Paul Thompson 1 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Hi, I've discovered a glitch in my DX8 whereby the scroll button shuts down & restarts the Tx in mixer screen, it also clears any data previously entered in all mixer menus. Select the menu for "Mix 1", Mix 1 is in bold type at top of screen, move scroll button one click to the right and box appears around Mix 1, click scroll button and box starts flashing, move scroll button one click to the left and Mix 1 changes to "AIL > RUD" now move scroll button to the right and Tx shuts down & restarts. Before I email Spektrum need to know whether this fault is unique to my Tx or is common to all DX8's, so if other owners could try it out and let me know please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony cooper 2 Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Hi Paul. I have the same fault with TX, i was programming today my first model with it and it did exactly as you decribed, I thought that was weird, anyway made me feel a little uncomfitable about the transmitters performance. Interested in what spektrum have to say about it. Cheers Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson 1 Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Hi Tony, Thanks for the confirmation, was beginning to think that it was just my Tx, will email Spektrum tomorrow and see what they have to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I've just checked and mine does it too but I'm not sure it's a fault or a problem. There are two pre-set mixes, ELE/FLP and AIL/RUD and there are 6 free mixes available. As AIL/RUD is already available it may just not allow you to repeat the same mix elsewhere and reboots when it detects an attempt to do so. Mind you, I don't find programming Tx mixes a particularly easy subject........... Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson 1 Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 To me it's a fault not a problem, as it deletes all previously entered values in all mixes, very annoying.. I've emailed Horizon UK & USA and will see what they say, though going by their past record I think they will quickly resolve the issue. Edited By Paul Thompson 1 on 17/04/2012 23:49:35 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 It's just a thought but it may be worth posting the symptoms in this thread over on RCG. It is now ridiculously long at over 1000 pages but has been useful if you ignore the dross. Totally unreasonable to expect anyone to wade through it all looking for the same problem but a mention of the issue may get a response. Andy Kunz of Spektrum monitors the thread so you may get a fairly quick answer. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson 1 Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 I avoid the American forums for the reasons you mention........... Will wait for reply from Horizon, though I expect they get thousands of emails so may take a while, but now people are aware of the fault we can at least avoid it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson 1 Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Had a reply from a John Norris at Horizon UK who says that fault will be resolved in next firmware update, so sounds like they're aware of the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve W-O Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Posted by Paul Thompson 1 on 18/04/2012 19:13:49: Had a reply from a John Norris at Horizon UK who says that fault will be resolved in next firmware update, so sounds like they're aware of the issue. Very quick response, but you would think that a commercial product would have been thouroughly tested and debugged. It seems like home grown open sauce software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eamonn Fahey Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Open Sauce Software . Good one Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve W-O Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Posted by Eamonn Fahey on 18/04/2012 19:20:44: Open Sauce Software . Good one Steve. Didn't think any one would notice so quickly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eamonn Fahey Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Still wiping tea off the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldSmithy Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I can confirm the same results Paul I'm using firmware 2.04 which is currently the latest version. Jings crivvens an help ma boab if they tested everything properly they would never get to market and get our money. Wasnt like that when I was a lad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Kearney Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I hope they can fix this one with a firmware update, the last 'fix' required a return to Horizon. Not very impressive for a TX that was sold on the ability to udpate the FW! r. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson 1 Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 A bit unfair on Horizon, give them their due that they're on the ball sorting out any bugs that crop up, with the complex nature of Tx software now it's ineveitable that these things will happen. I can think of worse software disasters, Microsoft Vista anybody....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Randall Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Every time your car is serviced its computer updated, computers are always doing downloads, My tom Tom has just been screwed up by an update, why should I expect my computer driven TX to be different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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