I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my 
girlfriend's daughter

I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it performed 
adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't seem 
to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches 
without finding anything.

Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The 
area is not known for crap TV reception

Advice or pointers welcome

Cheers

Tricky

In , "Tricky Dicky"
 wrote:
>I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my 
>girlfriend's daughter
>
>I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it performed 
>adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't seem 
>to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches 
>without finding anything.
>
>Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The 
>area is not known for crap TV reception

Yes one significant one - I would point you to this explanation -
http://www.freeview.co.uk/help/faq/id104963

That model could be in the few that didn't implement the Freeview spec
properly and are unfit for purpose. Approx 1% were "caught out" by these
changes and owners of them now have doorstops.

On 25 Aug, 11:59, "Tricky Dicky"  wrote:

>I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my
>girlfriend's daughter
>I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it performed
>adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't seem
>to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches
>without finding anything.
>Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The
>area is not known for crap TV reception
>Advice or pointers welcome                Cheers                Tricky

I have just reconnected one and it works.
It first insisted in updating the EPG, but then rescanned
without real problem although Sky News appeared as
a channel in the 800s. Another scan sorted this out
and it is now in full working order.

However this is only half the story. IIRC there were two
different versions of this box, externally identical but
one had Grundig innards and the other had Thomson.
They updated software at different times and to
different version numbers. I can't rember which one
this is. I have one of the others in a box somewhere
but it has not been seen for  some time.


On the menu, search for downloads gives:
No Download Available
Current version                   4.8
New Version                       N/A

You might have the other version.
OTOH it might be worth persevering
with a different aerial, letting it stay
on for a while to dry out, letting it
cool down again, giving it a thump
to sort out any dry joints, etc, etc

Best of luck.

In article , {$mrtickle$}
@nospam.demon.co.uk says...
> In , "Tricky Dicky"
>  wrote:
> >I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my 
> >girlfriend's daughter
> >
> >I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it performed 
> >adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't seem 
> >to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches 
> >without finding anything.
> >
> >Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The 
> >area is not known for crap TV reception
> 
> Yes one significant one - I would point you to this explanation -
> http://www.freeview.co.uk/help/faq/id104963
> 
> That model could be in the few that didn't implement the Freeview spec
> properly and are unfit for purpose. Approx 1% were "caught out" by these
> changes and owners of them now have doorstops.

The OP's model is not listed there in any shape or form as far as I can 
see.
-- 
http://www.glasgow-edinburgh.co.uk/

"Jim Mason"  wrote in message 
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> In article , {$mrtickle$}
> @nospam.demon.co.uk says...
>> In , "Tricky Dicky"
>>  wrote:
>> >I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my
>> >girlfriend's daughter
>> >
>> >I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it 
>> >performed
>> >adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't 
>> >seem
>> >to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches
>> >without finding anything.
>> >
>> >Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The
>> >area is not known for crap TV reception
>>
>> Yes one significant one - I would point you to this explanation -
>> http://www.freeview.co.uk/help/faq/id104963
>>
>> That model could be in the few that didn't implement the Freeview spec
>> properly and are unfit for purpose. Approx 1% were "caught out" by these
>> changes and owners of them now have doorstops.
>
> The OP's model is not listed there in any shape or form as far as I can
> see.
> -- 
> http://www.glasgow-edinburgh.co.uk/


In a nutshell, it looks like my old GDT could work but just needs a bit of 
cajoling

I am concerned about firmware though. If the unit has been swtiched off for 
a few years then it would not have received any updates

Thoughts?

Tricky

wrote in message 
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> On 25 Aug, 11:59, "Tricky Dicky"  wrote:
>
>>I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my
>>girlfriend's daughter
>>I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it 
>>performed
>>adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't 
>>seem
>>to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches
>>without finding anything.
>>Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The
>>area is not known for crap TV reception
>>Advice or pointers welcome                Cheers                Tricky
>
> I have just reconnected one and it works.
> It first insisted in updating the EPG, but then rescanned
> without real problem although Sky News appeared as
> a channel in the 800s. Another scan sorted this out
> and it is now in full working order.
>
> However this is only half the story. IIRC there were two
> different versions of this box, externally identical but
> one had Grundig innards and the other had Thomson.
> They updated software at different times and to
> different version numbers. I can't rember which one
> this is. I have one of the others in a box somewhere
> but it has not been seen for  some time.
>
>
> On the menu, search for downloads gives:
> No Download Available
> Current version                   4.8
> New Version                       N/A
>
> You might have the other version.
> OTOH it might be worth persevering
> with a different aerial, letting it stay
> on for a while to dry out, letting it
> cool down again, giving it a thump
> to sort out any dry joints, etc, etc
>
> Best of luck.

Any idea how you do hard reboot?

As per other post on firmware, factory settings have been know to get kit 
working again and if this means it starts looking for an EPG it could be the 
key to getting it working

Tricky

In article , 
tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk says...
 
> In a nutshell, it looks like my old GDT could work but just needs a bit of 
> cajoling
> 
> I am concerned about firmware though. If the unit has been swtiched off for 
> a few years then it would not have received any updates
> 
> Thoughts?

I'll dust my identical box down tomorrow and compare results later.
-- 
http://www.glasgow-edinburgh.co.uk/

"Jim Mason"  wrote in message 
news:MPG.231d36e634dbac8a989998@news.individual.net...
> In article ,
> tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk says...
>
>> In a nutshell, it looks like my old GDT could work but just needs a bit 
>> of
>> cajoling
>>
>> I am concerned about firmware though. If the unit has been swtiched off 
>> for
>> a few years then it would not have received any updates
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I'll dust my identical box down tomorrow and compare results later.
> -- 
> http://www.glasgow-edinburgh.co.uk/

I appreciate your help. If it doesn't work for you then it looks like the 
bin for the GDT ...

