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Re: FILES Postings - Some Mandatory Rules Please!

Wow guys...

We try to document as much information as we can about a file. Most files are what they are. (i.e. a factory file). Factory files are the software that came with the FTA unit. Sometimes the manufacturers change their factory file versions, and we also give that version number as well, if applicable.

Most files are "just there" and are directed to by Moderators when problems crop up by a user, we direct them to the files they need to solve their problems. They are NOT there for anyone to just download and install. Try to remember mtinmwv that these 3rd party software bin files do not come with any instructions or manuals. Everything has to simply be figured out by using them. The ECMs that we have been inundated with lately has caused a bit of chaos in the documentation department, and in the bin department as well.

NOTE - All factory files are available for download at the manufacturers site. Their documentation of the files is even more lacking than what we have here.

So, if you experience a problem, a Moderator will direct you to download and use whatever file you need to repair the situation you are in. Usually, you just put the latest bin file for your receiver, and that is it. Then you just need to setup satellites and scan channels. Not much to it, really. No need to document all that, all that information is in everyones Manual they got with their receivers.

Pretty much the only documentation you are going to get on any particular bin file is reading user feedback in your forum for your receiver model.

If you cannot find information about particular bins, how they are working, or ways to set something up, or even ways to get something running you thought should be, feel free to ask a question here. That is why we are here, and went to all the trouble of putting up this forum!

Hope this helps !!
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