Page 1 of ENCORE 450 2.0A FIRMWARE FIASCO - UPDATE

Having spoken to the very helpful and understanding staff at Encore they believe that players which are locked up through the use of 2.0A firmware will require a new chip and/or circuit board depending upon how far through the write-process the player had got when it froze. (They will be able to tell from the player what has been written to the memory upon examining it).

It would appear that the likely solution to the inconsitency of results is that the chipset and layout of the newest batch of units has changed. Therefore the success or otherwise of loading 2.0a is dependant upon the actual physical chipset of your machine, rather than the firmware version currently loaded.

i.e. some players which have been despatched with the newest 3.3 firmware preloaded have an older chipset than the newest current batch of players. The newest batch freeze up if you try to load the Sampo 2.0a version firmware as it references to a chip/chips which no longer exists in the player in that format.

Encore are currently in the process of trying to contact the German website to request that they at least post a warning message alongside the file to warn potential downloaders of the problems which they may encounter - and ideally that they remove the file altogther.

Very strange, firmware 2.0A worked with my silver 450 and I only received it from Encore last Wednesday!

Yep - I think they call it "stock rotation" !!! Obviously they were shipping both types out over the last couple of weeks !

Thanks for that JLG - could you post that info you know where ?

Would be very useful to have that info alongside similar related stuff. Cheers, mate