HUGE bug in 1.06.15

[Bill_S]

I'm already looking into this.  Will let you know what I find out as soon as I can.

[scottward]

This has probably already been mentioned by somebody else earlier, but I'm guessing at least part of the issue lies in the shutdown routines that execute when a user presses the power off button on the remote.

These shutdown routines should include calls to the appropriate eject routines for attached USB drives etc.

Before upgrading to this version of the firmware, I would watch a movie, press the power off button on the remote, pull out the USB drive, plug it into my computer, put new movies etc on it, plug it back into the WD media player without a problem; over and over again.

But now, yeah, if I turn the power to the WD media player off using the power off on the remote and then pull the drive out and plug it into my PC, I get a message putting up that the drive is corrupted and needs fixing.

So I think the shutdown routines are where the problem lies.

Any chance you could get the Test Manager hired by Western Digital in a room for us to "talk" to?

Scott.

[boosegumps]

hello.  this critical bug has already deleted many GiBs of my data, and i was ready to return the WD TV Live to the store until i read through this entire thread...the solution: stop using windows operating/filing systems!  i switched to ubuntu linux and mount the drive's newly foramtted ext3 file system in /etc/fstab and have no more trouble.

fstab entry looks like so:

//192.168.1.64/seagate /media/seagate cifs noperm,username=WDTVLive,password=*********,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

[Techflaws]

Yeah, right. The solution is for WD to fix this bug that pointlessly messes up file systems. Luckily all I've encountered so far was undeletable folders when attached to a PC, no files missing so far.

[juggy]

no kidding

seems to be this would be a priority

its not like this was just reported...

a media player that corrupts your files > not much use!!

i normally play my files via the network but once in a while i travel with the wdlive and a usb drive

it will erase any mkv files i have by reducing them to 0 file size

i allways eject the drives etc etc

doesn't make a different - the usb ntfs driver / controller is messed up on the newer firmwares

it worked find for me on previous ones

[lakersin2025]

**bleep** now I'm scared of my new update. Time to figure out how to roll back to 1.05

[Gearmo]

And why not extract safely the USB device by pressing eject button before shutting down?

[Vcar33]

My WD TV Live used to work perfectly prior to firmware 1.06.15.  I would like to revert backward but do not know how. tried but the device does not recognize the old firmware. (WD should incorporate that in the new release - the ability to go back if the firmaware is faulty) If someone knows how to revert back the firmware please let me know Thanks

Now  the remote becomes inoperable and I have to shut the old system down .....to have it happen again. This is not acceptable!  WD you should address this issue promptly due to the fact people have paid great deal of money in your hardware since its all proprietary  (WD TV Live & in my case two WD external drives)

I feel that WD should pay us the quality control team . Because theirs is not doing the job. 

[Scandy]

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Vcar33 wrote:

My WD TV Live used to work perfectly ...If someone knows how to revert back the firmware please let me know Thanks

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Download the rollback firmware from here:

Firmware Rollback

Follow the directions in the above link and make sure that you download the correct version (Live vs Live Plus).

[Vcar33]

Scandy I thank you very much .......for the link!  (I had found it but was not sure it was the right one). 

I guess one step back for mankind lol.

I wish WD would really test their new firmware software prior releasing it . Because now  I am really skiddish from upgrading to new firmware.  It s sad because I love WD TV Live and  it  will drive people away from the product if not careful.