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mrpink67
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10. August 2008 @ 10:54 |
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hey lads. so i brought the box down to a mates house down the road, put the blade image on it and it worked fine, brought it up to mine and it is still fine which is awesome! any ideas though why it wouldnt work doing it from my place, could be signal strength maybe?
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10. August 2008 @ 11:04 |
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Sounds like signal problem alright but the Net ID is still incorrect on Blade Quad. Did you use Ruprect's modded version? Or did you just FTP your services and bouquets?
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mrpink67
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10. August 2008 @ 11:39 |
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10. August 2008 @ 11:47 |
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Yes thats the standard Blade Quad, but as said you propably didnt scan on it and just had your services already on the box. If you try to scan for channels in Dublin it wont with that version of Blade.
But its working fine so I would leave it. I like Blade its one of the best I have seen in quiet a while.
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ruprect
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10. August 2008 @ 13:51 |
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Originally posted by sc0user:
Yes thats the standard Blade Quad, but as said you propably didnt scan on it and just had your services already on the box. If you try to scan for channels in Dublin it wont with that version of Blade.
Actually that is my modded image with the correct netid for dublin, so a scan should work. I am not certain but I think that image might not have channel 4 and sky 1&2 and a few others, i.e. the frequencies have changed since I uploaded it. You will need to do a rescan to get them back. Also there is a new sports channel out which is definitely not on that image. You should get 13 transponders and 143 TV channels, and do not adjust the scan settings, they are ready to go.
Below are 2 guides I wrote for some mates.
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SCANNING FOR CHANNELS.
1. Press the D-BOX button, scroll to service and press OK.
2. Scroll to SERVICE SCAN and press OK.
3. Scroll to START SCAN and press OK.
Now all the channels should scan in, there should be approx
TV-143 RADIO-35 DATA-9
4. When the scan is finished keep pressing home until you are back to the TV screen, flick around if there is nothing on screen, if there is still nothing try switching it off and on again.
All the channels will be back but some will have moved to the very end, around 136 onwards, these can be moved back,
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When you press OK you see the channels are sorted in batches called bouquets, entertainment, films music etc. when you rescan the missing channels end up at the end and you have to move them back. Also you can alter the batches themselves. e.g. you can move sports to the top, this will mean sky sports is now channel 1 on your remote, and rte1 will be shifted to the end. If you were to press red to get the big tv guide list sports would be first.
MOVING CHANNELS.
1. Press the D-BOX button, scroll to SERVICE and press OK.
2. Scroll to BOUQUET EDITOR and press OK.
3. Now you will see all the bouquets. Go to the last one UNSORTED and press OK. All of the channels that recently changed should be listed in there. It might have some weird ones you do not recognise which are not channels, they are N*L data stuff, e.g. one is called martin, another might be CPL. Try and remember a few channels that should be in a certain bouquet, e.g. the ones usually in ENTERTAINMENT, like E4+1, channel 4, sky 1&2
4. Press HOME to get back to the original list. Now highlight the bouquet you want to edit and press OK, say FILMS. Now you will see the list of channels.
5. Press the green button to add channels. This brings up all of the available channels you can pick from, listed A-Z. If you scroll up or down you will see channels have green dots beside them, this means they are in that bouquet. Go to film four, and film four+1 and press OK on each of them so the green dot is beside them. Pressing the Volume +/- buttons skips up or down a page for quicker picking. You can also unselect channels here if you wanted. Films should be fine but you might want to turn off all those euronews channels, american sports etc. You can also add channels normally in other bouquets, and they will not be deleted from the other bouquet, this means the same channel is available on 2 channel numbers. When you picked the channels you want press HOME.
6. Now you will see the Films bouquet again, if you press up you will go directly to the end of the list where the newly added channels are. When they are highlighted you press yellow, now a yellow dot will be beside the channel and you can move it up to where you want on the list, then press OK to put it there. You can resort all the channels or delete them using the red button. If deleted they can still be added to other bouquets later from the A-Z list. There are some channels I didn't know where to put, e.g. fashion TV is in music. When they are sorted press HOME.
