnished.... hope they get the finger out and sort this prob....
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15. June 2011 @ 11:02 |
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Dave, I have been about a long time mate, I think you will find they have left a lot more folk in the lurch with every box they have done since the The Box was released, from no firmware to releasing boxs and not fixing the ones that the only released 4/5 months previous, Every one who bought one in Ireland also, what about your fellow SV users, like the combo box, the DDIGITAL, the Euroview, your not the only one, why should the care about someone and their Sv6 cable box now, where was the loyality previous to this?
Your not dealing with the original Starview entity now either, your dealing with a new lease holder of the crappy Starview legacy, like I said above, I aint here to piss on a parade or get into which box is better, I pointing out a clear and present fact, which should be staring most folk in the face, folk have been rode royally and if they buy into the crap, they will be again, if your box is gone, buy a krypt, simple as, they have never once charged nor changed their box in how long? Never been a need for it nor did the make punter pay twice for the same thing,
Dont throw more good money after bad
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gerrard08
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15. June 2011 @ 11:09 |
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I wonder if kryptview are going to implement the same method in the near future (subs), but i bet they are thinking about it...i guess every1 has their own opinion...so thats mine.
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keverman1
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15. June 2011 @ 11:11 |
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Originally posted by MICKAH:
The havent been a reliable, serious, honest manufacuturer in a long long while mate, they have been doing people over since the SV - The box came out, changing boxs every 5 months, not updating older boxs with firmware, what do people do? Buy a bloody new one, then they do it again, Sv3, SV4, SV5, SV6, DDIGITAL, COMBO, EUROVIEW, screw over the Irish punters, which leads us right up the SV7 and its on and off service, what to people do? Keep buying the bloody things,
Even though they have and had been warned over the last year or two by countless people, but choose to listen to others, where are those others now, to offer advise? Gone, not a word out of them, whats left? The folk now holding boxs and out of pocket for their troubles.
Have said it before, for those on cable still, go with a Krypt, those thinking of going sat and dont have linux experience, go with a Blade box, Do not buy another piece of crap SV item again or you will be back here with the same problems, cut yer loss's now, dont spend another penny or buy into the rubbish they are gonna start doing next, getting you to pay for it. You have been warned, if you yis dont want to listen, on your own heads be it.
They should make this a sticky.
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15. June 2011 @ 11:26 |
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You not think they would have done it before now? Every opportunity to when they were off air, Do a SV and roll out a new box, If they were to charge, I would think long and hard based on the past performance of its service to date, before parting with any cash for anything, same as CS or any service you pay for, but lets call a spade a spade here,
Kryptview is no where near the shit stakes that SV was or is, We can summarize what they may or may not do, but lets look at facts, they could have, got rid of the old A750 boxs, made ya all buy new ones, they didnt, brought the ICONNECT out to get those boxs running,
Took them two to 3 weeks to get back on the ladder when they shut down, SV took how long? 4 to 6 months, pointing out facts, not hearsay or fiction, did you any those 4 to 6 months back? Nope and now your gone. I don't have any affiliation to SV or KV, but I will produce the facts and always have
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gerrard08
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15. June 2011 @ 11:34 |
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MICKAH...i was talking about 2/3 years down the line m8..not immidiate...but your point is also fair..
Just see on another forum...there is a release of a small programme, where you download it to your pc/laptop, and select which sv box you have, provide them with mac address, e-mail, weather u want 6 or 12 month sub, then you submit that and they get back to you.
This little programme has the starview logo on top, looks all genuine, but any1 can create a file like that with alittle bit of programming knowledge...so im not sure if some1 is having a laugh or what
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15. June 2011 @ 11:36 |
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There new support service 
You will find the info on most forums.
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gerrard08
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15. June 2011 @ 11:44 |
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seriously Hiteck...is this supposed to be a joke or what?
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15. June 2011 @ 11:50 |
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No it's no joke.
I wonder how there optional customer survey will turn out lol.
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15. June 2011 @ 11:50 |
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wonder if they do it in toilet paper format? Brings me back to my point, why would you even bother parting cash for such a shite service is beyond me
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15. June 2011 @ 11:52 |
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Originally posted by HiTeck:
No it's no joke.
I wonder how there optional customer survey will turn out lol.
Hope their customer survey service is on a big fecking server, knowing them, its a bigger one than the run their service on, cause if folk start filling that in, you will hear the bang from where your sitting....lol
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gerrard08
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15. June 2011 @ 11:56 |
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im sure when people get hold of this they will go for it...im curious to find out what the prices are like...im sure it will be out in the public domain soon.
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Shr3k1989
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15. June 2011 @ 12:05 |
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Originally posted by gerrard08:
MICKAH...i was talking about 2/3 years down the line m8..not immidiate...but your point is also fair..
Just see on another forum...there is a release of a small programme, where you download it to your pc/laptop, and select which sv box you have, provide them with mac address, e-mail, weather u want 6 or 12 month sub, then you submit that and they get back to you.
This little programme has the starview logo on top, looks all genuine, but any1 can create a file like that with alittle bit of programming knowledge...so im not sure if some1 is having a laugh or what
You know, it's extremely easy to create something like this with a firefox password scraper. It probably does nothing at all lol! I could create something like that in 2-3 minutes
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gerrard08
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15. June 2011 @ 12:12 |
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people in other forums have alredy sent off e-mails and waiting for reply...people are QUICK of the mark...after all the let down and no apologies...its crazy.
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15. June 2011 @ 12:38 |
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People will still buy it though, I know the price and people wont turn it down if they think there services will come back, I wont say how much it is as I am not going to advertise it for them, thats the reason I posted the SS and not the link to it.
Personally I wouldn't bother but each to there own.
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keverman1
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15. June 2011 @ 12:49 |
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Originally posted by gerrard08:
people in other forums have alredy sent off e-mails and waiting for reply...people are QUICK of the mark...after all the let down and no apologies...its crazy.
I'm just mad that nobody came forward and said right out that DDigital duo boxes would never have a new firmware instead of all the crap they put out instead. I mean it's not as if anybody could have sent them back having made the guarantee void by putting firmware on them in the first place, but it would have saved a lot of anguish for a lot of people
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