Will my YouView box from BT work if I decide to leave BT? Having googled the fault I found your site and I have successfully replaced the hard drive, same for same, following your expert guidance and for 32 I now have a fully functioning box again. Many thanks. I have factory reset with saved recordings and still not fixed. /* ]]> */ vertical-align: -0.1em !important; The best free cloning sw Ive used is Minitool Partition Wizard, I have ver. It did allow me to recover some of the old recording from the failed disk. I run it on Win 10 and it is easy to follow, has a safety feature because you have to apply or tick the box to actually start to do the copy etc nice if you are just new to copying drives etc. box-shadow: none !important;
Fix: ITV Hub Not Working on Youview box - Get Droid Tips BT VISION+ PACE DiT7431/05_2B Digital Freeview Box Receiver 160GB HDD Recorder - $26.61. BT's YouView boxes let you seamlessly watch live or on-demand TV across multiple services, including Netflix, iPlayer and NOW. margin: 0 .07em !important;
YouView Box | YouView Support I switched it off with the unit power button, but now when I try to switch it back on there is no power nothing happens at all. This guide covers the 500Gb models made by Humax for BT . Easy to follow and pretty straightforward to carr out which was great. Reading through the other comments people have retained their recordings by cloning hard drives, but this is for the same box. Place the PCB back in the bottom half of its casing. Some people have had success with a 1Tb drive. Is my box a brick ? Simon, on a BT or TT supplied YouView box (including second hand bought ones) both BT and TT are only responsible for their own services, which are only the live channels and Video on Demand features they provide. Or maybe not. If youre using Powerline adapters, make sure these are connected also.
Now TV app on BT TV box - BT Community Just to add to the above. I'd plug the box back in. Many thanks for your article. It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She then said she would need to check with her manager and after being on hold for a few minutes I was cut off. I tried this (before finding your guide), and installed my wifes old Mac hard drive (not reformatted). Worked a treat for my youview box thanks , Hi On further investigation the hard disk heads had stuck. Hope this helps any future users. var wfscr = document.createElement('script'); Not sure what box model you have? I then found an old laptop HD and tested it with the SATA to USB cable before fitting it in the DVR. This guide covers the 500Gb models made by Humax for BT and Plusnet. document.addEventListener(evt, handler, false); Am I being mislead by BT here to keep me paying? All rights reserved. You might also be able to upgrade your 500Gb box to a 1Tb hard drive or higher and although this has not been tested by us, our readers have reported success. Hopefully this will help some other people keep the recordings from their old Youview hard drives and transfer them onto a new drive You can also access Netflix, Now TV, and other quality content from it. My box was beeping and stuck in a loop when booting. I think most new HDD come as GPT nowadays which the youview box wont recognise. Great to find someone on the internet who knows what they are doing and is spot on with instructions. took the old drive apart and the arm was stuck solid in the middle of the disk!!! Had to remove the large heat sick under the PCB to get the old hard-drive to slide out. Once the lid was off, my suspicion that the hard disk was responsible was confirmed. I have to wait for the box to reconnect the internet and restart . I was thinking of replacing the 500gb drive in my youview+ box with a 3tb western digital purple drive. Remove the lid.
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Why is my BT YouView box stuck in maintenance mode? Maintenance mode is used to recover your box when something has gone wrong with it. That difference is obvious, on a YV box you aren't forced to use that god awful user interface all the time. I tried to reformat it but it just comes back to the same menu , plus it keeps saying format failed if i try to format the disc and delete the recordings . I then turned it all off for a minute and then back on.
