[Doug Brott]

I had a Black Screen Lockup yesterday and wondered if other folks Black Screen Lockups were in any way similar.

Software Level: 0x10B - Release Candidate

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Had a lockup tonight for the first time in a long time (pre 0xFA).

I had left the channel tuned to a DirecTV Sunday Ticket Channel and then left for a family outing. When I returned hours later, the system was locked up. I suspect that the channel that it was tuned to became unavailable but the system was somehow trying to tune it in creating some sort of deadlocked situation.

I'm not sure if this is better than or worse than 0xFA because I would have typically changed the channel AWAY from a Sunday Ticket channel rather than letting the channel availability expire.

Required a RBR to fix. Last time that happened was at least 1 month back.

Did anyone else with a Black Screen Lockup have their HR20 tuned to a station that became unavailable while you were away? In my case it was a Sunday Ticket program, but there are other sports subscriptions that might fall into this category in the evening.

 

[wakajawaka]

I left mine tuned to an NFLST channel last night (724). When I turned it on this morning I had a black screen but was able to hit guide and change to a different channel and all was fine. What's interesting is that I recorded a bunch of stuff last night after I turned it off while watching NFLST which would require both tuners changing channels (Fox, CBS) but this morning it was changed back to 724. So it must remember what the last channel you were watching live and chage back to that channel after recording?

 

[St Louis Cardinals Fan]

I have had two lock up since I've down loaded 10B.
The first lock up occurred Sunday night. I was watching the Sunday night game on OTA and I switched back to Sat and watched a show for 30 minutes, I then pushed the prev button and a pink box showed up behind the mail icon and the screen went black. No sound, no picture, no reaction from the system period. The lights were on but nobody was home. I waited for 15 minutes but no action at all. A red button push solved the problem.
This Morning I turn the TV and system on and all I have is a black screen, but this time I could see the menu and move around in the menu but no picture and no sound. I had to do a menu reset to get things back again.
I have never reset the machine until I downloaded 10B.

 

[Doug Brott]

I left mine tuned to an NFLST channel last night (724). When I turned it on this morning I had a black screen but was able to hit guide and change to a different channel and all was fine. What's interesting is that I recorded a bunch of stuff last night after I turned it off while watching NFLST which would require both tuners changing channels (Fox, CBS) but this morning it was changed back to 724. So it must remember what the last channel you were watching live and chage back to that channel after recording?

Are you 100% sure that everything recorded? I missed the first 1/2 of Survivor because I didn't get back from an outing before the show started. Both I and my wife checked about 5 times to make sure all was set to record - missed all of last 2 Survivor Finales (on TiVo no less) due to various recording conflicts.

 

[DblD_Indy]

"Black Screen Lockup

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I had a Black Screen Lockup yesterday and wondered if other folks Black Screen Lockups were in any way similar.

Software Level: 0x10B - Release Candidate"

Me too, only way out was RBR..

 

[Doug Brott]

Me too, only way out was RBR..

Do you remember the channel your were tuned to?

 

[Dusty]

I had a similar experience at 0x108. It was fixed with a RBR. I have not parked my channels at OTA since and I haven't seen that again.

 

[tunce]

I had a black screen too yesterday. When I first turned on my TV/ Receiver / HR-20 I had no picture but I had sound. The only thing that fixed was the red button. I have 0x10B

 

[Doug Brott]

I had a similar experience at 0x104. It was fixed with a RBR. I have not parked my channels at OTA since and I haven't seen that again.

I didn't even think about OTA (I can't get it). But it is VERY possible that the HD OTA feeds shut down in some places overnight. That would be much like the Sunday Ticket channel going away.

 

[qlanus]

Yep - I had two, one on each of two HR-20s. Am running 010B.

One was 'typically toasted' - no response all around.

The other was interesting in that I could not switch from one channel (Sat-provided 2) to any other. When I did, I received a black screen (with the appropriate 'info' screen), w/no sound. I could, however, return to channel 2.

