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Originally Posted by PABoxster
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. It is a Fortec Lifetime Ultra. I have tried to delete all the channels and rescan. But maybe I will try it again or try the gtools or channel editor program. Whats the newest bin for the unit? Maybe I need to flash it? Thanks for your help!
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I'm not positive, but from what others have posted, it's not the # of channels that does it, but the number of transponders, and they are harder to delete manually. I think you have to do it one at a time, and when I had problems, I had about 200 too many. Re what firmware is newest, you'd have to check at the Fortec web page. I'm using 2.64, Feb 2005 . I originally had an older version that had a problem whereby the remote would be deactivated every time you encountered an
HD channel. If this doesn't happen to you, you're probably OK firmware wise.
When I had problems, I used Gtools to save my channels just in case, then reset the receiver to factory defaults, because I thought that the memory was probably corrupted. I then used Gtools to delete all the satellites and channels that I had no interest in. In my case, since I'm slaving off a big dish, I had no need to reprogram satellites or anything, so I just re-scanned the transponders I was interested in. Process took my number of transponders down from 1500 to around 500.
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Originally Posted by PABoxster
Can I use channel master to accomplish this task or do I need gtools?
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I would recommend that you get Gtools, and you need to get the version that is listed under the Ultra at the Fortec web page, because Gtools for other Fortec receivers are different. It will ask you something about whether you have 2000 channels or 2001. I think 2001 is correct.