No Satelite Signal

[grahamlthompson]

moshep – 7 minutes ago  » 

Hi all,

I am also having the occasional issue with the signal on my HDR-1000S. I am pretty confident that it is the stb at fault. The issue has occurred for me after watching recordings (usually after a few episodes of Raa Raa the Noisy Lion for my little one). After watching a recording the box indicates there is no signal. Checking the signal strength indicates there is no signal at all. Putting the box into standby and bring it back on-line cures the issue. Checking the signal strength at this point gives 95% signal and 100% quality. I struggle to believe that this is a problem with the dish alignment or cabling, certainly no other stb have had this issue. And I would be surprised if simply putting the stb in standby would correct a cabling/alignment issue.

I do have a feeling that I have only experience this problem since the latest software update so I kind of feel it is related to the unit.

Try a factory reset. It’s not an issue I have seen reported before. The other poster had symptoms consistent with a signal problem probably weather related.

[Anonymous]

I’ve only really conclusively seen this as an issue as I have been paying slightly more attention since getting a few no signal messages.

I have previously done a factory reset which fixed a separate issue where I was getting flickering on the screen when bringing the stb out of standby after it had been in standby for a while.

I can give that another go, but its a pain if I am going to have to keep doing a factory reset.

The little one is still watching Raa Raa so I’ll give that a go a little later. It will be difficult to tell initially if it has helped as I only see this issue infrequently.

[Anonymous]

moshep – 4 hours ago  » 

I’ve only really conclusively seen this as an issue as I have been paying slightly more attention since getting a few no signal messages.

I have previously done a factory reset which fixed a separate issue where I was getting flickering on the screen when bringing the stb out of standby after it had been in standby for a while.

I can give that another go, but its a pain if I am going to have to keep doing a factory reset.

The little one is still watching Raa Raa so I’ll give that a go a little later. It will be difficult to tell initially if it has helped as I only see this issue infrequently.

I would think this is down to a poorly fitted f-connector at one end or other.

[Anonymous]

I am about as confident as I can be that the connectors are good. I checked the stb end of the cabling when I installed the new box and had not had any issues previously.

I would expect the signal to drop in and out more frequently if it was a poorly fitted connector. And I only had to put the stb into standby to get the signal back straight away, I would expect there to been some cable jiggling required if the connector was at fault. I’ll concede that I am no expert on this though .

[Anonymous]

Just a quick update on my issue with the signal. I’ve done a factory reset and so far, I have not had this issue again. I will (obviously) keep an eye on this over a longer period before considering it completely fixed though.

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