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The resulting file can be reloaded into your cleared CS8000, and it will be complete.
Even my motor settings ( but not saved Diseqc 1.2 positions, since they are stored in the motor) come back . The newer firmware has been a big improvement on this one score.
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I renamed Galaxy 14 to GAL14/AMC21 and put the Ku tp's on it. If you COULD insert a satellite into their list, it would screw up the index ( which is now apparently by orbital position, instead of 31 place sat table ) and you couldn't restore your old stuff and keep the new AGAIN. Frustrating that it's not perfect, but I like the newer software better than the older fixed table software.
Since my 8100 started rebooting again
I decided to clear everything out and start over, but this time, I decided to try reloading the old saved channels.
Previously, I had been using the most recent factory firmware, which had been the first factory firmware that my receiver wouldn't reboot on, but then it started rebooting, so I switched to the newest hacker software, which initially didn't reboot, and it also had the new channel configuration rather than the 31 channel deal talked about above.
Well anyway, and I had noticed this once before, but I decided to use the "clear" software to supposedly clear out the memory, then loaded up the most recent factory firmware. When I did this, out of curiosity, I checked, and there were no channels loaded. Then I loaded in the newest hacker software, which was what I was using before my unit started rebooting.
The interesting thing, is that after re-loading the hacker software, my previous channels came back, even though I had supposedly cleared the memory. At first, they didn't work, because even though the channels were there, the satellite parameters (lnbf type and LO freq and switch settings) were not correct, but after I changed them, the channels came back!
This is both a great improvement, and also a bit interesting. It's interesting because I would have thought that doing the "clear" thing would have wiped out any saved channels, and after loading the factory file, they WERE gone. But I guess that the channels were still in there, but in a format that the older firmware couldn't read. I did NOT erase the channels before or after reloading the firmware, so perhaps I should have done that.
Re the great improvement, and why I've been hesitant to try re-loading saved channels even though you've posted that it works, is that with the old 31 channel firmware, the saved channels had all the satellite parameters, and that couldn't be changed. Ie, if I saved a channel with say diseqC port 3, but then went outside, and switched the coax over to port 4, then came back inside thinking that I could go into the Dish setup, and change the sat parameters, and get my channels back, that would not work, because the port 3 info was stored into the channel data. I would have to re-scan the channels, and I'd end up with duplicate (except for switch port) channels, one set which worked, and the other set which didn't work.
Well this looks like now, the channel data is referenced to the satellite settings in the DISH setup. This is the way most other receivers work, and it's a great improvement. I only wish that they would come out with a real factory file that works like this. The most recent one on their web site is like from back in September, and it still uses the old 31 channels format.
Anyway, so far so good with respect to the reloading software fixing the rebooting, at least temporarily. Hasn't rebooted once.... yet. I'm sure it will start again, but if I can recover by reloading software without having to put all my channels back in, that won't be too bad. I've been afraid to load more than just AMC-21 , G25 and G28, which are the main sats I've been watching.
