HUGE bug in 1.06.15

[Vcar33]

Scandy I tried the roll back from the link and did not work.  I downloaded  and  copied it to a USB flashstick. Plug it in and started the system. Just  went on to the typical menu and did not even acknoledge the firmware.

I did the following steps as told by the WD site

Download the latest firmware update compressed file for your WD TV Live HD media player.
Extract the three files (.BIN, .VER, and .FFF files) to the root (top level) of a portable USB drive.

Connect the USB drive to the WD TV Live Media Player's USB port.

Press HOME, and then select the Settings bar.

Select the firmware upgrade icon, and then press ENTER.

You are prompted to perform the firmware upgrade. (did not show any prompts to install the new firmware)

Thank you in advance

[Vcar33]

Hi  all:  I did a bit  of research on the we and this is what  I found on how to roll back the WD TV Live firmware:

How to revert (downgrade) to an earlier firmware version

• thanks to the author!

Warning: Western Digital does not officially support firmware downgrading. Use this method at your own risk!

Many users have used the following method for downgrading from a more recent release (e.g. 1.02.00 or an unofficial firmware), to an earlier release (1.00.01, 1.01.02 etc). Basically, it is the same process as the firmware upgrade, except for modifying the wdtv.ver file to trick the WD TV to recognize the older firmware as being new:

* Download the older firmware to your computer

* Uncompress the firmware ZIP file to the root folder of a memory stick or hard disk: there are 2 files wdtv.ver and wdtv.bin

* Open file "wdtv.ver"   This can be done in word pad, Notepad or any other text editor. 

  I went back to firmware version 1.05.04 from  the crappy 1.06.15

 
Change VERSION='1.xx.xx' to VERSION='1.xx.xx +1' (or any number higher than the current version installed)

*  As an example I wrote  In  1.07.04 

Note : At this point It is highly recommended that a hard reset be performed..

 (using the small button on the side where the USB connection is a paperclip works fine)

* Perform the normal firmware upgrade procedure

Plug the USB memory or disk into the WD TV, which will recognize a new firmware (because 1.07.00 is higher than e.g. 1.06.15)
Press HOME, and then select the Settings bar.
Select the firmware upgrade icon, and then press ENTER.
You are prompted to perform the firmware upgrade.

* When done, the WDTV (system menu "About") will report the correct firmware version, not the "fake" version in "wdtv.ver"

Note #1: The procedure remains the same for any firmware flash (not necessarily a downgrade), where the firmware is not recognized as new because of the version number in the WDTV.VER file.

Note : At this point It is highly recommended that the last  hard reset be performed..

 (using the small button on the side where the USB connection is a paperclip works fine)

Finally  I just finished reverting back ......now I can watch movies again. Hopefully this will help.

[richUK]

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Vcar33 wrote:

Hi  all:  I did a bit  of research on the we and this is what  I found on how to roll back the WD TV Live firmware:

How to revert (downgrade) to an earlier firmware version

• thanks to the author!

Warning: Western Digital does not officially support firmware downgrading. Use this method at your own risk!

Many users have used the following method for downgrading from a more recent release (e.g. 1.02.00 or an unofficial firmware), to an earlier release (1.00.01, 1.01.02 etc). Basically, it is the same process as the firmware upgrade, except for modifying the wdtv.ver file to trick the WD TV to recognize the older firmware as being new:

* Download the older firmware to your computer

* Uncompress the firmware ZIP file to the root folder of a memory stick or hard disk: there are 2 files wdtv.ver and wdtv.bin

* Open file "wdtv.ver"   This can be done in word pad, Notepad or any other text editor. 

  I went back to firmware version 1.05.04 from  the crappy 1.06.15

 
Change VERSION='1.xx.xx' to VERSION='1.xx.xx +1' (or any number higher than the current version installed)

*  As an example I wrote  In  1.07.04 

Note : At this point It is highly recommended that a hard reset be performed..

 (using the small button on the side where the USB connection is a paperclip works fine)

* Perform the normal firmware upgrade procedure

Plug the USB memory or disk into the WD TV, which will recognize a new firmware (because 1.07.00 is higher than e.g. 1.06.15)
Press HOME, and then select the Settings bar.
Select the firmware upgrade icon, and then press ENTER.
You are prompted to perform the firmware upgrade.

* When done, the WDTV (system menu "About") will report the correct firmware version, not the "fake" version in "wdtv.ver"

Note #1: The procedure remains the same for any firmware flash (not necessarily a downgrade), where the firmware is not recognized as new because of the version number in the WDTV.VER file.

Note : At this point It is highly recommended that the last  hard reset be performed..

 (using the small button on the side where the USB connection is a paperclip works fine)

Finally  I just finished reverting back ......now I can watch movies again. Hopefully this will help.

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You obviously did not get the firmware from the link which Scandy gave you. This is official WD rollback firmware which has already been edited by WD. None of the above is necessary with the WD rollback firmware.

With reference to your rollback to 1.05.04 if you had indeed downloaded the rollback firmware entitled Rollback_wdtvlive_release_1.05.04_V.zip then you would find that the ver file already has the version number of '2.05.04_V' which is greater than any firmware released.

