Missing USB dongle messages on 1010S?

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    Anonymous
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    A quick question from a prospective buyer – several reviews on the John Lewis site suggest there are messages that occur regularly with the 1010S. I haven’t found reports of this on other sites, which leads me to question the accuracy of these reviews

    Do the people on this forum have this issue?

    #48342
    grahamlthompson
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    At the top of the screen on the HDR1000/1010s you sometimes get a somewhat cryptic message about a future series recording. It goes away very quickly. Not sure why it’s there, at a guess it’s when the series recording schedule is updated. Why it’s on screen and what useful purpose it has, not a clue.

    If this is what is being referred to it’s not really a significant issue.

    If as the title suggests it’s about a missing dongle I don’t have a 1010s so can’t help. Perhaps it’s a warning that the wireless signal has been lost or very weak (could be a neighbour using the same channel).

    #48343
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thanks Graham. I’ll be sensible and copy/paste the reviews from John Lewis

    “But most annoying of all is that every ten minutes or so a message appears on screen saying USB Wi-Fi dongle disconnected, notwithstanding that this model does not even have or need a USB Wi-Fi dongle. A second later another message says the dongle IS connected. Five seconds later a third message tells you the Wi-Fi is connected. This goes on incessantly, hour after hour. The only time it stops is when you are actually watching a programme via the Wi-Fi, when everything works perfectly. It is now five days since I emailed Humax’s help service reporting this problem. I have had no response whatsoever.”

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    “this could be a very good product but has a major hardware fault that means a non existent Wifi dongle loading message appears on the screen every 10 minutes. I wonder if this is actually what exists inside this machine”

    #48344
    grahamlthompson
    Participant

    Very surprised if this is common, it would surely have been reported here before. I wonder if the poster has tried a factory reset which often fixes odd faults like this one.

    Also sounds like the poster hasn’t much of a clue, if anything it will be a software fault. The 1010s of course has built in WiFi.

    #48345
    Barry
    Moderator

    Just to add my experience.

    Had a 1010S since they were first available.

    Just after boot a message appears to confirm Wifi connected never had a disconnect.

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