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I powered on the X5 here last night and it showed an update available as well. I choose not to install thou. as I wanted to check here first if any announcements were posted about it., but saw nothing except the July 5th, 2022 update thread, which I never did attempt to install. So then I looked in the 'Update' menu and there was no notification showing there of a new update. Current Buzz5 version onboard --> 5.0.727 6/16/2022

the xrs4900 has been unpluged all night. Plugged it back in and powered up and it goes thru the motions fine and lands on the 'Modern' Home Screen. But no RCU function at all. So I did the toothpick thing to get into recovery mode and that worked fine too, but there still in no RCU function , so I can not scroll to the Factory Reset option :eek: In fact now it is stuck in recovery mode at the main recovery menu screen and no way to exit or do anything else... so I will unplug it again and see what happens. The device boots up fine but there is no RCU function at all. I did get into the LiveTV directly after the update install yesterday, but no RCU function since then and not even with other remotes, which all work fine on other Buzz devices. (checked and rechecked that). And no RCU function when in the recovery menu.. Update: after the reboot (by disconnecting power), the Bt-400 RCU nor two other Buzz RCUs would work. So I tried the AR-100 RCU and it now works. It did not work before, but does now. Just finished testing a bunch of RCU functions and this Ar-100 is still functioning fine , while other RCUs are not (re-checked them again to be sure)

no joy... I have powered back on after 25 minutes and still stuck on Home Screen with no RCU function.

rebooted but there seems to be no change The RCU is still not functioning, or box is stuck. Last time I unplugged it for approx 20 minutes. and the RCU functioned fine until I entered that Side-Bar EPG menu I will try that 20 minute thing again now.

Yea, my MAC is in the system. I unplugged the power for awhile and after powering back up, the RCU worked fine again. To be honest I think I had overheated the device as I had a desktop lamp turned on and the hot bulb was only inches away from the device. The device was pretty hot too. \ I didn't think too smartly when I bent that lamp over the top of the device :eek: The device is running cool now BUT I have another snag. As soon as I brought up the sidebar menu (EPG), the box is stuck again on that EPG and the RCU is not functioning again. Going to reboot the power again and check results

well maybe not. Seems I have no control with the RCU After the update , the TV returned to a LiveTV channel I had on before the update and reboot. But I can not change channel or operate any RCU function now after the update. So I rebooted again and now am back on the Home screen but still no RCU function/control. I can not exit Home screen of do anything at all with the RCU Have tried other RCUs and same results. Batteries have been changed. RCU tested on other Buzz device and is working on there

well maybe not. Seems I have no control with the RCU After the update , the TV returned to a LiveTV channel I had on before the update and reboot. But I can not change channel or operate any RCU function now after the update. So I rebooted again and now am back on the Home screen but still no RCU function/control. I can not exit Home screen of do anything at all with the RCU Have tried other RCUs and same results. Batteries have been changed. RCU tested on other Buzz device and is working on there ooops... this post was suppose to be posted in the xrs4900 July 6th update thread :eek: If it could be moved there that would be coll. Sorry guys :eek:

Fired up the xrs4900 today and a new update installed. I must have it set on auto-update as it installed automatically. Update went well. Seems it was just a small one with a couple changes only.

working fine, thnx I had posted on other update thread earlier. I did not see this thread at the time. Sorry about that guys But yea, the volume thing is working fine now with this new update

update received and installed Force Volume Max is now defaulted to OFF Cool beans thnx I will include Firmware version next time if I ever need ... sorry about that

Force Max Volume is defaulted to On Same as the X5 was till last update which fixed it. thnx

update went well here. Volume control is now working fine.

This worked for me. thnx

just a note.. after the update and the reboot a new message appeared and says there is a new BT400 update as well. And that went smoothly.

my current X5 buzz5 app version 5.0.702 04/26/2022 received new update message today and I accepted it. Seems to be taking some time to install the update thou. I know its working because the message at the bottom of the screen has changed. OOP, there it is.... it completed....... Update installed successfully. Please reboot device

did you also try the HDMI thing I mentioned above ?

If that did not work then with the XRS still powered on, remove and reattach the HDMI cable. Or try a different HDMI cable. These HDMI cables/ports do have power supply, so interrupting that may give the XRS the kick in the rear it needs

do you have a USB drive (memory card or hard drive) inserted into the XRS ? If so remove it. If not then insert one and then remove it... and see if it starts the boot up process.

