[gizmo]

OK... Finally got the unit working, and here's an update and status so far.

I did exactly as vbt7848 (5 posts up) and bigevil (on another post) did, and had been doing this in the exact steps as noted.... and had been doing this for the last 3 days. Again, unit acted like it wouldnt overwrite over old bin, even after doing factory bins and factory reset. Well finally last night, after following the exact steps for the umpteenth time, I was able to get the picture and channels back after re-scanning. Even so, I still had some of my favorite channels missing. So I had to rescan several more times.

Here's the problem. (speaking about my unit alone, others may not experience this), When I deleted all the channels to start a fresh scan.... hoping to fill the missing channels, I got the same results as the first time, in that I got no picture. Everything was blank again. So I had to do another "factory reset" to clear the memory. You couldnt just delete all the channels and rescan. It made me start from scratch again. Otherwise it kept giving me blank channels.

Once I got all my channels back (after factory reset), I had a few more missing channels come back. Well wouldnt you know it, I had to do another factory reset. Then I rescanned, and was finally able to get all my channels back.

Now comes the fun part... not really. Once I got channels working again, I went to use my Channel Master to reload my custom channel list that I've used for the last several years. GUESS what, When I loaded it back to the receiver, I got the blank channels again!! So I had to factory reset again, just to rescan so I could get the channles back. So once I got my channels back, I decided to upload the new scan to my PC's Channel Master, thinking since it was a new FEMU file the old C.M. line up wasnt working with the new line up. Well when I got all my favorites, sports, movies, renaming certain channles, and got everything in order... I wrote it back to the reciever. Can you guess again!!! I got all blank channels AGAIN. So yes.... had to start from scratch again.

So it seems that Channel Master is not compatible with this new bin, or vise versa. Coders need to figure out a way to make them work together. Otherwise, you have to do one channel at a time in the receiver's channel edit menu. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THIS WOULD TAKE, to do one channel at a time.

Also, I have a request for the coders, and something I would like to see in the MAIN MENU section. Whenever you have to put your pin to access certain menu features, I would like to see an "UNLOCK" Locked channels section, to allow you to put in your pin so it would take you to all your channels WITHOUT having to enter you password to view certain locked channels. Yes we have little ones, and when their asleep at night, when we want to view adult, or other locked channels, we have to put in a password for each and every channels. This gets tiring after unlocking a few channels. We should be able to unlock "LOCKED" channels all at once, as well as individually, as it is now. Then when you escape that menu, (like you do for menu setup) it would take you back to normal mode, of the requesting passwords for locked channels.

I hope this info was usefull to you. Good luck. Maybe they'll have a new bin soon that will work with Channel Master, and work out some of the bugs. The channel changing is quite slow as well.