DM800HD clone and Japhar sim

Hi guys, I have an old DM800HD clone which had a sim 1.0. Several years ago I upgraded to the Ferrari sim, I forgot what image I used with this. Recently that image became corrupt, so it took several attempts to find another image that worked with the box, which was DEOpenBlackHole_Ferraridm800_CrossEPG_DynDNS_Cron_DEBHGUI_with_AUTO-DVBT_SSL82F.
In the mean time, I decided to buy the new Japher sim, installed it, and tried upgrading the image to the OpenPli4 image, but it came back saying wrong architecture, and the image failed to load. Is my box just too old to work with these new images, or do I need to update something else before it will work? Many thanks

Dear Shaggs,

Your box is not too old, you can install the Japhar SuperSim3 NC3 for DM800HD and it will work with your old image and the new images no problem.

The only important thing you must remember is that when you want to "jump" from an older SSL (previous to 84) to a SSL84J image or SSL84F image or SSL88F/SSL87F, you MUST first upload the SSL84J/SSL84F/SSL88F/SSL87F, then reboot the box to be in SSL84x mode and upload the SSL84x image.

You can use the SSL below as transition, upload the SSL84.NFI then reboot box and upload the image based on SSL84x. You can later if you want also upload older images than SSL84x with no problem, but it will require next time to upload the SSL84x before uploading the new SSL84x image.

http://www.ourdreambox.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=289#Post289

Admin

Great stuff, thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Hi, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. but I uploaded the all sim file from the link using universal dreamup, then flashed over the top of that with OpenBlackHole_Ferrari-dm800hd_SSL84F_DTS_CrossEPG_Cron_DEBHGUI_AUTO-DVBT_DynDNS_March2015_FAM51 (1), but the box still hangs on the start screen after it is re booted. Another thing I have found that I can't do, even after using an earlier working image, is to flash directly from the browser. The box ip is 192.168.0.24, but when I re-boot and hold the power button in it goes to 192.168.2.110 and then I can't connect to it through the browser. Sorry for all the questions! lol

Hi, thanks again for taking the time out to reply. The capacitors look good, but I will test them with a meter at the weekend. The only thing I would say against it being the capacitors is that I can put an image in with bootloader 82 and the box boots up fine, its only when I try to load a newer bootloader and image that things start going nuts

Ok, so if it's not always happening the reason is not then the capacitors.

Newer images have different Flash/Memory organisation, so probably it could be a good idea to Flash the SSL84J, reboot and then flash the SSL84J image NFI file with DreamUp/JapharFlasher with Bad Sector Recovery enabled, or use Telnet to set it thru the BIOS setup of the DM box to check the Bad Sectory on next Flashing. You can then reflash again the image just to be sure all is clean enough.

Admin

After reading the whole issue it looks to me a bad nand flash chip.

Older image files are less mb's than newer.
But this you can see by the size of the image file.