(Apologies if I've made a major faux pas by starting a new thread but the original one - http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/hdr-2000t-new-software-10106 - is up to 10 pages and went into internet updates and other stuff. I thought it might be helpful to start a new one specifically for upgrading via USB for people, like me, who only have that option. If I've done a bad thing then please tell me; I'm new to this forum, and I'm an idiot.)
I've repeatedly tried upgrading my HDR2000T via USB but to no avail:
1. I downloaded the "HDR-2000T ver1.01.06.zip" directly from the Humax site here: http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/products/product_releases.php?gid=442&pid=6 , then extracted the "hdr2000t_upgrade.hdf" file.
2. I formatted a 4GB Staples USB2 stick on OSX as FAT - I assume that's FAT32, there are no other similar options - then copied the "hdr2000t_upgrade.hdf" file to the root folder of the stick. (This USB stick has been used successfully to transfer recordings to and from the Humax box without any problems after formatting on OSX.)
3. I unplugged the Humax box.
4. I inserted the USB stick, kept the channel down button pressed down, and plugged the Humax box back in.
5. The Humax box started up into stand-by normally, while I still had the channel down button pressed down, until the red light came on at the front.
6. After about a minute of waiting I pressed the ON button on the Humax box, still keeping the channel down button pressed down.
7. The Humax box came out of stand-by as normal - switching to the blue light - and no upgrade was performed.
8. I then released the channel down button and put the Humax box into standby.
9. After waiting for the drive to spin down, I kept the channel down button pressed down and pressed the ON button on the Humax box.
10. The Humax box came out of stand-by as normal and no upgrade was performed.
11. I put the Humax box into stand-by, waited for the drive to spin down again, then unplugged it.
12. I then repeated the whole process again - steps 4-10 - but this time, instead of keeping the channel down button pressed down, I pressed it repeatedly (2-3 times per second-ish).
Each time the Humax box came out of stand-by as normal and no upgrade was performed.
I then formatted an Integral 256MB USB stick, zeroing the drive again, and copied the file over to the newly formatted stick.
I preformed steps 3-12 again - once keeping the channel down button pressed down, then again repeatedly pressing the channel down button - with the new drive and, again, no upgrade was performed.
I then repeated the whole process from steps 2-12 but this time, at the start, formatted each drive as FAT through Linux Mint instead of OSX.
Again, for each of the four attempts, no upgrade was performed.
I don't have an inexhaustible supply of different USB sticks and I don't have access to a Windows PC. I'm also not able to connect my Humax box to the internet.
Can anyone suggest how I should proceed please? Is there something major that I've simply not done, or not done right?
(I've never known an upgrade be this awkward before, on any other piece of kit.)
