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VraKo

Member Since 23 Feb 2020
Offline Last Active 07 Jan 2021 14:31
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In Topic: Octagon SF8008 OpenPli Support

25 February 2020 - 13:48

Does Timeshift work? I tried different buttons on the remote control, but only recording is working.
I haven't found the hbbtv plugin anywhere in the plugin download menu. Is it downloadable somewhere?

In Topic: Octagon SF8008 OpenPli Support

25 February 2020 - 07:38

 

Power off receiver

Connect the USB flash drive that contains the image recovery files It is named sf8008_2018-09-22_recover.zip, 110 MB aprox.). (i'm currently not at home, If you want, I can send it to you tomorrow)

Turn on receiver pressing power button until it gets red and says "boot".

After 10 o 15 seconds, the boot menu will appear (Start 1, start 2, USB network...)

Then you can check that remote works, by pressing the up or down buttons. Don't press OK.

Change the USB flash drive, and connect the one that has the image you want to upload.

select USB... and press OK and will start.....

 

OK, I use these files (sf8008_2018-09-22_recover.zip) to restore the box through the HiTool application.  I'll try it.

 

 

Thanks, the above procedure works, OpenPli image I have installed. I solved this problem with USB offline image installation on other forums (OpenATV or OpenEight) and I was always advised to send the receiver to the manufacturer for repair. However, this is a problem with updating the bootloader in the receiver, which just sometimes did not happen at some time and now the receiver is unable to remedy this. Obviously, recovery using the HiTool application will not help either. Anyway, this is no hardware problem with the front panel! I do not understand why the manufacturer will not allow users any reflash firmware that would fix this problem.

In Topic: Octagon SF8008 OpenPli Support

24 February 2020 - 12:19

Power off receiver

Connect the USB flash drive that contains the image recovery files It is named sf8008_2018-09-22_recover.zip, 110 MB aprox.). (i'm currently not at home, If you want, I can send it to you tomorrow)

Turn on receiver pressing power button until it gets red and says "boot".

After 10 o 15 seconds, the boot menu will appear (Start 1, start 2, USB network...)

Then you can check that remote works, by pressing the up or down buttons. Don't press OK.

Change the USB flash drive, and connect the one that has the image you want to upload.

select USB... and press OK and will start.....

 

OK, I use these files (sf8008_2018-09-22_recover.zip) to restore the box through the HiTool application.  I'll try it.


In Topic: Octagon SF8008 OpenPli Support

23 February 2020 - 21:25

 

 

USB offline update not working, I unzipped files to usb flash drive (8GB, FAT32 format), turn off receiver, connect usb flash drive to usb port, turn on receiver with power button, boot screen will appear, but I cannot select Recovery from USB - the receiver does not respond to commands from the remote control.

 

Mine does the same. Box doesn't respond to any remote key after appearing the Boot Menu.

I didn't bought the box. A friend of mine gave it to me.

The only way I can do a USB update is using two USB Flash Drives.

 

1) A USB flash drive which has a recover image (don't remember where I got it from), to boot receiver, and then remote control works.....

2)  when you have the BOOT selection, you change the USB Drive and insert the one which contains the image you want to flash. Then you can press the USB recovery option and will start working.

 

I don't know if I understand it correctly.
1) After switching on, connect USB flash drive with what content? Can it be empty?
2) Then should the remote control work and select Recovery from USB?
3) Then I disconnect the fake usb disk and mount the usb disk with the OpenPli image and the process will start?

In Topic: Octagon SF8008 OpenPli Support

23 February 2020 - 18:26

The boot menu is octagon firmware, it is not related to whatever image is on the box. So I don't really understand why the remote would behave differently, the image isn't running at that point?

 

You can also make mmc_image available (just like OpenATV, OpenEight, OpenHDF, etc.), the online flash procedure works fine for me, so I could install OpenPli this way.