HOW TO LOAD ENIGMA2 FIRMWARE WITH SPARK PLUGIN USING A USB STICK
HOW TO LOAD ENIGMA2 FIRMWARE WITH SPARK PLUGIN
USING A USB STICK AND EASY TO FOLLOW ON-SCREEN
MENU IN SPARK - FOR THE AMIKO ALIEN / ALIEN 2
Items required:
USB Stick Formatted to FAT32 – Use HP Format Tool for
formatting if you have any problems with the USB not being
seen by the Amiko Alien / Alien 2
Spark Mini Plugins pack for the Amiko Alien / Alien 2
Enigma2 Firmware for the Amiko Alien / Alien 2
1)
Download the Amiko Alien / Alien 2 Lavatronics Mini
Plugin Pack and save this file to your computer. The latest
Lavatronics Spark Mini Plugins Pack is available to download
from the Lavatronics Download Centre.
2)
Insert a USB stick into your computer, open the Plugin
Pack file you just downloaded and extract the complete
plugin directory from the .zip or .rar file to the root of the
USB stick (which must have been pre-formatted to FAT 32).
3)
Now remove the USB stick from your computer and with
your Amiko Alien / Alien 2 receiver powered on and
connected to your TV insert the USB stick into a USB port on
Amiko Alien / Alien 2 receiver (either front or rear USB port
will work in the case of the Alien 2 - just ensure you have no
other USB devices connected at the time).
4)
Within a few seconds the Amiko Alien / Alien 2 receiver
will read the USB stick and then automatically prompt you on
screen saying ‘Confirm Do you want to upgrade plug in?’ –
Select YES using the remote control arrow keys and then
press OK on the remote control.
This will now display the ‘Upgrade from USB’ menu and the
update will start automatically which will only take a few
seconds and once complete will automatically reboot your
receiver. At the point of reboot you can now remove the USB
stick from the Amiko Alien / Alien 2 (if you don’t then the
receiver will keep prompting to update after each reboot -
you can just click no though if you wish).
5)
When your Amiko Alien / Alien 2 receiver has finished
booting back up you should now be back to the usual Spark
firmware but there will now has several plugins that have
been installed which can all be found by selecting MENU >
Plug in using the remote control.
At this point you are now half way there, we have all the
tools require to install Enigma2 firmware via Spark so we
just need to get the Enigma2 firmware itself.
6)
Download and save your required Enigma2 firmware for
the Amiko Alien / Alien 2 to your computer.
7)
Insert a USB stick into your computer, open the Enigma2
firmware file you just
downloaded and extract the two files from the .zip or .rar file
to the root of the USB stick (which must have been pre-formatted
to FAT 32). These files will be named uImage and e2jffs2.img.
8)
Now remove the USB stick from your computer and with
your Amiko Alien / Alien 2 receiver powered on and booted
to Spark and connected to your TV insert the USB stick into a
USB port on Amiko Alien / Alien 2 (either front or rear USB
port in the case of the Alien 2).
9)
Within a few seconds the Amiko Alien / Alien 2 receiver
will read the USB stick. After a few seconds using the remote
control go to MENU > Plug in > plugin_e2upgrade.s and
while this is highlighted press the OK button which should
take you straight to the Enigma2 Update menu.
10)
Make sure the Update path is showing as /storage/c/
(providing the two files where save to the root of your USB
stick) and then press RED (Enigma2 Update).
You should see a pop up on-screen explaining about the
updating Enigma2 and warning you not to power off the
receiver (this is all automated functions and messages – you
don’t need press and keys at this point).
After a short while the message will disappear and you will
be returned back to the Enigma2 Update menu – at this point
you are actually finished and Enigma2 is now flashed, so you
can exit all menus and reboot the receiver yourself and using
the FORCE function on boot up make the receiver boot into
Enigma2 mode (by first powering down the receiver and
then powering on the receiver again while pressing and
holding the OK button on the front of the receiver until
FORCE is shown on the front screen, then pressings the
down arrow (Enigma2) on the front of the receiver and then
pressing OK on the front of the receiver)
Your Amiko Alien / Alien 2 is now in Enigma2 mode and so
will boot to this mode each time as default!
If you wish to change this back to Spark as the default it’s
very easy to do, it’s basically using the FORCE function on
boot up make the receiver boot into Spark mode which is
done by pressing and holding the OK button on the front of
the receiver until FORCE is on the front screen, then
pressings the up arrow (Spark) on the front of the receiver
and then pressing OK on the front of the receiver
good luck
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Using DCC;
Amiko Alien 8900 / Spark.
Default, as follows,
Name; root
Passw; root
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<<<<<<<<
or HDMU_12568_E2_spark_215_git_3037_nodebug_mix_Flash
user: root
password: HDMU
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>><<<
I am assuming you have tried to FTP using Dreambox Control Centre and all connections were showing green.
Name: root
passws: root
If the above is correct and failed to connect, try the following;
Mernu / System / Net Setting / FTP Password / User Name root should be at top / press OK / Old Password / type; root / red button to confirm.
If the above also fails, try upgrading software as follows;
Menu / Spark / Upgrade Software / Red button Upgrade
Also, try factory reset.
Menu / System / Basic settings / Factory Default / Factory Reset
If all of the above fails,try the following;
Amiko Alien SHD 8900 HD [Spark Rescue Image]