To reiterate the official rollback page is below and there is no reason to edit any files to downgrade.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5800

Plus obviously WD do support firmware downgrading, they just do not recommend it.

[Vcar33]

You obviously did not get the firmware from the link which Scandy gave you. This is official WD rollback firmware which has already been edited by WD. None of the above is necessary with the WD rollback firmware.

With reference to your rollback to 1.05.04 if you had indeed downloaded the rollback firmware entitled Rollback_wdtvlive_release_1.05.04_V.zip then you would find that the ver file already has the version number of '2.05.04_V' which is greater than any firmware released.

To reiterate the official rollback page is below and there is no reason to edit any files to downgrade.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/58​00

Plus obviously WD do support firmware downgrading, they just do not recommend it.

Who ever you are......For your Information, I did  followed Scandy gracious help with the link. I downloaded the above and the results were the same it did not recognize the upgrade on my system.  First I tought that there might be a glitch somewhere maybe on the downloaded file or possibly with my system.......Consequently  I started eliminating the possibilities so I followed what I posted  above and now its working the way it was ment to work.  Now  if you ask me  that i did not need to do that  you might be right  but from my experience since you know very little about my system sorry to say but you are wrong. That was the way to go  in my case........give people one more way to roll back their firmware and  get their systems going. Remember there are multiple solutions to get to the same goal. thank you anyway for your concern

[richUK]

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Vcar33 wrote:

You obviously did not get the firmware from the link which Scandy gave you. This is official WD rollback firmware which has already been edited by WD. None of the above is necessary with the WD rollback firmware.

With reference to your rollback to 1.05.04 if you had indeed downloaded the rollback firmware entitled Rollback_wdtvlive_release_1.05.04_V.zip then you would find that the ver file already has the version number of '2.05.04_V' which is greater than any firmware released.

To reiterate the official rollback page is below and there is no reason to edit any files to downgrade.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/58​00

Plus obviously WD do support firmware downgrading, they just do not recommend it.

Who ever you are......For your Information, I did  followed Scandy gracious help with the link. I downloaded the above and the results were the same it did not recognize the upgrade on my system.  First I tought that there might be a glitch somewhere maybe on the downloaded file or possibly with my system.......Consequently  I started eliminating the possibilities so I followed what I posted  above and now its working the way it was ment to work.  Now  if you ask me  that i did not need to do that  you might be right  but from my experience since you know very little about my system sorry to say but you are wrong. That was the way to go  in my case........give people one more way to roll back their firmware and  get their systems going. Remember there are multiple solutions to get to the same goal. thank you anyway for your concern

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I say again that you obviously did not download it from the link as that firmware has already had its version changed to enable a rollback and therefore you would have no reason to edit the file. Your post was already well known and in fact probably was originally posted on this forum and can be confusing for users when there is already official rollback firmware available.

As to knowing about your system, of course I do. You have a WDTV Live and to quote you 'I went back to firmware version 1.05.04 from  the crappy 1.06.15'. The rollback firmware for you to do this is Rollback_wdtvlive_release_1.05.04_V.zip, that zip includes a ver file which has the a version of  2.05.04_V which is greater than your installed firmware of 1.06.15 and therefore will be recognized and correctly perform a rollback.

[Vcar33]

I am sorry RichUK i did not  see your handle in the previous response.......

However it is still the same response (did you read it).....

I did do it correctly by downloading from the link posted by Scandy, did not work.....Then did it the other way , now my system is back and working perfectly .......so there it is.  You have your way and I did it mine.  I give my thanks to Scandy again he was very gracious and he truly wanted help.

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[richUK]

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Vcar33 wrote:

I am sorry RichUK i did not  see your handle in the previous response.......

However it is still the same response (did you read it).....

I did do it correctly by downloading from the link posted by Scandy, did not work.....Then did it the other way , now my system is back and working perfectly .......so there it is.  You have your way and I did it mine.  I give my thanks to Scandy again he was very gracious and he truly wanted help.

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Is this OK 

[boosegumps]

hi, Bill.  any word on this bug?  the newest firmware update did not provide a fix, and the thread was just derailed horribly by Vcar33's completely unrelated problems.

[Bill_S]

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boosegumps wrote:

hi, Bill.  any word on this bug?  the newest firmware update did not provide a fix, and the thread was just derailed horribly by Vcar33's completely unrelated problems.

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I'm completely lost, now, as well.  Can you remind me what the original issue is?

[Vcar33]

BooseGumps and Bill .

I am sorry if you think that i have derailed the discussion for the HUGE bug in 1.06.15.  The main topics were that files were being deleted and some files were replaced with the a zero value.Now i dont know why you guys are confused since the information is on previous posts.

.In my case the huge bug was that I could not operate my equipment at all ( So I considered this a very large bug )  Furthermore this bug of zero value file can be fixed with the rollback of the Firmware. Therefore in my humble opinion it is part of this thread as an alternative fix to the problem.

I was only trying to help other people who were experiencing my frustration that is all. RichUK got  my feathers ruffled by being obstinate to new ideas with an offensive underlying message .

This is my explanation sorry if  you think that I coused any harm but  I bet that Scandy and I helped a few people.