Atv 1 won’t restore to factory settings

[theslaz]

Had/have a jailbroke Atv 1. Decided to load Xbmc Frodo using the AtvCloner app and a xbmc linux frodo image. This worked; however; I am not happy with how the program works; as it is a memory hog and the Atv just can’t handle it properly. I’m not interested in doing the BCM970015 Crystal HD modification. Therefore, i would like to restore the Atv back to the factory settings. I have tried and I can’t get it to work. This is what I have tried.

1st.: I attempted to put the Atv back to how it was before I tried the Xbmc Frodo hack. I used the AtvCloner app; and my original Boot; Efi; and Recover images that I had saved. This tried to work; but I would always come up with the image of the Atv with a flashing question mark. Telling me that there was no operating system.

2nd.: I attempted to restore the Atv back to it’s factory settings using terminal and 'dd' to image a USB key that will boot the Atv for a v3.0.2 factory restore.

This tried to work; as the Atv would boot up and give me the screen asking what language to use and after choosing; than the factory restore screen. I would choose the option of restoring the Atv to it’s original factory settings. A progress bar would show; but nothing would appear to be happening as the bar would not show progress. The Atv would eventually reboot and the process would start over again. This I tried numerous times; all with the same result!

I am trying this on the original hard drive that is in the Atv and using a mac to program.

Must be doing something wrong.

 

[theslaz]

Tried step 2 again right from scratch; same problem!

 

[vancitybeit]

great.good info,thanks for your sharing

 

[dynaflash]

Are you positive you are using your stock recovery image ??? If you are using the atvcloner recovery image it will not work with a stock setup.

Otherwise try again with atvcloner and copy/paste the activity log from it on pastebin.com and link to it here so I can see what atvcloner is doing.

 

[theslaz]

Are you positive you are using your stock recovery image ??? If you are using the atvcloner recovery image it will not work with a stock setup.

Otherwise try again with atvcloner and copy/paste the activity log from it on pastebin.com and link to it here so I can see what atvcloner is doing.

Using my stock image. Tried it again and I have the same problem. From the log; it is basically saying access denied when it comes to creating the restore.

Here is the link to the log.

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=y7AxMSBz

 

[dynaflash]

You are running as administrator right ?

 

[theslaz]

Just checked “Users and Groups” and shows me as the administrator!

 

[dynaflash]

Just checked “Users and Groups” and shows me as the administrator!

AH, let me guess, you are running OS X Mavericks ? I just upgraded and indeed atvcloner doesn't work on mavericks for some reason. I am looking into it.

In the meanwhile do you have another mac running anything older than mavericks ? It works on anything from Mountain Lion and older.

 

[theslaz]

AH, let me guess, you are running OS X Mavericks ? I just upgraded and indeed atvcloner doesn't work on mavericks for some reason. I am looking into it.

In the meanwhile do you have another mac running anything older than mavericks ? It works on anything from Mountain Lion and older.

I wish I could blame it on Mavericks. But I did try the restore before I upgraded to Mavericks and it didn't work. But you made me think; maybe it is my desktop. I will try my laptop and see what happens.

 

[dynaflash]

I wish I could blame it on Mavericks. But I did try the restore before I upgraded to Mavericks and it didn't work. But you made me think; maybe it is my desktop. I will try my laptop and see what happens.

try it. am trying to figure out a fix for mavericks. I was able to restore a stock atv via ML. np.

 

[theslaz]

Ain't happening. Tried on three different computers with no success. It partitions okay; but than the "access denied" errors pop up.

 

[dynaflash]

Ain't happening. Tried on three different computers with no success. It partitions okay; but than the "access denied" errors pop up.

Weird, I can only reproduce on Mavericks.

 

[dynaflash]

One thing I don't understand is how you were able to ust atvcloner to get it modified in the first place if you are getting these issues now ? It would not have worked one time then not the next as far as I can tell unless in the meanwhile something changed on your system.

 

[cosmichobo]

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G'day,

My brother's ATV1's ATA HDD has completely died. I have swapped it out for a 1 TB SATA drive, with adapter to bridge from ATA.

As the original drive was dead, I couldn't recover the efi/boot/recovery partitions. Instead I found some elsewhere to use.

I tried to instal them using ATVCloner (my Mac is running Mavericks), however it was not creating the correct partitions. Instead therefore I followed these instructions:

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Prepare_a_Hard_Drive

Everything seemed ok... except the instructions state to perform a Factory Restore. When I tried this, it says it cannot restore - cancel or try again. (And trying again results in more of the same.) Instead therefore I just restarted, and the ATV booted fine to the menu screen.

So I continued and installed ATVFlash (Silver) via USB stick - again, all good... Set up the various desired options... BUT when I tried to play a movie via NitoTV, it gave me "An error occurred - press play/pause to restart".

I'm wondering if the lack of doing a Factory Restore is the root of this problem... Just not sure where to go other than trying it all over again...

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

cosmic