Dbox In Ireland

Flash a UK modded gemini and do a manual channel search via 218000 or 282000.
A patched galaxis pop-t box for 50 or 60 Euro is cheaper if you are able to find one.

 

I'm having real trouble trying to flash images to my Nokia D-Box (Sportster image).

IFA is not connecting to the box (am connecting with crossover cable) and I cant seem to get it to work.

I have connected to the box by FTP and transferred over a new image to the tmp folder.

However when I try to write this image using the "Write whole image" command the image I transferred turns up but when I try to write I get the message "Cant open MTD-Device"

Any idea what this means and how to get around it, I've had a very frustrating evening!

Thanks

 

choose flash without bootloader

 

Thanks, that did it.

Now to find the most stable image.

Any more suggestions from anyone on which to use would be much appreciated!

 

Unfortunately I've developed (yet another) problem and (temporarily) wrecked my box in the process.

I was trying out different images but somewhere along the way I must have done something wrong.

When I plug in my D-Box a bunch of numbers etc come up on the LCD display.

Down the bottom it says "kein System" and it will not start up.

Any idea how to fix this? Like I said the only way I've been able to flash images so far is to transfer them by FTP and then flash them in Sportster but this is no longer a possibility as the D-Box wont boot.

Is there an alternative to IFA, like I said I cannot get it to work.

Thanks,
Robert

 

Kein System means no system. You crashed the software and there is no working operating system on the box.
IFA is you onliest option to reflash the box.

 

You probably flashed a 1x image onto a 2x box or Visa/Versa

Find out if its a 2x or 1X you need and flash using IFA
You may need Null modem cable too, I can never get IFA to flash the Kein System error without one connected.


C

 

blobert, sent you a PM..

 

I can but it is difficult. Just keep on trying and use the 2 button press to reboot. After pressing OK let go after 1 or 2 seconds. If the cursor stays static it will end up being a "kein system", if it flashes it will be a "lade" and could load the image. It can take up to 20 goes to get it, but once you get in the hang of the 2 buttons and instantly cancelling if you get a static cursor it doesnt take long.

 

no ifa is required with kein system hold down the power and up button on the front of the dbox whilst tsrting up this checks the hairdware and will ggive ifa a better success of connectiing

 

Thanks for all the help guys and the PM from Benifa, I really appreciate it.

Unfortunately I still cant connect to the box using IFA.

I'm not sure what IP address I should be using (as I cannot check on the box itself as it will not boot), when IFA tries to ping it it fails. I tried the settings in this thread http://techno-source.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=496 but it just crashed the program.

I have a null modem cable on the way from the UK, is connecting to the box more straightforward with this? I'm fed up at this stage, I've tried messing about with it for hours and can't get anywhere.

Might just give up and wait for the cable, not sure what else I can do.

 

Without a working operating system on the box there is no IP. The box get a IP from IFA only for flashing and the request from the box must reach IFA. There is also nobody who can answer a ping.
Set your network card to 10baseT half duplex and give the network card a fixed IP. Disable winxp firewall and all other installed security programms.

 

Thanks, I just tried that and still it is not connecting.

 

i altered the cables file with the freq of the chorus box and found 11 channels not even on the chorus package yet. still cant pick up the rest tho. i get nothing when i select chorus cable.

 

322 is already included in the irish cables.xml and if you don't see it you don't use the right file.
Upload the irish.cables.xml from irish4.zip to /var/tuxbox/config and delete scan.conf in the same folder. Unplug your box.
In some UK based images the cables.xml belongs to /share/tuxbox.
If you ftp to the box you are landing inside the var folder.

 

I had a lot of trouble using IFA last night, in the end I ftp'd the image onto the box (cant do this with a kein system). It was much faster to update this way.

Is 1x and 2x versions only for IFA, i.e. could I ftp a 2x image onto a 1x box and flash it?

My nokias were very stable last night, 1 hour into plugging in a sagem it dropped all channels, recovered on a reset. My mate also has a sagem which is dropping channels a fair bit.

 

UPC is playing with cable currently in Dublin.
In some areas the wires will be replaced and some areas got no TV signal for one or more days.
All that actions can also affect the signal strength.

 

No 1X and 2X is the number of Chips in the Box eg. 1X is 1 chip
So you can only flash a 1X with a 1X and a 2X with a 2X image.
If you flash the wrong one you will get "Kein System" and the only way to fix this is to flash the correct one with IFA.
This should be the only reason you need to use IFA


Also someone asked about updating cables.xml and it not actually updating
You will have to delete the file scan.conf from the same folder after updating the cables.xml

 

Yep I have had the whole kein system thing myself. I was unsure if the 1x 2x thing was related more to the IFA software. e.g. the IFA might send the info twice as fast to the 1x box from a 2x image. I thought maybe once the image is on the box, via FTP that it might not matter if it is 1x or 2x.

I was working with commando 6 and trying to change the cables.xml
I found it and replaced it and got no changes even with scan.conf deleted.
I have since found out that the cables.xml could be in a shared folder but the image I had downloaded must have had it in 2 places.

 

It's not that..

The Sagem Dbox2 comes in two flash memory chip variations. Either it has two flash chips or only one. Nokia always have two flash chips. If you peer through the vents on the top cover of the dbox you'll be able to see them. They'll be branded Intel or AMD..

The image that you flash therefore will either be configured to write all the data to one flash chip (this is a 1x), or split it over two flash chips (this would be a 2x image)..

That's why we get Kein System if we flash the wrong image..