Interesting behavior.

In both cases RBR resolved.

 

[bgartz]

I have had 3 black screens since the 10B. Everything else works great, and even when I get the black screen, it still records what is scedualed without error. But the only fix is a red button reset.

 

[Dusty]

I have had 3 black screens since the 10B. Everything else works great, and even when I get the black screen, it still records what is scedualed without error. But the only fix is a red button reset.

I have been wondering about that. It is good to hear it still records during the lock up.

 

[byron]

turned my unit off last night, this morning it was black screen (no audio or video) menus were responsive and tried changing to SD, HD (mpeg4, mpeg2 and ota), and also watching recording programs.... no change. RBR was the only thing that worked. i wouldn't bet my life on it, but i think the unit was tuned to 4-2 (nbc weather plus) when i turned it off last night.

 

[LGM2007]

turned my unit off last night, this morning it was black screen (no audio or video) menus were responsive and tried changing to SD, HD (mpeg4, mpeg2 and ota), and also watching recording programs.... no change. RBR was the only thing that worked. i wouldn't bet my life on it, but i think the unit was tuned to 4-2 (nbc weather plus) when i turned it off last night.

I had the same thing today--except no mpeg-4 here --I was tuned to CBS OTA.

 

[tjboyd]

10b has been working flawless till today... It started with a return visit of "pinky" and audio dropouts earlier today while watching Sleeper Cell of "My Playlist' but they were gone once I returned to live TV. Tonight we turned on the TV and tried to tune to KTLA-DT (MPEG4) and had audio but no picture, Black Screen! Remote worked, "Menus" worked, but NONE of the LIL's had picture, just audio. Everything other than the LIL's was fine. Checked cables, connections - fine. Did a "Menu" reset and picture was back. Yes, the "Menus" would pop up on top of the Black Screen. Is it possible to lose just the picture "handshake" between my Sony TV and the HR20.

 

[Vader14]

I had one on Thursday night when I came home and none of the Thursday night shows recorded. One Saturday night, and when I came home tonight it happened again. Tonight I pressed the power button about 10 times for the HR20 and it rebooted itself (good thing everything was repeats tonight). I am running 108. I'm hoping a new update comes out soon since I do not want to go back to 0xFa and lose my OTA. I'll suffer through since there is nothing new on this week.

 

[Frodtab]

I had this exact issue last night - version 108. I left my TV on a HD Sunday Ticket channel - came back a couple of hours later and tried to watch the NBC Sunday Night game. The game was recording but it would not play, no matter what I tried (skipping, FF, etc.) I ended up doing a RBR. The game deleted itself after the reboot and two other older programs were deleted for no reason on the reboot. I even looked at my History and they said recorded, not deleted, but they are gone.

I won't leave my TV on a ST channel anymore.

 

[mckingsley]

Yeah this is getting annoying for us also. I have 10B and getting a lot of black recordings. Seems to be when you try to watch something that is currently recording. It is basically messed up for sure then, a restart actually deletes the messed up recording in my case. I don't know if any new recordings since 10B get the black if they are already done recording. I might have to go back down to the older version.

 

[Cyrus]

turned my unit off last night, this morning it was black screen (no audio or video) menus were responsive and tried changing to SD, HD (mpeg4, mpeg2 and ota), and also watching recording programs.... no change. RBR was the only thing that worked. i wouldn't bet my life on it, but i think the unit was tuned to 4-2 (nbc weather plus) when i turned it off last night.

This exact thing happened to me once. Turned TV on and no video or audio, not even for recorded programs, but menu and guide were working. This was with 108 release.

 

[spidey]

Do you remember the channel your were tuned to?

santa special release b.

i thought i left it tuned to espn hd since I left it last night ok and wife turned it on this am to black screen. guide worked however couldnt tune to any stations. reboot brought receiver to an ota hd so not sure.