PS3: PlayTV constantly crashing since channel refresh

ps3ud0

ps3ud0

ps3ud0

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I know theres a few PlayTV users here, not sure if this is best placed here or the Home Cinema forums. Lets see if I get any useful responses before I throw the POS out :mad:

Was wondering if someone could help me with the issue Im having with PlayTV, ever since a channel refresh I did last week its been crashing constantly. Before I was on the lastest update and all was fine, but it had been ages since I had done a channel refresh and with the analogue switchoff in my region I couldnt delay it any longer.

Ever since then I just cant use the damn thing, it seems as soon as it idles on part of the GUI for a few minutes or doesnt like a controller input (usually back) it either:
  • just crashes either forcing me to quit where it goes back to the XMB
  • or quit where it eventually double beeps and restarts the PS3
  • or locks out (either magically going to a black screen or just freezing any controller input) where Im forced to manually switch it off and enjoy the error report it sends and then the file system check

At the moment I just cant watch TV on it so having to turn it on when I know its not recording, record something and wait til its not recording to go back in so I can dump it to the XMB to watch it.

Ive already wiped the PlayTV game data (learnt that trick when it started to crash on the launch screen when the new update hit) twice so set it up from scratch and it still happens. My HDD is pretty full but its been like that for absolutely ages so cant see that being the direct issue. I could wipe the PS3 but loathed to do that as I know backup would take days. I am getting worried it will eventually corrupt my HDD, or maybe this could be symptomatic of a failing HDD so maybe I need to replace it? Its a WD Blue 320GB which Ive probably had for around 3years now...

Not sure what to do other than a complete backup/wipe/restore or changing the HDD. Just think its more to do with the flaky PlayTV software than anything...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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Did you do the same as me? Go into Game Save Data folder and delete the 'PlayTV Settings and Recordings' file or whatever its called? Any detail be gratefully received!

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Nope all I did was delete it from the main icon (hit triangle). Then I popped the disk in and downloaded it again.

Seems to be working ok now although I did have to do this twice as the first time Play TV crashed when I tried to update to the latest version.

Sorry I can't help more.....
 
And its fix itself it seems. Been crashing constantly since that channel refresh. This afternoon I found that channels werent available again (due to the 2nd phase of the switchoff) and after another plain channel refresh it seems solid again.

It just must have been the software going screwy due to the channels dropping and coming back during this period. Used it since the afternoon to test and its all been fine! Not logged out of it yet or turned my PS3 off though yet...

Thanks again Edz though for the help :)

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Mines always crashed ever since I bought the damn thing. I've tried updating the software, reinstalling the software, deleting/changing the settings but I could never get the problem sorted so I just gave up on it in the end.

My problems with it were when trying to load the PlayTV software from the XMB and the PS3 would just go to a black screen and just sit idle doing nothing, sometimes it would load just fine but the majority of the time it would just load to this black screen and the only way to get the PS3 working again was to cut the power and turn it on again. Even if I did manage to get the software loaded the PS3 would still sometimes crash on the TV guide for some unknown reason and again the only way to get the PS3 to respond was to cut the power.
 
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