Vodafone TV ‘Lost’ Firmware?

Nousernamehere on 23/01/2022 - 14:57
Last edited 23/01/2022 - 15:07

Hey all,

So seems my Dad’s VTV has been rebooting over and over again after just showing the Vodafone logo at the beginning, apparently has been that way for a few weeks but he never mentioned it to me till I was down seeing them.

So I managed to get it into the recovery menu, but seems that the OS has either completely been wiped, or a hardware error that it can no longer access the firmware. Tried all the options I can find in the recovery menu and everything basically just comes up with ‘file not found’ and from searching on the net there doesn’t seem to be any firmware file I can reload onto it to see if that fixes it.

Some screenshots to show what I’m seeing:

https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/61450/93762/9e023acd-b…
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/61450/93760/2025ba09-4…
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/61450/93759/642a6396-7…
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/61450/93758/6375cfcd-0…

Anyone had a similar issue and been able to resolve it? Have another 4 VTV’s between family and friends and none have had this issue. If can’t fix it will probably end up grabbing a Google TV instead as was keen on the Firestick but seems it doesn’t show the icons for sideloaded apps like Kayo which is a no go as need it as simple and easy to use for the folks.

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Comments

  • AndyC1 on 23/01/2022 - 15:10

    Big VFTV thread on whirlpool. Better to give whirpool a try.

    I have moved on from VFTV as it's no longer supported or sold and the last update disabled NTFS support…..

    • Nousernamehere on 23/01/2022 - 23:34

      Have been in that thread before, I’d gone through it before posting here and the thread really does seem dead nowadays.

      Think from what has been said, there’s no chance of getting it to work again.

      • AndyC1 on 24/01/2022 - 08:09

        Then your up the creek without a boat as you lost the oars before you posted the question. As that thread is THE info thread for VFTV.

  • MS Paint on 23/01/2022 - 15:11
    -1

    Tried all the options I can find in the recovery menu

    Sounds like it's toast.

  • No Username on 23/01/2022 - 15:24
    +1

    Just build and flash LineageOS.

    • AndyC1 on 23/01/2022 - 15:55

      OP has no chance of building from source using cross compiler.

  • wasdw246 on 23/01/2022 - 15:57
    +3

    Ive got a vodafonetv in the cupboard
    And will gladly copy out my firmware to help out.
    Just tell me what to do.

    • MS Paint on 23/01/2022 - 16:07
      -1

      Ctrl C
      Ctrl V
      Send

    • Nousernamehere on 23/01/2022 - 23:35

      I’ve got a spare one I have as well, but sadly doesn’t seem to be any way to get the firmware file at all. Doubtful even Vodafone would send it at all.

      Does seem that the thing is randomly just cooked.

      • wasdw246 on 24/01/2022 - 18:54

        Is it possible to plug your spare and sniff the firmware check/update link?

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