522 L2.06 Release Notes

[ericag02]

Seems worse to me

I got the 2.06 FW on Thursday and watched a lot of previously recorded shows and had more audio dropouts than I've ever had.

Maybe its just my 522 (my 5th one at that)

 

[Ned Dorsey]

I read this post Monday morning and went and check my receiver - still at 2.05. This morning (Tuesday) I checked again and now I have 2.06. They must be rolling it out daily, not weekly.

 

[Wishbone]

Just checked. I've got L206GAGD-N already.

Mine says L206GALD-N. Anyone know the difference between GAGD and GALD? Meanwhile, my playback (and skip back) seems to be nice and smooth when last night, on L2.05, playback was almost unwatchable.

 

[BFG]

The last four letters is the group your 522 belongs to. It's all the same software.

 

[chaddux]

WOOHOO! Sometime this morning, I got 2.06. Appears to be a new addition to the Counters page. There are now 13 different stats.

 

[markav]

I've only been using 2.06 for a few hours now but so far I'm pretty encouraged. Overall, skips/glitch/synch issues have been MUCH better so far. I've noticed no problems at all while watching a recorded show while recording another show, and fairly minimal problems watching a recorded show while recording two other shows. It's early yet, but if it holds up like this I'd say it looks like a pretty significant step in the right direction.

 

[itsonthedish]

I STILL haven't gotten it yet. What am I doing wrong?

 

[TuxCoder]

Nothing most likely, remember it's just now gone widespread.

Hah - beat you to the punch BFG!

 

[BFG]

 

[chaddux]

Its only being rolled out to 50 thousand 522's today, more next week, more the week after that... Etc..

unless something has changed recently, Dish only updates a group of receivers at a time. This is the first time that I've received the update so quickly so they may randomly select the groups. In the past I've always had to wait a week or two.

I suspect that because of all of the problems that they've had with the 522s they're afraid to release the software too quickly in case there's some serious problems that made it past the QC team.

The upgrades are spooled pretty much from every satellite.

But, Dish does not always send the update to every receiver. They tend to roll them out starting with a few receivers then expanding the release as it goes along and no problems seem to develop. If Dish has not released the software to your receiver, there is no way to get it to get the upgrade. It seems that all the receivers usually get the release within about 2 weeks provided it does not cause problems.

That's probably enough reposts of your answer.

 

[BFG]

hehe, actually now the software website lists it as widepread
http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/customerCare/technical/software_versions/index.asp
so now you should be able to get it...

 

[doogie]

I just got my update... up until this morning I still had L2.05.

 

[itsonthedish]

Wow- I just got the update! Is it me or is the picture 100 percent better?

 

[doogie]

OK... got the new software... the only problem I really had before was audio drop-outs during live TV... I have the new software... and in the last 15 mins the audio dropped out twice during live TV for like 1/2 second each time... is anyone else having this? My 522 is not recording or anything... just watching live tv and the audio drops out... I was so hoping this would be fixed on this release.

 

[explorer96l]

522 receveres are cool or not tell me what you think

tell me what you think about the 522 recever becose im geting it soon and I want to now what people think about the 522 send me a messige!!!

 

[doogie]

Just more info.... now that I've been watching live tv for 2 hrs with the new software... I've had 8 1/2-second audio drop outs and 1 that lasted for 3 seconds... much worse than what I have before!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Doogie, unplug your unit for about 30 seconds then plug it back in again and all should be fine. (Some units need a cold restart to function correctly)

 

[itsonthedish]

have been watching the news for the past hour or so.. no audio dropouts.

 

[markav]

I just had my first new problem under 2.06.

I had timers set to record two programs from 8:00 to 9:00, and to then record two other programs from 9:00 to 10:00. Instead of switching to the new programs at 9:00, it acted like the first pair of programs were two hours long and continued recording on the original channels.

I did a power button reset hoping a quick reboot would start the second pair of programs recording without losing too much. No dice. When it came back up, I had lost my locals and most of the other channels in my package as well. Check switch also didn't help.

Ended up switching the power off for a few minutes. When it came back up, I had all my channels back and the programs that were supposed to be recording started recording.

 

[ericag02]

I just had my first new problem under 2.06.

I had timers set to record two programs from 8:00 to 9:00, and to then record two other programs from 9:00 to 10:00. Instead of switching to the new programs at 9:00, it acted like the first pair of programs were two hours long and continued recording on the original channels.

I did a power button reset hoping a quick reboot would start the second pair of programs recording without losing too much. No dice. When it came back up, I had lost my locals and most of the other channels in my package as well. Check switch also didn't help.

Ended up switching the power off for a few minutes. When it came back up, I had all my channels back and the programs that were supposed to be recording started recording.

That EXACT same thing happened to me last night at 8:45PM or so. I encountered the famed Guide of Death and then when it restarted, I lost all of my locals and all but CNN, 101, 500, and a few other channels. I let it sit for 10 minutes, no dice. I did 2 more front panel reboots and that finally solved the problem. Of course I was recording a program at the time and now have missed that show, but what can you really do?

So far I'm not impressed with the new firmware. The 2.05 version was a lot more stable for me (at least).