Firmware/Update Requests For Onkyo/Integra-Please Read - Page 9

Joerod, you are the AVS Man of the Year. I hope you are not getting anymore of the rude PM's.

In this world it is hard to find people that really care like you do.

Cheers to you!

I hear you. I may do the Optical/DSP upgrade shortly. But I want to wait and see if they come up with an official 885 firmware upgrade. Audyssey stated that they have a key for Audyssey Pro in the 885. I am just not that hot on updating that portion of my unit when they may have a new version for the Audyssey Pro in the 885.

Thanks for the help, but no luck (going a little crazy at the moment) I can't believe this is so difficult, I confirmed that the COM ports are the same... just don't know what else to do.

Well, I finally took the plunge. Updated from 1.05 to 1.08 first. I had to dig out my old instructions for the 1.05 update for 8.8 as I was pushing the "enter" button as I was plugging in as the 905 instructions state and nada! The 8.8 instructions say push the "tuning up" button when plugging in and there was joy! ....went flawless from there to 1.08.

Used Sonic Record Now that came with my Dell 4 years ago to make the music CD. Next came the "jump through hoops" DSP update. Man......whoever dreamed that process up needs a serious "talking to"! Got through it... waited 5 minutes... manual turn off.... "completed".... turn on and everything wiped. Thanks to those who suggested that we write EVERYTHING down from all settings (even wiped my Reon settings). Oh yeah..... used an Oppo 970HD CD/DVD player set to "raw" output. Flawless.

Old (updated from original 9 1.02/07717A):
Main 9 1.05/07927A
DSP1 07601A
DSP2 07518A
DSP3 07518A

New:
Main 9 1.08/08223A (changed)
DSP1 08214A (changed)
DSP2 07518A
DSP3 07820B (changed)

The biggest thing here is the difference between the buttons pushed for the 905 or the 8.8. for the main f/w update. That one will leave you scratching your head or something else!

A BIG thanks to Joerod. If we had O/I customer support to depend on for this, we'd be SOL!
Oh yeah, audio lock-on is instantanious now.

Ahhh...I think I see your problem after reading your original post (OP). You are using VISTA...it is a POS so find an XP machine. Drivers for VISTA are not obviously unavailable and you will be wasting alot of time and effort with another gem brought to you by Mr.Bill Gates (send him two lumps of coal).

heh, Vista/Bill G bashing aside, feel free to PM me and I can help you out if you're having trouble with your USB>COM device... I've got a bit of experience with it now.

Wacky results from running Audessy in a post-FW and DSP upgrade - it found all my speakers to be full range!

Well, 6 of them -are- deftechs so -should- probably come up as full (I tweaked to 60/70hz anyway), but it's a different result than last time...

Meanwhile, how many are updating theirs with OSX? (actually, I'm pleased to see the posts above that show that bootcamp users are doing successful updates, certainly a good sign...)

I successfully upgraded the DSP update to my 885 using a PS3
and also upgraded firmware from 1.04 to 1.07, but I had to set my
Keyspan adapter to com1 because for some reason com2 or com3
wouldn't work.

All my settings were reset to factory defaults after the DSP update
as others have mentioned would happen.

I haven't had a chance to re-run Audyssey, will do that tomorrow.

I just want to give a big thanks to joerod for being an
upstanding AVS member. You saved me and i'm sure many others
from a great deal of grief.

OSX !!! Apples are for horses.
Drivers for VISTA are oftentimes unavailable for many devices and scanning the internet for them is often futile. Stick with a more or less proven product.

When will we all get away from this commercial OS and work with Linux (aka flawless)?

I am using an E-machine with Vista 32bit. What can I do ?

Get an XP machine or ... is there a doctor in the house, who has used VISTA here successfully, that can help out good 'ol spectra57 ? If you were nearby I'd do it for you.

Try changing the COM port in device manager and the updater to COM 2. There is a chance you have a conflict with COM 1 being hijacked and changing it to COM 2 should fix that possibility.

I had no issues with the updates last night. I 'm really happy about this new firmware and the DSPs. I don't want to send Joerod a PM and make him have deal with non-firmware issues, but I just have to say thank you and you should get some kind of AVS humanitarian award for helping so many people out!! Joerod for president!!

OK, this is how it went:

In the interest of experimenting with new ways of doing it, I first tried playing the WAV file via optical from my laptop running foobar2000 at 44.1KHz. On the receiver, it said spdif updating, but no dsp writing... failure . Turned it off by pressing Standby on the unit.

I then put the cd in (burned with "Sonic DigitalMedia Plus v7" that came with my pc) the laptop drive and tried it also through foobar2000... failure again, see above.

Next, I dug out my old Sony DVP-NS725P dvd player, went in the setup menu, turned DTS off, set output to PCM, and proceeded with the update. This time, it wrote all the DSPs but it got stuck at spdif updating. I waited the mandatory 10 minutes, turned it off, then on again and voila!! DSP's were updated.

I have an 805 with 1.06 main FW. Only the first DSP was changed.

I put the Fly in and NO POPPING NOISE COMING FROM IT.

Again, I would like to thank the AVS man of the year joerod!!! Whether or not Onkyo comes out with an official release, this has been working until proven otherwise. And make no mistake about it, these receivers are under more scrutiny now than ever before. I'm watching mine like a hawk!!!

I'm anxiously waiting for the 805 main FW update!!

So my 875 reads

MainUpdateMode
Ver1.00/07502L

Am I screwed for doing a main firmware upgrade myself. Has anyone successfully upgraded from this?

Kent

Australian delivered TX NR905 updated with 1.08 firmware and DSP updates from the files sent to me by joerod......thanks mate.

Firmware updated using a laptop running XP with a USB to serial cable with a straight through RS232 cable plugged into that and then into the 905. No issues worked perfectly.

Nero 8 used to burn audio CD for DSP update using a Sony DVP NC 625 CD/DVD player. Worked perfectly and all versions show as they should after update.

If anyone in Brisbane needs a hand doing this drop me a PM. Thanks again Joerod the service you provide this community is invaluable.

Cheers Al

For those having problems using the keyspan, make sure your baud rate is set for 9600 in addition to using the correct com port.

Any word on the SR805 main 1.08 update availability? I saw in another thread that the European version has supposedly been released, but couldn't find any links to it.

I'm so ready to get rid of that signal lock delay.

My experience with USB to serial connectors has not been totally positive. If you're using a notebook the PCMCIA serial connectors are very reliable connectors. I used to do quite a bit of serial port interfacing with various types of machinery and while the USB was hit or miss the PC card worked.

Sorry for the stupid question but what is signal lock delay?

Iam also interested in a firmware update for my 805. still on 1.03.

Its the delay that the Onkyo SR805 (and others) have between start of a signal and actual playback. Its most noticeable when you change chapters in a movie, or use a DVR to skip forward/backward during playback.

Currently, it takes the SR805 anywhere from 2-4 seconds to lock onto the signal and start playback. From what others have said, the 1.08 Main firmware upgrade reduces this delay to almost nothing.

I took the screws on the face place out and un-clipped the plastic housing. It stayed on just fine.

Yeah, I noticed that when playing movies and skipping to another chapter the movies playing but theres no sound for a couple seconds. In that case I'm very interested in the firmware update. I saw a post the other day that said one was coming soon.

I can't say definitively that it won't work, but I suspect it is this issue that caused the "bricking" of some 875 units when the 1.04 firmware update was applied. I would suggest not doing anything unless you get the official nod from Onkyo or confirmed success from someone else on this board.

This is it. I believe I am the first one 905 owner that bricked his receiver

Here is my story.

DSP upgrade was done without problem. As I was in 1.07 version only DSP1 was upgraded.

Then for the main upgrade I knew it will not be easy. I have a new laptop but only with usb ports and Running Vista. Ready than the USB to RS232 cable can have different configurations and needed driwers and some not working with Vista I was not confortable to go that way.

I thought that doing it the simple way via a straight RS232 cable would be easier.

I have an old Fujitsu Laptop with a port replicator having a male RS232 port.

However this Laptop is running Windows SE. I thought this would be the problem that probably the updater software was not compatible with SE.

I tried to unzip the files, and open the application and surprise it seems to work.

Next step was the cable. I did not have such cable. I order and got a one Male port - one female port RS232 cable to connect my port replicator to the 905.

OK I was ready.

IThe update started correctly and arrived at 233/28374 eveything stopped I got a message Out of memory.

Now I am screwed!

Any advices...

Thanks for this. When foobar did not work were there any problems with the Onkyo or did you have a birck until you tried it with your Sony?


Joel

What was out of memory? The Onkyo front panel display, or the program on the computer?

Either way I'd try it with at least an XP machine. And you should be able to re-do it without problem. Long as the Onkyo is in update mode.