About "look-ahead" on the VIP2250 DVR

Thanks. When I get a moment, I'll try the DVR various recoveries as needed. I suspect something like that might be the culprit since I can't imagine a hardware problem that would let everything else be perfect but just screw up this one thing. It seems like it has to be glitched software.

I'll check back after I try that.

OK: I've had no success with the non-destructive recovery. 

Where is a link to the Force Disaster Recovery?

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@Papolytic wrote:

OK: I've had no success with the non-destructive recovery. 

 

Where is a link to the Force Disaster Recovery?

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• Hold down the Down arrow key + OK key + Power key at the same time to power down the DVR.

• Continue pressing these keys until a gear appears on the screen and release the Down + OK keys.
• If the gear on the TV screen appears, wait until completion.
• If the gear on the TV screen does not appear, repeat the disaster recovery process.
• If the previous steps have been exhausted and the TV receiver continues to malfunction please send a private message with your account number and contact details to ATTU-verseCare for further assistance. If you are not a member of the U-verse community forums, we welcome you to register and reach out to us.

It will erase any recordings as it reformats the hard drive and re-downloads all the software, will take some time to complete. 😉

Chris
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Thanks, Chris,

   I'll give that one a try in the morning. 

Mick

Well, the verdict by me after blowing away everything via the procedure posted above is that the box is somehow defective. May as well get another one since I basically reformatted last night. Thanks. I'll mark this as solved when and if the new box solves it. 

Chris, 

Thanks for your help. (and anyone that posted a reply). Before tossing my recordings away yet again and getting a service tech to replace my 2250, I decided to do the 3-time recovery start yet one more time. I had no hope it would work, but for some reason it has "come to it's senses" after the procedure. 

Many thanks. There is a slight difference but it's nothing to speak of and it can probably be acounted by the relative speediness of the 2250 vs. my old 1225. When I'm in FF with 3 * FF, then hitting "play", or "OK" gets me right after the commercial (so ~7-10 seconds?). It used to be true on the slower box that I could also get to the exact spot I wanted during 4*FF which is really quite fast. On tghe 2250 that is now "Fixed", I think it's still about 7-10 seconds back, which is fine. That's close enough and I can now second guess when to hit that play button while in FF * 4, which is much more than I could do before that last "recovery". 

Cheers -- Mick

Thanks for posting your results. Glad to hear it is "working". If it is going too far back, try stopping it with the jump ahead button.