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Originally Posted by Larry Acklin
...... I have not re-programmed my Mercury II with the latest Fortec flash due to warranty issues, but I bet a re-flash could help.
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Larry |
I re-flashed mine with what was the latest versions right after I bought it, but I haven't upgraded since, because people have been saying that the newer firmware is worse than the original. I was kind of waiting to see if Fortec ever announced that they had corrected the bugs that they've been told about before I got a new version. But if this continues, I may do what you say, and re-flash it with the same version I put in before.
Interesting.... I have 3 Fortec receivers, a Lifetime, a Lifetime Ultra, and a Mercury II, and that seems to be the order of reliability. Ie I've had no problems at all with the Lifetime, I've had a bunch of problems with the Ultra, and even more problems with the Mercury. Unfortunately, the Mercury has the best picture quality of the three, or I wouldn't bother even using it. But it does seem like Fortec is spending less and less time debugging their firmware, and are more and more interested in just jumping into a new receiver........ which brings up the question..... what ever happened to the North American version of their new
HD receiver. That was supposed to become available in September, but it never did. They must be having problems with it, and have devoted all their resources to figuring that out.