[arish_06]

Hi, anyone have any thoughts on how to prevent the rising number of firmware issues?

Most people are not backing up their firmwares before they upgrade their player. I did the same...now I understand how important it is to backup the original firmware...and I bet most others also realize it when it is already too late.
:idea: I think that more than 80% of all mpx problems are firmware related.

I have come to believe that the upgrade tool is very inefficient.
First of all, it is very annoying when it says "success" even after seriously bad upgrades...

Secondly, I think there should have been a feature built into it to check the upgrading firmware with the original firmware in the player and to allow upgrade only if the upgrading firmware is 100% compatible.

Or it should have had a feature to automatically extract the original firmware and save it before upgrading.

At least there should have been a pop-up message notifying the user to backup firmware before upgrade. Something like this would have done the task: "WARNING: Please backup your firmware before continuing. There's a 99% risk that your player can be dead in a few minutes" :lol:

There are thousands of copies of the mpx upgrade tool out there...and I bet there will a continuing trend of dead players in the future.

If anyone can design a new upgrade tool that does have such features, please do so...it'll be very helpful (at least it will help prevent a few firmware problems).

Please post back any thoughts or comments :P
Thanks very much for reading :wink: