Starview Firmware

hi i was wondering if you can help my box frozen and when i turned it on a 0 appeared and wouldnt work i tryed to update the channels via the gtrom but now 4 lights flash on the box and wont do anthing

 

hi, i'm in ireland and i think i have a genuine box. is it possible to update it so i don't have to keep updating codes, if so how do i do it. thanks.

 

This guide by fergusb may help you

If you have a Bad Flash with software have a Read of This might help

If you have a bad flash, switch it off then on at the back & make sure its on standby.
Then Flash as normal. This also applies to flashing (up & downloading) the channel data file.
If for some reason you cannot flash and have set and checked everything else such as ports and connections,
then you should switch off at the back wait a moment then on again. Then try to flash again.

If for some reason it won't go into standby and you see a constant moving green line.
you may want to wait to see if it goes into standby or switches on eventually or re-flash from this state
though it may not work. Some users have reported that flashing an older firmware 1st that was working,
then trying again may help. If your flash has failed or corrupted try again but 1st flash back the firmware
that was on before your failed flash. Re download the firmware just in case you had a corrupted file then try again.
If you do flash from the moving green line state at boot, you will see the % increase on the GTRom loader
software but not on the Starview. Toward the end of the flash you'll see a Flash Burning message in GTRom.
Make sure you wait until all is finished and you see the Download complete pop up message in GTRom.

Another method you can use to recover from a bad flash, eg. the box won't boot to standby and is stuck
in pre standby, either after about 3 or 4 moving green lines the box sticks with the green line not moving
at all or it keeps moving forever. If the box will NOT RE-FLASH as normal from on or standby, try this but it
may take a few goes to work.

Connect the box to the pc with your cable but switch it off at the back. Load the correct
firmware bin file into GTRom & set it to the correct com port, and select App file only then hit Download.
Only then switch on at the back to power on the box. It may take a few sec. so wait at least 30 sec.
(If it doesn't work 1st time try also waiting a couple of sec. to switch on after pressing download in the loader.) It may take more than 1 try to work, but eventually you'll see the loader kick in and the % bar increase. You won't see the % on the Starview though. Only green lines moving left to right. Towards the end of the flash you'll see a message in GTRom saying FLASH BURNING. Then it will reach 100% and wait for the download complete pop up box to appear & the box will reboot back to factory setup. You will have lost any channel data previously on the box & will need to rescan & switch on EMU and set the box up from scratch.

If you don't know the state of the box switch it on see what happens see if there already has been a channel
scan done before-meaning there are channels on it working or not. If so tune to an unencrypted channel as above
then standby then re-flash.

"If you are using a USB to Serial converter, once you have installed it you need to check if your PC is using the correct port for the GTRom loader. Otherwise GTRom will stay at 0% and return "Flash Failed" after about 30 seconds.

Solution, click start/control panel/system/hardware tab/device manager.
Click the plus sign next to ports on the list. Your adapter will show up as a USB to Serial Bridge with the port number next to it.

If the port number is outside the 1-4 port range then right click on it select Properties/port settings/advanced.

On the bottom left of the pop-up screen you will see the port number with a drop down arrow, click on the arrow and select a port in the 1-4 range. Click OK and exit all. Select the same port in GTRom and everything should be OK."


sas84 What version firmware do you have on the box now so we can give you the right file to download.

Click menu/system info on your remote.

 

DAVIEROSS your problem is answered somewhere else in forum just do a search for capacitor problems c11 and c21 i have not got link but that is your problem

 

Not neccessarily it would be better to follow the advice of fergusb above first.

 

sorry pippincp did not realise your post was an answer to the problem just trying to help sorry

 

No need to apologise but always remember try the simplest way first, and as Fregus knows more than you or me together, I'll always bow to his knowledge.

 

I have a starview box but its a clone is there anyway u can update the firmware on the clone

 

i think so look back through the pages also the link 4share

 

Yes it the Cryptstar257 version you will find it in Eamos FTA Library at the bottom of my post.

 

Aagghhh, this is doing me head in!! I'm still having the same problem even though I've reloaded v4.50 and then v4.54. Please can someone help me!!

 

Hi

From memory when I flashed my box from 4.50 to 4.54 I also had the flash another file which is the screen that displays when you first turn the box on. Have you flashed this file as well?

 

Thanks for the reply. Do you know which file you flashed it with?

 

lads i need someone 2 help me,my starview box went down for the first time during the utd game and it wont let me get out of the language menu please help me i no nothing bout this stuff

 

Hiya lads just wondering can you help a newbie out?

Im beginning to get sick of this war on football by N*L, it seems like its every single game at this stage that the codes change.
So will flashing the firmware prevent this happening? And if so is there any indication of how long it will last ( going by previous records )

I have a Starview Clone and the system info is saying API version 4.00e_E Boot version 7.0

If flashing it will help solve my problem can someone direct me to the correct firmware?

Thanks for any help !

 

larneyd: if you are sure you have a clone go to the link a few posts above for eamos fta library and in the starview folder under firmware you will see cryptstar 1.4 2.57 core file,this is the only clone safe firmware that autorolls meaning your box will update itself everytime they change the codes which is rather frequent to say the least at the moment!

 

I you have v4.00_E firmware you don't have a clone as it would have fried with it.

However the new clone firmware should work with a genuine box although the update will be slightly slower.

 

If you are in the language menu you need to start again with the installation for some reason it has forgotten what you've done

 

Im looking at the clone pictures here http://www.freewebs.com/svclones/
and it seems to me like a clone- ie the scart sockets are on the right as I look at the back of the box and the on/off switch is on the left rather than the other way around for a genuine box. It has 7 vents on the top, each of which have 18 little holes and I read on here before that this is how clones look, so Im pretty sure its a clone unless Im reading something wrong? Any help much appreciated, I wanna get this sorted out before the end of the footie season !

 

You have what is known as an Original version 1 box. I have the same. To all intents and purposes it looks like a clone because this is the box that was copied. I also look after 2 other boxes for friends one of which like ours has 7x18 vents but the scart sockets etc are reversed, The other has 25 vents so is a second generation st*rview 1.

The bottom line is that if version 4.00 was working on it it MUST be a genuine box as it would otherwise be a doorstop by now as v4.00 fried clones.

If you still don't want to risk it then use the cryptstar core 257 file for clones as the clone firmware will work on both but as I said takes a little longer to update (only about 15-20 seconds.)