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Coolsat 6100 Setup Guide

This is what you see when you first turn it ON or When you do Factory Reset, select the Language and Local time



1 - How To Flash Your Receiver with USB Memory Stick:

Download, Unzip the latest Firmware from NORW and save it on your USB Memory. Insert it into the receiver, hit Red Button on the Remote Control, wait until it finishes and reboots itself to Standby Mode or four Dashes (----). Now, go ahead and turn it on again.



2 - Dish Setting / Receiver Setup:

Do Factory Reset right after you Flashed your receiver, even though it has nothing in your receiver. Hit Menu===> Installation===> System Recovery===> System Restore To Factory Default===> hit OK.

Select the Language, local time, hit Auto Detect. It’ll scan, detect and save everything for you.




Renumbering Local Channels: Menu Option Renumbering Local Ch. Pick your State & the Cit
How to Populate EPG: Go to channel 239 and hit the EPG button on your remote. You should see the Echo EPG item with the Blue circle next to it. Go ahead and hit the blue button on your remote and the Extended EPG popup should stay on the screen while the EPG is being populated. Warning, if it pops up and goes away immediately… then you screwed something up. If it stays and populates out to 9 days, Congratulations!


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Re: Coolsat 6100 Setup Guide

PDF File "how to setup your Coolsat 6100"
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Re: Coolsat 6100 Setup Guide

i will buy a new coolsat 6100, so thank you for your presentation.
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Re: Coolsat 6100 Setup Guide

i am haveing trouble setting up the 6100 cant get to tjhe soft were screen will not read the file even after i factory reset .
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i am haveing trouble setting up the 6100 cant get to tjhe soft were screen will not read the file even after i factory reset .
Have you use FAT32 to format your USB stick. Also you need to unzip before you use it
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Re: Coolsat 6100 Setup Guide

not sure how things work in these things but I just bought the coolsat6100 and followed you instructions but everytime I try to veiw a channel is either says channel scambled of no signal the other thing is it shows a dollar sign in the corner what am doing wrong?
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not sure how things work in these things but I just bought the coolsat6100 and followed you instructions but everytime I try to veiw a channel is either says channel scambled of no signal the other thing is it shows a dollar sign in the corner what am doing wrong?
are you using the latest fix 118? after you flashed your receiver, wait for your receiver updating the new keys. Leave it on one channel, don't flip back and forth untill pic come on

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Re: Coolsat 6100 Setup Guide

Not quite sure where I get that bin from have looked on the internet but cannot find 118 bin any ideas as to where to find it?
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