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OTA signal came back after Hopper 3 reboot. Why?

CyberSpock

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I was getting zero signal on OTA for some channels on the Hopper 3 until I rebooted. Now it is coming in fine.

I noticed this when the raw antenna feed was coming in fine on the TV antenna input.

Any ideas why this mattered? Now I'm thinking when I get signal drops, that it is lying.

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Several months ago our toaster starting only toasting one side of the bread. The wife thought we needed a new toaster, even though this one isn't very old. I rebooted the toaster and it started working right again and has been fine ever since. Why it did this I don't know. I do know that anything with a chip in it is subject to strange behavior that a reboot usually fixes. Just another fact of modern life.
 
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Yougottabekiddinme


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How do you reboot a toaster. We never leave our toaster plugged in except when in use. Does that mean we are rebooting every time we use it?
 
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It means you and I are OLD.


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I didn't even complain about what is really annoying. I suspected the other cable coming out of the antenna amplifier was better so I switched the better one to the Hopper OTA adapter.

Then what happens? I get the signal loss screen but it's reporting a full bar of 100. wth. A reboot brings everything back. Now I can't make it not work.

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JSheridan said:
Sorry, but it was just my way of saying that often a reboot fixes things and we don't know why.
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I agree but I've never heard the term applied to a toaster before. Does this toaster have a bagel mode by any chance?
 
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glynnp said:
I would have tried different bread
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You are a jerk


However, by changing to my own hand made cable instead of the hard wires one the Chinese included seems to have improved things.

But I still had to reboot to receive my 100 percent signal on the signal loss screen. It's a nice program feature.

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Just curious, what cable did you change?
 
JSheridan said:
We tried every mode and setting and nothing fixed it until the reboot. The chip in it probably got stuck in bagel mode until it was reset.
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Did you know that cosmic rays can cause single event upsets (1) and even turn on phantom transistors in high density electronics?
JSheridan said:
Now we better get back to CyberSpock 's OTA problem.
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It's a whole lot more fun discussing your problem.

Note 1: A voting machine in Belgium gave one candidate 4096 extra votes, resulting in more votes being cast than possible.
 
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TheKrell said:
Did you know that cosmic rays can cause single event upsets and even turn on phantom transistors in high density electronics?


It's a whole lot more fun discussing your problem.
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Double Like.
 
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