7. At this stage it is best to press HOME again. It will ask if you want to save the changes so highlight Yes and press OK, or just press red. Now press OK to go back into bouquet editor again. When you do this it updates the UNSORTED bouquet at the end. If you moved added a channel then it will not appear in the unsorted bouquet. So if you missed any it will stand out more now and you can add it to the bouquet it should be in. Just follow the steps above for all bouquets.
8. To move a bouquet it is the same as moving channels, e.g. go to SPORTS, press yellow and you can move it up or down, and press OK to where you want. But now all your original channel numbers will have changed, expect those above it.
9. You can add a brand new bouquet by pressing GREEN in the bouquet editor. This will bring up a screen where you can name it what you want. Now you can add channels to the new bouquet, these will be duplicates, so you could have your favourite channels listed in it, but they will also be still in their original bouquets too. Then you could move it to the end of the bouquets, this means the channels in it would start around 140. So RTE1 would be available on 1, or 143 if you wanted. When you turn on the box you can press OK and press up to pick your special bouquet, now all your usual channels will be listed in a row. Also it means when you pick a channel in that bouquet you can just press up or down to flick between your favourites easily.
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10. August 2008 @ 15:39 |
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I see now apologies I thought it was the standard Blade. SportsXchange started two weeks ago on 418.250Mhz.
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pittney
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10. August 2008 @ 16:17 |
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hi am getting really frustrated with my dbox.
has anybody got a step by step guide to flash a box also the leads i need?
thanks newbie
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AfterDawn Addict
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10. August 2008 @ 16:21 |
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Basic guides are in Eamos at the end of my post. Just flash with an AU image, i.e. Blade. All the info you need is contained within the last couple of pages of this very thread.
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pittney
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10. August 2008 @ 16:23 |
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sorry mate i am new hear where do i find them? oh and can you use a pc with windows vista on it?
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AfterDawn Addict
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10. August 2008 @ 16:27 |
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Look in Eamos at the end of my post. Have a read through them and this thread. Use the latest version of IFA or use can use FTP. IFA is easier and flash with Blade Quad.
Do you have a Nokia or Sagem?
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pittney
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10. August 2008 @ 16:29 |
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10. August 2008 @ 16:50 |
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eoinf
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10. August 2008 @ 19:52 |
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Hi
Can anyone tell me what exactly needs to be changed to convert a nokia dbox from Cable to MMDs.
Is it just changing out the service & cables file & rescan?
If not can someone point me in the right direction.
Cheers
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ruprect
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11. August 2008 @ 04:03 |
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Originally posted by eoinf:
Hi
Can anyone tell me what exactly needs to be changed to convert a nokia dbox from Cable to MMDs.
Is it just changing out the service & cables file & rescan?
If not can someone point me in the right direction.
Cheers
Yes that is all you should have to do. You might well not have to FTP at all, try a scan with the current cables file, if that doesnt work get mgb17's cables 11 file.
I was also discussing using the netid feature that can be used on some images. see here
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/691140
There is no alteration needed of the box, a dbox will do both, while if you had a dreambox you would need a specific 500-T box.
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eoinf
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11. August 2008 @ 05:47 |
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Originally posted by ruprect:
Originally posted by eoinf:
Hi
Can anyone tell me what exactly needs to be changed to convert a nokia dbox from Cable to MMDs.
Is it just changing out the service & cables file & rescan?
If not can someone point me in the right direction.
Cheers
Yes that is all you should have to do. You might well not have to FTP at all, try a scan with the current cables file, if that doesnt work get mgb17's cables 11 file.
I was also discussing using the netid feature that can be used on some images. see here
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/691140
There is no alteration needed of the box, a dbox will do both, while if you had a dreambox you would need a specific 500-T box.
Cheers for that.