Cheers

Tricky

Another possibility. I have several times had boxes  go apparently dead and 
on contacting the manufacturers, they suggest, usually, some jiggery pokery 
with the remote while the unit boots to get a factory reset, which usually 
sorts it out according to my contacts. Do not know the model though, as I'm 
only interested in the ones that do AD!

Brian

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 graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
Email: briang1@blueyonder.co.uk
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 wrote in message 
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> On 25 Aug, 11:59, "Tricky Dicky"  wrote:
>
>>I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my
>>girlfriend's daughter
>>I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it 
>>performed
>>adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't 
>>seem
>>to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches
>>without finding anything.
>>Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The
>>area is not known for crap TV reception
>>Advice or pointers welcome                Cheers                Tricky
>
> I have just reconnected one and it works.
> It first insisted in updating the EPG, but then rescanned
> without real problem although Sky News appeared as
> a channel in the 800s. Another scan sorted this out
> and it is now in full working order.
>
> However this is only half the story. IIRC there were two
> different versions of this box, externally identical but
> one had Grundig innards and the other had Thomson.
> They updated software at different times and to
> different version numbers. I can't rember which one
> this is. I have one of the others in a box somewhere
> but it has not been seen for  some time.
>
>
> On the menu, search for downloads gives:
> No Download Available
> Current version                   4.8
> New Version                       N/A
>
> You might have the other version.
> OTOH it might be worth persevering
> with a different aerial, letting it stay
> on for a while to dry out, letting it
> cool down again, giving it a thump
> to sort out any dry joints, etc, etc
>
> Best of luck.

In article , 
tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk says...
> I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my 
> girlfriend's daughter
> 
> I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it performed 
> adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't seem 
> to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches 
> without finding anything.
> 
> Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The 
> area is not known for crap TV reception
> 
> Advice or pointers welcome

Burst in to life right away - no problems there. I did a complete rescan 
and it has found all 91 channels available from Blackhill, Central Scotland 
- though on certain multiplexes it has difficulty numbering them correctly. 
The box is on software version 3.4 - IIRC there may well have been a later 
update. I have no idea if it solves the numbering issues.

But yes it works OK apart from the numbering problem.

Jim
-- 
http://www.glasgow-edinburgh.co.uk/

In article , 
tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk says...
> 
> "Jim Mason"  wrote in message 
> news:MPG.231d36e634dbac8a989998@news.individual.net...
> > In article ,
> > tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk says...
> >
> >> In a nutshell, it looks like my old GDT could work but just needs a bit 
> >> of
> >> cajoling
> >>
> >> I am concerned about firmware though. If the unit has been swtiched off 
> >> for
> >> a few years then it would not have received any updates
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >
> > I'll dust my identical box down tomorrow and compare results later.

> I appreciate your help. If it doesn't work for you then it looks like the 
> bin for the GDT ...

See my reply to your OP.
-- 
http://www.glasgow-edinburgh.co.uk/

In article , 
jim.mason@removethisukonline.co.uk says...
> In article , 
> tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk says...
> > I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my 
> > girlfriend's daughter
> > 
> > I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it performed 
> > adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't seem 
> > to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches 
> > without finding anything.
> > 
> > Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? The 
> > area is not known for crap TV reception
> > 
> > Advice or pointers welcome
> 
> Burst in to life right away - no problems there. I did a complete rescan 
> and it has found all 91 channels available from Blackhill, Central Scotland 
> - though on certain multiplexes it has difficulty numbering them correctly. 
> The box is on software version 3.4 - IIRC there may well have been a later 
> update. I have no idea if it solves the numbering issues.

That should be 3.6
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"Jim Mason"  wrote in message 
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> In article ,
> jim.mason@removethisukonline.co.uk says...
>> In article ,
>> tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk says...
>> > I dusted off an old Grundig GDT1500 at the weekend to give to my
>> > girlfriend's daughter
>> >
>> > I had this set-up with an internal aerial a few years back and it 
>> > performed
>> > adequately. I have not used it for a couple of years but now it doesn't 
>> > seem
>> > to be able to auto-scan for channels anymore - it searches & searches
>> > without finding anything.
>> >
>> > Has anything happened that would stop this old piece of kit working? 
>> > The
>> > area is not known for crap TV reception
>> >
>> > Advice or pointers welcome
>>
>> Burst in to life right away - no problems there. I did a complete rescan
>> and it has found all 91 channels available from Blackhill, Central 
>> Scotland
>> - though on certain multiplexes it has difficulty numbering them 
>> correctly.
>> The box is on software version 3.4 - IIRC there may well have been a 
>> later
>> update. I have no idea if it solves the numbering issues.
>
> That should be 3.6

Cheers Jim

My thanks for your assistance. Not sure what on earth is going on. Not 
issues with the software in the box then

The hard reboot is now my last chance - any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks again

Tricky

>
> Cheers Jim
>
> Mythanksfor your assistance. Not sure what on earth is going on. Not
> issues with the software in the box then
>
> Thehardrebootisnowmylastchance-anyideason how todothis?
>
> Thanksagain
>
> Tricky- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Have you tried to delete all channels then unplug then do a rescan,
replacing existing channels if there is an option?