who has bricked their box doing a forced update?

[Ben B]

just wondering after i was told by a member that force updates were a bad idea i decided to start a poll so please take part. thanks. ben b

[AndyCambs]

Perhaps the mods could merge this thread with the previous one that ben started...

[Ben B]

ok why has nobody voted except myself? come on people all you have to do is answer yes or no sheesh! or is it that none of you have done it because you are scared of bricking your boxes which you wont

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

because no one is interested?

[handyman]

You cannot brick a box by force updating it if done correctly, if you interrupted a software flash it could wipe the memory.

A forced or hard restart is part of the normal fault diagnosis methods.

This poll is not required. 3 years on the phones at ntl and never came across it ever or heard of it from fault techs, network techs or the guys that develop the code for the box's.

I've also force rebooted more box's that any one here whilst forcing reboots through on test stb's (except ntl,TW, Virgin staff)

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

because no one is interested?

yeh cheers for that..... you have wrote a comment against everything i have wrote since i joined yesterday. how dare you! lol

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

Originally Posted by ben_b

yeh cheers for that..... you have wrote a comment against everything i have wrote since i joined yesterday. how dare you! lol

Maybe its due to you keep going on about forcing updates which is already well documented and is a practice not supported by VM

[goughy000]

Originally Posted by handyman

You cannot brick a box by force updating it if done correctly, if you interrupted a software flash it could wipe the memory.

sort of true, its just a flash chip in the box that stores the software/firmware

all flash chips have a certain amount of times they can be updated so eventually it will brick. you will probably have to force update like 15 times though

just like people often brick their routers
and less commonly brick their motherboards etc..

[cjmac]

My V+HD box is fine. What the point in trying to force a update it wil auto update when your area is ready to be updated they do it area at a time so if some thing goes wrong faults dept can sort it before other areas have any problems,

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Im new here but that is no way to speak to people.

Originally Posted by ben_b

ok why has nobody voted except myself? come on people all you have to do is answer yes or no sheesh! or is it that none of you have done it because you are scared of bricking your boxes which you wont

[Itshim]

Tried at 9am on a Saturday morning worked fine ( Cardiff) To be honest wish I had`nt Seems like a backwards step - Wish I had NTL back!!!!

[D0gleg]

By the looks of it nobody has "Bricked" their box...

Is this just an urban legend?

[Toto]

Pardon my ignorance here, but what is a forced update?

Originally Posted by goughy000

sort of true, its just a flash chip in the box that stores the software/firmware

all flash chips have a certain amount of times they can be updated so eventually it will brick. you will probably have to force update like 15 times though

just like people often brick their routers
and less commonly brick their motherboards etc..

Ok you are correct but the chances of you bricking it because you have damaged the insulating area is slim to remote newer eeproms can be erased upto 1 million times. Typically flash memory can last 10 000 erase write cycles

[Bramcotestu]

Last year when i had a fault with a pace box, before replacment by samsung i was told by a very helpful cs operator how to do a forced update when my pace box lost some/all channels. So if it does "brick" your box how come i was told to do it. Holding the down button while switching on at the mains

[freakgirl]

Although the new look is really good i wouldn't go risking anything, it' s better just to be patient