Can you point me to the latest files for dublin as im pretty sure mine are out of date. ive lost channel4 and sky and mtv2.
would this be the service or the cables that is causing this.
also, are the frequencys for MMDS & Cable conpletely different. IE will i need to rescan each time or is there anyway of setting up two versions of the same channel. as i more than likely will be pulling the one box in and out for mmds during the week and cable at the weekend.
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11. August 2008 @ 06:05 |
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Bear in mind if its chorus mmds then a dbox is no good for you as you would need a dvb-t tuner.
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ruprect
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11. August 2008 @ 07:23 |
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Originally posted by eoinf:
Can you point me to the latest files for dublin as im pretty sure mine are out of date. ive lost channel4 and sky and mtv2.
would this be the service or the cables that is causing this.
you could just scan again to get them back, and move them into place using the guides I posted above. I would recommend getting blade quad. Mine linked above and set to scan for cable. Then look at my other thread on the MMDS settings. You would have to go into scan.conf and edit the frequency for MMDS and scan again.
N*L are changing the frequencies to mess up the boxes, it is them causing it, and you need a rescan.
Originally posted by eoinf:
also, are the frequencys for MMDS & Cable conpletely different. IE will i need to rescan each time or is there anyway of setting up two versions of the same channel. as i more than likely will be pulling the one box in and out for mmds during the week and cable at the weekend.
They are different frequencies. It might be possible to scan twice and leave or update bouquets. But I think if you scan with cable you will get them all, and if you then scan with MMDS it will possibly overwrite your cables services file with the same names.
I am not sure though.
What I personally would do is scan with cables, then save my bouquet & services file onto PC. Then I would scan with MMDS and it will generate a new service file. I would then open the files in wordpad and cut & paste to form one big service file and one big bouquet. I am not sure if having identical names will cause trouble. In which case I would rename the MMDS channels & bouquets with a M infront of them.
Now when you plug into cables all your MMDS channels should be visible but will get a error message on them (just like you get on channel 4 now), but the cables ones will work. and vice versa.
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ruprect
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11. August 2008 @ 07:24 |
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Originally posted by wiz569:
Bear in mind if its chorus mmds then a dbox is no good for you as you would need a dvb-t tuner.
Should be fine AFAIK.
It is other boxes like dreambox that need specific tuners, dbox does both.
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11. August 2008 @ 07:28 |
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Not on Ch**us MMDS as wiz said as they use a DVB T variant. The Dbox has a DVB C tuner, which is fine for Ch**us cable, and both N** cable & MMDS.
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11. August 2008 @ 07:30 |
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No m8 a dbox has a dvb-c tuner which is no good for chorus mmds as it uses dvb-t tuner.
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11. August 2008 @ 07:34 |
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Originally posted by wiz569:
No m8 a dbox has a dvb-c tuner which is no good for chorus mmds as it uses dvb-t tuner.
Snap :)
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ruprect
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11. August 2008 @ 07:35 |
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Quote:
Not on Ch**us MMDS as wiz said as they use a DVB T variant
Originally posted by wiz569:
No m8 a dbox has a dvb-c tuner which is no good for chorus mmds as it uses dvb-t tuner.
Right, sorry about that. I was just reading it over in the DVB section, and now I see the cables file only does have Ch*rus cable and N*L MMDS listed. Never knew there was a difference between the MMDS services.
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Gdez
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11. August 2008 @ 14:43 |
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Hi guys.
I have a dbox in Dublin connecting to Ntl.
I was having problems viewing some of the channels so i did a scan & now all of the channels are gone.
I really don't know what to do at this stage.
Some advice would be appreciated.
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AfterDawn Addict
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11. August 2008 @ 17:15 |
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What image are you using?
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keith20
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13. August 2008 @ 12:44 |
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please can somebody help me. i flashed an image from a working dbox in the same area to my dbox but it still wont work. i get a channel list but no epg, incorrect time a an error message saying channel not available. please can somebody help i really wnat it back working for start of premiership. thanks in advance.
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