ET8500 QUAD TUNER Dual Boot Et8500

[bacardi]

I have dug out my old ET8500 however it is dual boot. I cant for the life of me get it to flash. i seem to remember that i had to do something with the power button.

can anyone remember how to flash this?

 

[Ferret.]

1) A USB stick formatted to FAT32. (Preferably compatibility issues while flashing the image).
2) Image of your choice.
3) Compression software such as 7zip, Winrar, Winzip

PREPARATION

1. Format a USB stick to FAT32.
2. Download the image of your choice and extract it to your desktop.
3. Open the folder you extracted to your desktop, in this case named IMAGE-et8500_usb.zip , you will see another folder named et4x00, this is your image file. Copy the entire et8500 folder directly to the USB stick.

Fully power the receiver down via the rocker switch at the rear of the receiver.

Make sure no USB devices are plugged into the receiver at this point.
Insert the USB stick containing the image files into one of the USB ports on the receiver.
Power the receiver on from the rear rocker switch.
Press the OK button on the front panel ( behind the card flap ), to initiate the flashing process .
If successful, the receiver will reboot it self after the flashing process has completed.

 

[Willo3092]

Press the OK button on the front panel ( behind the card flap ), to initiate the flashing process .

There isn't a button behind the card flap on mine 🤔


1) Power off the receiver

2) Ensure no other USB devices are plugged into the receiver

3) Insert the USB stick containing the extracted image file

4) Power the receiver on.

5) When the two colour power button flashes the display will show the active partition.

6) Use up/down on the remote to select which partition to flash and then touch the power button to start the flashing process.

7) If successful the receiver will reboot itself after the flashing process has completed.

8) Remove USB stick that contains the images files.

 

[Ferret.]

There isn't a button behind the card flap on mine 🤔


1) Power off the receiver

2) Ensure no other USB devices are plugged into the receiver

3) Insert the USB stick containing the extracted image file

4) Power the receiver on.

5) When the two colour power button flashes the display will show the active partition.

6) Use up/down on the remote to select which partition to flash and then touch the power button to start the flashing process.

7) If successful the receiver will reboot itself after the flashing process has completed.

8) Remove USB stick that contains the images files.

I guess your right then, sold mine a long time ago.

Thats how to was on my nas drive with the ET8500 backup images id saved.

 

[Abu Baniaz]

If it boots to an image, you should be able flash it from the menu. Exact process obviously depends on which image and version it is on.

 

[Willo3092]

I seem to remember Image Manager will only flash partition 1.
It will give you the option to flash partition 2 and then crash when you try it. ..... on ViX anyway.

 

[bacardi]

Thanks all.

I remember it was very finicky with which usb it liked. The one it used to work with no longer works, tried another and it worked first time.

I did try image manager however it failed, probable because it was so outdated.

 

[moshibeth]

Thanks all.

I remember it was very finicky with which usb it liked. The one it used to work with no longer works, tried another and it worked first time.

I did try image manager however it failed, probable because it was so outdated.

Only use a genuine SanDisk 16gb to flash the box

 

[Abu Baniaz]

Try invoking ofgwrite directly instead of going through image manager.

init 4
ofgwrite -r -k /folder_of_unzipped_image