how are you powering box off at back if its a solo?
One thing i noticed is if you get a steady green but a light flashing on usb let the light on usb steady then see if it has flashed.... this happened and worked for me a while back.
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You will know when your solo has finished flashing when you see a green led light flashing on the front of the solo..
Are you getting this.. ?
Yes — flashing green light on solo (see video).
Powering off with a remote controlled mains socket.
If you got the box from the site sponsor, you can be sure it's an original box.
I have 2 solos, one two years old, the other 7 months old, both have been flashed 100's of times without issue.
Can you get any working image on the box now?
If so, try formatting the USB stick using the box rather than your mac.
All usb sticks I use, formatted by the box or on windows, linux have never failed me.
Also, have you tried downloading the image again? maybe your download is corrupt?
Ok, last night I flashed it and left it all night with the solid green light but this morning — nothing.
The guy from WOS who sold me the box suggested formatting my cards with this: http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...SB-Format-Tool
I've tried three different ones — all the same result — nothing.
Yet it flashes back to VTI with no problem whatsoever.
Completely baffled now.
Any of you live anywhere near Southport?
PS... I even tried using the Solo to format the card — nothing
have you been trying it just with one build? have you removed all usb itema eg wireless adaptor, usb storage etc.
try downloading latest build and following above steps again. i know its frustrating but we will get it to come good in end
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I've tried the latest three builds — formatting the card each time.
The WOS guy replied with some suggestions which didn't work so I've asked him to send me a USB stick with VIX which he's tested and is working.
I await his response.
What version of VTI is currently on the receiver ?. and have you tried any other Kernel 3.1.1 based images such as Black hole 1.7.8 or the newer AAF / Sif Team images ?.
Basically i'm trying to establish if you need to flash the latest bootloader or not.
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VTI is 4.2.4
Not tried Blackhole or any other.
well that version should mean that it does not need the bootloader, I would try another 3.1.1 kernel based image such as BH just to make sure they load. you could also just bite the bullet and flash the bootloader but be careful if you do as that is akin to a bios flash on a PC and if it goes wrong it can kill the box.
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Just flashed it to Blackhole 1.7.8 successfully although halfway through the wizard I switched it off and have gone back to VTI because the missus just got up (she's been on nights).
jim, do you have a serial cable that you can connect to a pc whilst you are flashing, and use putty to be able to create a boot log? This should show us the problems you appear to be having whilst trying to flash...
No, I don't, sorry. I have a 2011 MacBook Pro which just has USB etc. I am running Parallels for windows stuff but I have no serial port.
OK, no prob. Just that it would work perfectly to give us an idea of how to get it sorted. Running osx here, and use coolterm (andy prefer zterm, but I think coolterm is a bit better ). All you need is a usb -> serial adapter. Sponser sells em for £7. But I understand you not wanting to get one for a one off Personally, I just borrowed one from work
But, if you can flash all the others, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to flash vix. You are defintely download the solo image, not duo etc? And it still has the same folder layout?