This exact same thing happened to the XRS4900 here. It was stuck or froze at the same spot your's is stuck at. I had a USB drive inserted into the XRS. I removed that drive and the boot up process immediately continued and completed. It was a bad drive, which I found out later by checking it thru my PC

Celcious and Metric is easy. Its all in base 10 0 C is freezing +10 C is an Autumn morning +20 C is awesome for a round of Golf +30 C is too damn warm for Golf or anything else .Might be better to go swimming at some lake somewhere -10 C is below freezing... cause 0 is freezing -20 C and lots of snow is fantastic snowmobile conditions -30C is too damn cold to do much except split firewood :eek: metric is all based on 10's easy peasy

On Home/Launcher screen, scroll down to Settings and open it. Find the 'apps' option and open that. Here we will see a few apps showing and these apps can not be uninstalled (BuzzTV , File Browser and Aptoide TV). But just below these apps we find and open the 'See All Apps' option and then scroll to find your app that you want uninstalled. Select it and then select Uninstall. Remember that some apps can not be uninstalled, so if the 'Uninstall' option is not seen then it can not be uninstalled.

This pertains to any of the XR/XRS models with the Modern Home screen. To uninstall an app it is basically the same as any Android Settings>Apps>See All Apps Once you find the app to uninstall on the shown list, open it and the Uninstall option will be there, along with some other functions and details. There is another way as well and done directly from the Home screen. With your Modern Home screen open, you should see an Add option. This allows you to add shortcuts to your Home screen. Open the Add option/shortcut and add some other shortcuts from the list of apps that will be seen there. With these new shortcuts seen on your Home screen, highlight one of them and then press and hold the OK button on the RCU This will bring up a small context menu with three options. 1. Move - move the shortcut as seen on the Home screen. 2. Remove shortcut - remove from Home screen. 3. Uninstall - remove from Home screen and uninstall fully from BuzzTV box. c/p from this other guy

This outline was created while using the 'Modern Home Screen' on your BuzzTV device. Before we can add Favorites to the Home screen, we first need to have some Favorites. But before we start up LiveTV to get them favorites, first let's first turn on this Home screen function. Home>BuzzTV Utilities>Home Screen Rows Turn all 3 Rows on for now and we can turn off one or all three anytime later. 1. Channel Favorites (LiveTV channels) 2. VOD 3. TV Series Next is to exit and then scroll up to LiveTV shortcut and open LiveTV As you are scrolling up you may have noticed these new Rows. Next thing, with channels open, add some favorites. I think it is the yellow button to add to favorites, but check the color legends shown at bottom of the different screens. Another thing too that was discussed in another thread, while viewing a LiveTV channel, you can press the Home button on the RCU and Home screen will appear and also a small video/picture window of the current channel playing will show. If you do this, then you can see your progress on Home screen while not exiting or loosing your LiveTV channel. While the LiveTV shortcut is highlighted, press OK button to go directly back to full screen OR press the 'stop play' button, which removes that small window and also exits LiveTV, while still showing the Home Screen. Highlight any Favorite seen on Home screen, and press and hold (long press) the OK button on the RCU and two options will appear. 1.Move 2.Remove from Favorites To remove one or all 3 of these rows from Home screen , enter Utilities menu again to access the function. I believe by highlighting and long pressing on the 'Top10 Channel Favorites' Row, there is was a pop up screen that appeared with the 3 Rows On/Off functions shown there, but seems I can not access that at this time. Next time you turn on your BuzzTV you will be greeted with your Modern Home screen and your favorite channels seen there as shortcuts . So just click on a channel and boom !! You are in ! Another great reason to put this function into play is that at any time while viewing LiveTV, you can hit that big blue Home button on your RCU and immediately be taken to Home screen, where if you have added lots of shortcuts to Favorite channels, you can now open one of them , and all this time still be viewing original channel in small view.. it would then work like a favorites button with rather fast results,... and boom !!! Yup, there's that boom again. It can work like that ... easy peasy c/p from this other guy

dishuser does have a simple solution... but... One thing comes to mind first concerning the Playlist URL method and it is the easiest answer, so lets ask it. What firmware version is on that 4900 model ? The original firmware had some issues with Playlist URLs and m3u files. They fixed the issue thou with upgraded firmware. I think that was how it went, but was awhile ago and may have been a VOD Playlist only.... but check that version anyway. i have just started up the Playlist portal with server URL and an EPG URL and channels loading fine and working. I guess i should ask, what is a 'custom' m3u Playlist URL ? You are referring to a server playlist URL ... I am guessing? Mine is a server m3u Playlist URL ... nothing custom about it really as far as the definition of the word means A custom one would be something you have edited the URL to. But anyway, just clarify that for us In meantime, Check your Firmware Version The latest should be v 4.0.549 If you do not have that version then ask allaboutbuzz to assist with that.

I also see that all those empty thumbnail image slots that were previously showing an endless loading loop are now gone. Those slots were empty because there were only so many movies in each category and they all show their image and in their own slot (so to speak) and then the empty slots also show and went on forever it seemed, and with that spinning circle on each empty image. .. It would drive me batty ... lol thnx for fixing that