Amiko Alien Spark Broken

[yeshu26]

Background:

I have an Amiko Alien 8900 HD set, which I use with mgcamd. The firmware I use is the default firmware" Spark".

As mgcamd was giving me lot of trouble, I chose to uninstall, and reinstall ir using the FTP programme. Even after doing that, channels never opened.
I tried and downloaded many versions of mgcamd until 1.35 version, but no luck. I updated the firmware using spark portal, but still no luck.

I decided to flash the box with Spark rescue image, and I did the following.

1. unzip spark rescue image to the fat32 formatted usb
2. Power off the box from behind, and plug th eusb drive into the box.
3. Start the box while holding the "right arrow button" in front
4. It says something on the light, and I press OK button.
5. The LED lights on the panel start showing : 7 7 0 .... 7 7 0... and so on.
6. This 7 7 0 shows for almost 30 minutes, and the system is still not flashed!

Please tell me what to do? can I also flash it using RS 232 cable? if yes what is the process?

Please help.

[vic5]

I had the same issue; the problem was in the flashdrive model; with another one, a Kingstone DataTraveler (100 G2), 8GB, rescue went perfectly.

[tutri]

You should check with multiple thumb drives. I've tried up to 4 sticks, finally it worked.

[bonou2]

another one,flashdrive model
Kingstone DataTraveler ( G3), 4GB

[Tody]

A no name version: Recondata D33B05 1GB. It`s working fine with Alien.
(And I have a Kingmax 8 GB what doesn`t working with Alien)

[yeshu26]

Tried many usb sticks, sitll no luck.

Does anyone know the rs 232 cable method please?
I have found the loader to flash it, but I dont have an image abs binary file.

thanks