A Comprehensive Guide On Your YouView Box | AerialForce It's annoying, frustrating, and quite frankly, definitely a mood-killer! The below will appear on the email currently with the title of "About the services you're stopping". If you've been inactive for a certain amount of time, we'll give you a nudge and say your box is about to go into standby. Any BT-specific recordings that you have on your hard drive won't replay after your contract ends apparently, but the Freeview recordings will continue as normal. And BT reps have publicly stated the box will continue to work. Everything went swimmingly, but there was no sound. Im a complete novice so was happy and pleasantly surprised it all works great! Still functioning Cancelled a couple of months ago. . 8h42, on All the menus and features are exactly the same, but the most recent version of the box is smaller than this earlier version. Visit our full contacts page here * Depending on your box model, Settings will be on the last tab on the Main Menu or in a cog in the top right corner of the screen. *Settings can be found via the cog in the top right corner of the Menu. If the Seagate drives are in short supply the Western Digital and Toshiba drives can be used instead. YouView boxes cannot receive all of the Internet-based channels that are available on Freeview, although it does receive some of them. Switch power off by removing the power cable. }; If you have an Internet Mode enabled box, or the BT TV Box Mini you don't need to have the aerial plugged in, it just needs to be connected to the internet. Most new-and-unused drives of the recommended types will have no partition table written to them, so can be fitted directly to your YouView box. Catch up/on demand via YouView on Sony relates only to content made available from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Very clear instructions. Brilliant guide many thanks for publishing. The file are surprisingly easy to identify as they are [programme name and date].ts These files are in a XFS format partition; I didnt have any trouble reading/playing them under Linux Mint. img.emoji { I found the solution is to change the partitioning to MBR rather than GPT. BT Vision+ Pace DiT7431/052B Box. Great article and guide! OFCOM, maybe. Thanks for the guide! If you take some before and after timings let us know if fitting an SSD speeds up the menus and cold-booting! If you take the bare hard drive out of the portable enclosure the disk might well work. /* The BT TV Box Pro - BT Broadband
Second-Hand Satellite & Cable Equipment for Sale in G327UY Poor and old people among those who are less satisfied with the BBC, according to Ofcom, as BBC accused of chasing younger users. Which is actually more likely, coming from poorly trained staff for whom TV training just seems to be an over-skim. I expect so, but you won't receive any of Plusnet's pay tv services. I let it run for about 4 hours and it wasnt even 1% complete and every sector so far was bad. The constant writing to disk by the Youview box, even when not recording a programme, will quickly wear out an SSD and it will fail. If you do not press the power button within 5 seconds the box will boot up normally, Turn the power on using the switch found on the back of yourbox, Press the button on the front of the box, Very quickly press and hold both the channel +/- buttons together for 10-15 seconds, After displaying the start screen, the box should enter maintenance mode, Press and hold both the channel +/- buttons on the front of the box, Press the button on the front of the box once while still holding both the channel +/- buttons together for 10-15 seconds, Press and hold the down button on the top of the box, Turn the power on using the switch found on the back of yourbox. And if so to what format please? var BooklyL10n = {"csrf_token":"c45bda60d8","today":"Aujourd'hui","months":["janvier","f\u00e9vrier","mars","avril","mai","juin","juillet","ao\u00fbt","septembre","octobre","novembre","d\u00e9cembre"],"days":["dimanche","lundi","mardi","mercredi","jeudi","vendredi","samedi"],"daysShort":["dim","lun","mar","mer","jeu","ven","sam"],"nextMonth":"Mois prochain","prevMonth":"Mois pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent","show_more":"Montre plus"}; JamesB Member Posts: 841 15 October 2013, 8:04PM A moderator in the BT Forum has confirmed that the box will still work after cancelling. Now no trouble getting Maintenance mode, and box appears to be working as before. Easy fix but you have to plug HDD into a pc to change to MBR before you put in youview box.
Using Maintenance Mode - YouView Support Box keeps going into standby - YouView Support Get in touch. Gripper, Very helpful instructions thanks so much! Very helpful thanks. Do I need to identify the drive make first and replace with same to ensure connections are compatible, or can I assume that if I order say a Western Digital to the serial number you quoted that it will fit? If I boot up without pressing any buttons it gets stuck on the loading screen. The box should function (more or less) as a Freeview Play box. I have fixed mine I had bought a used hdd and it was formatted in fat 32 and did not work, if you google completely format hdd removing all partitions i watched a video you do it within dos on windows took less than 5mins at the end though finish instruction on assign, do not do the format for the pc just insert drive in you view box and bingo up and running. Gently align and tighten the four hard drive screws. 3 July 2013, 12:08PM edited 19 March 2017, 10:46PM in Archived Posts. Need help with these connections? Many Thanks. B: the customer can continue to use the YouView box as a perfectly good digital video recorder. My husband . After some trial and error work out that the disk needs to have a fat32 format partition for the box to be able to recognise it!